Latin America Regional

Afro-América XXI Columbia Chapter (AAXXI Colombia)
$90,530
To promote local political participation of Afro-Latino organizations and leaders in Honduras, Peru, and Venezuela. AAXXI Colombia will train 75 community leaders from 30 Afro-Latino grassroots organizations in institutional strengthening, leadership, and civil and political rights. AAXXI Colombia will also establish working groups with local government officials in the three countries.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$282,918
To strengthen the ability of trade unions to organize and represent workers. ACILS will assist participants in systematizing strategies and techniques that have proven effective in their respective industries. In addition, the participating unions will carry out national plans to build union membership and collective bargaining in their industries and will maintain ongoing contact with their counterparts in the program, share information, and provide each other feedback on the progress of their work.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$156,624
To strengthen unions' internal democratic mechanisms and the ability of trade unions to organize and represent workers. The Southern Cone Field Representative will work with trade union organizations from Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and in some cases Brazil to conduct regional and national level workshops designed to develop skills and strategies to confront common challenges.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$139,818
To support freedom of association. ACILS will assist national organizations in Central America in building the capacity of workers and their unions to organize and bargain collectively and to enlist national and international resources to bolster and protect their efforts.

American University (AU)
$171,538
To promote the role of legal academia in influencing public policy in human rights. In Mexico, AU will work with its partner institutions to produce a research report and a model draft legislation to amend the current legislation on the prohibition of torture. In Venezuela, AU will help five universities develop teaching capacity and a curriculum in the area of human rights protection and promotion.

Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
$94,516
To generate a dialogue on the role that civil society and the international community can play in the promotion and defense of democracy in the hemisphere. FOCAL will commission two papers, organize a conference in Ottawa, and conduct follow-up meetings in Venezuela and Ecuador on civil society and hemispheric and international norms for democracy promotion and defense.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$161,844
To inform and educate opinion makers, political leaders, and the general public in Latin America about the need to encourage democratic, market oriented reform. CIPE will work with the Political Science Institute to continue to publish four new issues of Perspectiva, a magazine that supports democratic, market-oriented reform in the region and offers guidance on how those reforms can be broadened and deepened.

Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad (Press and Society Institute) (IPYS)
$105,770
To protect journalists in Peru, expand their access to information and civic journalism initiatives domestically, and continue promoting an Andean network to protect journalists in Colombia and Venezuela. The network will enable a journalist who is in trouble or the victim of an attack to report the situation to the central office in Lima, after which IPYS will investigate and publicize the attack and, if necessary, provide legal assistance to the journalist.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$210,000
To strengthen political parties through the exchange of information and experiences. NDI will develop additional party reform manuals and case studies and train party experts on these new party reform materials and methodologies. NDI will also improve the Political Party Network (PPN) website design and online tools to better facilitate learning and exchange of party reform materials and ideas for the PPN's network of party practitioners.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$185,000
To provide technical assistance to advance the party strengthening projects of young political party leaders. NDI will sponsor expert trainer visits to Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Peru over the next year to provide support to NDI Leadership Program participants from those countries.

SER en el 2000
$133,910
To promote the capacity of civilians in the area of security and defense. SER will continue the research and training activities of its regional network of NGOs, academics, and state institutions in Latin America working in the field of civil-military relations, defense, and security. * Indicates Department of State Funding Beyond NED's Annual Appropriation