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Project Title: Uyghur Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness and support for Uyghurs' human rights. The program will organize leadership and advocacy training seminars for Uyghur youth, monitor, document, and highlight human rights violations in East Turkestan/Xinjiang, advocate on Uyghur issues at the United Nations and the European Parliament, and support and coordinate the Uyghur diaspora.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $9,000
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations in East Turkistan
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description:
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $147,000
Project Title: Empowering Women and Youth for Advocacy and Civic Participation
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower women and youth from the Uyghur diaspora to participate in advocacy to protect human rights. The organization will train Uyghur women and youth in advocacy skills and civic participation and foster greater engagement through advocacy campaigns and collaboration with other organizations. The organization will also increase awareness about the Uyghur crisis among a wider international audience through outreach efforts.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Documentation and Advocacy for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness and enhance the prominence of Uyghur human rights issues. The grantee will research, document, and provide independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting Uyghurs in China. The grantee will conduct outreach to Chinese audiences and opinion leaders to foster understanding and build coalitions for improvement of human rights conditions for Uyghurs, and will continue to carry out human rights advocacy internationally.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $315,000
Project Title: Uyghur Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To raise awareness and support for Uyghurs' human rights in East Turkestan/Xinjiang. The grantee will organize an international training seminar on Uyghur issues and advocacy skills. This seminar will allow participants to effectively engage other human rights NGOs, the international community, and the media in efforts to document and speak out for Uyghur human rights.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $295,000
Project Title: Advocacy and Outreach for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of and advocate for Uyghur human rights. The organization will research, document, and provide independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting Uyghurs in China and abroad. It will also conduct outreach to Chinese citizens, collaborate with other civil society organizations to raise awareness about the ongoing human rights crisis in East Turkistan, and engage in international advocacy.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations in East Turkistan
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To document and make publicly available meaningful analysis of human rights violations in East Turkistan to uphold justice and accountability. The organization will expand and maintain a database of the ongoing enforced disappearance and detention of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in internment camps by collecting information through online and offline methods, publish two interim reports and an annual report analyzing trends and patterns of abuses, and disseminate the reports to serve as a resource for international advocacy.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $90,000
Project Title: Advocacy and Outreach for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of and advocate for Uyghur human rights. The organization will research, document, and provide independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting Uyghurs in China, and abroad. It will also conduct outreach to Chinese citizens, collaborate with other civil society organizations in an effort to raise awareness about the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Xinjiang/East Turkistan, and engage in national and international advocacy.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $315,000
Project Title: Defending and Advocating for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of and support for Uyghur human rights. The organization will conduct international and regional advocacy on Uyghur issues; organize advocacy and capacity training for Uyghur youth; monitor, document, and highlight ongoing human rights abuses in East Turkistan; convene an inter-ethnic and inter-faith conference; and provide support and coordination for the Uyghur diaspora.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $444,998
Project Title: Defending and Advocating for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of and support for Uyghur human rights. The organization will: conduct international and regional advocacy on Uyghur issues; organize advocacy and capacity training for Uyghur youth; monitor, document, and highlight ongoing human rights abuses in East Turkistan; convene an international conference on concentration camps; and provide support and coordination for the Uyghur diaspora.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $380,000
Project Title: Empowering Women and Youth for Advocacy and Civic Participation
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower women and youth from the Uyghur diaspora to participate in advocacy to protect human rights. The organization will train Uyghur women and youth in advocacy skills and civic participation, and foster greater engagement through advocacy campaigns and collaboration with other organizations. The organization will also increase awareness about the Uyghur crisis among local, non-Uyghur communities and grassroots organizations through outreach by the newly-trained women and youth activists.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $170,000
Project Title: Advocating for Uyghur Human Rights through Artistic Interaction
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of the Uyghur human rights crisis in the international community, and to provide Uyghur and human rights advocacy groups with a new tool to engage policymakers and other relevant members of the international community. The project will produce an immersive and interactive examination of China's repressive policies toward the Uyghur people that will educate and mobilize supporters and help strengthen the outreach and advocacy efforts of Uyghur and human rights organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Documentation and Research for Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To research, document, and analyze China's influence operations leveraged against Uyghurs in the diaspora and in East Turkistan. The organization will expand a digital database of human rights abuses, and produce a report analyzing and identifying Beijing's policies targeting Uyghurs in and out of China; both the report and the database will support advocacy efforts by the organization and the Uyghur diaspora.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $130,000
Project Title: Uyghur Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To raise awareness and support for Uyghurs' human rights. The grantee will organize leadership and advocacy training seminars for Uyghur youth; monitor, document, and highlight human rights violations in East Turkestan/Xinjiang; and strengthen advocacy on Uyghur issues at the United Nations and the European Parliament.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $246,000
Project Title: Advocacy and Outreach for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of and advocate for Uyghur human rights. The organization will research, document, and provide independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting Uyghurs in China. It will also conduct outreach to Chinese citizens, and engage in international advocacy on topics related to Uyghur human rights.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $315,000
Project Title: Advocacy and Outreach for Uyghur Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about Uyghur human rights issues, and to bring such issues to prominence globally. The grantee will research, document, and provide independent and accurate information about human rights violations affecting Uyghurs in China. It will also conduct outreach to Chinese citizens in an effort to improve the human rights conditions for Uyghurs, as well as providing international advocacy.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $294,698
Project Title: Uyghur Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Xinjiang / East Turkistan (China)
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness and support for Uyghurs' human rights. The program will organize leadership and advocacy training seminars for Uyghur youth, monitor, document, and highlight human rights violations in East Turkestan/Xinjiang, advocate on Uyghur issues at the United Nations and the European Parliament, and support and coordinate the Uyghur diaspora.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $354,000
Project Title: Advancing the Leadership of Palestinian Women in the Economy and Civic Life
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To advance women's leadership in the market economy and civic life through issue advocacy and associational excellence. The Center will support its partner organization's thought leadership and advocacy around reform priorities to improve the business-enabling environment for women entrepreneurs, while fostering cooperation within civil society to enhance the association's representational role. The Center will build capacity within the partner organization to seize strategic opportunities and strengthen a sustainable membership model to achieve financial and organizational independence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $360,424
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Engagement in Civic and Political Processes
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To enhance youths' knowledge of and participation in political and civic processes. The Institute will continue its youth civic education program, Ana Usharek, across universities in the West Bank. Students will apply skills from Ana Usharek to convene a Palestinian National Priorities Forum and present policy proposals to a panel of leading local experts and officials. The Institute will also provide technical and financial support to a local civil society partner to lead youth-driven local advocacy campaigns and community activities to strengthen municipal accountability.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $345,484
Project Title: Building Association Capacity to Advance the Interests of Palestinian Businesswomen
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen business associations as member-ship driven organizations. The organization will build Asala's capacity to advocate effectively for women-led micro-enterprises. The program will promote business association best practices within the partner association, improve key member services, and advance innovative sustainability elements that deliver financial and organizational independence. Analysis of priority issues and a related advocacy campaign by the local partner will enhance the association's representational function on behalf of women micro-entrepreneurs.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $359,985
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Engagement in Civic and Political Processes
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enhance young Palestinians knowledge of, and participation in, political and civic processes, the institute will continue to build on its Ana Usharek (I Participate) civic education program on four university campuses in the West Bank. Furthermore, the institute will continue to provide technical and financial support to two local civil society organizations -- Al Qamar Charitable Organization and the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement -- that work to engage youth volunteers in carrying out local advocacy campaigns and community activities aimed at strengthening municipal accountability.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $325,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Engagement in Civic and Political Processes
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To facilitate opportunities for young Palestinians to engage in civic and political life. The institute will launch a civic education and debate program in local universities in the West Bank to enhance young Palestinians' knowledge of, and participation in, political and civic processes. In addition, the institute will provide technical and financial assistance to three civil society organizations to engage youth volunteers in carrying out advocacy campaigns and community activities aimed at strengthening municipal accountability.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $350,000
Project Title: Building Association Capacity To Advance The Interests Of Palestinian Businesswomen
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To build the partner's capacity as a mission-driven, member-focused organization and to improve inclusive, grassroots advocacy services on behalf of women-led micro-enterprises. The program center will advance strategic leadership and effective management within the partner association, establish a sustainable membership model, and enhance organizational identity and communications. Advocacy training and the development of an issue-based advocacy profile will enhance the association's representational function.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $284,856
Project Title: Civic Participation in Municipal Government V
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To enhance municipal officials' responsiveness to citizen concerns and to foster relationships of trust between citizens and municipal councils. The institute will provide technical assistance to three municipal citizen committees to advocate for citizens' priorities. The institute will also provide technical and financial assistance to its two partner civil society organizations to build their organizational capacities to engage citizens on issues of concern. Finally, to facilitate community engagement among youth, the institute will build the outreach and leadership capacity of young volunteers active within the partner organizations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $325,000
Project Title: Civic Participation in Municipal Government IV
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To improve the accountability of municipal councils in addressing citizen priorities and strengthening the relationship between citizens and their local governments. The institute will support four municipal-level citizen committees, which will engage local mayors and municipal councils to undertake community development and improvement projects in response to citizens' expressed concerns. The institute will also conduct a pre-election assessment, and provide technical assistance to its two partner groups to develop their internal organizational and management capacities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $355,119
Project Title: Expanding Women's Democratic Practice in Palestine through Reform-Oriented Dialogue and Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To elevate the voices and enhance the democratic participation of Palestinian women by engaging female entrepreneurs, and micro and small enterprise owners, in reform-oriented dialogue. The center and its local partner will encourage dialogue among Palestinian businesswomen about challenges and opportunities for enterprise growth and sustainability, and achieving full civic participation. The program will leverage the democratic engagement and the findings generated by this process to mobilize businesswomen as a constituency for democratic reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $281,432
Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability to the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast 24 episodes of a hard-hitting television program. The 50-minute recorded program, which will start its ninth season, addresses accountability of the Palestinian Authority in ministries and municipalities, as well as civil society representatives and decision-makers in political, economic, and social realms.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,600
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Identification of Democratic Priorities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote civic engagement of disenfranchised youth in the West Bank and Gaza in voicing their own priorities for national development. The program will lead a film competition on future aspirations for young Palestinian women filmmakers, and use the winning film as a conversation starter to conduct 23 moderated discussion screenings throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Rights-focused Leadership in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a rights-based culture of youth leadership in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead two-day workshops on human rights for university students, and mentor its youth group. For this group, the organization will conduct advanced human rights and advocacy trainings and support members as they lead youth initiatives for their communities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Embedding a Culture and Spirit of Democracy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To inspire and engage youth in public life through self-development and promote enlightened views on Islam, pluralism, and civil rights among Palestinian youth. The grantee will lead a self-development and civic education training program and pilot civic initiatives for Palestinian youth in the West Bank. It will train 50 Palestinian youth ages 18 to 29 in two four-day training sessions, and then select 20 youth fellows for further training to lead 40 workshops in Tulkarem and Jericho for a period of four months each.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote accountability on social development services through youth participation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will strengthen youth engagement on advancing social accountability and democratic reform through mentoring three youth watchdog teams and assessing the delivery of social services in the three governorates of Gaza, Nablus, and Hebron.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership through Debates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the role of youth in civic and public life as part of Palestinian reform efforts. The organization will work with its established 40-member Leadership Youth Committee for youth inclusion in Palestinian initiatives. The group will train youth members of its union on debates, and mentor them as they organize local debates among youth that emphasize their policy priorities.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Female Journalists Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the role of female journalists in Palestinian media and public life. The grantee will lead dialogue sessions with stakeholders on relevant political and social issues, conduct workshops on media skills and journalist security, and support stories developed and produced by its members.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen representation of and response to university students' needs and priorities in the West Bank. The organization will conduct a comprehensive study on current student council election law at six universities, lead regional workshops, and train six groups of student election observers who will produce election-monitoring reports on student council elections.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Civic Education through Youth Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To inspire and engage youth in public life through the promotion of moderate views on Islam, pluralism, and civil rights compatible with universally-recognized rights among Palestinian youth. The grantee will empower youth to engage constructively and positively in their local communities and to develop critical life skills, including time-management, goal setting, and time management.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $32,000
Project Title: Towards Representative Government
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government representation of and response to citizens' needs and priorities in the West Bank, with a particular focus on upcoming elections. The organization will lead a coalition to train and deploy local election observers for the upcoming local elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It will also train field researchers to interview voters on Election Day and produce a report on voter behavior. Following the elections, the group will lead six workshops, four seminars and a concluding conference that will analyze these local elections and their implications for holding national, parliamentary elections.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,918
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government representation of and response to citizens' needs and priorities in the West Bank through elections and electoral reform at the national and local levels. The grantee will host West Bank and Gaza national workshops on youth participation in elections, national advocacy campaign, and launch an online newsletter to publish election related updates.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $44,500
Project Title: Promoting Rights-focused Leadership in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a rights-based culture of youth leadership in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead seven two-day workshops on human rights for 210 university students, and mentor its 234-member youth group. For this group, the grantee will conduct two five-day advanced human rights and advocacy trainings, and support members as they lead youth initiatives for their communities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Expanding Democracy and a Civic Culture through Education
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic and human rights values and norms within sharia colleges in the West Bank. The grantee will lead 10 three-hour workshops on tolerance and citizenship at five sharia universities, lead two capacity-building workshops for 20 sharia teachers and 20 sharia students, and mentor and remotely assist the trained teachers as they lead a minimum of 10 classroom lectures. The organization will also organize a five-hour roundtable on the Islamic studies curriculum, and publish and distribute a report with recommendations on how to amend the curriculum to include democratic values.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $32,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a human rights culture in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead six four-day introductory courses on human rights standards and their application for 180 social and political activists from Gazan universities, as well as a six-day advanced course for 20 previous graduates. The group will also lead three one-day introductory workshops at youth clubs, expand membership of its youth group affiliate, and hold ten meetings to expand the association's work on a human rights culture within universities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Expanding Democracy and a Civic Culture through Education
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic and human rights values and norms within Sharia colleges in the West Bank. The grantee will conduct a series of workshops on tolerance and citizenship at five Sharia universities, lead two capacity-building workshops for Sharia teachers and students, mentor and remotely assist the trained teachers as they lead subsequent classroom lectures to continue and deepen those discussions, and continue to advocate for amending curriculum to include democratic values.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $32,000
Project Title: Civic Education through Youth Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To inspire and engage youth in public life through self-development and promote enlightened views on Islam, pluralism, and civil rights among Palestinian youth. The grantee will lead a self-development and civic education training program and pilot civic initiatives for Palestinian youth in the West Bank. It will train 50 Palestinian youth ages 18 to 29 in two four-day training sessions, and then select 20 youth fellows for further training to lead 40 workshops in Tulkarem and Jericho for a period of four months each.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $32,400
Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability to the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast 24 episodes of a hard-talk television program. The 55-minute recorded program, which will start its eighth season, addresses accountability of ministries and municipalities, as well as civil society officials and decision-makers in political, economic, and social realms.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $52,800
Project Title: Expanding Democracy and a Civic Culture
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic and human rights values and norms within sharia colleges in the West Bank. The organization will lead a series of educational and awareness-raising workshops targeting young male and female students and teachers at five sharia faculties. It will hold 10 half-day workshops on religious freedoms in a democratic society, conduct two capacity-building workshops for 20 sharia teachers and 20 sharia students, and mentor local sharia teachers as they lead a minimum of 10 classroom lectures to continue and deepen those discussions.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Female Journalists Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the role of female journalists in Palestinian media and public life. Program activities will include 10 two-hour dialogue meetings with stakeholders on relevant political and social issues, three public debates with representatives of the media sector, two two-day workshops on sexual harassment law and gender policies for a total of 25 female journalists, and production of 16 stories related to the debates and dialogue sessions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Civic Engagement in Accountable Reconstruction in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in civic action, oversight of public spending, and interaction with local representatives. The grantee will run a broadly participatory campaign to reinforce citizens' roles in Gaza's reconstruction and sustain a civil society coalition to serve as a watchdog throughout the process. Program activities will include four four-day trainings for coalition members, 15 district-level study circles that report on reconstruction findings, and 50 district-level workshops to present findings and lead discussions on accountability with the general public.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $41,000
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote local accountability on municipal service delivery in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The program will strengthen youth engagement on local accountability through a coordinated series of eight debates, eight public hearings and three town hall meetings with municipal leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $57,700
Project Title: Civic Education through Youth Self-development
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To inspire and engage youth in public life through self-development and promote enlightened views on Islam, pluralism, and civil rights among Palestinian youth. The organization will lead two six-day training courses on self-development and civic engagement in local communities for 60 youth. It will then mentor 40 of the trainees as they lead follow-on activities at youth centers in the northern and central West Bank. Finally, the group will compete and support, on a competitive basis, six community initiatives that are designed by the youth to meet their civic participation needs within their local communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $29,800
Project Title: Strengthening Youth's Critical Debates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote critical thinking and debates on political and social issues amongst Palestinian youth. The grantee will launch a university debate competition at the Al-Quds and Hebron Universities, and continue competitions launched over the past two years at the Arab American, Bethlehem, Birzeit, and Al-Najah Universities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $36,900
Project Title: Female Journalists Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the role of female journalists in Palestinian media and public life. The grantee will lead 10 two-hour dialogue sessions with stakeholders on relevant political and social issues, conduct two two-day workshops on data visualization and digital security for a minimum of 30 female journalists, and support 72 stories developed and produced by its members.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government representation of and response to citizens' needs and priorities in the West Bank through elections and electoral reform at the national and local levels. The grantee will run a concerted advocacy campaign with national and regional workshops, international case study workshops, and election issue workshops.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Civic Engagement and Accountability in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in civic action, oversight, and interaction with national representatives on accountability and anti-corruption. The grantee will design a guide on the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), lead three four-day capacity building courses on the UNCAC's mechanisms, and support trainees in the development of 15 social audit reports and conduct of 45 awareness sessions for grassroots activists.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,900
Project Title: Civic Education Corps
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen democratic values and understanding among youth leaders in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead a seminar and training series for a cohort of intellectually driven young men and women. It will then mentor them as they identify, develop and conduct community initiatives reflective of this training.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Civic Participation in the Gaza Strip
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote and integrate reconciliation and tolerance, as part of ongoing Palestinian reform efforts. The grantee will work with its established 40-member Leadership Youth Committee (LYC) to sustain pressure for youth inclusion in Palestinian reform. In early October, 100 youth observers will be briefed on the current election law and its implementation and monitor local elections in Gaza's five districts. The project will also include trainings and mentorship for team members as they conduct awareness workshops on the need for reconciliation that includes transitional justice, and conferences to draw attention to youth demands for reconciliation.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $57,000
Project Title: Civic Engagement and Accountability in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in Gaza in civic action, oversight of, and interaction with local representatives on accountability and anti-corruption measures. The grantee will lead two four-day capacity-building courses on anti-corruption mechanisms, and support trainees to develop 30 social audit reports. The grantee will also conduct 30 discussion groups and 30 awareness sessions for grassroots activists, and produce 30 video clips that highlight the reports' findings.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Female Journalists Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the role of female journalists in Palestinian media and public life. The grantee will conduct a comprehensive study on women in the media sector, lead dialogue sessions with stakeholders on relevant political and social issues, conduct workshops on skills training, and support stories developed and produced by its members.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote national government accountability through youth participation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will strengthen youth engagement on advancing social accountability and democratic reform through mentoring three youth watchdog teams and assessing the performance of the Ministry of Social Development in the three governorates of Gaza, Nablus, and Hebron.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership through Debates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the role of youth in civic and public life as part of anticipated Palestinian reform efforts. The organization will work with its established 40-member Leadership Youth Committee for youth inclusion future political opportunities. The group will lead a seven-day training course on debating, and mentor members as they organize 21 local debates among youth, including a final debate in Gaza City.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Towards More Democratic Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government representation of and response to citizens' needs and priorities in the West Bank, with a particular focus on local elections. The organization will lead a national committee and advocacy campaign for the adoption of a new local election law and press for the government's adherence to it. The group will lead a three-day national workshop on electoral reform, five regional workshops, and a national conference on recommendations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $39,000
Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability from the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast 24 episodes of a hard-talk television program, Sa'et Ramel. The 55-minute, recorded program will address accountability in ministries and municipalities, and will feature civil society leaders, officials, and decision-makers in political, economic and social realms.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $55,200
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will strengthen youth engagement on advancing social accountability and democratic reform by mentoring three youth watchdog teams and assessing the performance of the Ministry of Health in the governorates of Gaza, Nablus, and Hebron. The organization will lead 10 hearing sessions, conduct six town hall meetings, and produce a final report and a short film on its findings.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability to the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast 24 episodes of a hard-hitting television program. The 50-minute recorded program, which will start its ninth season, addresses accountability of the Palestinian Authority in ministries and municipalities, as well as civil society representatives and decision-makers in political, economic, and social realms.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $136,600
Project Title: Civic Engagement and Accountability in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in civic action, oversight of public spending, and interaction with local representatives. The organization will lead capacity-building courses on transparency and good governance, support trainees to develop social audit reports, and produce video clips highlighting the reports' findings. The organization will also host public dialogue meetings and conduct private meetings with stakeholders to follow-up report recommendations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Identification of Democratic Priorities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote civic engagement of disenfranchised youth in the West Bank and Gaza on their priorities for national development. The grantee will promote youth civic awareness and engage them in debates on critical challenges and national development in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will produce a Youth Status Report (YSR), lead five one-day seminars with stakeholders, solicit feedback on a draft YSR, and hold 20 additional screenings and discussions of its four films.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth's Critical Debates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote critical thinking and debates on political and social issues amongst Palestinian youth. The grantee will launch a university debate competition for students at Bethlehem and the Arab American Universities, mentor debate teams at Birzeit and al-Najah Universities, lead two two-day training workshops for 24 students and 2 university debate coordinators, organize four coaching sessions for debate teams, and host four university debates.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Promoting Rights-focused Leadership in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a rights-based culture of youth leadership in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead six two-day workshops on human rights for 180 university students, and mentor its 190-member youth group, Friends of Al-Dameer. For this group, Al-Dameer will conduct advanced human rights and leadership training, and support members as they lead youth initiatives in their communities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Youth Political Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen democratic values and understanding within youth leadership in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead a seminar and training series for a cohort of intellectually-driven young men and women. It will then mentor them as they identify, develop and conduct community initiatives reflective of this training.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Civic Engagement and Accountability in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in Gaza in civic action, oversight, and interaction with national representatives on accountability and anti-corruption measures. The organization will lead four-day capacity-building courses on anti-corruption mechanisms, and support trainees to develop social audit reports, conduct a \seminar and awareness sessions for grassroots activists, and produce video clips that highlight the reports' findings.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability to the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast episodes of a hard-talk television program. The 50-minute recorded program, which will start its ninth season, addresses accountability of the Palestinian Authority in ministries and municipalities, as well as civil society representatives and decision-makers in political, economic, and social realms.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $52,800
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership through Debates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the role of youth in civic and public life as part of Palestinian reform efforts. The organization will work with its established 40-member Leadership Youth Committee for youth inclusion in Palestinian reform initiatives. The group will lead a training course on debating, and mentor members as they organize local debates among youth, including a final debate in Gaza City.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote national government accountability through youth engagement in monitoring and assessing government performance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will advance social accountability and democratic reform through mentoring three youth watchdog teams and assessing the performance of the Ministry of Social Development's juvenile services in the Gaza, Nablus, and Hebron governorates.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Expanding Democracy and a Civic Culture through Education
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic and human rights values and norms within Sharia colleges in the West Bank. The grantee will conduct a series of workshops on tolerance and citizenship for students at Sharia universities, lead capacity-building workshops for Sharia teachers, mentor and remotely assist the trained teachers as they lead subsequent classroom lectures to continue and deepen those discussions, and continue to advocate for amending curriculum to include democratic values.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $32,000
Project Title: Supporting Human Rights and Religious Freedom
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and religious freedom. The organization will offer a variety of human rights training programs, including religious rights, to activists in Vietnam, and will document incidences of religious rights abuses. It will also provide opportunities for activists from different communities and organizations working on religious rights to network, build solidarity, and cooperate to strengthen efforts to promote religious freedom and human rights.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $58,000
Project Title: Promoting Critical Thinking through Independent Online Media
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support independent media and journalism. The organization will work to support freedom of the press and freedom of expression through the publication of an independent Vietnamese-language online newspaper that will provide objective, accurate current news, analysis and commentaries, and investigative articles. The organization will also produce a multimedia program summarizing major domestic news.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Increasing Transparency and Accountability of Government through SME Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as constructive advocates for government transparency and accountability and to build a partner's capacity as an organization representing the voice of SMEs in Vietnam. The center will work with the partner to enhance the voice of SMEs by creating the Administrative Procedure Index, to be used as a tool to engage SMEs in public-private dialogue.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $199,417
Project Title: Strategic Engagement
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote an environment of transparency and accountability in legislative affairs and encourage the fostering of civil society and marginalized stakeholder input. The institute will engage with members of the National Assembly around the implementation of legislative drafting, transparency, and oversight. It will also conduct a targeted political assessment, and provide responsive and context-based governance training workshops to National Assembly members and support staff.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $56,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of civil society organizations and activists to support and defend human rights and foster regional and international support for civil society in Vietnam. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy skills, project management, and community organizing, as well as build links between them and their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries and internationally.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Supporting Rule of Law and Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To support the rule of law and raise awareness about human rights in Vietnam. The organization will publish an independent online legal journal, which will cover a wide range of legal and human rights issues, such as information and analysis about existing laws, significant human rights cases, translations of case law from other countries, and international standards. The organization will also build an online library with foundational writings on the rule of law and its role in democratic development and will publish an English-language journal.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $31,000
Project Title: Supporting Youth, Anticorruption, and Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the development and strengthening of civil society organizations and build the capacity of human rights and democracy activists. The project will provide support to a variety of projects carried out by independent civil society groups and activists working on youth outreach, anticorruption, religious freedom, and legal and humanitarian assistance to human rights defenders in detention or in prison.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $12,000
Project Title: Civil Society Training and Internship for Human Rights Activists
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of activists to support and defend human rights, free media, and civil society. The project will provide a long-term internship and various training programs for Vietnamese activists to increase their knowledge of human rights and democracy, and develop the necessary skills to carry out projects. Participants will also have opportunities to learn from other Asian civil society organizations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of Vietnamese organizations and activists to support and defend human rights and civil society. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy, project management, and community organizing as well as enable them to exchange experiences with their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries as a means of strengthening the emerging grassroots civil society movement in Vietnam.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $10,000
Project Title: Supporting Freedom of Association
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support efforts to promote freedom of association in Vietnam. The project will build the capacity of activists working on civil society and freedom of association issues through a training program. A series of discussions and seminars will enable human rights and civil society activists to expand their networks and advocate for freedom of association in Vietnam.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $23,679
Project Title: Mapping Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise international awareness of human rights violations in Vietnam. The organization will support an online, English-language platform that will document and map incidents of human rights violations in an interactive database and track trends of persecution. It will also serve as a resource for the international community on prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders at risk.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $90,000
Project Title: Supporting Rule of Law and Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To support the rule of law and raise awareness about human rights in Vietnam. Project activities will include the publishing of an independent online legal journal, which will cover a wide range of legal issues, such as information and analysis about existing laws, significant human rights cases, translations of case law from other countries, and information on international standards. The project will also make available an online library with foundational books and writings on the rule of law and its role in democratic development and an English-language journal.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of civil society organizations and activists to support and defend human rights. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy skills, project management, and community organizing as well as build links between them and their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Supporting Rule of Law and Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To support the rule of law and raise awareness about human rights in Vietnam. The organization will publish an independent online legal journal, which will cover a wide range of legal and human rights issues, such as information and analysis about existing laws, significant human rights cases, translations of case law from other countries, and international standards. The organization will also build an online library with foundational writings on the rule of law and its role in democratic development and will publish an English-language journal.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $71,000
Project Title: Daily Internet Newspaper
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support independent media and journalism. The organization will work to support press freedom and freedom of expression through the publication of an independent Vietnamese-language online newspaper that will provide objective, accurate current news, analysis and commentaries, and investigative articles. The organization will also produce a multimedia program summarizing major domestic news stories.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of Vietnamese civil society organizations and activists to support and defend human rights. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy skills, project management, and community organizing as well as build links between them and their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society and Building Capacity
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the development and strengthening of civil society organizations and build the capacity of human rights and democracy activists. The project will build the capacity of emerging activists and provide support to a variety of projects carried out by independent civil society groups and activists working on anticorruption, religious freedom, and legal and humanitarian assistance to human rights defenders in detention or in prison.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $87,000
Project Title: Supporting Youth, Anticorruption, and Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the development and strengthening of civil society organizations and build the capacity of human rights and democracy activists. The project will provide support to a variety of projects carried out by independent civil society groups and activists working on youth outreach, anticorruption, religious freedom, and legal and humanitarian assistance to human rights defenders in detention or in prison.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $92,000
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society Organizations and Human Rights Activists
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support the development and strengthening of civil society organizations and build the capacity of human rights and democracy activists. The program will provide organizational coaching, guidance, and technical support to nascent civil society networks and groups, and support a variety of human rights and democracy projects carried out by local partners.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,398
Project Title: Supporting Freedom of Association
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote freedom of association in Vietnam. The project will provide capacity training to activists working on freedom of association and support a series of activities to enable human rights and civil society activists to expand their networks and advocate for freedom of association.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $23,973
Project Title: Supporting Rule of Law and Human Rights
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To support the rule of law and raise awareness about human rights activism in Vietnam. The organization will publish a Vietnamese-language independent online legal journal, which will cover a wide range of legal and human rights issues, such as up-to-date legal information and analysis, significant human rights cases, criminal justice, and international standards. The organization will also publish an English-language journal, and build an online library with foundational books and writings on the rule of law and its role in democratic development.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Civil Society Training and Internship for Human Rights Activists
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of activists to support and defend human rights, free media, and civil society. The project will provide activists with training that will increase their knowledge of human rights and democracy, build their skills to carry out projects, and increase their opportunities to learn from other Asian civil society organizations.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of Vietnamese organizations and activists to support and defend human rights and civil society. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy, project management, and community organizing as well as enable them to exchange experiences with their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries as a means of strengthening the emerging grassroots civil society movement in Vietnam.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $130,000
Project Title: Mapping Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise international awareness of human rights violations in Vietnam. The project will support an online English-language platform that will document and map incidents of human rights violations in an interactive database and track trends of persecution. It will also make available to the international community information on prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders at risk.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Supporting Human Rights and Religious Freedom
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and religious freedom. The organization will offer a variety of human rights, including religious rights, training programs to activists, and will document incidences of religious rights abuses. It will also provide opportunities for activists from different communities and organizations working on religious freedom to network, build solidarity, and cooperate to strengthen efforts to promote religious freedom and human rights.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Supporting Human Rights and Religious Freedom
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam. Training programs focused on a variety of human rights, including religious rights, training programs will equip activists in Vietnam with knowledge and skills relevant to contemporary efforts to promote and defend fundamental rights. The network will also document incidences of religious rights abuses and provide opportunities for activists from different organizations to cooperate with one another to strengthen their efforts to promote religious freedom and human rights.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Promoting Critical Thinking through Independent Online Media
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support independent media and journalism. The organization will work to support freedom of the press and freedom of expression through the publication of an independent Vietnamese-language online newspaper that will provide objective, accurate current news, analysis and commentaries, and investigative articles. The organization will also produce a multimedia program summarizing major domestic news.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Supporting Religious Freedom and Civil Society Development
Project Region: Asia
Project Country: Vietnam
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build the capacity of civil society organizations and activists to support and defend human rights. The project will train religious freedom and civil society activists on human rights advocacy skills, project management, and community organizing. The project will also build links between religious freedom and civil society activists and their counterparts in other Southeast Asian countries and internationally.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $100,000
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