Sudan

Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment and Human Development (KACE)
$43,050 *
To educate citizens about the role of national identity in both fueling and solving conflict in Sudan. KACE will hold a conference, workshops, and public lectures to help citizens understand how identity and culture have shaped some Sudanese conflicts, and to create dialogue about Darfur, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and prospects for peace in Sudan.

Amel Center for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture
$31,370 *
To promote the economic, political, and human rights of pastoralist communities in Sudan and to encourage their participation in peacebuilding. The Amel Center will hold a four-day workshop to assist pastoralist communities in ensuring that their concerns and needs become part of national, regional, and international agendas relating to peace, development, and justice. Follow-up meetings will be held with workshop participants and additional pastoralist representatives to further disseminate the proceedings and recommendations.

Babiker Badri Scientific Association for Women Studies (BBSAWS)
$65,900
To advance young women’s civic awareness at leading universities in Sudan and promote women’s political participation in rural areas of Sudan’s River Nile, Blue Nile, and Gezira states. BBSAWS will conduct three public lectures and three seminars on Sudan’s electoral process targeting women in civil society, media, and young people.

Badya Centre for Integrated Development Services
$55,800
To raise women’s and youth’s civic awareness and promote peaceful conflict resolution and reconciliation in the Nuba Mountains region. The Badya Centre will develop, produce, and disseminate a handbook for trainings that will discuss the concept of elections and their historical application in Sudan, election systems and challenges, election laws in Sudan and international treaties. The Centre will also continue to support the Peace Tournament and the Theater for Democracy.

Centre for Documentation and Advocacy (CDA)
$64,040
To promote freedom of information and good governance in Southern Sudan through independent media. CDA will continue publication of its magazine, the South Sudan Post. The Post contains editorials, feature articles, transcripts of important speeches, reproductions of significant political documents, and reader feedback and comments. CDA will also utilize its recently established main office in Juba as a community media telecenter accessible to the public for telephones, faxes, photocopying machines, e-mail, and internet services.

Cush Community Relief International (CCRI)
$40,000
To enhance the role of young people in the democratization process within the Jonglei State of Sudan. CCRI will continue its program of civic education training for young people in Jonglei State, and develop a group of election observers to promote voter participation and monitor the upcoming elections. CCRI proposes to hold two state-level training workshops for young people, facilitate the formation of a state-based youth network and train young people on leadership management.

Gender Center for Research and Training (GCRT)
$46,500
To encourage Sudanese women’s participation in upcoming political processes. GCRT will prepare a conceptual framework on women and the electoral experience. The framework will be discussed in a workshop involving gender experts and members of civil society, and be disseminated at various trainings for members of electoral commissions, civil society, and media outlets. GCRT will also conduct a comprehensive study on women’s electoral experiences from Sudan’s different democratic elections.

Institute for the Development of Civil Society, Sharg El Neil College (IDCS)
$30,000
To enhance the knowledge and skills of people involved in managing Sudan’s upcoming elections and advance citizen’s knowledge of the electoral process and democracy in Sudan. The IDCS will implement the second phase of its voter education and election management campaign. The IDCS will organize four one-day training workshops on voter education using the education material and tool kits that have already been produced.

Kuli Baila Organization
$25,570 *
To promote peaceful conflict resolution and human rights among various ethnic groups in Western Darfur. Kuli Baila will train civilians on basic concepts of human rights, peacebuilding, and women’s empowerment. Kuli Baila will hold four five-day training workshops in four different areas that contain high concentrations of internally displaced persons.

KUSH Inc.
$29,984
To strengthen the capacity of the Abyei Common Trust (ACT) and to further peace and reconciliation in Western Kordofan State of Sudan. KUSH will hold a five-day “Traditional Leaders Conference,” which will consist of a series of workshops to consolidate ACT and build its capacity for future planning, peace mediation and governance. ACT provides a single institution framework uniting all major social institutions of the Abyei area.

Kwoto Cultural Center
$50,024
To promote democratic principles and reconciliation among displaced youth and communities in Khartoum, Wau, Malakal, and Juba. Kwoto will educate Sudanese about democracy and human rights, promote dialogue, and reconciliation between different ethnic communities, and encourage discussion about political change in Sudan. Kwoto will utilize theater, radio, and dance to disseminate information about the electoral process.

Mundri Relief and Development Association (MRDA)
$25,762
To enhance youth knowledge and understanding of civic issues, and advance public awareness of constitutional rights and responsibilities in the Western Equatoria State of Southern Sudan. MRDA will work with youth groups to develop their understanding of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), interim constitutions, and democratic principles to better prepare them for the upcoming general elections and referendum on self-determination.

Mutawinat Benevolent Company
$50,000
To enhance access to the legal system for disadvantaged women and juveniles in Sudan. Mutawinat will continue to provide direct legal assistance to disadvantaged women and children in Sudan by taking on 500 new cases in areas around Khartoum, and in other parts of Sudan. Mutawinat will conduct four legal awareness workshops at universities and three workshops in IDP camps.

National Center for Peace and Development (NCPD)
$75,540 *
To strengthen the commitment to democratic principles and institutions in Sudan. NCPD will hold workshops, trainings, and seminars to promote transparency, rule of law, democracy, and human rights. NCPD will form an election management program in Khartoum and seven states in Sudan. A three-day training course on election management will be held in Khartoum and voter engagement trainings and free and fair election seminars will be held in different states.

Rahad River Development Organization (RRDO)
$27,000
To promote democracy, raise awareness of the CPA and upcoming 2009 elections in the Al Hawat Town Locality in the Gedarif State in eastern Sudan. RRDO will conduct a civic education campaign in preparation for the 2009 elections. The organization will present four plays in the local dialect and hold monthly workshops for community leaders to raise their awareness of the CPA.

Resource Centre for Civil Leadership (RECONCILE)
$39,730
To enhance peoples’ knowledge about elections and encourage their participation in the Upper Nile and Equatoria regions of Sudan. RECONCILE will conduct five seminars and one training of the trainers workshop. The seminars will address two major issues, the electoral law and its provisions (elections, campaigning, voting, vote counting, and election monitoring) and electoral violence.

Salvation Mission Sudan (SMS)
$21,665 *
To promote an understanding of peace and tolerance among citizens in Mundri East County. SMS will educate residents about peace, human rights, and ethnic coexistence by conducting four five-day training workshops in four different locations in Mundri East County. Participants will create three-month work plans designed to engage other community members once they return to their places of origin.

Search for Common Ground (SFCG)
$48,707
To strengthen and promote local initiatives that prevent and manage conflict in the Three Areas of Sudan. SFCG will undertake an assessment mission to Sudan in order to outline existing conflict management mechanisms in the Three Areas. A preliminary programmatic framework for a future SFCG conflict transformation project will be developed. SFCG will hold media and conflict transformation workshops in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile.

Southern Women Solidarity for Peace and Development (SWSPD)
$40,133
To promote political participation of women in Sudan and strengthen the capacity of Sudanese women running for political office. SWSPD will hold three training workshops lasting three days each in three towns, in order to empower women with the knowledge to participate as candidates in the forthcoming 2009 elections. SWSPD will develop a network of women trainers within political parties who will monitor and train other women in their own parties.

Sudan Human Rights Organization - Cairo (SHRO)
$100,510
To raise awareness and strengthen the role to be played by civil society, marginalized groups and professional associations in the preparatory, processing, and monitoring activities of the upcoming elections in Sudan. SHRO will strengthen relations between northern and southern Sudanese civil society groups in order to bolster the CPA and facilitate the transition to democracy.

Sudan Inter-Religious Council (SIRC)
$35,000
To help religious leaders develop a better understanding of their role in the reconciliation process in Eastern Sudan. SIRC will conduct a regional workshop in the Red Sea State capital, Port Sudan that will bring together a diverse group of religious leaders to discuss peace building activities. Discussions will be centered on understanding how religion can be utilized as a resource for conflict mitigation and prevention.

Sudan Self-Help Foundation (SSF)
$50,000
To build the capacity of community leaders in Western Equatoria State in Sudan to promote human rights, conflict resolution, and the CPA. SSF will facilitate workshops for traditional and religious leaders, women, youth groups, and the media on gender equality, conflict resolution, and good governance.

Sudanese Association for Youth Development (SAYD)
$26,530
To promote civic awareness among Sudanese youth in Khartoum. SAYD will facilitate workshops with participants from IDP groups, NGOs, and universities who will be lectured by experts on the CPA, electoral system, campaigning, electoral violence, draft election law, human rights, as well as the moral and institutional frameworks for a participatory democracy.

Sudanese Organization for Non-Violence and Development (SONAD)
$30,000
To promote democratic principles and ideas of nonviolence to young people and women in southern Sudan and Khartoum. SONAD will also build the capacity of trainers interested in promoting democracy and good governance. The organization will conduct civic and human rights education workshops in order to enhance the role of women and young people in the public domain.

Sudanese Studies Center (SSC)
$60,400
To contribute to the debates on democracy, culture, citizenship, and religion in Sudan. SSC will produce an annual report as well as a variety of scholarly publications designed to promote a culture of democracy and citizenship in Sudan. The SSC will organize a two-day symposium on religion and politics in Sudan, and hold bi-monthly meetings of the Forum for Young Democrats.