Global

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$143,700
To increase awareness among international democracy advocates of the critical and positive role that workers and unions around the world can have on economic policy and development. At the World Movement for Democracy Conference, the Solidarity Center will sponsor a workshop titled "Civil Society Input into Economic Policy: How are Workers, Unions and Other Organizations Advocating Together to Address Economic Injustice?"  

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$132,000
To improve the ability of lawyers in worker and human rights networks in the Philippines and Burma to use international human rights treaty instruments and corresponding domestic laws in support of worker rights and democracy promotion, through coordinated outreach to and trainings with worker rights advocates. The Solidarity Center will support partners in each country, carrying out trainings for lawyers, paralegals, and lay legal advocates, as well as providing legal support to workers.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$280,000
To assist the efforts of domestic workers' unions and support organizations to promote freedom of association and the right to organize for domestic workers. Activities will include union mentor education, local union campaigns, and unions' parliamentary engagement in Kenya as well as rights and leadership training, study circles, and coordination support for domestic workers in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$300,000
To improve the ability of lawyers in worker and human rights networks in Mexico, Burma, and Southern Africa to use international human rights treaty instruments and corresponding domestic laws in support of worker rights. The Solidarity Center will support partners in each country in carrying out trainings for lawyers, paralegals, and lay legal advocates as well as providing legal support to workers.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$231,740
To identify, share and strengthen institutional strategies to secure working women's rights in India, Kenya, Morocco, and Peru.  The Solidarity Center will bring together workers from select organizations to share with women workers around the world information, strategies and best practices to empower grassroots women workers to advocate for their rights and interests.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$225,524
To strengthen property market institutions and the rights of small businesses and to raise awareness of the importance of property rights to anti-corruption and democratic development. CIPE and local partners will implement advocacy initiatives for policy changes to improve the functioning and transparency of property markets. The project will also educate small businesses about their rights in property transactions in order to improve the inclusiveness of market economies.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$174,805
To increase women's entrepreneurial and advocacy capacity and to shift public perceptions of women's political and economic potential. CIPE and local partners will conduct legal education and capacity-building activities for leaders of associations of entrepreneurial indigenous women in Peru, in addition to trainings for women journalists in Pakistan on reporting on women's political and economic successes.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$92,665
To improve the capacity of young think tank leaders to participate in democratic and economic reform processes. CIPE will partner with Atlas Corps to administer a fellowship program for qualified young researchers who will conduct research on democracy and market-oriented reform at Washington, DC-based think tanks and apply this work in their home organizations.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$238,855
To capture and share with a wider audience the unique CIPE approach of advancing entrepreneurship through institutional reform. CIPE will organize an international conference focused on overcoming barriers to entrepreneurship and the role of entrepreneurs and business associations in political and economic reform, providing a platform for CIPE partners to share lessons learned.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$177,692
To capture and apply innovations and lessons learned in program design and implementation in order to improve the program effectiveness of CIPE and partners. CIPE will create a guide to Collective Action Against Corruption, produce a toolkit on legal and regulatory reform, renew and expand the Leading Practices in Reform effort, and continue to host communities of practice for women and youth.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$324,051
To facilitate the flow of information on topics that will advance democratic and economic reform efforts and to multiply the impact of CIPE's partners and other reformers' programs. CIPE will provide a platform for exchanging lessons learned from successful approaches to democratic and market-oriented reforms. Activities will include the publication of articles, organization of roundtables, participation in conferences, and networking.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$199,949
To build acceptance of democratic models of development as viable alternatives to authoritarian development.  CIPE will support its local partner to host a roundtable discussion and publish a report on how democracy has delivered in the form of economic development in South Africa.  Sharing this experience with other developing countries, the project will demonstrate how democratic development can be achieved.

East & Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project
$55,000
To strengthen the protection of human rights defenders in North and sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing their capacity and cooperation with one another. The East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project will serve as the secretariat of the Pan African Human Rights Defenders Network. Activities will include deepening member coordination; building the capacity of members in the areas of protection, documentation, and advocacy for defenders; and conducting joint advocacy at the regional and international levels.

International Center for Journalists, Inc.
$100,000
To strengthen the professional skills and expand the networking opportunities of independent media around the world. Through its online resource center, "IJNet," ICFJ will produce original articles examining relevant media issues of the day, provide news on current media-related training opportunities and events, and offer a range of resources including tip sheets, guides, videos, expert advice columns, and interviews with media professionals.

International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
$231,582
To foster a culture of respect for democracy and human rights by drawing connections between the history of important sites and contemporary challenges to democracy. The Coalition will strengthen memory initiatives within its partner network through capacity building of member sites, peer learning opportunities, development of joint projects, and engagement with nascent sites.

International Republican Institute
$350,000
To provide democratically-minded leaders and government officials greater exposure to successful models in institutional development, economic policy, and democratic governance.  IRI will select democratic leaders from closed societies, as well as transitioning and new democracies, to participate in international exchanges and trainings that focus on topics related to democratic governance. IRI will also bring two sub-national leaders and their staff members on two exchanges to expose them to best practices in public administration and policy development.

International Republican Institute
$925,000
To increase the political participation, leadership and representation of women in public office worldwide. WDN's programming is member-driven, cross-regional and local. Activities will focus on targeted skills-building trainings, platforms for sharing best practices and its mentorship program.  WDN Country Chapters serve as WDN's primary partner in endeavors to ensure women are meaningful participants in shaping the futures of their communities and countries.

International Republican Institute
$175,000
To provide World Movement for Democracy Assembly participants with results-driven approaches for the promotion of democratic inclusiveness for all segments of society, both at the national and local levels.  The International Republican Institute will draw on its worldwide scope of governance and political party programming to identify an appropriate selection of participants and support their participation at the Seventh Assembly in Lima, Peru.

International Republican Institute
$275,000
To strengthen capacity for IRI to better monitor and evaluate NED-funded democracy assistance programs and to build a culture of evaluative thinking the Institute will conduct in-depth Monitoring and Evaluation capacity building trainings for local staff and work with staff to conduct participatory and utilization-focused internal evaluation efforts in their program country. These evaluations will produce lessons learned and best practices that can be shared inside the Institute and with the broader implementing community.  

International Republican Institute
$200,000
To strengthen Mongolian civil society's engagement with and contribution to the activities of the Community of Democracies during Mongolia's presidency. IRI will facilitate interaction between Mongolian civil society organizations and the government to inform and collaborate on priority areas in advancing democracy within the country and throughout the world, especially in the area of democracy education.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$60,106
To build on the previous two-year transatlantic dialogue on democracy support by engaging policymakers, donors, democracy organizations, and ICT firms from Europe and North America. The dialogue project will explore innovative practices on using ICTs to deliver democracy support and better integrate corporate social responsibility initiatives with this work. A set of policy recommendations would be developed for the transatlantic democracy support community.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$55,000
To promote the integrity and recognition of citizen election monitoring. NDI and partners will raise awareness about and support for the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Citizen Election Monitors. NDI will bring together the leaders from the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors to develop an implementation process for the Declaration. Activities will include the launching of the Global Principles at the United Nations, the development of an action plan, and follow up activities to support the principles.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$41,492
To strengthen parliamentary engagement with the Community of Democracies, including through the Parliamentary Forum for Democracy. To the extent possible, NDI would assist the PFD in broadening its membership so that it is more geographically and politically balanced, and focusing its activities on a broader range of democracy issues.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$70,000
To explore how information and communication technologies (ICTs) have enhanced citizen engagement in political processes by creating new spaces for public participation, enhancing the quality and quantity of citizens' voices in these spaces, and promoting government accountability.  NDI will analyze trends in select countries and create a guide and other learning materials that will inform future programming.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$132,000
To engage citizens, promote peaceful elections, and strengthen civic groups by helping non-governmental organizations overcome logistical and political challenges to hold widely broadcast candidate debates.  In partnership with the Washington-based Commission on Presidential Debates, NDI will facilitate a global exchange of best practices among debate groups at an international seminar and study mission to a 2012 U.S. presidential debate.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$80,000
To facilitate two workshops at the World Movement for Democracy Assembly. The workshops will focus on political party efforts to develop and implement inclusive and responsive policies and on how networking can promote shared principles, best practices, and solidarity among citizen election monitoring groups. In addition, the Institute will cover the transportation and accommodation costs of up to 12 participants in the Assembly.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$70,000
The second phase of NDI's program will focus on building the capacity of NDI staff with M&E responsibilities to better support local democratic actors in documenting the results of their initiatives.  To that end, NDI will design and pilot a training-of-trainers (ToT) curriculum in which NDI staff will help to translate skills, knowledge and processes to relevant local partners.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$75,000
To advance the effectiveness of nonpartisan citizen election monitoring, NDI will foster interactive communications channels among the over 150 organizations and regional networks that are part of the Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors (GNEDM). Activities will include multi-regional workshops and a working group session focused on implementation of the recently launched Declaration of Global Principles.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$40,000
To improve parliamentary transparency and networking among parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs).  NDI, together with the Sunlight Foundation, will co-host a global conference to facilitate PMO efforts to forge consensus on parliamentary transparency standards, support PMO global advocacy efforts on parliamentary transparency, and improve the exchange of good practices and experience among PMOs.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$65,000
To develop a conceptual framework outlining an integrated approach for understanding and designing programs that strengthen and build political parties. The framework would incorporate a review of academic texts and materials published by party assistance organizations, field research, evaluations of political party programs and input from academics and other party assistance experts.  NDI would seek opportunities to share the framework with the political party assistance community of practice.

New York University
$100,000
To protect academic freedom and raise awareness of the importance of university values to democratic society. Scholars at Risk (SAR), hosted at New York University, will set up a formal system to monitor and report on attacks on academic freedom in several different countries.

Parliamentary Forum for Democracy
$50,000
To strengthen the internal structure of the secretariat of the Parliamentary Forum for Democracy, a global coalition of parliamentarians whose mission is to provide support to democrats and raise awareness of political repression in non-democratic countries. The secretariat will implement a communications and outreach plan to facilitate channels for networking among members as well as to heighten the profile of and increase support for the Forum's mission.

Women's Learning Partnership for Rights Development and Peace
$375,000
To empower women to be leaders and advocates for women's rights, democratic governance, and peacebuilding. The Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace's program will continue to create and adapt culture-specific curricula on leadership, political participation, technology for advocacy, and women's rights in transitional societies. WLP and partners will also organize trainings based on these curricula in 15 countries, develop an online portal and new eCourses, and conduct networking and advocacy on women's rights.

Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Serbia
$24,924
To develop an online platform that will serve as a gathering place and resource for young democracy activists. The Youth Initiative for Human Rights will partner with the World Youth Movement for Democracy to provide networking and capacity building tools that will enable youth to make connections with their peers and strengthen their own capacity. The website will aim to reinforce young people’s offline efforts to advance democracy.

Miscellaneous

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$250,000
Program Development

Center for International Private Enterprise
$306,401
Program Development

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$298,000
Program Development

International Republican Institute
$200,000
Program Development

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$126,760
Program Management

Center for International Private Enterprise
$122,562
Program Management

International Republican Institute
$120,000
Program Management

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$132,394
Program Management

Grant descriptions are from the 2012 NED Annual Report.