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This grant increase supports greater public participation in the decisionmaking processes of international financial institutions working in the Balkans. The CEE Bankwatch Network, a network of nongovernmental organizations in Central and Eastern Europe, will expand its work to the Balkans by including nongovernmental organizations from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Romania into network activities. These network members will promote greater public participation in international financial institutions' decisionmaking processes that affect the Balkans and advocate for the adoption of environmentally sustainable development policies by these institutions.
This grant renewal provides general purposes support for CIVICUS, an international alliance established in 1993 dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society worldwide. CIVICUS' membership currently includes representatives from over 100 countries. Key partners at the global level include United Nations agencies, academic institutions, and many large international development organizations. CIVICUS also has consultative status with global and regional bodies such as World Bank and the Council of Europe. CIVICUS' key programs are (a) the Civil Society Index, a systematic action research program on the state of civil society in more than 50 countries; (b) the annual World Assembly, which brought together more than 750 participants in 2008; and (c) Civil Society Watch, a program that mobilizes quick, public responses to situations where the right to freedom of civic association is threatened. CIVICUS also has programs on participatory governance, development cooperation and aid effectiveness, and legitimacy, transparency, and accountability.