Bulgaria
Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: Using a sociological approach, the authors try to explain the development of the Third Sector in Bulgaria and the main factors which define the motivation of the people who contribute to it. The latter is supported by some facts from a survey carried out by the Centre for the Study of Democracy in May 1994. This survey showed that voluntary organisations are out of favour with a public that still leans on the state as the preferred source of all social services. The analysis is supported by a number of historical facts and current observations of the Third Sector. The major types of oganisation, according to a number of different elements, are presented. The following problems, connected with the voluntary sector, are outlined: lack of resources, lack of legal regulation, incomplete tax policy, negligence of NGO issues in national and local policies on the one hand and no existing network for mutual support on the other, lack of nationwide structures, lack of experience in NGO management . The overall picture shows the immaturity and unevenness of the development of the Third sector in Bulgaria, which is, according to the authors, insignificant.

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