EU Democracy Assistance through Civil Society – Reformed?
Author: Věra Řiháčková
Publisher: PASOS Secretariat, Prague, Czech Republic
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The design of the Community Financial Instruments for the first half of the Financial Perspective 2007-2013
A research study for The Evaluation of Visegrad Countries’ Democracy Assistance – a PASOS project with the support of the International Visegrad Fund and the Open Society Institute Think-Tank Fund
This research centred on the reform of the EU external assistance financial instruments under which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other civil society actors are eligible for democracy assistance funding, with a special focus on the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR II). It also focused on problems identified elsewhere, in particular the main obstacles to EU democracy assistance delivery by NGOs and civil society, the potential impact of the recent debate on the legal framework surrounding EIDHR and the subsequent implementation of an amended legal framework, and the role of (selected) EU member states and actors in this process.
To a certain extent, the geographical scope of the research was defined by the general project outline, which covers selected third (recipient) countries (Cuba, Belarus, Ukraine, and Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) as implementers and funders of democracy assistance activities.
The research undertaken for this PASOS project was conducted in partnership with the following PASOS members:
EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, Czech Republic
Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Hungary
Institute of Public Affairs, Poland
Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia
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