Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14560%2F19%3A00110515" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14560/19:00110515 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.erstestiftung.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/civil-society-in-central-and-eastern-europe-monitoring-2019.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.erstestiftung.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/civil-society-in-central-and-eastern-europe-monitoring-2019.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Republic

Original language description

In 2018, the Czech civil society went through political turmoil when the new government announced the implementation of a new economic policy for the nonprofit sector. More particularly, the volume of financial transfers of public funds to CSOs has become an issue of public dispute and raised the concern of CSOs, which was also widely echoed by the media. The nonprofit organizations criticized also uncertainties in the allocation of public funds and persisting administrative burdens, most notably related to the taxation policy. Despite their efforts to diversify their financial resources and despite the latest government measures, CSOs remain economically dependent on public budgets. This leads to policy efforts to exert more control over and to centralize these financial flows. On the other hand, there are endeavours by part of the public administration to alleviate the administrative burden and to open access for CSOs to EU funds. The participants of the Civil Society Survey perceived all other types of resources as less accessible to civil society actors. Despite this, they assessed the stability of funding higher in recent years. The reaction to the local governments and the EU is viewed in a more optimistic way. In general, CSOs see themselves as freely operating actors, although with little impact on their social and political environment. Still, the outlook of CSOs is rather gloomy, as they fear a lack of financial resources and mounting political pressures in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Civil Society Monitoring in Central and Eastern Europe

ISBN

9783902673145

Number of pages of the result

10

Pages from-to

63-72

Number of pages of the book

182

Publisher name

ERSTE Foundation

Place of publication

Vienna

UT code for WoS chapter

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