Publications
[REPORT] Civic Associations: Narrowing the Space for Action in 2024.
Belgrade, June 24, 2025 Citizens’ Associations – Narrowing the Space for Action 2024 is the sixth report published by Civic Initiatives, which assesses the state of the space for action and work of citizens’ associations. The analysis was conducted with the aim of systematically describing the space for action of civil society in Serbia in […]
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More open about the past – collections of scholarly papers on the wars of the 1990s available online
30. April 2025. Before you are electronic versions of two collections of scientific papers, “Sources and Actors – New Studies of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s” and “Reviews of the Wars of the 1990s”, which in different ways address topics related to the wars of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. What makes these […]
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HOW CITIZENS’ MONEY IS SPENT: A Manual for Identifying GONGOs and Phantom Organizations
Do you know how your money is spent? Every year, millions of dinars from the public budget end up in the hands of dubious organizations. Although public competitions should support the work of organizations that truly serve the public interest, the reality is different: funds often go to so-called GONGO organizations (government organized non-governmental organizations), […]
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Analysis of public funding for gender equality: non-transparent funding and institutional apathy
The analysis of public funds for gender equality was carried out in the period from August 2024 to January 2025 as part of the project “Strengthening the transparency of funding from public sources through the analysis of phantom and GONGO associations”, which is jointly implemented by Civic Initiatives, the Balkan Research Network of Serbia (BIRN) […]
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ANALYSIS: Funds from opportunities and public procurement
Belgrade, February 18, 2025. The Citizens’ Initiative and BIRN Serbia have been following the implementation of various types of budget support for non-governmental organizations for years, and these findings, as well as proposals for improving the situation and eliminating irregularities, are being promoted within the wider coalition OKO (Open about tenders), of which Transparency Serbia […]
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