Pakistan

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$560,000
To promote workers rights and effective industrial relations systems in Pakistan. The Solidarity Center will support the con­tinued growth of Pakistani trade unions as key participants in civil society and social dialogue. Projects will focus on the rights of women and children, training trade union youth to assume leadership roles, and building the capacity of legislators and policymakers on labor-related issues.

Aware Girls
$20,000
To educate and mobilize young women of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to participate in political and democratic processes. Aware Girls will train young women from five districts in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in leader­ship and political advocacy skills, and will raise awareness about the importance of women’s political participation among political parties, the public, and the media.

Baacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation
$40,000
To promote a culture of dialogue and debate among youth and to reinvigorate local civic and cultural institutions to cultivate a more pluralistic democratic discourse in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The Baacha Khan Trust Educational Foun­dation will conduct group discussions, speech and poetry competitions, and organize a provincial-level youth festival.

Balochistan Institute for Development
$50,000
To increase the capacity of local me­dia in Balochistan to understand and report on human rights and democ­racy, sharpen their journalism skills, and strengthen networking among journalists. BID will conduct a series of trainings to strengthen the skills and knowledge of 100 journalists working in Balochistan.

Bargad Society of Human Resources
$50,000
To generate awareness of and demand for peaceful, democratic, student union elec­tions on public university campuses. Bar­gad will organize an advocacy campaign to hold peaceful student union elections, con­duct research on student unions, and pro­duce radio talk shows on student politics.

Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace
$80,000
To educate the public about democratic values and principles and to encourage political parties, government officials, civil society groups, and other social and political actors to include human rights, es­pecially religious tolerance, in their political agendas. CCJP will conduct a multi-faceted project that includes advocacy on human rights and minority issues; orientation workshops for district-level CCJP mem­bers; public education meetings; district-level conventions on democracy and human rights; and legislative monitoring

Center for Civic Education Pakistan
$100,000
To enhance public understanding of democ­racy and constitutionalism and strengthen citizen input and monitoring of constitution­al reforms. The Center for Civic Education Pakistan will conduct a national-level con­stitutional literacy campaign and establish a citizen watchdog group to monitor the implementation of constitutional reforms.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$806,754
To enhance the capacity of business asso­ciations to represent the business com­munity and to raise public awareness and access to information on democratic and economic issues in Pakistan. CIPE will help strengthen advocacy skills among business associations to encourage policy reform. CIPE’s program will organize forums to explore ways to bring women and youth into the economy and create stronger corporate governance mechanisms.

Center for Peace and Civil Society
$75,000
To strengthen the role of civil society organizations, political parties, media, youth, and academia in politics in the Sindh, and to promote democratic values through advocacy, education, literature, and training. CPCS will establish a democ­racy resource center and conduct a civic education program through dialogues, trainings, lectures, a fellowship program, and the publication of a quarterly journal.

Centre for Human Rights Education
$50,000
To strengthen the skills and knowledge of human rights defenders in promot­ing human rights and democracy. The Centre for Human Rights Education will establish a training institute to increase the capacity of human rights defend­ers and nongovernmental organiza­tions in research, planning, organizing, documentation, management, advocacy techniques, monitoring, and evaluation.

Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Pakistan
$90,000
To institutionalize mechanisms of pub­lic accountability and transparency by strengthening civil society initiatives and democratic processes. CPDI will orga­nize trainings for civil society activists, community dialogues, public forums on accountability, and workshops for govern­ment officials, councilors, and members of national and provincial assemblies to sensitize them to issues of access to information and transparency in the use of public funds in three districts of Pakistan.

Civil Society Support Programme
$60,000
To promote the active political par­ticipation of youth in public affairs and to strengthen the capacity of youth or­ganizations to engage in advocacy and awareness-raising on social, economic, and political issues. CSSP will form youth groups, provide training opportuni­ties, and organize workshops, seminars, and a national youth conference.

Democratic Commission for Human Development
$80,000
To raise awareness about democ­racy, human rights, and tolerance among secondary school teachers and students. The Democratic Commission for Human Development will develop a comprehensive human rights cur­riculum for a teacher training institute and provide human rights training to 120 teachers in Sindh and Punjab.

Insan Foundation Trust
$50,000
To build the capacity of Pakistani and Afghan refugee educational institutions in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to raise awareness of women and child rights, gender, conflict resolution, and peace. The Insan Founda­tion Trust will work with schools in 13 communities in Peshawar and Mansehra to use sports and community mobilization techniques as tools to promote democratic values, peace, and respect for human rights in the respective communities.

Institute for Development Studies and Practices
$85,000
To cultivate a new generation of female leaders who will be prepared to take an active role in local government and civil society. The IDSP will conduct a year-long course to develop the leadership capac­ity of young women in regards to issues of gender, development, and democ­racy in four districts of Balochistan.

Interactive Resource Centre
$125,000
To mobilize civil society organizations and urban youth in Pakistan to play a more active role in the struggle for human rights. The Interactive Resource Cen­ter will train civil society organizations and urban youth on community-based documentary film-making and on the use of interactive theater. IRC will also initiate a media monitoring project.

Khwendo Kor
$50,000
To build the capacity of community-based organizations to advocate for human rights and to work to ensure that state institutions incorporate citizen par­ticipation and input into its policy-making. Khwendo Kor will conduct workshops for local community organizations and government officials on democracy, human rights, and good governance in two districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Mehergarh: A Centre for Learning
$45,000
To encourage youth, women, and minori­ties to play a more constructive role as citizens and future leaders in the effort to consolidate democracy in Pakistan. Mehergarh will conduct residential training courses to enhance the skills of activists in human rights, democracy, advocacy, and strategic planning, and will launch inter-related campaigns on counter­ing extremism, and protecting the rights of women and religious minorities.

Mukhtar Mai Women Welfare Organization
$7,087
To raise awareness of women’s legal and human rights in rural south Punjab, to build the capacity of activists working to protect women’s rights, and to sensitize the gov­ernment, media, and civil society on issues of violence against women. The MMWWO will conduct a comprehensive advocacy program on women’s rights in seven dis­tricts of south Punjab, including capacity-building trainings for civil society groups and journalists, a speech and art competi­tion, and a conference on women’s rights.

Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation
$150,000
To strengthen broad-based citizen coali­tions; encourage greater cooperation between civil society groups on issues of democratic reform, peace, and security; and promote government responsive­ness and accountability. OAKDF will strengthen the reach and capacity of provincial and national-level civil soci­ety coalitions through the use of budget advocacy and People’s Assemblies.

Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum
$115,000
To improve the responsiveness and accountability of local government, landowners, corporations, and other powerful interests on a wide array of is­sues impacting the livelihoods of fisher­folk and peasants. The PFF will organize district and national-level events to raise awareness of fisherfolk and peas­ant issues; conduct community meet­ings in 45 villages; and organize training and capacity-building workshops.