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Regional Programs MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Highlights (pdf)
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2000 Grants: Middle East and North Africa
Descriptions of 2000 Grants: Middle East and North Africa Algeria Rally for Youth Action $52,000 To organize and promote public campaigns among Algerian youth on topics of women's rights, press freedom, civic education and universal human rights. Bahrain The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Bahrain $26,500 To develop and maintain its Web site, its human rights monitoring program, and organize a workshop for Bahraini human rights activists. Egypt The Center for International Private Enterprise $88,908 To establish an office in Cairo as part of a new regional strategy for an on-site presence to facilitate democratization process by providing technical and financial assistance to Egyptian private business associations and think tanks. The Center for International Private Enterprise $63,381 To promote public awareness of corporate governance principles as a key element in advancing market-oriented economic and democratic development. With the Federation of Egyptian Industries, CIPE will bring together businessmen, journalists and policymakers to discuss the relevance of corporate governance to the current debate on the country's economic and democratic development. Egyptian Center for Women's Rights $40,000 To hold twelve training and educational workshops to raise women's legal awareness, provide women with legal aid and family counseling, monitor violations against women, and publish four legal aid booklets for women in several of Cairo's poorer districts. 
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $137,333 To provide election monitoring information and advice, conduct two seminars for election monitoring trainers, and provide a sub-grant to the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights to support the monitoring activities. Sudanese Studies Center (SSC) $50,000 To publish and distribute 1,000 copies of its annual report on the political and cultural developments of the state and civil society in Sudan. SSC, a Cairo-based organization, will also develop a research unit on democracy studies on Sudan, hold a two day conference on prospects for political reform in Sudan and publish, The Guide for Political Parties in Sudan. Iraq American Society for Kurds $54,000 To convene eleven educational courses for police officers, judges, student leaders and women's organizations, develop a network of human rights activists and organizations, and produce a human rights advocacy newsletter. Iraq Institute for Reform and Democratic Culture $30,000 To cultivate the interest of Kurdish youth in democratic principles and ideas by developing a specialized library, disseminating democracy literature aimed at the youth, and developing a youth association for democracy. Jordan Al-Urdun Al-Jadid Research Center $30,000 To publish two reference books and a quarterly newsletter on civil society. The first book will focus on professional associations and the challenges facing a democratic transition. The second book will address the legal framework on a democratic transition in Jordan.
The American Center for International Labor Solidarity $92,100 To prepare and train Jordanian union activists to become labor union organizers to recruit more and educate new members. Arab Media Institute $30,000 To train journalists to raise awareness of the media's role in nation-building and advancing the causes of peace, democracy, human rights, and accountability. The Institute will also develop a Web site and publish an on-line version of Al-Mashreq Al-I'lami, the only newspaper in the Arab world specializing in media issues. The Center for Defense and Freedom of Journalists $30,000 To train journalists on how to operate under restrictive laws and how to voice their concerns to parliament, the judiciary, and the general public. An 80-page manual in Arabic, entitled "Guide to Legislation and Protection Resources," will be published and will cover the material discussed in the two workshops. The Center for International Private Enterprise $59,500 To support the efforts of the Jordanian Economic Forum to provide accurate, independent analysis of the Jordanian economy and to create and sustain a dialogue between the private sector and the public sector about Jordan's economic challenges. Sisterhood is Global Institute - Jordan $30,000 To train women in democracy, human rights education and skills building, through seven workshops, ten computer training sessions, resource development and collection, and local and international advocacy.
Women's Union in Jordan $35,000 To expand legal literacy programs for women. The Union will conduct legal education workshops in rural areas of Jordan, design and implement legislative advocacy campaigns, and provide free legal advice and services. Lebanon National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $192,745 To conduct a nine-month program to assist a select group of Lebanese civil organizations in strengthening their institutional capacity by developing skills to design, implement and evaluate effective advocacy campaigns. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $183,468 1999 Reprogramming To conduct a feasibility assessment of the needs of Lebanese municipal council members by providing a forum to discuss municipal issues with a broad audience. Participants in these activities will include municipal leaders, mayors, other political and civic leaders and legal experts. Philanthropic Amlieh Association $48,000 To carry out, for a third year, a project incorporating women's rights education into the curriculum of civic and religious education at two schools with more than 400 students. The program also incorporates women's rights education into the curriculum of a basic skills class for 60 mothers from poor Shiite communities. Rene Moawad Foundation $60,000 To establish a forum for dialogue and to educate the Lebanese people about their rights and obligations as citizens through its monthly magazine, Hurriyat, which will be widely distributed.
Morocco International Republican Institute $67,000 1998 Reprogramming To continue its efforts to involve political parties, civil society, and citizens in the political reform process in Morocco with its Vision 20/20 project, a platform from which community business leaders, elected officials and civil society can discuss the issues, debate and develop solutions. Through a series of fora, a national vision document will be created and presented to Morocco in early 2001 that will articulate a plan for addressing the country's challenges. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $100,091 To provide technical training to enable deputies to become more efficient and effective legislators to help the Moroccan parliament become a more representative and responsive legislative body. West Bank and Gaza The Center for International Private Enterprise $123,997 To enable the Center for Palestine Research and Studies to continue efforts to build a dialogue between the government and the private sector, through 30 seminars on the relationship between the Palestinian National Authority and the private sector; and to organize a major conference on the role of Palestinian economic institutions. The Center for International Private Enterprise $57,650 To support efforts of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information to host roundtables and seminars for Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian policymakers and representatives from the central banks, private banking sector, private sector and media to discuss and advocate the use of a currency board and to assist policymakers in the decision making process. Civic Forum Institute $40,000 To produce and disseminate an NGO directory of 1,000 organizations in the West Bank and Gaza, and a needs assessment of 300 of these organizations, designed to strengthen the NGO sector and encourage cooperation and coordination among like-minded civic groups.
Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) $51,000 To democratize the Palestinian refugee issue through outreach and participatory town hall meetings between refugees and Palestinian leaders, with the goal of achieving peaceful co-existence of Israelis and Palestinians based on the principles of equality and parity. Jerusalem Center for Women $42,000 To carry out a ten-month democracy and civic education program for 100 Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza. The training will focus on women's and human rights, communication skills, self assertiveness, economic and social rights, women's rights under Palestinian law and the role of women in the legislative process. Middle East Center for Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND) $35,000 To expand MEND's student training pilot program, focusing on nonviolent conflict resolution and democratic development in Palestinian schools, conduct specialized training sessions for teachers from participating schools, and prepare a manual for future teacher training. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $113,354 To expand and contribute to the ongoing dialogue on the need for political pluralism and a multiparty political system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This program will provide comparative information, practical experience and political skills to Palestinian political and civic leaders. Palestinian Center for Helping Resolve Community Disputes $58,000 To enhance and expand its community education work, improve conflict resolution skills of the Center staff and enhance its network of organizations. The Center will continue to develop multimedia material, on conflict resolution, which will be distributed to schools, government offices, libraries and NGOs throughout Gaza.
Palestinian Center for Peace and Democracy $21,000 To undertake a three-day training of trainers program for twelve participants, who will design training and educational materials, and will organize and hold twenty workshops for young adults in the West Bank on their role in the formal political process. The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) $15,000 To hold roundtable discussions with political elites, and five town hall meetings with Palestinian leadership and citizens, to raise awareness about key components of democracy and democratic development at the grassroots level. Panorama $50,000 To continue its civic education and democracy training programs for youth. Activities will include training for 70 civic education trainers, who in turn will convene 55 civic education workshops for young teens throughout the West Bank and Gaza, with special emphasis on rural areas. Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) $38,000 To strengthen women's efforts at advocacy and coalition building, improve access to new information and skills, bridge the gap with decision makers, and raise awareness of rural women's rights. WATC is a leading Palestinian women's training and advocacy organization. Middle East and North Africa Regional Cairo Institute for Human Rights $40,000 To publish a 120-page quarterly Arabic journal, Ruwaq Arabi, which specializes in human rights issues. Two-thousand copies per issue will be published and distributed free of charge to government officials, policy makers, universities, human rights organizations, embassies, international organizations and NGOs in Egypt, the rest of the Arab world and abroad.
The Center for International Private Enterprise $102,767 To strengthen business associations in the Middle East by organizing a regional program in Cairo, Egypt, to teach management and advocacy skills to business executives. CIPE's training program will provide a forum to discuss the role of business associations in a democratic society and economic reforms. Center for Media Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa (CMFMENA) $20,000 To enhance its network by establishing a Web site dedicated to media freedom throughout the region. London-based CMFMENA will collect, analyze, and disseminate, in each country of the region, information on a wide range of media freedom issues. Dar al-Saqi - Westbourne Publishers $40,000 To publish four issues of its Arabic-language journal, Abwab, to respond to the emerging dialogue on democracy in the Arab world. Dar al-Saqi will publish 3,000 copies per issue, each consisting of 200-250 pages. International Forum for Islamic Dialogue $79,000 To link liberal-minded Islamists and provide a forum for Muslim intellectuals and activists through its publication of Islam21 and its Web site, and to hold regional workshops in Egypt, Morocco and Lebanon on "Islam, Pluralism and Civil Society," bringing together liberal Islamists in the region to work on a tolerant and pluralist Islamic agenda. National Democratic Institute for International Affairs $105,116 To continue its Middle Eastern Democratic Studies program. which increases reformers' access to democratic experiences by providing them with networking opportunities. Regional Program for Human Rights Activists $27,500 To hold a regional workshop for exiled human rights activists from sixteen Arab human rights groups in December 2000. The three-day workshop will review and evaluate human rights activities in Arab countries, assess the challenges and obstacles facing the exiled human rights movements, and develop proposals to address these challenges.
*Indicates funding source other than annual Congressional appropriation. |
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