The 2014 CSO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia Developed by: United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Europe and Eurasia Technical Support Office (TSO), Democracy and Governance (DG) Division TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ................................................................................................................................................... ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................... 1 2014 CSO SUSTAINABILITY INDEX SCORES ........................................................................................................... 11 ALBANIA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 ARMENIA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 AZERBAIJAN ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 BELARUS .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 37 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA .................................................................................................................................................................. 46 BULGARIA ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 53 CROATIA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 60 CZECH REPUBLIC ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 69 ESTONIA .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 77 GEORGIA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 85 HUNGARY ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 94 KAZAKHSTAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 103 KOSOVO............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 112 KYRGYZSTAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 120 LATVIA ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 128 LITHUANIA ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 137 MACEDONIA.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 145 MOLDOVA......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 153 MONTENEGRO .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 162 POLAND ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 170 ROMANIA .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 178 RUSSIA ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 186 SERBIA ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 195 SLOVAKIA ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 204 SLOVENIA ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 212 TAJIKISTAN ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 220 TURKMENISTAN ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 228 UKRAINE ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 235 UZBEKISTAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 244 ANNEX A: CSO SUSTAINABILITY INDEX METHODOLOGY ............................................................................. 250 ANNEX B: STATISTICAL DATA ................................................................................................................................ 264 ANNEX C: REGIONAL MAP ........................................................................................................................................ 275 THE 2014 CSO SUSTAINABILITY INDEX FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIA INTRODUCTION The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to present the eighteenth edition of the CSO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, covering developments in 2014. The Sustainability Index reports on the strength and overall viability of CSO sectors in each of the twenty- nine countries in the region, from the Baltics to Central Asia. The Index highlights both advances and setbacks in the development of the civil society sector, and allows for comparisons across countries and subregions over time. The Index is an important and unique tool for local CSOs, governments, donors, academics, and others to understand and measure the sustainability of the CSO sector. USAID published the first Sustainability Index in 1997, covering eighteen countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The Index has expanded considerably over the past eighteen years. Since 2003, the Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia Index has covered twenty-nine countries. In 2009, USAID introduced the CSO Sustainability Index for Sub-Saharan Africa, which now includes reports on twenty-five countries. The sixth edition will be published in mid-2015. An edition covering seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa was added in 2011. In addition, the Aga Khan Foundation supports the publication of CSO Sustainability Indexes covering Afghanistan and Pakistan, bringing the total number of countries covered by the Index to sixty-three. The Index analyzes and assigns scores to seven interrelated dimensions: legal environment, organizational capacity, financial viability, advocacy, service provision, infrastructure, and public image. A panel of CSO practitioners and experts in each country assesses the sector’s performance in each of the seven dimensions. A Washington-based Editorial Committee of technical and regional experts reviews the panel’s findings. These scores are averaged to produce an