The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)is the organizational host of the Global Forum for Media Development Initiative, which organized a world conference in Greece. Pictured here is Goege Papandreou, the main opposition PASOK party leader, who made closing remarks at the conference.

Multiregional & Miscellaneous

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$287,578
To develop the capacity of domestic workers’ unions. The Solidarity Center will support domestic workers organizations and trade unions in Kenya, the Dominican Republic, and Indonesia to achieve tangible public policy goals on the protection and promotion of domestic workers rights. The Solidarity Center will also expand support to domestic workers in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Indonesia, and Kenya for a draft International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention on domestic work.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$223,788
To communicate workers’ stories worldwide, expose worker rights abuses, and provide online tools for independent unions in order to defend worker rights. The Solidarity Center will upgrade and expand the scope of its website by developing original content, such as research reports on labor rights, in addition to posting information on international workers’ rights campaigns and training materials.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$184,694
To promote innovative union multimedia efforts, including Internet-based communications tools and worker and union-generated media. The Solidarity Center will improve the capacity of partner unions in three countries to develop new communications tools to support advocacy efforts. Activities will include the creation of a toolkit on the use of new media, as well as trainings for partners.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$118,624
To expand political space for workers by highlighting tangible worker-oriented actions and policies in regions critical to democracy promotion. The Solidarity Center will compile field research from partner unions in order to write, publish, and publicize policy briefs on the role workers play in promoting democracy, with an emphasis on the link between workers and democracy. The process will raise awareness among key policy stakeholders, facilitate union-to-union relationship building, link unions to other regional allies, and contribute to internal union strategic planning.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$74,912
To initiate dialogue on the important relationship between democracy and migration. The Solidarity Center will conduct a workshop at the Fifth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy to discuss migrant workers’ rights. The Solidarity Center will also support the participation in the Assembly of ten individuals from countries in which migrant and trafficking issues are salient.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$306,100
To increase youth participation in the reform process and assist youth in gaining the knowledge, confidence, and voice to contribute to political and economic development. Activities will include an international internship program at regional US Chambers, the development of a Youth in Public Policy Advocacy curriculum, a youth essay competition, a pilot mentoring program linking non-profits with undergraduates, and engagement with young leaders in National Youth Policy reform in Pakistan.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$253,677
To address key challenges to democratic governance by working with political parties on economic platform development. The first component of the project will involve working with political parties around the world to develop and implement economic platforms. The second component will be the strengthening of CIPE’s own expertise on these issues, as it builds up key resources and enhances intra-CIPE knowledge sharing on political parties and the private sector.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$249,731
To carry out a comprehensive evaluation of CIPE’s projects in the past 25 years to enhance CIPE efforts to bring about democratic reforms in a wide range of political and economic systems. Accomplishment of CIPE’s 25 year evaluation will lead directly to decisions by CIPE to institute changes that capitalize on lessons learned from its experience promoting democratic reform. The project will help CIPE respond to new challenges around the world.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$206,826
To initiate and contribute to dialogue in support of democracy and market reforms and to increase reformers’ awareness of the connection between economic and political reform through the Forum on Economic Freedom. CIPE will generate and distribute information on how democracies work, develop a set of association governance standards, and promote association social responsibility.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$177,395
To facilitate greater public understanding of the links between transparent public procurement, anti-corruption, and broader democratic institutions. CIPE will work with Transparency International’s national chapters to increase accountability in public procurement in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Peru. Activities will include the production and distribution of studies that examine each country’s implementation of international commitments to transparency in the procurement process.

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$167,669
To carry out the third phase of CIPE’s knowledge management initiative, which aims to replicate what CIPE has learned from its experience in order to strengthen the effectiveness of current programs. As CIPE continues to foster the sharing and application of key lessons, strategies, and concepts in democratic, free-market reform, CIPE will engage a wider set of partners, educators, and opinion leaders and open new channels to encourage the flow of ideas among democratic reformers.

Center for Victims of Torture (CVT)
$76,431
To enable human rights activists to learn about, utilize, and share a broad spectrum of innovative human rights tactics. CVT will award subgrants to grassroots organizations to implement projects designed to provide local activists with access to and trainings on a wide range of strategies for addressing human rights issues. Activists will have access to strategic planning tools, a large collection of innovative tactics undertaken in various countries and available in different languages, and an online platform for networking.

Council for a Community of Democracies (CCD)
$65,000
To promote the voice of civil society in the training of diplomats from Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Western Europe on the different ways to support democracy development efforts of civil society activists. CCD will organize three regional conferences to introduce the concepts of the Diplomat’s Handbook for Democracy Development Support to diplomatic training institute representatives. NGO representatives will provide input from a grassroots perspective on the most effective ways to support democratic development.

International Center for Journalists, Inc. (ICFJ)
$72,596
To connect the international media community together and disseminate information and resources in support of independent and professional media throughout the world. ICFJ will continue to operate IJNet, a web resource for journalists and media development groups that provides news and information on media-related projects, fellowships, and trainings. Other IJNet resources include a database of media development organizations, discussion forums, and online networking tools to facilitate knowledge sharing and partnerships.

International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
$150,000
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. The Coalition will build the capacity of local memory initiatives and historic sites in Africa, Asia, Russia, and South America to create and implement civic education and dialogue projects that actively promote democratic values. The Coalition will also strengthen the Sites of Conscience network by providing opportunities for collaboration.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
$133,843
To foster collaboration among media development organizations. The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), hosted by IFJ, will continue to encourage more coordination among the media development community and promote the importance of independent media support in democratic development. NED support for GFMD’s secretariat costs will enable GFMD to organize regional forums and a global conference, as well as publish the conference recommendations and related articles.

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
$75,038
To bring together the media development community through the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD). GFMD, which is currently hosted by IFJ, will organize a global conference in Greece to develop actionable recommendations for the media development sector in the areas of advocacy, enabling media environment, civil society engagement, governance, and monitoring and evaluation. NED support will cover the travel costs of participants from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as the development of background papers.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$1,060,000
To build the capacity of the Women’s Democracy Network (WDN) in order to ensure institutional capacity overseas while increasing program outreach. WDN will respond to the needs of its members through country-focused activities, mentoring, partnerships with local organizations, and its website. WDN will focus on countries where chapters are already developing and collaborate with IRI regional divisions to complement project activities. WDN will also provide subgrants to organizations to conduct training seminars for members and ensure their long-term sustainability.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$400,000
To produce a comparative analysis of civil society development program approaches and lessons learned. IRI will finalize eight political party case studies, which will include implementing a reporting system and developing a publication. IRI will then use the case study approach to produce a comparative study of its civil society work in eight countries. Both sets of case studies will inform the institute’s approach to developing monitoring and evaluation systems for its various programs.

International Republican Institute (IRI)
$300,000
To continue implementing IRI’s Rising Stars initiative, which brings aspiring leaders from developing democracies together with those from other countries who have already achieved some success in dealing with issues of corruption, respect for rule of law, and economic openness in an effort to form significant mentoring relationships. IRI will organize two additional exchanges and three follow-up consultative mentorship activities between previous exchange host and participant countries.

Leadership Council for Human Rights (LCHR)
$170,083
To inform local and international policymakers about human rights issues and to empower individuals facing ethnic, religious, or gender discrimination. LCHR will raise awareness on various human rights issues through meetings and roundtable discussions, operate a mobile library in northern Iraq targeting women and young people, produce three issues of a publication on women’s rights topics in Iraq, and draft a book manuscript on highland minorities of Southeast Asia.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$187,233
To develop and pilot assessment frameworks and methodologies for effectively evaluating the impacts of democracy assistance in three thematic areas, and to improve institutional capacity to monitor, evaluate and learn from programmatic practice. NDI will facilitate the development of tools and frameworks for more effectively monitoring and evaluating democracy assistance programming.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$89,500
To participate in the Fifth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy. NDI will organize a plenary session to discuss how the work of development experts and democracy practitioners can better deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives. Additionally, NDI will organize panel sessions on women’s political participation and on norms and principles for democratic political parties. NDI will also facilitate the participation of political party practitioners and leaders from around the world in the Assembly.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$86,000
To establish a global network of domestic election monitors in response to the growing capacity of civic groups and the new challenges to electoral integrity. Based on the findings and recommendations from the first phase of the project, the second phase will concentrate on the establishment of an online community and companion website to facilitate the sharing of experiences, methodologies, and skills between domestic monitoring groups.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
$37,267
To capture lessons learned in programming methodology that will inform and improve future projects. NDI will produce a draft guide that documents its “unified approach” methodology that will help make better use of quantitative and qualitative data in order to enhance the design, implementation, and evaluation of NDI programs.

Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP)
$599,805
To foster women’s leadership and participation at all levels of society within Muslim-majority countries. WLP will conduct a multidimensional project consisting of trainings on both leadership and the use of information and communications technology. Other activities will include capacity building for local partner organizations, as well as development, translation, and publication of culture-specific training curricula which address leadership, political participation, and advocacy.

Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP)
$34,800
To strengthen the International Women’s Democracy Network. WLP, serving as secretariat, will build the capacity of regional coordinators and assist in the production of a prototype model of best practices for coordinators. The Network will also produce and disseminate information on democracy and participation through its online resource center. Other activities will include the organization of workshops on women’s participation at the Fifth Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy.

Miscellaneous

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$148,820
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$122,800
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Center for International Private Enterprise
$299,998
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

Center for International Private Enterprise
$94,898
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

International Republican Institute
$100,000
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

International Republican Institute
$105,300
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$300,000
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

National Democratic institute for International Affairs
$119,000
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

The grant listings posted here are from the 2008 Annual Report. We will be posting 2009 and 2010 grant listings in the near future.