Albanian Coalition against Corruption (ACAC)
$36,820*
To promote government accountability at the municipal level in Albania. ACAC will support citizen groups promoting good governance in 40 communities, thereby improving local government transparency, fostering dialogue between local elected officials and citizens on good governance, increasing national awareness of good governance principles, and helping to promote best practices in local government.

Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS)
$44,390*
To promote the transparency, accountability, and efficiency of local government and to increase citizens’ involvement in the decision-making process in ten municipalities throughout Albania. AIIS will conduct surveys, interviews, and town hall meetings with citizens and local government officials; prepare and publish a Municipal Corruption Index to be publicized through a national conference in Tirana; and conduct civic awareness campaigns in each municipality.

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Regional
$26,573
To improve the professional skills of local journalists to produce investigative reports on key issues in Albania. Ten journalists will receive on-the-job training by working with a BIRN mentor based in Bosnia and Herzegovina on at least two articles per month, which will be published in BIRN`s online magazine Balkan Insight. BIRN will also conduct a two-day training workshop in Tirana on investigative reporting skills.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$260,000
To increase the number of women political candidates and campaign managers, as well as promote the recognition of women as valuable political party members, leaders, and officials in Albania. NDI will conduct an intensive political and leadership training course for women activists and an advocacy campaign to address priority issues indentified by Albania’s citizens.

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Agency for Local Development Initiatives (ALDI)
$34,192*
To strengthen the advocacy capacity of local civil society organizations. ALDI will train representatives from 10 NGOs and 15 informal civic groups in basic advocacy and budgeting skills and provide them with the tools necessary to participate actively in the policy-making process in their respective municipalities. ALDI will also develop a web portal (www.budzet.ba) containing information about municipal and federal budgets.

Alternativna Televizija (ATV)
$35,207*
To produce a series of investigative programs addressing a variety of social, political, and economic challenges facing Bosnian citizens. ATV will produce a series of 17 weekly programs, entitled “Dossier,” which will investigate different types of crime and corruption, including the misuse of political power, corruption in the judiciary and other government branches, embezzlement, drug smuggling, human trafficking, and war crimes proceedings.

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Bosnia and Herzegovina
$25,356
To promote transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina. BIRN will produce its Justice Report magazine, which offers daily news and analysis on domestic war crimes trials, rule of law developments, past human rights abuses, and the impact these developments have on local communities. “Justice Radio,” the audio version of the report, will be offered to over 70 radio stations across the country.

Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe
$45,788
To train Bosnian schoolteachers and teacher trainers in modern teaching methods promoting democratic principles, such as an awareness and understanding of multi-perspective history, comparative approaches, and participatory learning. The Center will distribute civic education teaching materials to high schools and organize train-the-trainer and local teacher training workshops.

Center for Informative Decontamination of Youth
$38,930*
To encourage public debate on the most important social, political and economic issues affecting citizens in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Center will produce 17 episodes of the weekly program “Buka ” (“Noise”), a popular live television talk show aimed primarily at young people, the segment of society most susceptible to political and civic apathy, in Republika Srpska.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$157,478
To increase private sector participation in the policymaking process in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) at the national and regional levels. Working with the Association for Promoting Transparency in the BiH Economy (UPTE), CIPE will expand a database of small- and medium-sized private businesses, survey the business community about impediments to economic development, create a business advisory board that will develop policy recommendations, and establish a business trust index for BiH.

Civil Society Promotion Center
$40,700*
To promote the accountability of elected officials and encourage citizen participation in the legislative process. The Center will monitor the performance of the three parliaments and disseminate information about the work of elected representatives both through its website (www.grozd.ba) and monthly press conferences in Sarajevo and Banja Luka. The Center will also organize regular meetings and foster cooperation between the representatives and their constituents.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Republika Srpska
$38,980*
To raise awareness about human rights standards and increase government accountability in Republika Srpska. The Committee will monitor and respond to human rights violations, disseminate its human rights monitoring reports electronically as well as through press conferences and educational TV programs, mobilize public opinion against ultranationalist extremism, and provide free legal aid to victims of human rights abuses.

Human Rights Office Tuzla
$25,835*
To advance legislative reform protecting the rights of national minorities and promote their political participation at all levels of government. The Human Rights Office will organize a series of public debates to encourage discussion on minority issues and develop recommendations for improving minority rights legislation. It will also provide targeted training to enable national minority leaders to articulate their needs and concerns through political and civic activities.

Independent Radio Studio N
$23,892*
To promote the accountability of local governments in western Herzegovina . A series of weekly radio programs will combine investigative reporting with debates on current affairs to foster discussion on key issues facing Bosnia and Herzegovina and contribute to citizens’ ability to hold decision makers accountable for their policies and actions prior to the 2008 local elections.

Studio 88
$23,920*
To strengthen independent media and promote the accountability of government institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Studio 88 will produce a weekly radio program entitled “Looking for the Answer,” which will investigate key issues such as corruption and ethnic discrimination in local administrations. Each live program will include a presentation by a representative of the Ombudsman’s Office and interviews with citizens and relevant government representatives.

Tuzla Citizens' Forum
$35,777*
To encourage public participation in the legislative process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Forum will promote the adoption of legislation reforming local government by organizing an awareness campaign, a series of public debates in five Bosnian cities, and an expert roundtable discussion, the conclusions of which will be included in the draft law and presented to the BiH Parliament.

Youth Communication Center
$34,475*
To enable student activists in Republika Srpska to play a more effective role in advocating for youth related issues. The Center will increase the skills of regional representatives of the Network of Secondary School Students of the RS (MreSURS) and facilitate their cooperation with government authorities, while its radio station will produce a series of programs to raise awareness about problems facing youth in the country.

Youth Information Agency (OIA)
$28,965*
To promote youth activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina by providing an innovative way for youth to learn more about the impact they can have in their communities. OIA will produce four episodes of a youth civic education television program, develop a complementary educational package of materials for 300 high schools, and train over 100 high school teachers on how to use the civic education materials.

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Association of Independent Broadcast Media of Kosovo (AMPEK)
$19,575
To foster media freedom and diversity, defend the professional rights and interests of independent media, and promote the establishment and implementation of a legal framework that complies with international standards for free and independent media in Kosovo. The Association will continue to monitor, document, and analyze media-related legislation while building its institutional capacity and promoting its financial sustainability.

BIRN Kosovo
$42,965*
To encourage public debate on key issues facing Kosovo. BIRN will produce a series of TV debates on current affairs topics affecting citizens in Kosovo, such as the final status settlement and establishment of a future EU mission. Titled “Life in Kosovo,” the weekly program will be broadcast by Radio Television Kosova while select episodes will be shown on B92 in Serbia.

Initiative for Progress (INPO)
$25,295*
To promote free, fair, and transparent elections in southern Kosovo. INPO will organize a get-out-the-vote campaign targeting first-time voters, initiate an anticorruption campaign targeting the Ferizaj City Council, and monitor the November 2007 elections in Ferizaj, Shterpce, Kacanik, Shtime, and Hani I Elezit. Following the elections, INPO will carry out a number of initiatives to promote local government transparency and accountability in Ferizaj.

Kosova Democratic Institute (KDI)
$49,684*
To encourage public debate on major governmental initiatives and increase the transparency and accountability of the Central Assembly in Kosovo. KDI will monitor the work of the Assembly for compliance with existing legislation and procedures, track legislative processes and trends, and publish and distribute performance scorecards and analytical reports. KDI will also organize roundtable discussions and workshops for civic activists, media, and Assembly Members.

Kosova Live News Agency
$49,900*
To promote the accessibility of high quality, unbiased information in Kosovo. Kosova Live will provide its daily news service free of charge to 25 independent local radio stations that would otherwise not have access to independent sources of information. The news service is available in Albanian and Serbian. Several of the radio stations are multilingual and broadcast in minority languages.

NGO Forum Gjakova
$32,300*
To develop leadership skills and promote democratic values and tolerance among young people in Kosovo. The Forum will facilitate the establishment of student councils in eight high schools in Kosovo and advocate for the adoption and implementation of regulations permitting student councils in all municipalities in Kosovo prior to the 2008-09 academic year.

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) – Kosovo
$72,400*
To encourage conflict resolution, interethnic reconciliation, and civic activism among youth in Kosovo. YIHR will conduct a small grants program to support local civic initiatives. By providing financial and technical assistance, YIHR will encourage young activists from different ethnic backgrounds to cooperate on resolving local problems and take part in decision-making processes, human rights campaigns, and other civic activities.

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Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in the Republic of Macedonia
$38,650*
To inform and educate Macedonia’s citizens and the international community about the human rights situation in the country. The Committee will upgrade and expand its website and update its contents daily to include domestic and international information in three languages: Macedonian, Albanian, and English. The website will also include materials from and contribute materials to the Committee’s new monthly newspaper and television series.

International Republican Institute
$100,000
To foster public policy debate in Macedonia. IRI will continue to support the Ohrid Institute, a think tank established with NED support in 2006. IRI will work to strengthen the organizational capacity of the Institute and assist it in identifying key policy issues facing Macedonia, developing public policy papers, and advocating for them through public debates, newsletters, journals, research papers, lectures, press conferences, and press releases.

MOST Citizens’ Association
$40,000
To promote the transparency and accountability of the legislative process in Macedonia and encourage citizen participation in the legislative process. MOST will monitor the performance of individual members of parliament and publish a biannual performance scorecard. MOST will also conduct opinion polls to compare the quantitative and qualitative data in the scorecards with public perceptions on the performance of parliament and individual MPs.

Radio Cerenja
$14,830*
To raise awareness of international human rights standards in Macedonia, particularly in Roma communities. Radio Cerenja will produce and broadcast live civic education programs exploring various aspects of human rights through interviews and discussions with human rights activists, police officers, and local government representatives. The station will also organize three roundtable discussions focusing on the human rights situation in Roma communities.

SEGA Coalition of Youth Groups
$23,791*
To promote youth activism in eastern Macedonia. SEGA will identify 12 promising youth groups and initiatives in six cities and towns in the eastern part of the country, assess their needs, train 25 of their leaders, and assist them in registering and carrying out six local advocacy campaigns on youth-related issues.

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Association of Independent Press (API)
$35,007
To raise awareness of political bias and disinformation in media prior to the June 2007 local elections in Moldova. API and its partners will monitor the election-related coverage of local and national newspapers, radio, and television stations, publish monitoring reports, conduct regular press conferences, and design and advocate for adherence to an electoral code of conduct for print and electronic media.

Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT)
$29,417
To promote free and fair elections in Moldova. ADEPT will conduct a nonpartisan voter education and mobilization campaign prior to the June 2007 local elections. ADEPT will publish and distribute an educational poster on voting rules and procedures, produce and air voter education radio and TV clips, and maintain a website dedicated to providing up-to-date, nonpartisan information on and analysis of electoral issues, candidate platforms, and electoral legislation and procedures.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$219,111
To strengthen the capacity of business associations to engage in policymaking and advance public-private dialogue in Moldova. CIPE will support the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” in building a coalition of business associations, which will develop a National Business Agenda through an advocacy campaign for policy reform. CIPE will assess the organizational needs of business associations and help them to develop their capacity for advocacy and institutionalize best practices.

Eco-TIRAS International Environmental Association of River Keepers
$37,216
To promote the development of the third sector in Transnistria. Eco-TIRAS will provide technical assistance to five existing NGO resource centers, establish a new resource center in Dnestrovsk, and conduct training seminars on fundraising, financial management, publishing, and media cooperation. Eco-TIRAS will organize small grants competitions, conduct a study trip to Romania for civic activists, and organize a roundtable for NGO leaders and journalists.

Investigative Journalism Center
$32,433
To foster the development of investigative journalism in Moldova. The Center will provide technical and financial assistance to investigative reporters for the development and publication of articles on corruption-related topics. The Center will also research and write pieces of investigative journalism, act as a resource for journalists, and provide free legal advice to investigative journalists who have been harassed or intimidated by the government.

League for the Defense of Human Rights of Moldova (LADOM)
$27,386
T o promote a free and fair election process in Moldova prior to the June 2007 local elections. LADOM will train long- and short-term observers, monitor voting and tabulating procedures on election day, conduct a parallel vote count in three cities, publicize instances of electoral fraud through regular reports and press conferences, and organize a post-election conference in Chisinau.

National Youth Council of Moldova (CNTM)
$20,169
To encourage youth participation in the political process in advance of the June 2007 local elections in Moldova. CNTM will organize two training seminars, oversee 11 nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns, create an electoral hotline, produce and broadcast short radio and video spots encouraging young people to vote, and publish and distribute voter education and mobilization materials, including 20,000 leaflets, 10,000 stickers and balloons, and 100 training guides.

Promo-Lex Association
$40,335
To strengthen the third sector and foster greater coordination among NGOs in Transnistria and the rest of Moldova. Promo-Lex will continue operating its NGO Resource and Development Center in Cosnita, which will publish a monthly e-bulletin and distribute educational brochures, offer free legal aid, and conduct a series of roundtable discussions, trainings, and seminars. The Association will also award small grants of up to $500 to two organizations from the region.

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Association for Equality and Tolerance (AET)
$45,856*
To assist Cool Radio, a station devoted to broadcasting information about civil society and promoting democratic values among youth in Montenegro. AET will continue to produce f non-commercial programming for Cool Radio, including a special program on NGO activities and issues important to university students. AET will also offer training in radio journalism for university students interested in working at the station.

Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM)
$35,250*
To monitor and assess the state of democracy in Montenegro. CEDEM will analyze the correlation between citizens’ perceptions of democracy, determined by a series of public opinion surveys, and the objective state of democracy, based on an analysis of empirical results and practices. The results will be published in a series of three reports, and also in book form as a Democracy Index.

Center for Democratic Transition
$61,364*
To encourage active youth participation in the political reform process and strengthening of democratic institutions by conducting an internship program in the Montenegrin government, including the Office of the President. The Center will place two groups of 12 students of the University of Montenegro in state government institutions for a period of five and seven months and provide them with the necessary training in government history, organization, and operations.

Center for Development of NGOs (CRNVO)
$37,176*
To improve the level of communication and cooperation between the Montenegrin government and NGOs. Building on its previous efforts to identify communication problems between the two sectors, CRNVO will publish updated directories of active NGOs and relevant public officials, design an NGO database for every government ministry, organize training seminars for public servants, and promote NGO-government cooperation in the media.

Network for the Affirmation of NGO Sector – MANS
$34,975*
To help improve anticorruption legislation in Montenegro by advocating and building public support for the adoption of a revised Law on Conflict of Interest and facilitating its enforcement. MANS will implement a public awareness campaign on the need for improved legislation, develop recommendations for reforms, and provide free legal advice to citizens reporting instances of conflict of interest.

Radio Antena M
$30,150
To encourage public debate on and raise awareness about key issues facing Montenegro’s citizens. Antena M will produce a series of radio programs titled “The Alphabet of Civic Rights,” which will include investigative reports and news analysis, as well as studio interviews and debates on leading social, political, and economic issues.

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Association “Thumende” Valea Jiului
$24,062*
To raise awareness of international human rights standards in Romania. “Thumende” will produce a series of live television programs aimed at exposing discrimination and human rights abuse against Roma, making local governments accountable for the implementation of reform strategies and programs targeting Roma, and improving general media coverage of Roma issues. The program will be broadcast weekly by TV Parang and monthly by TVR Timisoara.

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Association of Local Independent Media "Local Press"
$34,872*
To raise awareness about extreme nationalist and religious movements in local communities in Serbia. Members of the Association will produce, exchange, and publish a series of 20 articles on why Serbian youth join extreme movements. The exchange of texts will not only extend the project’s reach to communities across the country, but also enhance the standing of local print media as providers of quality news and analysis.

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) Serbia
$38,848*
To continue training the minority media in southern Serbia, Sandzak, and Kosovo. BIRN will conduct three workshops, organize three public debates, and provide editorial mentorship to raise the professional capacity of local journalists and media operating in areas with significant minority populations to produce feature articles and news analysis on political, economic, and social issues relevant to minority communities in those settings.

Center for Civil Resources Development
$26,000*
To foster freedom of expression and respect for diversity and human rights in southern Serbia. The Center will open and equip an office in Nis, which will support activities promoting freedom of expression and limiting extreme nationalism, including more than a dozen discussion panels, roundtables, exhibits, and workshops.

Center for the Development of Parliamentary Debate
$41,870*
To promote dialogue, activism, and cooperation among young leaders from pro-democratic political parties in Serbia and develop the skills they need to participate in decision-making processes. The Center will organize a series of 12 mock parliamentary debates for over 200 members of youth wings of democratically oriented parties, as well as skills building workshops, roundtables of young political and civic leaders, and a summer training camp.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$145,939
To improve corporate governance in Serbia. Through a survey, analysis, expert roundtables, and an active media campaign, this project will examine the impact of the country’s privatization and new legal framework on corporate governance practices. CIPE’s local partner, the Center for Liberal Democratic Studies, will disseminate the study’s findings and advocate for reforms recommended by corporate business representatives, public policymakers, and experts involved in corporate governance in Serbia.

Fund B92
$35,920
To encourage public debate on human rights issues and raise human rights awareness in Serbia, Fund B92 will organize FREE ZONE, a series of civic education events including film screenings, discussions, presentations, exhibitions, and lectures. NED funding will cover the costs associated with a six-day film festival and a monthly program of educational activities at the REX Cultural Center in Belgrade.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
$40,080*
To encourage public debate and raise awareness about the role of Serbian radical groups in propagating hate speech, xenophobia, and ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia. The Committee will analyze and distribute information revealed during the war-crimes trial of the radical leader Vojislav Seselj to the wider public, especially young people, through an online newsletter, public discussions, TV debates, and local street campaigns.

Independent Journalists' Association of Serbia (NUNS)
$30,480*
To conduct comprehensive investigative reporting training in Serbia. Through its Center for Investigative Reporting, NUNS will promote the concept of investigative reporting, create a network of investigative journalists, and raise the skills of young journalists to produce investigative articles. NUNS will organize ten local meetings, three conferences, two investigative reporting workshops, and a final press conference.

Independent Journalists' Association of Vojvodina
$26,285*
To provide an open forum for a dialogue on the most important social, political, and economic issues facing Serbia’s northern province of Vojvodina. Parallel to the Kosovo Status Talks, the Association will organize a series of ten public debates on important developments affecting the future of multiethnic Vojvodina, and conduct trainings for journalists and editors, with a focus on objective and professional reporting on sensitive status and ethnic issues.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM)
$39,950
To build public support for establishing institutional mechanisms addressing hate crime and hate speech. YUCOM will establish a national NGO coalition, which will advocate for establishing permanent mechanisms for the prevention of hate crime and hate speech, campaign for the introduction of legislation addressing hate crime and hate speech, and create a strategy for raising youth awareness on these issues in Serbia.

LiNet
$47,793*
To produce a film for television on the trial focusing on the assassination of Zoran Djindjic, Serbia’s first democratic Prime Minister. The nonpartisan and objective documentary will analyze the legal, social, and political aspects of the trial, as well as remind viewers of the legacy of the most prominent reform leader of post-Milosevic Serbia.

Citizen’s Association “Millennium”
$20,828*
To encourage public debate and raise citizens’ awareness of crucial issues facing Serbia today. Millennium will produce and broadcast a series of 14 current affairs debates conducted with a live studio audience. Primarily targeting citizens in central Serbia, the television debates will contribute to their ability to hold decision makers accountable for their policies and actions ahead of the 2007 local elections.

NIP Vranjske
$21,680*
To encourage public debate about crucial issues facing local Serb and Albanian ethnic communities in the wake of the Kosovo final status decision. Vranjske will organize four roundtable discussions, bringing together stakeholders from both ethnic groups to discuss the implications that the final status decision may have for ethnic relations and stability in southern Serbia. The newspaper will also publish supplements summarizing the conclusions of the roundtables.

Novi Sad School of Journalism
$38,485
To promote the development of youth departments within minority radio stations and motivate youth to be civically active in their communities. The School will conduct seminars and organize a camp to train young journalists in the basics of broadcast journalism. Project participants will establish youth departments at five local radio stations, each of which will create seven radio programs in Serbian and the respective minority language.

Organization for Development and Democracy Bujanovac (ODD)
$31,868*
To promote effective local government and increase citizen participation in decision-making processes. In three municipalities in southern Serbia, ODD will train citizens to monitor the process of drafting, approving, and implementing municipal budgets ; organize public hearings and radio programs about the budgeting process; and design a comprehensive database on municipal budgets.

ProConcept
$42,165*
To raise awareness about and assist in developing public support for nongovernmental organizations in Serbia. ProConcept will produce a six-episode television series titled “Will It Succeed?” documenting the activities of five local NGOs as they address specific problems in their respective hometowns. The series will provide citizens the opportunity to learn more about the impact NGOs can have in their communities.

Resource Center Leskovac
$19,296*
To strengthen the capacity of youth activists in southern Serbia and enable them to play a more significant role in human rights promotion and protection. Implemented in the two south Serbian districts of Jablanica and Pcinja, the project will train and educate new human rights experts, trainers, and monitors, as well as raise awareness about human rights issues in local communities.

Urban In Open Club
$35,811*
To encourage young activists in Sandzak to play a more significant role in advocating for youth-related issues in their local communities. Urban In will train 20 young activists from six towns, helping them to become proponents of reform at the local government level. Urban In will also launch a radio show focusing on local youth issues and establish a resource center to support local youth organizations.

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR)
$45,792*
To actively involve youth in the process of transitional justice and protection of human rights. YIHR will conduct workshops in 30 cities to create a broader movement of young activists committed to dealing with the recent past in Serbia. To encourage public debate about the events of the past decade, YIHR will also implement local awareness campaigns and expand its “Enough Silence” web portal.

Zajecar Initiative
$38,246
To strengthen youth NGOs in eastern Serbia and enable them to play a more significant role in advocating for youth-related issues. The Initiative will organize three workshops facilitating cooperation between youth NGOs and local governments, two networking seminars, and a donor conference. It will also award small grants of up to $1,000 to five or more youth organizations from the region.

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ABC Center for Peace, Security and Tolerance
$14,990*
To promote cooperation between civil society organizations in southern Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia in the fight against corruption. The Center will organize its annual NGO Forum, a day-long event that facilitates long-term communication and cooperation between civil society organizations, and produce a series of accompanying television reports and debates on anticorruption efforts at the local level.

Association School of Politics
$49,918*
To build skills and promote dialogue among young politicians and civic activists in Southeastern Europe. The Bulgaria-based School of Politics will organize a series of courses for 35 young politicians, NGO leaders, and media practitioners from the region. Topics of the courses will include the rule of law and the fight against corruption, populism and nationalism in the Balkans, and regional cooperation.

BETA News Agency
$49,800
To strengthen key local independent media in Serbia and the Bosnian entity of Republika Srpska. BETA will provide its news and photo services to 28 independent newspapers of the Association of Local Independent Media “Local Press” in Serbia, and its audio services to eight struggling radio stations of the Drina Radio Network in Serbia and Republika Srpska.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$227,064
To equip business leaders in the Balkans with the tools necessary to advocate for democratic reform. CIPE will strengthen the organizational capacity of the Institute for Organizational Management in Romania by conducting trainings and designing a long-term sustainability plan, assess the capacity of the business community in three Balkan countries, and organize training courses in two countries to build the capacity of business leaders to advance market-oriented democracy through participation in business membership-based organizations.

College of Eastern Europe (KEW)
$22,541
To promote crossborder networking and cooperation between local governments, NGOs, and media in Poland and Moldova. The Poland-based KEW will work with the Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO) in Moldova to organize a study visit to Poland for journalists and civic activists. CReDO will assist participants to develop joint projects and promote further crossborder cooperation between counterparts in Poland and Moldova.

East European Democratic Center (EEDC)
$39,384
To build the investigative journalism capacity of the independent press in Moldova. The Warsaw-based EEDC will organize training seminars on investigative journalism and local government management of public funds, conduct a competition for the best investigative article, provide honoraria to local newspapers for the production and publication of investigative journalism articles, and organize a study visit to Poland.

European Movement in Serbia (EMinS)
$43,530*
To advance the process of ethnic reconciliation and promote Euro-Atlantic integration in former-Yugoslav countries by empowering young political leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia to overcome the burdens of the past and establish long-term cooperation. EMinS will organize two regional seminars that will provide 60 young political leaders with the opportunity to learn about regional cooperation and open constructive dialogue on key issues across borders.

Freedom House Europe
$50,429
To promote collaboration between civil society organizations in Kosovo and Serbia and encourage policy reforms advancing cooperation between the two entities. The Budapest-based Freedom House Europe will facilitate joint research by the European Movement in Serbia and Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development, resulting in three policy papers presenting solutions to common transition challenges, and provide advocacy and outreach guidance across borders.

International Republican Institute
$975,000
To enhance the ability of prodemocratic political parties to compete effectively in elections, increase the ability of regional political leaders to engage in debate on key policy issues, and develop the capacity of governments to engage in democracy promotion activities in Central and Eastern Europe. IRI’s Bratislava Office will provide training and assistance to political parties, publish resource manuals on political campaigns and elections, and conduct a series of seminars to advance the democracy promotion agenda in Europe.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$550,000
To improve the skills of Roma political leaders. NDI will continue to assist the graduates of previous training programs in Bulgaria, Romania, and Slovakia, while providing basic skills training to emerging Roma leaders in Romania and Serbia. NDI will also provide governance training to Roma local councilors in Bulgaria and Slovakia, and partner with political parties and program graduates to prepare Roma candidates for the fall 2007 local elections in Bulgaria.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$240,000
To encourage women’s political participation in Romania and Bulgaria. NDI will conduct single-country trainings and consultations to improve the skills of women politicians, strengthen parliamentary women’s groups, and political party action plans for women. NDI will bring its participants together via one-on-one consultations and mentorship, crossborder meetings, and internet communications.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$130,000
To assist political parties throughout the region to understand contemporary political agendas in Europe, articulate their long-term political programs, and develop strategic plans for policymaking processes. NDI will assist political parties in Southeastern Europe to clarify their identities in regard to political ideologies, define party values, and develop and communicate policies consistent with those ideas and values.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$20,000
To enable democratic reformers in Southeastern Europe and the Black Sea Region to exchange information on strategies and programs designed to promote civic activism and democratic reform, and facilitate cooperation and coordination of regional and crossborder efforts to pursue these goals. NDI will develop a free-of-charge, internet based listserv to engage civic partners in a structured dialogue fostering mutual collaboration.

People in Need Foundation (PINF)
$49,994
To promote the development of civil society and independent media in Transnistria, Moldova. The Prague-based PINF will organize two seven-day visits for a total of 14 journalists and civic activists, which will bring participants to the Czech Republic for study, training, and networking. Czech experts from PINF will also conduct training seminars on NGO management and civic journalism in Transnistria, Vadul lui Vade, and Odessa.

Romanian Academic Society (SAR)
$49,084
To adapt and transfer the anticorruption and NGO coalition-building skills, models, and best practices of Romanian NGOs to their counterparts in Southeast European countries. SAR will assist the Partnership for Social Development in Croatia and the Organization for Democracy, Anticorruption, and Dignity (COHU) in Kosovo in building effective anticorruption coalitions, thus increasing the accountability of elected officials.

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR)
$73,400
To strengthen the capacity of local NGOs in the region to develop and implement initiatives for improving interethnic relations and promoting reconciliation. YIHR will award 15 small grants to support projects and local civic initiatives focusing on improving interethnic relations and cooperation, and creating the conditions to establish new links and dialogue between Kosovar and Serbian citizens.

* Indicates Department of State Funding Beyond NED's Annual Appropriation