Civil society organisations work with and support numerous vulnerable groups such as older persons, persons with disabilities, those at risk of poverty, children, youth, national minorities, homeless and others and, by doing that, play an important role in protection and promotion of human rights. However, despite their significance and positive effects on the entire society, they haven\u2019t been covered by Government\u2019s measures to tackle financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic, said the Coordination for protection of organizations\u2019 dignity in Croatia in a complaint to the Ombudswoman.<\/p>\n
In order to work efficiently and provide necessary support to citizens most exposed to negative effects of the pandemic, it is important to secure resources to civil society organisations so they can keep their employees and adequate working spaces. Therefore, they should be covered by a package of support measures just as the economy sector is, and we have addressed this issue to the Government\u2019s Office for Cooperation with NGOs and National Foundation for Civil Society Development. According to the National Foundation, current financial support continues, while the reimbursement process is accelerated, which should certainly help the continuation of activities. Given the circumstances, it is also necessary to prepare a tender in which additional support for civil society organisations could be provided, while the evaluation of all applied projects should be prompt and transparent.<\/p>\n
In addition to data on planned assistance measures, we also requested information on including civil society organisations in decision-making process during and after the pandemic. This would strengthen citizens\u2019 trust in Government\u2019s decisions, as well as those made by the Civil Protection Directory, which has significant impact on adherence to all adopted measures<\/a>, making it one of the prerequisites for a successful fight against the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Civil society organisations work with and support numerous vulnerable groups such as older persons, persons with disabilities, those at risk of poverty, children, youth, national minorities, homeless and others and, by doing that, play an important role in protection and promotion of human rights. However, despite their significance and positive effects on the entire society, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2090,1706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-koronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ombudsman.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}