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Project Title: Increasing the Skills of Independent Journalists
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase the professionalism of independent journalists and strengthen the capacity of the sector as a whole. The program will strengthen Belarus' media sector, support the professional development of journalists, enhance networking among media professionals and NGOs, and reduce their international isolation. Other activities will include a series of public lectures and master classes featuring experts, and practitioners, moderated press conferences and roundtables for NGOs, expert and analytical meetings, and other events.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Accountability through Civic Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase civic engagement in fostering government accountability. The project will maintain, promote and further develop an online portal, which allows for greater citizen participation in addressing pressing civic issues and serves as a forum and resource for public concerns. It will publicize the website and promote advocacy campaigns across the country through public presentations, press briefings, and social media and other promotional advertisements.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $24,965
Project Title: Promoting Civic Journalism and Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To promote civic engagement and freedom of information. The project will hold introductory and advanced training courses on civic journalism and multimedia content production as well as maintain and further develop an online newspaper and improve its sustainability. It will also organize events that promote civic engagement on local issues.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $37,250
Project Title: Promoting Independent Analysis
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic ideas and values. The program will produce and publish regular, original analysis for a website. The analysis will focus on Belarus' relations with the West, key reform ideas, national and regional political developments, foreign influence, and other important topics. The online resource will also serve as an aggregator of important analytical texts produced by other domestic and foreign analysts.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $34,960
Project Title: Promoting Independent Democratic Culture
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote independent democratic culture. The project will produce and disseminate materials promoting an alternative view and assessment of domestic and international developments since the fall of communism. The materials will stimulate discussion about the role of culture and identity in shaping democratic values, and promote active and meaningful civic engagement. The project will promote the materials through a campaign that will culminate with a large public concert.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Activism through Independent Culture
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth activism and independent culture. A series of independent civic activities will take place, including cultural events, meetings and lectures with prominent figures, and youth trainings. Project activities will support independent culture, promote innovative approaches to stimulating youth activism, and facilitate cooperation and collaboration across organizations and sectors.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,580
Project Title: Providing Objective Economic Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to independent information. The project will increase citizens' understanding of the country's economic situation. It will assist a weekly publication that provides current information on and analysis of key economic issues impacting business and development. Despite the country's troubled economy, there is little accurate, accessible, and digestible information available either to a broader public or the business community.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $29,990
Project Title: Strengthening and Defending Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and the Internet. Project activities will support and safeguard independent news and information websites by providing secure, reliable hosting and technical support. Trainings and webinars will present information on digital security, legal compliance, sustainable media marketing, and intellectual property laws. The program will also provide consultations for media outlets.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $47,630
Project Title: Strengthening Citizen Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civic engagement and promote government accountability. The project will use a virtual platform to assist civil society and citizens in organizing and carrying out advocacy campaigns. It will also convene roundtable discussions with civil society organizations to identify areas for reform and advocacy, organize a seminar for independent media on advocacy campaigns, and share successful campaign examples at a closing conference. The project will increase public understanding of governance.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $12,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of local civil society by engaging activists and citizens in addressing local problems and quality of life issues. Project activities will include surveying the local population to identify pressing issues, publishing the findings, and holding public and online meetings with citizens and experts to discuss them. The project will also organize trainings and workshops to enhance civic activism projects.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $17,930
Project Title: Strengthening Public Debate on Reforms
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster public debate on reforms. The project will promote young, pro-reform experts publishing analysis in online forums, and produce a series of articles, reports, and videos on key reform ideas. To reach a broader audience, the program's online publication will expand its social media presence. Finally, the project will organize a conference and expand reform discourse to the country's regions.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $22,753
Project Title: Supporting a Leading Independent Media Outlet
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster independent media and freedom of information. The project will maintain and further develop an online edition that provides timely coverage of key social, political, and economic developments in Belarus and abroad. The independent publication will expand its content and increase its audience by boosting its presence on social media networks.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $59,400
Project Title: Supporting an Independent Newspaper
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support independent media and freedom of information. The project will assist a leading independent publication, which plays an important role in objectively informing citizens about key social, political, civic and economic issues, fostering civic discussion about the impact of political and economic reforms, and raising awareness about independent civic initiatives throughout the country.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Supporting an Independent Online Newspaper
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support freedom of information. Project activities will include producing a daily online newspaper, which serves as a free source of objective political, economic, and social information. The publication will produce and post about 100 news items each day, including articles and multimedia pieces, with a focus on the activities of civil society. Other domestic and international organizations and media outlets often repost and use the content.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,140
Project Title: Supporting Civic Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster civic activism and public engagement. Project activities will include trainings on volunteering and outreach and master classes led by international experts in civic engagement. The program will engage local NGOs, businesses, and government officials to develop new methodologies for strengthening informal civic education, public engagement, and volunteerism. Finally, participants will organize public events to inspire civic engagement around pressing local and national issues.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $31,100
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To enhance independent civic initiatives. The project will assist a network of resource centers that supports regional civil society and publishes a regional bulletin. It will also foster nascent and existing civil society initiatives through trainings and other activities. The network will also serve as a hub and incubator for smaller local organizations.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $33,000
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society in the Regions
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen civil society and independent media at the local and regional levels. The program will assist regional civil society centers and support and coordinate local civic initiatives, including meetings that bring individuals and communities together. It will also publish and disseminate independent information through online outlets and print bulletins.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $38,030
Project Title: Supporting Independent Culture and Civic Activism
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster independent culture, national identity, and civic activism. The program will expand its language and civic education courses across the country. It will implement innovative approaches to language learning through an informal curriculum that fosters youth engagement, national pride, and democratic values. The program will feature guest lectures and performances by independent experts and cultural figures of note.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $53,520
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of information and the sustainability of independent media. Two independent outlets continue to pursue an innovative viability and audience-growth strategy. While publishing as separate entities, the outlets will share office space and administrative costs, and engage in active and exclusive co-branding, cross-promotion, and content sharing. The program aims to further expand a model for greater sustainability and cooperative development for independent media.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $71,760
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To ensure the continued viability of independent media. The project will provide emergency assistance, including material and technical support, to independent media outlets whose ability to continue publishing is threatened by a challenging environment. It will also improve the sustainability of independent publications and the capacity of smaller media outlets to ensure their continued content production and distribution.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $195,537
Project Title: Supporting Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and promote public debate. Project activities will include expanding an interactive blogging and discussion platform to further engage young, educated, urban elites in discussing needed reforms that address the country's social, political, and economic challenges. The platform will increase its production of quality content and boost its outreach through a more active social media presence to increase the country's reform-minded community.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $34,450
Project Title: Supporting Independent Regional Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote independent media and freedom of information. An independent outlet will expand its online content and boost its audience and regional outreach through the increased use of social networks. The publication will contribute to greater public understanding by fostering increased debate on politics in the country and the role of local authorities in the regions.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $33,000
Project Title: Supporting Local Media and Civic Initiatives
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support the development of regional civil society and independent media. Three resource centers will continue fostering civic initiatives and informing citizens in a number of regional cities and towns. The network will produce and disseminate information through a variety of means in order to reach a diverse and broad-based audience.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $26,670
Project Title: Supporting Regional Urban Initiatives
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To increase civic engagement and activism in urban centers. The project will publish and disseminate print and online editions of an independent magazine, which fosters discussion on civic space and engagement. To promote public participation around issues highlighted in the publication, the project will organize presentations and roundtables in major urban centers. Urban activism a gateway topic for engaging a broader constituency on local governance issues.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $14,870
Project Title: Strengthening the Outreach Capacity of Grassroots Activists
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To strengthen the outreach capacity of grassroots activists. The program will work with local and regional activists to systematize and amplify their outreach skills, including by using various innovative tools customized and adapted to local conditions. The program will facilitate public outreach and collaboration through building the capacity of regional branches, thus ensuring the greater impact of national structures.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Broadening Understanding of Security Issues
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to quality information and analysis on security issues. The program will produce and make available related analytical materials. In addition, it will monitor and analyze the security environment in regions impacted by neighboring countries. The project will engage with media outlets, hold events on regional security issues, and organize a conference on malign influence.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $34,200
Project Title: Developing Civil Society in the Gomel Region
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To increase local and regional civic engagement. The program will hold coordination meetings to identify local problems and develop advocacy strategies to address them. It will also bring together experts, civic activists, and citizens through town hall meetings to press local authorities to resolve key local issues. The project will also produce and disseminate informational bulletins.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $28,400
Project Title: Expanding Freedom of Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To expand freedom of information. The program will maintain and expand an online depository of publications not readily accessible in the country, including works on politics, civil society, history, human rights, and independent culture. It will also add to its broad collection of archived periodicals. Additionally, the program will promote the library's content via social media and public events.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Fostering Freedom of the Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend and support independent journalists and media. The project will monitor freedom of information, document and disseminate information about violations, and assist journalists and media outlets. To raise awareness of its monitoring findings, the project will convene a series of meetings as well as publish and disseminate a regular newsletter and a report on press freedom issues.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $79,000
Project Title: Fostering Independent Public Discourse and Democratic Values
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote public debate on democratic ideas and values. The program will convene public meetings featuring moderated talks by leading domestic, regional, and international pro-democracy intellectuals and cultural figures on current events and issues. Discussions with participants will follow the talks. The program will record and transcribe the contents of the public meetings, as well as of their resulting discussions, and publish them online.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Fostering Youth Activism
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To foster youth civic engagement. The program will offer trainings on civic activism for regional youth. It will also raise the skills of representatives of local NGOs in fundraising and social media marketing, communication, and media outreach skills. The program will promote civic activities through a website, social media pages, newsletter, and other public outreach tools.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $22,000
Project Title: Increasing Capacity of Civil Society in Belarus
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To foster coordination and enhance the effectiveness of civic society. The program will organize study trips and internships for civic activists. The participants will learn from and exchange ideas with their counterparts on how to encourage local communities to promote government accountability. Following the program, the participants will establish an international network.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Increasing the Impact of Belarus' Third Sector
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To build the capacity of regional civil society groups. To foster local activism, the program will hold a series of trainings, organize regional meetings, and support local civic initiatives. It will also oversee a study visit for civic activists, produce a training manual on grassroots activism, and organize a human rights exhibition.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Increasing the Professionalism of Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase the professionalism of independent journalists. The program will support the professional development of and enhance networking among media professionals. It will organize public lectures, master classes, and other educational meetings, as well as conferences and roundtables. In addition, the program will produce and distribute professional development content for media workers.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $89,498
Project Title: Promoting Accountability through Civic Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase civic engagement in fostering government accountability. The project will maintain and further develop an independent web portal that allows citizens to file appeals on pressing civic issues to state bodies. It will publicize the website and stimulate petition campaigns in the country's regions through public presentations, briefings, and social media.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster civic participation and government accountability. The initiative will oversee civic campaigns focusing on local quality of life issues, cultural and historical topics, and political accountability. It will publish a bulletin and a booklet, as well as maintain and upgrade a website. The initiative also will organize roundtables to increase civic engagement.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $14,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Journalism and Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote civic engagement and freedom of information. The program will train local activists in civic journalism, including reporting for online platforms. The trainees will employ their learned skills by interning at news and information websites. The program will also organize offline events that promote civic engagement on local issues.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $93,200
Project Title: Promoting Independent Analysis
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic ideas and values. The project will promote critical thinking by regularly producing and disseminating original analysis. The analysis will focus on key events and challenges facing the country. To inform its analysis, the project will convene expert roundtables, organize a regular discussion forum, and carry out public surveys. The project will also aggregate and promote other analytical texts.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Regional Civic Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To promote local independent media and civic engagement. The project will maintain and expand an independent web portal that produces and disseminates local and national news and information. It will promote civic engagement by assisting local civic initiatives, holding regular public discussions, and organizing a series of independent cultural events.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $16,000
Project Title: Providing Objective Economic Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to independent information. The project will support a website that increases citizens' understanding of the country's economic situation and developments. It will produce and disseminate weekly news and analysis that provides objective information on key economic issues affecting the government, business, and the general public. The project will also produce targeted content to increase its audience, and develop long-term sustainability strategies.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Strengthening Access to Independent Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen access to independent information. The project will produce a website that offers independent political news and information, and informs the public of major issues facing the country, including local, national, and international political and economic developments. To broaden its audience and serve as a counterweight to Russian propaganda, the project will continue to develop the site's content and capacity, create more accessible news formats, and boost its social media presence.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Strengthening and Defending Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and the Internet. The program will support and safeguard independent print and online media outlets by providing secure, reliable hosting and technical support, as well as legal and audit consultations and assistance. It will also conduct trainings and webinars on digital security, legal compliance, and sustainable development for media workers.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,400
Project Title: Strengthening Public Debate on Reforms
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen public understanding of and debate on reforms. The program will promote young experts and their ideas in the digital sphere by producing and publicizing articles, reports, and videos on key reforms necessary for the country's democratic development. In addition, it will organize a series of reform-related offline events, including regional discussions.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $38,800
Project Title: Strengthening Regional Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of regional civil society by engaging and assisting civic activists and citizens in addressing urban and quality of life issues. The program will conduct a survey to identify pressing issues; hold meetings with citizens, business, and local officials to discuss them; and publish its findings. It will also organize trainings for activists and assist civic projects that address local challenges.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $18,000
Project Title: Supporting a Leading Independent Media Outlet
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote independent media and foster freedom of information. The program will maintain and develop an online newspaper, which provides timely coverage of key social, political, and economic developments. It will expand the publication's content, improve its sustainability, and increase its audience by employing new innovative formats and by boosting its presence on social networks.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Supporting an Independent Online Newspaper
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support freedom of information. The project will maintain an independent online publication. The outlet serves as a free source of objective political, economic, and social information for civil society and ordinary citizens. The publication will post daily news items and analytical articles on politics, international relations, economics, social issues, and civic society.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Supporting an Independent Periodical
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster a free exchange of ideas. The project will produce an independent print and online publication. It will expand its readership and sustainability by launching a digital news platform and partnering with other publications through a digital bookstore. The publication supports the dissemination of independent ideas and fosters freedom of expression, critical thinking, and democratic ideas and values.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $16,000
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To assist independent civic initiatives. The program will assist a network of NGO resource centers that provide physical space and independent information, networking and training opportunities, and other support to local civil society groups and initiatives. It will also foster civic activism, publish a bulletin, and serve as civil society hub.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Culture
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster independent civic identity, critical thinking, and civic activism. The educational program will employ an innovative methodology that promotes civic engagement, human rights, and democratic values. Its courses will feature guest lectures and performances by independent experts and cultural figures. The program will also train instructors, produce a textbook, and launch new tools that facilitate learning.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $151,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of information and the sustainability of independent media. The program will support news outlets in pursuing an innovative collaboration and growth strategy. It will assist publications with sharing office space and operating expenses, and engaging in co-branding, cross promotion, and content sharing. The program aims to expand a model for greater media sustainability.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $76,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To help ensure the continued viability of independent media. The project will continue to provide emergency assistance to vulnerable independent media groups whose ability to disseminate news and information of public interest is threatened. Through this mechanism, the project will also work to improve the longer-term economic sustainability of independent publications.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $194,400
Project Title: Supporting Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and promote public debate. The program will expand an online platform that engages young, educated audiences in discussions on needed reforms. The program will continue to expand its audiences in the regions by enhancing the quality of its information content, thereby stimulating debate and increasing its outreach.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Regional Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote independent media and freedom of information. The program will expand the content and audience of an independent online publication by helping it to develop new digital capabilities, increase its multimedia content, and boost the participation of citizen journalists. It will also expand a new digital publication in another region.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $46,800
Project Title: Supporting Local Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen civil society and independent media at the local and regional levels. The program will support and coordinate civil society initiatives. It will assist regional resource centers, support local civic initiatives, publish online news and a print bulletin, and organize meetings that bring citizens together with civil society leaders.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Supporting Local Media and Civic Initiatives
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support local and regional civil society and independent media groups. The program will inform citizens and promote civic initiatives in underserved areas around the country. It will produce and disseminate independent news and information through online and traditional media outlets, and engage citizens to participate actively in local governance.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $27,600
Project Title: Supporting the Independent Press
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support independent media and freedom of information. The project will promote freedom of information by producing and disseminating independent news. It will play an important role in informing citizens about key social, political, civic and economic issues, and in raising greater awareness about independent civic initiatives throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Fostering Freedom of the Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend and support independent journalists and media. The project will monitor freedom of information, document and disseminate information about violations, and assist journalists and media outlets. To raise awareness of its monitoring findings, the project will convene a series of meetings as well as publish and disseminate a regular newsletter and a report on press freedom issues.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $10,400
Project Title: Increasing Party Capacity In Citizen Outreach And Issue Advocacy
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To enable a broad, diverse group of political activists representing democratic political parties and movements to conduct effective and systematic citizen outreach. The institute will assist political leaders in utilizing important pre- and post-election periods to carry out constructive citizen outreach by training democratic parties and movements in effective advocacy campaigns.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Building a Transatlantic Community in Support of Belarus
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: The organization will bolster its rapid-response initiative by holding public events, securing regular media appearances, publishing a weekly newsletter, and networking to promote transatlantic policy coordination on policy issues. The initiative will promote peaceful solutions to political crises, support for democratic processes, as well as a deterrence to foreign malign influences.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $44,875
Project Title: Defending Human Rights and Civic Activism
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor and defend human rights. The organization will document human rights abuses and provide assistance to individuals whose rights have been violated. In particular, it will provide legal and other assistance to victims of political repressions. The organization will continue to operate local branches, which monitor human rights violations and provide legal aid. It will also collect and disseminate information on abuses and publish an annual report on human rights violations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $226,500
Project Title: Developing Regional Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To increase local and regional civic engagement. The organization will hold civil society coordination meetings to identify problems and develop advocacy strategies to address them. It will also bring together experts, civic activists, and citizens through meetings to press authorities to resolve key issues. The organization will support civic activists by providing assistance and media coverage.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $32,000
Project Title: Fostering Free and Fair Elections
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To foster free and fair elections. Ahead of presidential elections, the nonpartisan program will carry out a comprehensive informational campaign to educate citizens about electoral rights and independent election monitoring. During the election campaigns, it will educate activists around voting rights, and train and deploy observers to monitor violations. The program will disseminate its monitoring findings through a variety of media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $80,100
Project Title: Fostering Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of expression and access to independent information. The organization will publish pocket books, podcasts, and videos on key historical and contemporary figures and political developments in Belarus. It will hold events across the country to promote its work. The organization will also disseminate its materials on social media, through independent media, and via its networks of volunteer activists in all six Belarusian regions.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $42,500
Project Title: Fostering Freedom of the Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To protect and support independent media. The organization will monitor the freedom of information environment in the country. It will document and disseminate information about media freedom violations, and it will provide assistance to journalists and media outlets at risk.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $75,800
Project Title: Fostering Youth Activism
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To foster youth civic engagement. The organization will conduct meetings, trainings and other educational activities on civic activism for regional youth. The organization will also promote civic activism through its website, social media pages, messenger channel, weekly newsletter, and mobile application.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Increasing Capacity of Civil Society in Belarus
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To enhance the effectiveness of civic society. The organization will manage an internship program and study trips offering an opportunity for civic activists to learn from and exchange ideas with their regional counterparts on how to mobilize local communities to become politically active and promote government accountability. The organization will also run a small-grants program to support civic initiatives.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $94,760
Project Title: Increasing the Capacity of Independent Media and Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase the capacity of independent media and civic organizations to use open data research. The organization will convene a school that will provide training in gathering open source information. In addition, it will hold public lectures on open data research, place resident mentors at selected newsrooms to support open data research, organize trainings in data mining, and produce a manual on the topic.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $38,700
Project Title: Increasing the Effectiveness of the Civic Sector
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To increase the capacity of civic organizations and initiatives to foster local activism. The organization will build the capacity of regional civil society groups through trainings, support and mentoring for local initiatives as they develop and implement local projects. It will also organize working meetings, hold evaluation seminars for activists, and convene annual capstone events.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Accountability through Civic Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase civic engagement in fostering government accountability. The organization will maintain, further develop, and promote its portal, which allows citizens to file appeals on pressing civic issues to state authorities and serves as a public forum. It will publicize the website, hold public presentations, press briefings, online trainings and discussions.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $31,000
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Ideas and Values
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote democratic ideas and values. The organization will produce original analysis and publish it on its website. The analysis will focus on key events and challenges facing the country. The organization will also convene expert roundtables and other events The site will also serve as an aggregator for important analytical texts produced by other domestic and international experts and organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $36,500
Project Title: Strengthening Access to Independent Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide access to independent political news and information. In an important election year, the independent website will inform the public of major issues facing their country, including local, national, and international political and economic developments. To broaden its audience and serve as a counterweight to propaganda, the outlet will continue to develop the site's content, create more accessible news formats, and boost its social media presence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Strengthening and Defending Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen and defend independent media. The program will foster freedom of information, both online and offline. It will support and safeguard independent traditional and digital media outlets by providing technical support, consultations, and assistance. The program will also conduct trainings on digital security, legal compliance, and media development.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society in the Eastern Regions
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of local civil society in the country's eastern regions by assisting civic activists and citizens in addressing urban and quality of life issues. The organization will survey the local population to identify pressing issues, hold meetings on these issues with relevant actors, and publish the results.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $23,000
Project Title: Strengthening Public Debate on Reforms
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen public understanding of and debate on reforms. The program will promote young, reform-oriented experts and their ideas in the digital sphere. An online magazine will produce and publicize articles, reports, and videos on key reforms. In addition, the program will organize reform-related offline events.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,500
Project Title: Supporting an Independent Online Newspaper
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support freedom of information. The organization will maintain its popular daily online newspaper. The independent publication serves as a free source of objective political, economic, and social information for civil society and ordinary citizens. The organization will post approximately one hundred news items each day, including analytical articles, with a focus on politics, international relations, economics, social issues, and the activities of prodemocratic civic and political actors.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $120,000
Project Title: Supporting Civil Society in Eastern Belarus
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To promote civic activism. The organization will continue to serve as a leading resource center for local NGOs that provides a safe space and objective information, networking and training opportunities, and assistance to regional civil society initiatives.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $53,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Local Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and independent media. The organization will maintain and develop its regional news website that provides timely reporting on key political, social, and economic developments in an underserved region. To expand the outlet's content, improve its sustainability, and increase its audience, the organization will scale up coverage, upgrade the website, invest in marketing and advertising, and increase its presence on social media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $58,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and independent media. The program will maintain and develop an online edition that provides timely coverage of key political, social, and economic developments. It will expand the publication's content, improve its sustainability, and increase its audience by employing new innovative formats, improving its sales and marketing, and increasing its presence on social media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of information and the sustainability of independent media. The leading news daily will partner with a likeminded publication to pursue an innovative viability and audience-growth strategy.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $83,700
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To help ensure the continued viability of independent media. The organization will continue to provide emergency assistance to independent media outlets whose work is hindered by the government or whose financial survival is in jeopardy.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $281,044
Project Title: Supporting Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster freedom of information and promote public debate. The initiative will expand its online platform that engages young, educated audiences in discussions on political, social, and economic reforms, and related challenges.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Online Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote better access to independent, objective news and analysis during an important election year. A leading independent news and analysis outlet will increase the content production for its website covering political, economic, and social developments in the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Regional Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote independent media and freedom of information. The media outlet will expand the content, audience, and regional reach of its established web publication and develop an additional online publication with a new target audience and regional reach.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $52,800
Project Title: Supporting Local Media and Civic Initiatives
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support the development of local civil society and independent media. The grassroots program will assist local resource centers in informing citizens and fostering civic initiatives in several districts in the country. It will produce and disseminate independent bulletins and maintain local websites.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $28,000
Project Title: Supporting Regional Urban Initiatives
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To increase civic engagement and activism. The program will publish and disseminate print and online editions of an independent journal that fosters discussion on civic engagement. To promote public participation around issues of urban development, the program will hold a series of discussions and workshop in major urban centers.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $23,000
Project Title: Supporting the Independent Press
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To foster the development of independent media and expand freedom of information. The media outlet will continue to produce its independent newspaper. In a key election year, the publication will play an important role in informing citizens about social, political, civic and economic issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $49,760
Project Title: Fostering Freedom of the Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend and support independent journalists and media. The project will monitor freedom of information, document and disseminate information about violations, and assist journalists and media outlets. To raise awareness of its monitoring findings, the project will convene a series of meetings as well as publish and disseminate a regular newsletter and a report on press freedom issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,600
Project Title: Fostering Free and Fair Elections
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To foster free and fair elections. Ahead of presidential elections, the nonpartisan program will carry out a comprehensive informational campaign to educate citizens about electoral rights and independent election monitoring. During the election campaigns, it will educate activists around voting rights, and train and deploy observers to monitor violations. The program will disseminate its monitoring findings through a variety of media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Advancing Transparent Data Management in Belarus
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To help democratic activists adapt their data management tools and collection methods to new data privacy legislation in Belarus, the Institute will provide expert trainings and consultations to partners that utilize specialized customer relations management (CRM) systems to conduct systematic citizen outreach.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $225,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To help ensure the continued viability of independent media. The organization will continue to provide emergency assistance to independent media outlets whose work is hindered by the government or whose financial survival is in jeopardy.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $3,844
Project Title: Promoting Youth Activism through Independent Culture
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth activism and independent culture. The project will organize a series of independent civic activities, such as cultural events, meetings, lectures, and trainings, to foster indigenous cultural identity. It will assist innovative initiatives supporting youth activism and independent culture around the country. The project will also maintain its website.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $16,000
Project Title: Broadening Understanding of Security Issues
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase access to quality information and analysis on security issues. The program will produce and make available related analytical materials. In addition, it will monitor and analyze the security environment in regions impacted by neighboring countries. The project will engage with media outlets, hold events on regional security issues, and organize a conference on malign influence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $17,000
Project Title: Supporting Independent Culture
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster independent civic identity, critical thinking, and civic activism. The educational program will employ an innovative methodology that promotes civic engagement, human rights, and democratic values. Its courses will feature guest lectures and performances by independent experts and cultural figures. The program will also train instructors, produce a textbook, and launch new tools that facilitate learning.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $77,700
Project Title: Supporting Local Civil Society
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen civil society and independent media at the local and regional levels. The program will support and coordinate civil society initiatives. It will assist regional resource centers, support local civic initiatives, publish online news and a print bulletin, and organize meetings that bring citizens together with civil society leaders.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Defending Human Rights and Civic Activism
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor and defend human rights. The organization will document human rights abuses and provide assistance to individuals whose rights have been violated. In particular, it will provide legal and other assistance to victims of political repressions. The organization will continue to operate local branches, which monitor human rights violations and provide legal aid. It will also collect and disseminate information on abuses and publish an annual report on human rights violations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $126,000
Project Title: Expanding Freedom of Information
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To expand freedom of information. The program will maintain and expand an online depository of publications not readily accessible in the country, including works on politics, civil society, history, human rights, and independent culture. It will also add to its broad collection of archived periodicals. Additionally, the program will promote the library's content via social media and public events.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Journalism and Engagement
Project Region: Europe
Project Country: Belarus
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote civic engagement and freedom of information. The program will train local activists in civic journalism, including reporting for online platforms. The trainees will employ their learned skills by interning at news and information websites. The program will also organize offline events that promote civic engagement on local issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $48,200
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