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Project Title: Towards the Implementation of Transitional Justice
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the adoption and implementation of a transitional justice process in Zimbabwe. The organization will support a working group of civil society organizations to engage with government institutions to monitor and guide the implementation of transitional justice, support victims of violence to amplify their voices in national dialogue, and coordinate civil society's push for justice and national healing. The working group will organize a series of policy dialogues, research reports, advocacy meetings, and a media campaign.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $5,000
Project Title: Civic Education on the Constitution and Legislative Reforms
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To enhance the participation of citizens in political and civic processes in Zimbabwe. The Institute will improve citizens' knowledge and understanding around the political and legislative reform agenda and promote citizen participation in important political processes. The Institute will also provide platforms for citizens and civil society to meet, discuss and provide feedback to policy makers on the implementation of the constitution and other legislative processes that enable the formulation of laws and policies that are inclusive, representative and democratic.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $350,000
Project Title: Advance Consensus Building on Political Reforms through Inter-Party Dialogue
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote constructive political dialogue in Zimbabwe. The Institute will optimize dialogue among key political parties, civil society organizations, and members of parliament on potential political reforms such as party registration, regulation, and funding. It will facilitate a series of inter-party dialogues and multi-stakeholder workshops to advance consensus-building and encourage ongoing dialogues on electoral reform.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Awareness and Participation in Democratic Reform Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To enhance the participation of citizens in political and civic processes in Zimbabwe, the institute will improve citizens' knowledge and understanding around the political and legislative reform agenda and promote citizen participation in important political processes in the country. The institute will also provide platforms for citizens and civil society to meet, discuss and provide feedback to policy makers on the implementation of the constitution and other legislative processes that enable the formulation of laws and policies that are inclusive, representative and democratic.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $400,000
Project Title: Building Trade Union Power to Create Democratic Space in the Post-Election Period
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To assist the Zimbabwe labor movement to expand its international network of labor allies to press its government to uphold human and labor rights and to allow the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) to freely occupy space as the legitimate worker representative. The center will strengthen the federation to open space for all unions to promote democratic governance without fear of intervention and reprisal. The center will support the ZCTU's engagement with the regional labor community and increase its visibility at the grassroots level.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $250,010
Project Title: Strengthening Formal and Informal Worker Organizations in Post-Election Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen formal and informal worker organizations in Zimbabwe. The center will conduct rights-based education nationally, and provincial-level trainings on collective bargaining, worker organizing and coordinated campaigning with civil society organizations. Partners will also conduct public advocacy with the government to hold newly elected officials accountable to citizen-defined socio-economic priorities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $450,000
Project Title: Opening Democratic Space for Citizen Participation in Critical Elections
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the ability of Zimbabweans to participate in the elections and to expand the voice of the marginalized small business community. The center will work with local partners to host five regional town hall meetings. To strengthen the advocacy capacity of small business associations and build public private dialogue mechanisms, the center will work with the partners to develop and implement an advocacy campaign addressing the needs of small business.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $299,769
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Values and Principles
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To support Zimbabwean political parties that are committed to democratic principles to gain skills on collecting and using data to create issue-based campaigns that are responsive to citizen needs and provide a concrete alternative to other parties. The institute will prioritize building the capacity of political parties to monitor for accountability, transparency, and legitimacy of the electoral process in order to be equipped with the tools necessary to safeguard the vote leading up to and on election day.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Strengthening CSO/Union Advocacy for Government Accountability in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To advance a platform of urgent, cross-cutting social and economic issues in Zimbabwe at a critical juncture of unexpected political transition. The center will strengthen trade union capacity to work with broader civil society to advocate for responsible development policies, develop regional alliances to support worker rights in Zimbabwe, and expand a national campaign for government transparency, accountability, and decent work
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Observing Legislative Elections
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen the ability of nonpartisan citizen observers to promote transparent and accountable parliamentary elections. The institute will support its local observation partner to conduct parliamentary sample-based observations for three target constituencies. The observation effort will include the development of monitoring manuals and forms, the recruitment and training of 150 observers, and a final analysis of observation findings.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Grassroots Mobilization for Political Reform, Socio-Economic Rights and Violence Prevention
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To build democratic worker organizations, advance human rights, coordinate election strategies with national civil society organizations, and develop plans for international responses to election-related political violence in Zimbabwe. The center and its partners will carry out organizing and recruitment campaigns, conduct grassroots education seminars, develop a pre-election SMS communications platform, and implement programs to increase citizen participation in the electoral process.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $555,600
Project Title: An Agenda for Economic Recovery II
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the ability of Zimbabwean private-sector organizations, particularly the Women's Alliance of Business Associations of Zimbabwe (WABAZ), to prepare and engage in a process of economic reform. The center will work with a representative, high-level steering committee to produce and advocate for a democratic, inclusive and long-term economic vision for Zimbabwe. The center will also provide WABAZ with technical assistance on advocacy and sustainability, while building local, self-sustained association governance and advocacy training programs in the process.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $269,389
Project Title: Strengthening Zimbabwe Political Parties through Capacity Building and Regional Political Party Exchange
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To strengthen capacity of Zimbabwe's political parties. The institute will engage in an effort to share lessons learned and build learning networks among peers in the southern Africa region. The institute will conduct a needs assessment of political parties in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana and South Africa; invite parties to a regional capacity-building conference to share best practices; build a regional network; initiate a mentorship program; and develop strategic plans. Through incorporation of mentors from other parties, the institute will work with the Zimbabwean parties to further develop their strategic plans and party action plans, and hold capacity building workshops.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $265,000
Project Title: Supporting Worker Activism
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen monitoring and reporting of freedom of association violations in Zimbabwe, while increasing the capacity of national unions to protect worker rights in critical sectors. The center will support workers' efforts to organize in economic growth sectors and the creation of a labor and human rights network to monitor and report abuses. One local partner organization will organize workers in the extractive sector, while another will carry out economic research provincial-based rights education programs.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $400,000
Project Title: Security Services Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a culture of non-violence and respect for human rights in Zimbabwe. The organization will strengthen the capacity of institutional leaders to carry out peaceful conflict transformation and protect human rights defenders through a series of consultations and workshops on methods of conflict resolution. The training content will be cascaded and will inform a formal training curriculum.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $23,464
Project Title: Promoting Inclusive Citizen Engagement in Democratic Reforms
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote citizen participation in national dialogue and local governance in Bulawayo. The organization will hold a series of town hall meetings and policy roundtables to revive the culture of debate in Bulawayo and boost the voices of civil society leaders and citizens from the Matabeleland region in Zimbabwe's reform processes. A network of community advocates will be trained and guided to conduct advocacy and engage with local authorities to address governance challenges.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Supporting Young Women's Leadership
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To advance young women's democratic participation and defend shrinking civic space in Zimbabwe, the organization will hold public debates and coordinate a media campaign for a gender quota system. It will provide capacity building for a network of community-based organizations and assist them to respond to attacks on civic space and boost grassroots voices in national dialogue. Working regionally, the institute will launch an initiative to enhance cross-border solidarity for young women advocating for democracy throughout Africa.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy and Regional Engagement
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society coordination and regional engagement towards democratic reform in Zimbabwe. The coalition will coordinate its members to establish an inclusive post-election civil society agenda and provincial action plans, develop an alternative governance model, hold policy dialogues and summits with civil society and key state actors, and further develop its tool to track the government's commitments to reform. The regional office will mobilize the diaspora and regional allies to boost advocacy for Zimbabwe and pro-democracy campaigns throughout Southern Africa targeting SADC and national governments.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $48,945
Project Title: Building the Foundations for a Democratic Transition
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To equip reformers in and outside of government with the tools to drive democratic reforms. The organization will offer its legal and constitutional expertise to assist reformers in government, reach out to disparate protest groups to enhance and promote their policy demands, and contribute to election reform and voter education efforts. The organization will also distribute e-bulletins and maintain its online platform to monitor the electoral and constitutional implementation process.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Strengthening Grassroots Citizen Participation in Political Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote meaningful and inclusive citizen participation in Zimbabwe, the organization will collaborate with popular social movements to carry out voter mobilization, election observation, youth leadership training, and popular advocacy actions with a focus on underserved rural communities. In addition to voter mobilization, the partners will strengthen the capacity of their grassroots structures to promote transparent elections and democratic political reforms.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $34,960
Project Title: Amplifying Community Voices through Digital Media
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance freedom of expression and access to information among youth in the Matabeleland region. The organization will produce and broadcast news and interviews with public officials and activists, highlight initiatives by local civil society organizations, create digital content and platforms that enhance youth participation in politics, and encourage debate and boost news and opinions from Matabeleland.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Participation through Alternative Media
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance freedom of expression and access to information among youth in Matabeleland. The organization will produce and broadcast news and interviews with public officials and activists, highlight initiatives by local civil society organizations, build the capacity of young female journalists, and contribute to advocacy efforts to reform media legislation. It will encourage debate online on issues affecting local youth, boost news and opinions from Matabeleland, and enhance youth participation in national debates and political processes.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Strengthening Grassroots Citizen Participation in Political Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote meaningful and inclusive citizen participation in Zimbabwe, the organization will collaborate with popular social movements to carry out voter mobilization, election observation, youth leadership training, and popular advocacy actions with a focus on underserved rural communities. In addition to voter mobilization, the partners will strengthen the capacity of their grassroots structures to promote transparent elections and democratic political reforms.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $88,320
Project Title: Viral Activism Project
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of expression and pro-democracy activism by youth through the use of satire, citizen journalism, and creative new media platforms. The organization will produce a new season of its satirical news program Zambezi News, train youth to track parliamentary processes and to contribute to political analysis using online media, and host its annual Shoko Festival for new media experts and youth to share ideas for creative activism.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy and Regional Engagement
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society coordination and regional engagement towards democratic reform in Zimbabwe. The coalition will coordinate its members to establish an inclusive post-election civil society agenda and provincial action plans, develop an alternative governance model, hold policy dialogues and summits with civil society and key state actors, and further develop its tool to track the government's commitments to reform. The regional office will mobilize the diaspora and regional allies to boost advocacy for Zimbabwe and pro-democracy campaigns throughout Southern Africa targeting SADC and national governments.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $113,945
Project Title: Setting an Inclusive Agenda for a Democratic Transition in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To encourage a peaceful and democratic transition in Zimbabwe. The organization will provide an inclusive and neutral platform for a diverse group of citizens, opinion leaders, and policymakers to articulate and promote a cohesive vision and reform agenda for the country. A major conference will be held, followed by subsequent policy dialogues, civil society consultations, and regional advocacy efforts in support of a citizen-driven reform agenda. Experts from the region will be invited to attend and observe, offer ongoing guidance, and exert pressure on policymakers and potential reformers to ensure a smooth democratic transition.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $103,501
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Natural Resource Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote reforms for greater public accountability around natural resource management, and to empower communities in resource-rich Manicaland Province to take the lead in defending their rights and advocating for policy solutions. The organization will use its unique access to the affected communities to facilitate dialogue between community actors and policymakers, carry out public expenditure tracking, publish policy briefs and human rights monitoring reports, and engage government and corporate actors to improve natural resource governance.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,474
Project Title: Encouraging Active and Informed Political Participation
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen active citizen participation in politics around the 2018 elections. The project will train community leaders and mobilizers to carry out voter education, election monitoring, and profiling of local political candidates in Chitungwiza. It will also encourage creative outreach through the production of a music album and a series of road shows featuring popular performers that will promote active citizenship.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $42,710
Project Title: Enhancing the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and the Rule of Law
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote key reforms during Zimbabwe's political transition. The organization will conduct technical research, trainings, and advocacy to promote legislation and policies that would protect freedom of expression, reform the police service, and clarify electoral rules and procedures. The organization will also provide trainings for its members and civil society partners to strengthen their skills and advocacy around the Cyber Crimes Bill and similar legislation that threatens to undermine freedom of expression.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $49,277
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Local Governance Reform
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparent and accountable local governance in Zimbabwe. The organization will build and train a network of community-based organizations to monitor resource allocation, investigate corruption, and work with their elected representatives to improve local governance. The group will also organize policy dialogues for civil society, legal experts, and policymakers to inform legislation related to local governance reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Youth Campaign for Accountable Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To empower rural youth to actively participate in political processes, the organization will strengthen the capacity of its network of youth activists in Manicaland Province to coordinate community advocacy campaigns and directly demand accountability from their elected officials. The youth will also organize a human rights film festival and a voter education campaign.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,365
Project Title: Supporting a Values-Based Dialogue in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To assist influential opinion leaders from diverse sectors of society to articulate a collective national vision for Zimbabwe's future. The grantee will partner with a local organization to facilitate a series of national reflection workshops among influential leaders across the political spectrum representing the churches, civil society, the private sector, intellectuals, and artists who will collectively seek out and promote constructive solutions to Zimbabwe's political crisis.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $76,500
Project Title: Promoting Inclusive and Informed Political Engagement among Youth
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen youth political participation in the democratic reform process. The grantee will identify and train youth leaders from various political parties on human rights, leadership, crafting positive policy demands, and political communication using art and media. To promote more democratic local governance structures, the grantee will continue working with government actors to develop job criteria for local councilors and related policy proposals.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $39,080
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Capacity to Stop Corruption
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the capacity of youth activists in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa to lead anti-corruption campaigns and coordinate joint advocacy efforts. The organization will conduct research, produce videos and cartoons on the effects of corruption, and assist citizens to report on corruption and engage the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission. To contribute to the growth of a new regional youth network, a regional conference will be held to encourage youth to lead a regional anti-corruption campaign.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $48,750
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Participation in Democratic Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote youth leadership and participation in democratic processes in Matabeleland South Province. The grantee will carry out a civic and voter education campaign that will feature community youth indabas, educational road shows, a young voter conference, and training for its network of community youth advocates to monitor the election process and take on leadership roles in politics and in their communities. Its efforts will be coordinated with others operating outside of the major cities to develop strategies for expanding space for meaningful youth political participation, especially in rural areas.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,860
Project Title: Strengthening Electoral Democracy
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance the participation and contribution of marginalized citizens in promoting accountability and democratic reforms in Zimbabwe. The organization will organize workshops and dialogues to strengthen the contributions of citizens in Midlands Province to ongoing national reform processes. It will also provide platforms for youth, local officials, and traditional leaders from across partisan divides to work together to address local challenges such as corruption, human rights abuses, ongoing political violence, and polarization.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $39,475
Project Title: Empowering Rural Youth to Promote Democracy and Accountable Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To empower youth in Manicaland Province to participate actively in political processes and promote accountable governance. The organization will encourage local youth to seek accountability from their leaders at the local and national level. It will conduct leadership trainings for its youth network, facilitate platforms for youth engagement with elected officials, train youth activists to create short documentary films, and host an activist film festival.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,984
Project Title: Towards the Implementation of Transitional Justice
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the adoption and implementation of a transitional justice process in Zimbabwe. The organization will support a working group of civil society organizations to engage with government institutions to monitor and guide the implementation of transitional justice, support victims of violence to amplify their voices in national dialogue, and coordinate civil society's push for justice and national healing. The working group will organize a series of policy dialogues, research reports, advocacy meetings, and a media campaign.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Building a Solidarity Movement of Communities Affected by Arbitrary Displacements
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of communities affected by arbitrary displacements to advocate for their rights and contribute to national policy reform efforts. This project will raise political awareness of issues associated with displacements and support affected communities to form a solidarity movement, document human rights abuses, create a joint policy platform ahead of the 2018 elections, and mobilize their peers to participate actively in the elections.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,096
Project Title: Building the Foundations for a Democratic Transition
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To equip reformers in and outside of government with the tools to drive democratic reforms. The organization will offer its legal and constitutional expertise to assist reformers in government, reach out to disparate protest groups to enhance and promote their policy demands, and contribute to election reform and voter education efforts. The organization will also distribute e-bulletins and maintain its online platform to monitor the electoral and constitutional implementation process.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Enhancing Youth Voices in Government
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote youth leadership and political participation in Matabeleland South Province. The organization will mentor youth leaders and create platforms for them to engage in local and national reform efforts, with a focus on contributing to debates around increasing youth participation in politics. The organization will strengthen networks of youth activists in the region and coordinate with community organizations throughout the country to defend and expand civic space for youth participation.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $43,900
Project Title: Empowering Youth to Participate in Political Processes in Midlands Province
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To mobilize youth and women in Midlands Province to participate in Zimbabwe's 2018 elections and promote a peaceful election environment, youth from rival political parties will be organized into committees and trained to conduct voter education, monitor the election environment, and find solutions to conflicts as they arise. The organization will also host a concert, a sports tournament, and a leadership training program to encourage women and youth to vote and to take a more active role in politics.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,925
Project Title: Preparing for Change in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To equip reformers in and outside of government with the tools to drive democratic reforms. The organization will offer its legal and constitutional expertise to assist reformers in the government; reach out to disparate protest groups to enhance and promote their policy demands; and advise key actors in developing a peaceful transition scenario. It will also distribute e-bulletins and manage an online platform to monitor the constitutional implementation process as it moves through parliament and the courts.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $72,219
Project Title: Enhancing Citizens' Participation and Oversight over Electoral Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To encourage free, fair, credible, and peaceful elections. The organization will host a regional observer mission of 15 prominent democracy activists from the Southern African region who will observe and report on the election process and offer recommendations for reforms. To increase access to information and citizen participation in electoral processes, the organization will facilitate a series of political candidate debates on electoral reforms and processes around Zimbabwe's 2018 general elections.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $65,491
Project Title: Building the Capacity of Security Services to Defend Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a culture of non-violence and respect for human rights. Project activities will strengthen the capacity of key members of society to carry out conflict transformation through a series of workshops on human rights and methods of conflict resolution and transformation in three different provinces.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,216
Project Title: Building an Alliance of Community Based Organizations
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To amplify the voices of grassroots activists in larger civil society efforts to influence democratic reforms. The grantee will strengthen its network of community-based organizations in 23 rural districts of Zimbabwe, train members of the network to monitor the 2018 elections in their communities, and create a long-term strategic mission for the network. The organization will also hold a series of debates for youth activists and social movement leaders to challenge political party manifestos.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $49,555
Project Title: Strengthening Investigative Journalism and Public Sector Accountability
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to information and combat corruption in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. The project will produce investigative stories and provide training and tools to journalists and civil society to strengthen the impact of investigative journalism. To encourage further dialogue and action in response to its stories, the organization will collaborate with civil society organizations and institutions, organize public dialogues, and produce multi-media content. It will collaborate with journalists in Southern Africa on corruption stories with regional implications.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $112,700
Project Title: Encouraging Constructive Dialogue with New Protest Voices
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To amplify and refine the messaging of citizen movements and civil society initiatives calling for democratic reforms. The organization will broadcast radio programs featuring different social movements and assist them in content creation. The organization will also expand its citizen journalist network to cover the impact of the movements in different parts of the country, and provide trainings for journalists and activists on digital security and responsible reporting.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $18,500
Project Title: Defending Democratic Space
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To defend constitutionalism, freedom of assembly, and freedom of expression in Zimbabwe, the organization will assist reform efforts by providing legal analysis and advice to lawmakers and civil society. The project will monitor and publicize procedures in parliament, the courts, and independent commissions, and will provide legal advice and pursue relevant legislative reforms and strategic litigation to strengthen protections for freedom of assembly and freedom of expression in response to shrinking democratic space.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $124,396
Project Title: Promoting Constitutionalism and Women's Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote women's rights and accountable local governance in Matabeleland North, the organization will provide leadership and advocacy training to rural women, promote the awareness and implementation of Zimbabwe's constitution among women and local officials, and assist the women to conduct advocacy campaigns to increase women's participation in local decision-making.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $33,276
Project Title: Investigative Journalism for Enhanced Public Sector Accountability and Transparency
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance access to information and to strengthen the capacity of the media to hold the public sector accountable. The grantee will train journalists in investigative reporting and produce three investigative reports that expose corruption and encourage citizens to demand accountability from their leaders. It will also create an online platform and collaborate with journalists and civil society to organize coordinated discussions and advocacy activities based on its stories.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,600
Project Title: Security Services Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a culture of non-violence and respect for human rights. The organization will strengthen the capacity of leaders within the institution to carry out peaceful conflict transformation and protect human rights defenders through a series of consultations and workshops on methods of conflict resolution. The training content will be cascaded and will inform the formal training curriculum of the institution.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,124
Project Title: Supporting Young Women's Leadership
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To advance young women's democratic participation and defend shrinking civic space in Zimbabwe, the organization will hold public debates and coordinate a media campaign for a gender quota system. It will provide capacity building for a network of community-based organizations and assist them to respond to attacks on civic space and boost grassroots voices in national dialogue. Working regionally, the institute will launch an initiative to enhance cross-border solidarity for young women advocating for democracy throughout Africa.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $125,000
Project Title: Strengthening Citizen Engagement in Local Government Reform
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve democratic local governance in Zimbabwe. The organization will organize community consultative forums, policy dialogues, and trainings for policymakers to inform local government reforms. It will train local elected officials on citizen engagement and strengthen the capacity of its members to participate in local governance processes, promote community cohesion, and defend shrinking civic space.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Enhancing Youth Participation in Local Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote youth leadership and improve local governance in Midlands Province. The organization will train citizens and local authorities to improve government accountability and identify corruption; create platforms for young people to influence local government, including the creation of a district youth council; and promote peaceful and inclusive political dialogue through theater performances, discussion forums, and debates.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $39,900
Project Title: Promoting Participatory Democratic Processes among Marginalized Communities
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To empower internally displaced persons and at-risk communities to organize, advocate for their rights, and inform policies that protect citizens from arbitrary displacement, eviction, and associated human rights abuses, the organization will train communities in Mashonaland Central, Manicaland, and Harare provinces to create formal community-based organizations that will interact directly with local and national institutions to seek redress and influence policy reform. The organization will carry out direct advocacy efforts in the form of research papers and policy dialogues.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Natural Resource Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen citizen-driven action towards more accountable natural resource governance in Zimbabwe. The organization will work closely with grassroots communities to facilitate dialogue between local activists, policymakers, and companies; carry out revenue tracking; publish policy briefs; document human rights abuses; and conduct media and advocacy campaigns to expose corruption and generate popular support for reforms.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $39,985
Project Title: Youth Acting for Positive Change
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the ability of youth activists to coordinate non-partisan advocacy campaigns. The program will bring together politically active youth with influential community leaders to engage in constructive dialogue towards joint advocacy efforts, and will assist the participants with advocacy messages over the radio and on social media. Additionally, staff will visit three other Southern African countries to coordinate regional advocacy targeted at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Union.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $44,768
Project Title: Promoting Constitutionalism in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote democratic reforms, constitutionalism, and citizen understanding of democratic processes in Zimbabwe. The organization will pursue strategic litigation and work with lawmakers and activists to promote the development and implementation of legislation that strengthens protections for human rights and democratic institutions. The organization will also monitor and publicize the procedures of parliament, the courts, and independent commissions in order to strengthen civil society advocacy efforts.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $62,677
Project Title: Coordinating Rural Youth Voices to Combat Corruption
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the capacity of youth in Mashonaland East Province to participate in governance processes and promote anti-corruption. The project will engage youth through advocacy workshops, study circles, youth symposiums, and guided advocacy campaigns to educate young people about corruption and strengthen their capacity to promote accountability and good governance and to engage in national reform and dialogue efforts. The organization will coordinate with grassroots organizations throughout the country to defend and expand civic space for youth participation.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $39,890
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Natural Resource Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote policy reform and greater transparency in natural resource governance and to strengthen the capacity of community actors in resource-rich Manicaland Province to advocate for their socio-economic rights. The organization will use its unique access to the affected communities to facilitate dialogue between community actors and policymakers, carry out public expenditure tracking, publish policy briefs and human rights monitoring reports, and engage government and corporate actors to improve natural resource governance.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,960
Project Title: Empowering Marginalized Youth to Participate in Political Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To empower marginalized youth to participate in elections and lead advocacy to demand accountable local and national governance, the organization will conduct a voter mobilization and civic education campaign in Masvingo Province. Youth leaders will be trained to form voting clubs, disseminate voter and civic education information, hold their public officials accountable, and monitor the election environment as part of the nationwide Alliance of Community Based Organizations
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Building National Consensus on Transitional Justice
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the work of the newly capacitated National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and to promote a broader strategy for achieving transitional justice in Zimbabwe. The forum, in its capacity as the secretariat of the National Transitional Justice Working Group, will work alongside the Zimbabwe Peace Project to ensure the NPRC is prioritized by the government and rolled out according to the constitution, and will convene a national symposium to draft a national transitional justice policy.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $45,072
Project Title: Coordinating Youth Activism and Civic Engagement
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To facilitate coordination among youth activists in Zimbabwe and in the Southern Africa region, the organization will establish platforms for dialogue bringing together youth from different political parties to advance common policy initiatives, as well as online forums to facilitate direct interaction between youth and their elected officials. The organization will strengthen cross-border collaboration on regional youth initiatives by expanding its networking efforts beyond youth in Swaziland to include activists from Botswana and South Africa.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $38,196
Project Title: Empowering Grassroots Youth Leaders
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote youth leadership and political participation in Matabeleland South Province. The grantee will mentor local youth to take on leadership roles in politics and in their communities, establish district youth councils to connect youth to their local government structures and consistently follow up on their advocacy efforts, and train local government officials to be more responsive to their constituents. Its efforts will be coordinated with others working outside of Zimbabwe's major cities to develop strategies for expanding space for meaningful youth political participation in rural areas.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $32,739
Project Title: Promoting Inclusive Citizen Engagement in Democratic Reforms
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote citizen participation in national dialogue and local governance in Bulawayo. The organization will hold a series of town hall meetings and policy roundtables to revive the culture of debate in Bulawayo and boost the voices of civil society leaders and citizens from the Matabeleland region in Zimbabwe's reform processes. A network of community advocates will be trained and guided to conduct advocacy and engage with local authorities to address governance challenges.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $59,990
Project Title: Enhancing Youth Engagement through Alternative Media
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance freedom of expression and access to information in the Matabeleland region. The organization will provide a creative hub for youth to access and use alternative media and will broadcast youth-centric news and interviews with public officials and activists on its online streaming television channel and website. The project will also broadcast and support initiatives by local civil society activists and build the digital skills of young women through a workshop series and the development of a monthly women's magazine.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $35,880
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Natural Resource Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote more accountable natural resource governance in Zimbabwe. The organization will train citizens in resource-rich Manicaland Province to advocate for their socio-economic rights, and will accompany them in carrying out advocacy campaigns and interactions with policymakers. The organization will also hold a national resource governance conference, conduct public spending tracking surveys, and publish policy briefs and human rights reports.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $34,994
Project Title: Citizen Engagement in Natural Resource Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote accountable natural resource governance in Zimbabwe, the organization will strengthen the capacity of community actors to advocate for their rights; facilitate dialogue between community actors, policymakers, and corporations; and carry out research and advocacy to inform a new regulatory framework for the extractive sector.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,012
Project Title: Speak Up and Engage Program
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the capacity of activists in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa to defend shrinking civic space and promote freedom of expression. In Zimbabwe, the network will encourage youth engagement around issues of government accountability and national dialogue by producing a weekly satire show, convening policy dialogues, and providing resources for activists. To address region-wide threats to freedom of expression, the project will support a campaign to influence legislation threatening online expression in Zambia and hold a regional convention on threats to freedom of expression throughout Southern Africa.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $65,600
Project Title: Her Right of Way, Give Way Campaign
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote the advancement of women's rights in Zimbabwe, the grantee will strengthen the capacity of young women activists and Zimbabwe's independent commissions on gender and human rights to promote women's political participation. The organization will hold a series of dialogues between women, independent commissioners, and government actors, including a national conference that will generate shared commitments to remove barriers to women's political participation.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $59,389
Project Title: Enhancing the Role of Youth in Electoral Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote political participation among youth around Zimbabwe's 2018 elections. The organization will carry out a voter mobilization campaign throughout Midlands Province; conduct civic education and leadership trainings for young potential voters and candidates; and organize community theater performances, discussion forums, and debates to promote peaceful and inclusive political dialogue during and after the elections.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,600
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of the Security Sector to Protect Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a culture of non-violence and respect for human rights. Project activities will strengthen the capacity of participants to carry out conflict transformation through a series of workshops on human rights and methods of conflict resolution. The trainings will emphasize women's leadership.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,149
Project Title: Strengthening Transparency and Accountability in the Land Sector
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the capacity of communities affected by arbitrary displacements and evictions to advocate for transparent and accountable land policies and governance in Zimbabwe. The network will educate and support community leaders, local officials, and government institutions to advance legal reform, challenge corruption, and improve accountability around how land and natural resources are allocated and utilized. The organization will conduct workshops, policy dialogues, and advocacy and media campaigns.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $42,300
Project Title: Promoting Women's Leadership in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To encourage greater participation by women and rural communities in Zimbabwe's 2018 elections. The organization will train women in politically sensitive provinces to engage with their local leaders to increase space for women's participation. The project will also support the development of a network of community-based organizations that will collaborate on voter mobilization activities, and will launch a national campaign to promote women's representation in government that will include a leadership training and mentoring program for female candidates.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $49,074
Project Title: Improving Local Government Accountability
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To empower youth to participate in political processes and lead campaigns promoting public accountability. The organization will train its youth network to monitor local government processes, engage with their local leaders, investigate corruption and human rights abuses, and promote community cohesion. It will work directly with newly elected councilors to improve citizen responsiveness as well as contribute to national local governance and accountability advocacy through networks such as the Alliance of Community Based Organizations.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Building People Power for Democratic Participation and Defense of the Constitution
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen and coordinate grassroots citizen participation in defense of human rights and constitutionalism in Zimbabwe. The grant will support institutional capacity building to enable the organization to carry out its mission to enhance and coordinate grassroots activism throughout the country. The organization will undertake strategic planning, expand its membership, provide training for its local structures, adopt new digital tools for civic education and engagement, and develop programs to foster youth activism.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $85,000
Project Title: Enhancing Youth Voices in Government
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote youth leadership and political participation in Matabeleland South Province. The organization will mentor youth leaders and create platforms for them to engage in local and national reform efforts, including through the development of a provincial youth manifesto and forums to enable young people to contribute to Zimbabwe's national dialogue. It will coordinate with other community organizations in Zimbabwe to defend and expand civic space for youth participation in rural areas.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,434
Project Title: Building Alliances for Participatory Democratic Processes in Zimbabwe
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of grassroots actors affected by arbitrary displacements and evictions to contribute to land reform efforts in Zimbabwe. The organization will support a network of twelve community-based organizations affected by arbitrary displacements to advocate for their rights, document human rights abuses in their communities, engage with lawmakers, and contribute to national policy reform efforts.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $38,600
Project Title: Enhancing Citizens' Capacity to Defend Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enhance freedom of expression and access to information among youth in the Matabeleland region. The organization will produce and broadcast news and interviews with public officials and activists, highlight initiatives by local civil society organizations, create digital content and platforms that enhance youth participation in politics, and encourage debate and boost news and opinions from Matabeleland.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $74,975
Project Title: Combatting Corruption in Local Governance in Chitungwiza
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance the capacity of citizens to combat corruption in local governance in Zimbabwe. The project will coordinate civil society activists to follow up on recent reports of corruption in Chitungwiza. It will train and encourage local officials and youth activists to monitor and report on corruption, hold public dialogues to review corruption cases, and conduct a media campaign using art, cartoons, and video skits to shape a narrative on the effects of corruption.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $43,000
Project Title: Strengthening Democracy at the Grassroots
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To enhance civic engagement and democratic activism at the local level, the organization will strengthen the organizational capacity of four emerging residents' associations in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces. The organization will also facilitate dialogue between residents and their local officials, connect the associations to other influential residents associations throughout the country, and produce policy papers and a journal to highlight resident-driven advocacy in Zimbabwe.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,010
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society Advocacy and Regional Engagement on Zimbabwe's Transition
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen civil society advocacy and regional engagement towards a democratic transition. The coalition will refine and coordinate its members' positions on elections and key policy reforms, develop a mechanism to track the government's progress towards reform against spoken commitments, and lead campaigns to guide engagement with the diaspora and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The grantee will also organize a regional election observation mission with its regional civil society allies.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Coordinating Resident Associations to Improve Local Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To bolster the efforts of resident associations throughout Zimbabwe to demand more accountable local governance processes. The grantee will mentor and train emerging resident associations and will bring together association leaders from different provinces to collaborate on a joint campaign to mobilize their respective communities to demand accountability from their local and national leaders and to craft informed and coordinated policy demands.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,225
Project Title: Reclaiming Political Spaces and Promoting Inclusive Elections
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote more inclusive political participation. The organization will empower young women and marginalized rural and peri-urban community members to participate in Zimbabwe's 2018 elections as voters and candidates. In its capacity as secretariat of the Alliance of Community Based Organizations (ACBO), the grantee will organize a grassroots-led election observation effort led by its members in eight provinces and organize a series of community meetings for grassroots activists to strategically reengage with local traditional and state leadership structures in Zimbabwe's shifted political climate.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Research and Public Policy Analysis for Sustainable Democratic Development
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To improve coordination among citizens, civil society, and democratic institutions for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe. the grantee will conduct research to guide policy reform, facilitate dialogue among civil society and the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission to build the capacity of the commission to carry out its mandate, and strengthen the ability of marginalized communities to contribute to democratic reforms.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,430
Project Title: Promoting Independent Media and Enhancing Community Voices
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote access to information and the inclusion of marginalized voices into mainstream media, and to coordinate civil society campaigns advancing human rights and accountability, the organization will support independent and citizen journalists by providing them with training and an equipped, safe working space. The organization will also establish alternative media platforms that will feature the work of civic and grassroots activists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,994
Project Title: Providing Media Space and Coordination for Zimbabwe's Civic Campaigns
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of civil society to influence democratic policy reform. The center will train civil society leaders to effectively and securely create and disseminate campaign messages using alternative media. The organization will proactively connect activists to formal print and radio journalists, and assist them in carrying out press conferences, roundtables, online radio programming, and blogging.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Building a Democratic Society through Citizen Participation
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus:
Description: To strengthen the capacity of social movements to build a shared vision for a democratic Zimbabwe and mobilize citizen participation in governance. The network will provide resources and convening space to activists and build on its previous efforts to coordinate advocacy through creative media and the creation of a citizens' manifesto. The project will support community outreach on the citizens' manifesto, a national convention of social movements, capacity building for activists and support to emerging social campaigns.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Advancing Anti-Corruption Efforts through Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to information and advocacy around public sector corruption in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. The organization will strengthen the capacity of journalists and civil society organizations to use investigative journalism to demand more accountable governance by training journalists, producing in-depth investigative reports, establishing a civil society taskforce to further drive anti-corruption efforts, pursuing legal advocacy to improve adherence to access to information standards, and convening a regional convention to explore cross-border collaboration on investigative journalism.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,100
Project Title: Promoting Peaceful Participation of Rural Youth in Political Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To empower youth in Manicaland Province to participate actively in political processes and promote accountable governance. The organization will work with its network of youth activists to create platforms for youth engagement with their elected officials and to encourage participation and monitoring of the 2018 elections. It will also hold a training for its youth network, two voter education seminars, sessions for youth to evaluate the performance of local officials, and a commemoration of the International Day of Peace that will encourage peaceful elections.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $41,996
Project Title: Advancing Peace, Justice, Dignity, and Development
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the newly formed National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) and to promote a broader strategy for achieving transitional justice in Zimbabwe. The organization will contribute to the National Transitional Justice Working Group's efforts to ensure the NPRC is prioritized by the government and implemented according to the constitution. This will include compiling dossiers and testimonies of victims of human rights abuses to present to the NPRC, strengthening the capacity of victims to lead their own advocacy efforts, and launching a media awareness campaign.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $51,336
Project Title: Enhancing Citizen Engagement in National Peace and Reconciliation Processes
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the role of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission and Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission in responding to human rights abuses and impunity in Zimbabwe. Building on its network of community mobilizers, activists, and clients, the organization will establish a communication platform connecting communities to the commissions in order to reinforce the independence and capacity of these institutions to serve as platforms for documenting abuses, holding the government to account, and promoting national healing and reform.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $47,352
Project Title: Countering Corruption through Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase access to information and combat corruption in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, the project will promote investigative journalism, produce a series of investigative reports, and encourage citizens to demand more accountable governance. To encourage further dialogue and advocacy around the stories, the organization will work with civil society organizations and hold public dialogues. It will collaborate with journalists in Southern Africa on stories investigating illicit financial flows with regional implications.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,620
Project Title: Women Promoting Accountable Local Governance
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To empower women in Matabeleland North to take the lead in demanding accountability from their elected leaders. The organization will train women to track local government processes and engage with their leaders. The organization will create an advocacy manual; facilitate meetings with local officials; produce a newsletter featuring stories by local women; host roundtables connecting the women to activists and policy experts; and commemorate International Women's Day with a day of educational drama performances and discussion.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Security Services Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a culture of non-violence and respect for human rights in Zimbabwe. The organization will strengthen the capacity of institutional leaders to carry out peaceful conflict transformation and protect human rights defenders through a series of consultations and workshops on methods of conflict resolution. The training content will be cascaded and will inform a formal training curriculum.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,188
Project Title: Enhancing Accountability and Transparency through Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance access to information and encourage Zimbabweans to demand accountability from their government institutions. The organization will train reporters on investigative journalism methods and commission eight in-depth investigative reports that expose public sector corruption and track the 2018 electoral process. The organization will collaborate with other civil society organizations to organize discussions and other advocacy activities to follow up on the stories.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Speak Up and Engage Program
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the capacity of activists in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa to counter shrinking civic space and promote freedom of expression. The organization will produce satirical online programming that engages young people in governance processes, empower youth to monitor parliamentary and local council processes, and share its online content with offline audiences throughout the country. Regionally, it will launch an African Satire Network and work with partners in Zambia to replicate its youth outreach programs and promote digital rights.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Coordinating National and Regional Dialogue on Zimbabwe's Future
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To coordinate citizen-driven advocacy towards democratic reforms. The institute will convene civil society and other influential leaders to carry out scenario-planning and craft unified policy demands for national and regional advocacy campaigns. The institute will carry out comparative research on political transitions, hold a scenario-planning workshop and three multi-sector dialogues to coordinate and refine policy demands, and facilitate dialogues with regional government institutions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $24,990
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Engagement through Alternative Media
Project Region: Africa
Project Country: Zimbabwe
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To encourage young Zimbabweans in the Matabeleland regions to actively contribute to national political processes. The project will establish a creative hub for youth to use creative media to express themselves and share ideas on how they can contribute to a more democratic Zimbabwe. The hub will host regular discussion sessions and interviews with youth activists and elected officials that will be featured on a newly established online radio program and YouTube channel.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,000
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