In 2025, a small group of funders joined forces to act on one of the key recommendations of the mapping report: establishing an emergency fund. The efforts resulted in Civic Emergency Fund for the Western Balkans, launched informally at the end of 2025.
Region: Western Balkans
Community Building Mitrovica (CBM) is a multi-ethnic organisation operating in northern Kosovo, promoting and contributing to peacebuilding and reconciliation between different communities.
The Prishtina Institute for Political Studies (PIPS) is an independent non-governmental organization established in 2003, under the auspices and support of the Council of Europe. Through its School of Political Studies, PIPS’ flagship programme, the organisation
TRIAL BIH is a Programme of the TRIAL International’s operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2007. They work on combating impunity in the country and victims/survivors’ access to justice, by combining strategic litigation, provision of free legal assistance, domestic and international advocacy, and the capacity building of legal professionals, especially prosecutors.
The civic space for progressive organisations and activists in Western Balkans is continuously shrinking. Their work and well-being remains critically important and yet is made more challenging
In 2022, we began the final chapter of our partnership with the Western Balkans Fund (WBF), which was established to support regional cooperation following an agreement reached in 2015 between
The Kosova Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT) was created in 1999 to offer a helping hand to some of the most vulnerable victims of the 1998-1999 conflict.