In this final report on third sector barriers and coping strategies, TSI’s Annette Zimmer and Benedikt Pahl present findings from national research in a comparative manner.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/comparative-report-learning-europe/The issue of improving the visibility of the third sector emerges as the key demand and challenge at the TSI’s final conference in Brussels on 9 November. Visibility has a number of components, provided by a variety of stakeholders – researchers, policy makers, statistical agencies, the media – who must all contribute their part to […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/giving-third-sector-visibility-deserves/On 14 July 2016, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will come into force in the Netherlands. The declaration is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations intended to protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. Parties to the Convention are required to promote, protect, and ensure […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/celebrate-advocacy-succes-dutch-tsi-stakeholder-iederin/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 […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/consultations/policy-recommendations-remove-third-sector-barriers-netherlands/The third sector in the Netherlands is extraordinarily diverse and defies easy categorization, but it roughly consists of three parts that overlap: Third sector organisations that deliver public services: These include most organisations in social services, health and education. Their development is closely tied to that of the public sector at large and the welfare […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-policy-brief-no-8-third-sector-netherlands/The third sector in the Netherlands is extraordinarily diverse and defies easy categorization. It comprises a broad variety of different organisations, ranging from neighbourhood initiatives to professionalized umbrella organisations, and from civic associations, advocacy networks to charity foundations. Dutch third sector organisations are active and highly visible in various policy fields, especially in health and […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/documentation/tsi-national-report-no-2-barriers-to-third-sector-development-in-the-netherlands/The Dutch teams of TSI and fellow FP7-project ITSSOIN held a joint stakeholder meeting in The Hague to assess third sector development and social innovation in the Netherlands.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/events/2016/03/22/joint-tsi-and-itssoin-stakeholder-meeting-working-together-on-third-sector-development/Despite their demographic and economic importance, rural regions lag behind in a number of socio-economic indicators. Inhabitants are often at higher risk of poverty, face difficulties in accessing infrastructure and public services, and display lower levels of employment, income, educational attainment. Rural isolation refers not only to social, labour and educational exclusion, but also to […]
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-at-rural-isolation-of-citizens-in-europe-conference/TSI’s Taco Brandsen will present the research results on internal and external barriers for the third sector at the next IRSPA Conference in Hong Kong in April 2016.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-travelling-to-hong-kong/With the online survey “What moves the third sector in the Netherlands?” TSI wants to find out how Dutch third sector organisations deal with challenges, respond to current trends and create impact.
https://thirdsectorimpact.eu/news/tsi-launches-online-survey-on-third-sector-in-the-netherlands/
