Georgia

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$160,000
To build the capacity of Georgian trade unions to engage in social dialogue with employers and the Georgian government. The Solidarity Center will advocate im­provements in Georgia’s compliance with international labor standards. The Solidar­ity Center will also assist Georgian trade unions to build an integrated program of education and outreach targeting exist­ing members and unorganized workers.

Association “Studio Re”
$74,730
To produce 21 television shows that will be broadcast on Maestro Television in Tbilisi and 21 regional television stations throughout Georgia. Each one hour debate will include a panel of experts drawn from the government, the opposition political parties, NGOs, journalists, businessmen and other public figures. The programs will provide an important forum for balanced and informed public debate of the most pressing issues in Georgian politics.

Association Atinati
$35,150
To inform the public about the NGO community in the Samogrelo region of western Georgia and promote greater activism among NGOs. The organiza­tion will produce a weekly radio show which will be broadcast on its station, which reaches the Samogrelo, Abkha­zia, Guria, and parts of Adjaria regions. Atinati will publish an NGO directory and maintain a web page. Atinati will conduct eight trainings to foster NGO develop­ment and organize a final conference.

Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD)
$40,810
To develop a policy agenda for democratic reform in Georgia. To define the reform priorities in Georgia, CIPDD will convene an advisory council, conduct interviews with experts, hold eight public debates, and publish four policy papers. Each paper will have a length of 20-30 pages and will analyze an area in which reform is needed and suggest improvements in policies.

Cultural-Humanitarian Fund “Sukhumi”
$61,500
To promote women’s leadership in politics in western Georgia. The organization will hold a forum to develop a League of Women Voters Platform and will lobby local political parties to pledge to support it for the 2012 parliamentary elections. The organization will conduct monthly meetings of “Women Voters” clubs in eight provincial towns, hold 24 work­shops, and conduct an advocacy cam­paign on women’s political participation.

Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights (FPPHR)
$35,919
To conduct human rights monitoring and participate in the NGO coalition Public De­fender. FPPHR will prepare a report about human rights in Georgia and will organize a final conference. FPPHR will conduct human rights monitoring and provide legal assistance to the population in Tbilisi and two regions of Georgia. The offices will conduct monitoring of selected trials, and hold a series of roundtable discus­sions. At the end of the program, there will be a conference and a final report.

Human Rights Center
$65,960
To improve human rights practices in Georgia. The Center will monitor and report on human rights, provide free legal aid, and support the activities of three regional human rights centers. The Center will conduct human rights advocacy and will submit reports to the UN, OSCE, Council of Europe and other international organizations. Finally, the organization will produce four short documentary films about human rights.

Internews Georgia
$24,117
To support the website Media.ge, a comprehensive resource for and about the Georgian media. The site is published in three languages, Georgian, Russian, and English, and is updated continu­ously throughout the day. The site has 1,300 registered subscribers and 600 visitors daily, who are predominantly media professionals, NGO activists, and staff of international organizations.

Liberali, ltd.
$36,500
To expand its website, Liberali.ge. The website will contain all the articles published by the print version of the magazine and an archive of past publica­tions in an easily searchable archive. It will also contain articles commissioned specifically for the online version, blogs, and podcasts. Under this program three new blogs authored by the magazine staff will be added to the website and additional articles will be commissioned as needed.

Maestro TV
$52,800
To enhance television news reporting throughout Georgia by creating a platform for sharing video among regional televi­sion stations. The Tbilisi based Maestro will establish a website from which Maestro and five regional television stations can upload video to be shared with the other stations. All six stations will be able to use the videos produced by the other partner stations in their local broadcasts.

Newspaper Akhali Gazeti
$28,745
To inform the population in two regions of Georgia about upcoming judicial reforms. The newspaper is based in Kutaisi, the sec­ond largest city in Georgia. The newspaper will collaborate with an Armenian language newspaper, Samkhretis Karibche, to reach the predominantly Armenian population of Samtskhe-Javakhetia. The program will include training for regional journalists on the provisions of the new legislation and the publication of three newspaper supplements focusing on these reforms.

NGO Abkhazia Info
$39,523
To support “Dialogues,” a talk show which broadcasts on a Tbilisi radio station, Ucnobi. The show will broadcast for 45 minutes every weekday at 5pm and will be comprised of a discussion among guests and callers on the pressing issues of the day. Over the course of the year 200 shows will be produced and broadcast.

Partnership for Social Initiatives
$54,320
To conduct an assessment of the course of reform in Georgia. The organiza­tion will conduct research, produce five analytical papers, conduct five debates, and organize five roundtable discussions on current events and political topics. The organization will also organize a train­ing seminar, host a radio talk show, and develop an interactive website and blog.

Union Article 42 of the Constitution
$47,890
To bring about judicial review of new legislation that violates constitutional norms and to make the public aware of this procedure as an effective means of defending their rights. The organization will file amicus curiae briefs with the Con­stitutional Court, hold two workshops for lawyers in Batumi informing them about the procedures of filing amicus curiae briefs, organize a meeting of stakehold­ers, publish a handbook and host sev­eral roundtable discussions in Tbilisi.

 

 

The grant listings posted here are from the 2011 Annual Report, published in August 2011.