A Handbook on Non-State Social Service Delivery Models A guide for policy makers and practitioners in the CIS region

"Volunteering across Europe - organizations, promotion, participation" Country report for Bulgaria

This comparative analysis of European models and practices of participation of NGO in the decision-making processes is an attempt to provide answers to some major questions in the consolidated democracies – how to enhance civic participation, improve the quality of governance, overcome the democratic deficit in the formation of policies and development of laws.

This part will present the different mechanisms for nominating and electing representatives of civic organizations in order to participate in state commissions, working groups and consultative councils in the countries from Central and Eastern Europe.

Survey of the legal regulation of the quality of community-based social ser-vices and control over their delivery Sofia, 2008

In the conditions of the strongly centralized state of the last sixty years have been created attitudes which are difficult to influence and transform in the short run.

Volunteering is an essential part of every contemporary society.

This survey is prepared by the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law (BCNL) under the Project "An Optimistic Look at NGO's Domestic Resaurces", implemented by the Bulgarian Charities Aid Foundatio (BCAF) in partnership with BCNL

The present analysis has been prepared on the Project "Social services in Bulgaria - new possibilities for development" funded by the Phare Civil Society Development Programme 2001 February 2004

Questions and answers /summary/ April 2004