Venezuela

Accountability
$29,770
The organization will carry out a program to strengthen democratic governance through citizen participation in the formulation of public policies. The organization will carry out a set of workshops in the main cities and in the interior to discuss and define a work plan for the states and programs for the selected municipalities.
Consultores en Planificación (COPLAN) conducted youth leadership training in Peru.

Accountability
$55,150
To promote public debate about local governments and their performance and to strengthen coordination between the municipal governments with regards to public services. The organization will encourage citizens to evaluate the performance of public officials and, based on this comprehensive survey, will help government authorities coordinate actions to address the most pressing issues.

Accountability
$33,360
To build the capacity of municipal government officials to plan, implement and evaluate development projects. Based on the findings of a diagnostic study of the decentralization process, the organization will conduct theoretical courses and practical workshops to train municipal officials to implement programs, participatory planning processes, and administrative systems that support effective decentralization and local development.

Civic Education
$25,000
To improve the leadership skills and promote the participation of young Afro-descendents in political processes in Venezuela. Working in three communities, the organization will conduct a series of workshops and assist in the implementation of a community development project to train young Afro-Venezuelan adults to become leaders in their communities.

Civic Education
$16,745
To strengthen youth leadership. This grantee will hold training workshops, bring together youth leaders and representatives from civil society organizations, and promote the creation of a youth policy agenda to be presented to the municipal government.

Civic Education
$37,608
To build the democratic leadership capacity of young adults. The organization will train university students and young community leaders on democratic values, leadership, teamwork and effective communication. To publicize its leadership school and attract participants, the organization will conduct a communications campaign via local newspapers, radio stations, text messaging and the Internet, and will distribute posters and flyers.

Civic Education
$55,000
To promote greater visibility to the perspectives and messages of student leaders and youth leaders in social movements. The organization will organize a series of forums and virtual events as part of its effort to build a network of youth leaders. The organization will also provide project participants with training on communications technologies as a tool for promoting democratic participation.

Civic Education
$32,000
To promote a new generation of youth leadership committed to democratic values, non-violence and human rights. The organization will design and implement a national leadership training seminar for universities. It will also participate in the planning and coordination of the national congress of students. Lastly, the organization will facilitate dialogue between university students and established civil society organizations.

Civic Education
$54,129
To improve the democratic leadership and citizen participation skills of Venezuelan women, especially of the lower and middle classes; and to strengthen the institutional capacity of women-led organizations in Venezuela. The organization will train women leaders to improve their skills and ability to affect democratic change. The organization will build its own institutional capacity by conducting an in-depth internal evaluation on the impact of its work to date.

Civic Education
$50,000
To promote youth commitment to civic participation, democratic values, and community service. The organization will organize weekly meetings and activities for youth members on issues of democratic values, community participation, social action and leadership. The organization will hold a series of workshops on civic leadership and values, as well as a series of working retreats, which will provide youth with an opportunity to perform intensive community service together.

Civic Education
$40,950
To identify and train community leaders from poor and middle class neighborhoods. The organization will offer them a structured training program on democracy and formulation of development projects for their communities, and provide them with follow on assistance and mentorship to implement these development projects with the support of their respective communities.

Civic Education
$38,500
To promote the creation of a new generation of political leaders with a deeper understanding of democratic values. Through an intensive training program, the organization will prepare and encourage young adults to become involved in public service and assume political leadership roles. The program will focus on the fundamental concepts of political theory, constitutional democracy and its development, and tools for political action.

Democratic Ideas and Values
$74,234
To strengthen the democratic values and leadership of youth in Venezuela. The organization will establish a strategic alliance with like minded organizations to provide intensive training to 200 young leaders from 8 cities of Venezuela. The trainings will include on-site and online meetings and conferences, public debates and follow-on activities.

Freedom of Information
$39,970
To strengthen the role of media to promote and defend democracy in Venezuela. The organization will evaluate the current efforts of media efforts to defend and strengthen democratic institutions. It will use the results of its analysis to foster greater discussion between journalists, civil society leaders, unionists and academics about the role of the media in Venezuela. The organization will conduct training for journalists and editors about methods to incorporate citizen participation into reporting. 

Freedom of Information
$59,427
To defend freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Venezuela. This grantee will maintain a national network of correspondents in ten cities throughout Venezuela to monitor and report on threats to journalists and violations of freedom of expression. They will distribute the reports to domestic and international audiences.

Human Rights
$50,000
To empower indigenous communities to strengthen their knowledge of human rights, democracy and the international mechanisms available to protect them. The organization will conduct a diagnosis of the human rights situation in the indigenous communities in the target areas. Based on this study, the organization will train indigenous leaders on human rights, conflict resolution, and citizen participation. 

Human Rights
$35,000
To promote a deeper understanding of human rights for the families of individuals abused by members of the police and to foster greater respect for human rights among the police. The organization will provide families of victims with training on legal protections and options for seeking accountability and justice. Additionally, the organization will train police officers on the need to respect human rights.

International Republican Institute
$706,180
To improve institutional capacity of metropolitan and municipal governments to employ issue-based governance practices; encourage public officials to determine issues of importance to citizens and develop and communicate policies that address those issues; and improve the discussion and sharing of democratic governance practices between public officials, policy experts, civil society and other governing entities. 

NGO Strengthening
$34,500
To promote cooperation and mutual support among regional civil society organizations and to build their communication and advocacy skills. The organization will strengthen these organizations through an intensive training program. 

NGO Strengthening
$76,280
To strengthen the capacity of community leaders to successfully advocate for solutions to local problems and to improve dialogue between community leaders and municipal officials as a means to generate more responsive public policies. Working with its local partners, the organization will train community leaders in seven municipalities on political advocacy, helping them to craft agendas for local social development, and facilitating communication with government officials. 

Strengthening Political Institutions
$36,200
To develop new strategies to respond to crime and violence. This grantee will train police officials on new techniques for addressing challenges to citizen security and help them engage community leaders to develop joint proposals for responding to these challenges. They will provide technical assistance for the implementation of these joint police-community initiatives. Finally, they will present a final report on the project results to media outlets.

The grant listings posted here are from tthe 2010 Annual Report, published in August 2011.