BARRIERS – Policy recommendations to remove third sector barriers in the Netherlands

On the basis of a survey and a stakeholder meeting organized in March 2016, the Dutch TSI team formulated a number of policy recommendations to address the challenges experienced by TSOs in the Netherlands. We are inviting you to review our recommendations and give us your feedback. For background reading please refer to the national […]

BARRIERS – Policy recommendations to remove barriers for third sector development

In April 2016 third sector stakeholders from 10 European countries discussed barriers for third sector development with focus on governance, access to finances, and human resources. TSI developed policy recommendations for each topic, aware that the three dimensions are interrelated. Governance is closely linked to the embeddeness and legitimacy of TSOs and hence deeply affects […]

IMPACT – Your message to policy makers

In January 2016 TSI published a new policy brief addressed primarily at EU policy makers. This is what we tell them: Inequalities in opportunities to participate in third sector activity need addressing; Third sector specific contributions to systemic societal change must be further studied and highlighted; Standardized indicators of third sector impact at the macro-level […]

BARRIERS – The endangered sector? How to find voice in policy discourse

At European level expectations of the third sector have changed over time, moving from interest in the sector as economic partner, mostly in terms of job creation, over legitimising factor of EU policies, to a more pragmatic approach that reduced expectations of third organisations to provide expertise, represent the interests of citizens and consumers, and […]

MEASUREMENT – The third sector has been invisible in European statistics for too long. Join the statistical revolution

A central goal of the Third Sector Impact project is to institutionalize the capability of national statistical agencies to generate reliable empirical data on the third sector. After publishing a consensus definition of the third sector in Europe in December 2014, an important prerequisite for statistical agencies to implement data gathering systems that capture third […]

CONCEPT – Towards a common conceptualization of the third sector in Europe

We are pleased to announce a ‘common core’ definition of the third sector in Europe. A key objective of the TSI project is to address the lack of clarity about the types of entities that form the third sector, who belongs and who doesn’t. With our conceptualization we hope to contribute to a coherent overview […]

BARRIERS – Autumn is hot in Bruxelles: what agenda for civil society networks?

How do you see the policy environment at the European level of governance in this moment? What are the hot issues? What impact do they have on the third sector? Are networks being listened to? Who are the real interlocutors? Do institutional priorities correspond to third sector priorities? Is there such a thing as common […]

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