2009 Annual Report

Multiregional and Miscellaneous

Multiregional

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$358,405
To continue to support unions and worker rights advocates in their efforts to promote the political and economic rights of domestic workers. Through a combination of organizing, local policy advocacy, and international networking, partner organizations in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Indonesia, and Hong Kong will build and use their capacity to empower an often neglected group of workers, while at the same time linking support for their efforts to a larger, global movement.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$340,302
To provide trade union and civil society partners with the training and basic equipment needed to use new media as an advocacy tool. The Solidarity Center will expand its New Media Initiative by revising its New Media Toolkit, provide production assistance to existing media projects, promote the role of workers and labor rights in the media, and raise the profile of journalists’ rights.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$243,411
To support the ability of trade unions and labor NGOs to utilize international legal instruments in worker rights and democracy campaigns. This program will strengthen worker advocates’ capacity to strategically use international human rights treaty instruments as tools in their domestic advocacy. The Solidarity Center will develop legal tools and conduct skill-sharing and capacity-building trainings for union members, leaders, and legal professionals on the use of international treaty-based instruments.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$172,882
To help unions and worker organizations promote worker rights and democracy via the internet. The Solidarity Center will develop and provide to partners a basic website template with features aimed at building partner capacity to communicate through news updates, newsletters, photo galleries, video postings, and other methods. Partners will be trained on website administration using an accompanying reference manual that will be developed and translated into Arabic, French, and Spanish.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$150,000
To promote core labor rights by advancing a comprehensive understanding of the current practices of precarious work and to promote best practices in multiple industrial sectors. The Solidarity Center will produce three comprehensive case studies of successful trade union strategies challenging the abuses of precarious work in three different countries in three different industrial sectors. Solidarity Center will also develop and publish curriculum designed to assist union leaders in the development of strategies to promote, maintain or create regular or standard employment.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$258,257
To support the sustainable development of women’s organizations in developing countries through the engagement of the private sector. CIPE will develop a comprehensive program that matches up women-representative organizations in developing countries with companies that will provide them with technical assistance. This program will both support civil society development and present examples of sustainable corporate citizenship projects consistent with CIPE’s approach. Activities will include the development of a needs assessment diagnostics tool, a database of participant profiles, outreach to private sector participants, and case studies.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$252,727
To facilitate the flow of information on topics that will advance democratic and economic reform and to multiply the impact of the work of CIPE partners and other reformers. The Forum on Economic Freedom program will generate new information on economic and market reform for reformers around the world, distributed through the CIPE website, conferences, workshops, articles, policy papers, and other communications channels.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$219,810
To shape a better understanding of the linkages between democratic governance and sustainable economic growth through a global conference. The conference will bring together CIPE partners and global democracy experts to discuss issues relevant to the relationship between the quality of democracy and sustainable growth. Conference discussions will result in a number of products that will help CIPE and other organizations make a better case for much needed institutional reforms.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$213,726
To support CIPE partners’ economic journalism projects around the world. CIPE will consolidate, analyze, and highlight lessons learned and best practices from past economic journalism projects in order to create a single resource for CIPE partners. CIPE will create an economic training curriculum that can be shared within its partner network.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$155,454
To capture and apply lessons learned to improve program effectiveness as part of CIPE’s Knowledge Management program, which shares strategies, best practices, and case examples among CIPE’s partner network and a diverse range of governance reform leaders. This year, CIPE will develop content to engage think tanks as advocates for democratic change, strengthen communities of practice for women and youth, and describe ways the business sector can contribute to democratization.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$111,525
To leverage the experience of CIPE’s partner network to help other organizations overcome obstacles to economic and democratic participation. CIPE and 14 of its partners will participate in the World Chambers Congress, where CIPE will lead several workshops focusing on issues of association governance and association social responsibility.

Freedom House
$20,000
To draw attention to threats to press freedom around the world in order to catalyze and support dialogue, debate, and advocacy in defense of media freedom. Freedom House will produce its annual index examining the state of independent media throughout the world. In addition to numerical ratings for 195 countries and territories, the index features country reports providing analysis of the country scores, an overview essay detailing findings for the year, and a number of charts and graphs illustrating trends globally and regionally.

International Center for Journalists, Inc. (ICFJ)
$112,427
To strengthen the professional skills and networking ability of independent media around the world. ICFJ will continue to update and expand IJNet, a website that provides journalists with access to a variety of resources, including information on training opportunities and materials, feature articles on media-related topics, discussion forums, and networking platforms. ICFJ will especially focus on the development of additional online training videos and a pilot project aimed at delivering IJNet information to journalists through mobile technology.

International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
$200,000
To foster a culture committed to respect for human rights and democracy by drawing connections between the history of important sites and contemporary challenges to democracy. Activities in Africa, Asia, Russia, and Latin America will include capacity building for memory initiatives, development of various civic education and youth dialogue programs, outreach to new sites, and joint regional projects. The Coalition will also, for the first time, identify new opportunities for capacity building of memory sites in the Middle East and North Africa.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$1,060,000
To increase the participation of women in politics and civil society at the national and local level. Activities will include a variety of skills-building and leadership workshops, networking and mentorship opportunities, strengthening of country chapters, and a subgrants program.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$150,000
To support the mission of the World Movement for Democracy. IRI will identify potential participants for the World Movement for Democracy Sixth Assembly in Jakarta, Indonesia, in April 2010. IRI will facilitate the establishment of relationships and reinforce existing partnerships made during previous assemblies, as well as organize a workshop during the Assembly highlighting practical experiences and approaches to democratic governance.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$50,000
To assess the real-world impact of information and communications technologies (ICTs) on democracy programming. The project will take IRI’s program experience in this decade as a backdrop to survey specific case studies where ICTs have demonstrably made a difference in the advancement of the practice of democracy.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$111,537
To more fully integrate existing Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) learning systems, tools, and resources into NDI’s organizational practice in Washington, the field, and with its local partners. NDI will use e-learning to extend M&E learning and capacity-building processes to NDI program staff working overseas and their relevant partners, as well as equip staff with user-friendly, globally accessible M&E project cycle tools.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$100,000
To develop the capacity of domestic election monitors to conduct parallel vote tabulations (PVTs). NDI will work to increase the number and enhance the capacity of experts able to guide PVT implementation and to harmonize PVT best practices. NDI will conduct a “PVT Academy” with emerging and established PVT experts from several regions. Follow-on activities will include participant-generated reports and other technical support.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$89,845
To enhance understanding of best practices, minimum standards, and effective approaches for promoting greater participation by women in governance, elections, political parties, and civil society. NDI will research, publish, and equip practitioners with a guidebook on women’s political participation. The guidebook will articulate a rationale and include comprehensive strategies for integrating women throughout the democratic development lifecycle.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$85,000
To promote the development of inclusive, accountable, and responsive political parties in partnership with the party internationals. NDI will arrange a summit of leaders in Washington, D.C., where the Institute will facilitate consensus on an agenda for collaboration. After this summit, NDI will organize follow-up meetings among party international and NDI representatives, with the ultimate goal of implementing the decisions reached at the summit.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$72,393
To help civic organizations in nascent democracies and post-conflict environments hold effective candidate debates. NDI will organize an international best practices workshop to foster the exchange of ideas, peer support, and the development of informational resources among participating organizations. The workshop will address aspects of organizing debates including forming debate groups, format options, negotiations with candidates, outreach to the media and public, fundraising, and television production.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$52,600
To examine the civic monitoring efforts of current NDI partners and to develop a set of resources that will allow local groups to more effectively use monitoring as a means of political engagement. NDI will develop tools such as guidelines on how to best conduct monitoring initiatives, sample monitoring forms and templates, and strategic advice about how to incorporate monitoring into broader civic organizing and advocacy efforts.

Partners for Democratic Change
$25,000
To inform practitioners, decision makers, and donors of the coming decade’s democratization, conflict management, and sustainability strategies in developing countries. Partners for Democratic Change will organize a five-day event entitled “Lessons for Tomorrow,” which will include a series of workshops and a keystone conference in November 2009 addressing best practices and lessons learned in democratization and development programs. Workshops will cover a wide breadth of subjects, including civil society strengthening, conflict resolution, women and youth in development, and accountable governance.

Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP)
$599,355
To empower women in Muslim-majority countries to be leaders and to equip activists with the skills to become advocates for women’s rights, democratic governance, and peace building. WLP’s multidimensional program will include culture-specific curriculum development on leadership, information and communication technology (ICT), and political participation; leadership and ICT trainings in 16 countries; capacity building for local partner organizations; and networking and advocacy activities focused on women’s rights and democracy.

Miscellaneous

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$315,775 (includes $65,775 Supplemental)
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$126,310 (includes $12,685 Supplemental)
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$305,581
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$122,243
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$100,000
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$110,000
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$294,146
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$124,854
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT