Bosnia and Herzegovina country study published

Another TRIALOG country study has been published, on the situation faced by civil society organisations (CSOs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The report was written by Dijana Kadić, who was an intern in the Brussels office last year.

The report covers the different aspects of the environment in which civil society actors work in the country, from the legal environment, to the funding structures they have to rely on, to the way in which they organise themselves and try to work together. The report outlines the challenges the organisations face, including the large number of individual actors, the lack of coordination and cooperation and the competing forces at work in the country, making it questionable whether CSOs are able to adequately respond to Bosnian interests rather than international priorities.

The report goes into some detail about the main players in the country, with NGO profiles and examples of their work.

TRIALOG’s country study on Bosnia and Herzegovina can be downloaded from http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/bih_final.pdf For more information, comments or changes to the text please contact office@trialog.or.at For other TRIALOG country studies and publications, please visit http://www.trialog.or.at/publications

Information provided by Rebecca Steel, TRIALOG