Civil society plays an important role in ensuring principles of human dignity, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of minorities. Therefore, the EU Civil Society Facility (CSF) programme seeks to ensure greater benefit for civil society from legal and financial national frameworks and to improve dialogue with state institutions. The CFS supports CSOs’ networks to give citizens a voice and influence public sector reform processes through analysis, monitoring and advocacy.

In Serbia the EU intervention in the civil society sector focuses on number of areas, such as strengthening the rule of law, public administration reform, cultural diversity, support of CSOs that work with discriminated and vulnerable groups of citizens, enhancing cooperation between Serbia and Kosovo*, and others.