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Grants >> Description of 2003 Grants: Multiregional & Miscellaneous
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American Center for International Labor Solidarity $342,670 To increase the awareness of unions and informal workers about the situation of workers in the informal economy and their need for representation. ACILS will develop educational tools to assist unions in outreach to informal workers; build the capacity of unions and activists to advocate for informal workers' rights and generate a template curriculum for training activists that identifies best practices and lessons from failed attempts. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $245,600 To prepare civil society organizations, principally trade unions, to deal with the social and political impact of the elimination of the quota system under the phase-out of the Multi-Fiber Agreement. ACILS will conduct regional seminars in Africa, the Americas and Asia that will focus on building the capacity of trade union leaders to engage employers, brands and governments around this issue. Other activities will include follow-up workshops and meetings. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $244,762 To strengthen international support for the International Labor Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. ACILS will continue to maintain a full-time coordinator at the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' offices in Brussels to design awareness campaigns regarding the ILO Declaration and its follow-up program. American Center for International Labor Solidarity $101,820 To increase awareness of workers' rights abuses in China, Colombia, Jordan and Namibia among trade unionists, NGOs and human rights organizations. ACILS will promote cooperative advocacy for reform of labor issues. Activities will include the translation and printing of country reports on worker rights in China, Colombia and Jordan and the training of activists in Jordan and Namibia to monitor worker rights conditions. Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $136,090 To consolidate various CIPE association materials into a practical guide useful for current and potential grantees. CIPE will update resources for business associations; initiate a major communications campaign on associations' values and highlight winning strategies from around the globe to encourage associations and chambers to take a role in building democratic market-based economies. The project will produce updated publications, an interactive section within the Virtual Business Association and translation of materials into Arabic, Russian and other key languages to support CIPE programs. Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $60,641 To develop a practical guide to help support market oriented and democratic reforms in post-conflict environments. The project will analyze CIPE's recent post-conflict experiences, indicate priority reforms and recommend practical methodologies for undertaking them when establishing crucial groundwork in emerging democracies and reconstructing economies. Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $35,694 To join with Transparency International to market the Business Principles for Countering Bribery to address corruption. Activities will include workshops and follow-up meetings in developing countries in which the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) has partner organizations and that hold the potential for sustained engagement with the business community, such as Kenya, Indonesia, Russia, Lebanon, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $175,741 To continue to maintain CIPE's Forum on Economic Freedom. The Forum links free-market democracy activists from around the globe and provides business and association leaders, policymakers and journalists access to information critical to their reform efforts. International Republican Institute (IRI) $90,000 REPROGRAMMED 2002 FUNDS To support staff and board members' participation in the Third Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Durban, South Africa, in February 2004. International Republican Institute (IRI) $24,101 To provide training to current IRI subgrantees on documentation and reporting of their work. IRI will develop and test the effectiveness of two new training sessions on program evaluation and documentation for subgrantee staff and for IRI staff responsible for managing subgrant relationships. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) $74,422 To encourage women's political participation. NDI will address the issue of the global discrepancy in the political participation of women by using technology to bridge women's experiences and information through a Win with Women Initiative. NDI will establish an interactive listserv focusing on women and politics to serve as a medium through which activists can provide mutual support, exchange information and lessons learned, and build a repository of information and contacts. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) $59,741 To survey lessons learned regarding the programmatic and operational aspects of the initial stage of NDI programming in a range of post-conflict countries. NDI will use a two-track approach that will include an initial review by functional team staff, followed by the selection of a group of five core countries for a more robust review, with additional field research. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) $38,027 To assess the feasibility of establishing minimum standards for democratic legislatures. NDI will facilitate the establishment of a coalition and course of action for developing international minimum standards for democratic legislatures in order to mandate legislatures as independent, representative institutions that serve as a check on the executive. Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace $596,578* To continue to strengthen women's leadership capacity in selected countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The leadership training program for women and girls in twelve Muslim majority countries will include the development of culture specific leadership learning materials, creation of a new prototype NGO capacity-building curriculum to enhance partner organizations' institutional capacity and the development of multimedia resources and communication tools. Miscellaneous American Center for International Labor Solidarity $122,800 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT American Center for International Labor Solidarity $110,520 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $244,000 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) $109,800 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT International Republican Institute (IRI) $200,000 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT International Republican Institute (IRI) $85,000 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) $200,001 PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) $76,840 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT * Indicates Department of State funding beyond NED's annual appropriation |
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