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Displaying records 51-75 of 82 results
All results totalling $5,478,349
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Project Title: Promoting Citizen Accountability of Local and Regional Governments
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote increased accountability among local and regional authorities through effective citizen oversight. Working in conjunction with a network of civil society organizations, the grantee will offer trainings on developing technically sound public policies and budgets. The group will also carry out an assessment of its partner organizations' capacity to monitor local governments.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $36,058
Project Title: Creating Space for Citizen-Led Dialogue
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster space for citizen-led democratic dialogue and encourage the adoption of public policies based on objective evidence and input from civil society and to build capacity of rural business associations as stakeholders in the policy making process. The center and its partner will convene meetings of high-profile representatives from Bolivian civil society to develop, propose, and disseminate public policy recommendations to address democratic and economic challenges and lead capacity-building workshops with representatives from rural business associations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $215,538
Project Title: Promoting Peace through Radio
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To raise awareness of the culture of violence in Bolivia and promote conflict resolution and violence prevention. The organization will train 50 radio journalists to report on conflict in the daily lives of citizens and will launch a nation-wide campaign against violence.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $31,580
Project Title: Promoting and Protecting Prisoners' Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower inmates to advocate for their rights, especially the right to information, and to raise public awareness of prison conditions and the responsibility of the state to protect the rights of inmates. Building on previous research, the group will draft a manual on inmates' rights to information, due process, and humane living conditions. The organization will then disseminate the manual through information workshops.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Strengthening the Political Participation of Indigenous and Rural Communities
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote political participation by indigenous and rural communities through increased understanding of their civil and political rights; and to facilitate access to basic legal documents to members of indigenous and rural communities to enable them to participate in political processes. The grantee will identify recurring legal and bureaucratic obstacles to obtaining basic identification documents and advocate for legal and procedural changes to facilitate access.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $15,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society for the Defense of Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote civil society oversight and participation in judicial reform implementation in Bolivia; and to strengthen the capacity of civil society to promote the exercise, enforcement, and legal defense of human rights. The grantee will convene discussions at the state level on strategies for judicial reform and support a national dialogue on access to justice and human rights. It will carry out an advocacy campaign for judicial reform via webinars, public hearings, meetings with judicial staff, and interviews with news media. It will also support rural and indigenous populations in advocating for their rights.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $60,033
Project Title: Providing Independent Analysis and Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of expression and accountability in Bolivia through independent analysis and investigative reports. The grantee will produce and publish news articles and investigative reports on political developments currently underreported by traditional media. Over the course of the project, the group will bring together an investigative and editorial team, and establish an independent digital magazine. It will use social and traditional media to disseminate articles until its digital media is fully operational.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,125
Project Title: Bolivian Human Rights Observatory
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise domestic and international awareness of the human rights situation in Bolivia, especially with regard to violations of civil and political rights. The group will monitor and document violations of human rights in Bolivia and strengthen its communication, advocacy, and outreach efforts to amplify a human rights message.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $72,000
Project Title: Informing Citizens Via Digital Platforms
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the capacity of civil society, activists, and journalists to use digital platforms to inform the public and support citizen advocacy in public policy. The organization will train students to integrate text, video, audio, and still images in journalistic reports. Specialists in digital communications, activism, digital journalism, and software development from Argentina, Peru, and Guatemala, as well as Bolivia, will conduct online and in-person training workshops.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,160
Project Title: Building Consensus on a Reform Agenda
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote pluralistic debate, build consensus, and make recommendations on important public policy issues, including electoral and economic reforms. The organization will analyze new legislation to reform the judicial system and hold discussions on the new measures affecting the courts.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Strengthening Democratic Principles Among Youth
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen leadership skills and democratic principles among Bolivian and Latin American youth; and to raise regional awareness on the political situation in Bolivia through increased solidarity, better youth networks, and a social media campaign. In partnership with a local group, the grantee will organize an international youth seminar in Bolivia. Following the seminar, Bolivian participants will organize replication workshops in the provinces, and regional and Bolivian youth will collaborate in an international awareness campaign.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,004
Project Title: Promoting Electoral Integrity and Actionable Alternatives for the 2019 Campaign through Civil Society
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support Bolivian civil society and citizens in efforts to safeguard the country's electoral processes, and enable them to collect information on voter concerns to share with parties and future candidates to help ensure that the next general election campaign centers on ideas and solutions to problems. The institute will carry out trainings and provide technical assistance to civil society organizations to conduct electoral transparency campaigns, establish a citizen electoral observatory, survey constituent needs, and engage party leaders and future political candidates.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $216,524
Project Title: Advocating for Women's Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower women in the Department of Cochabamba to make their own legal decisions in defense of their rights and to raise domestic and international awareness of the pervasiveness of gender-based violence in Bolivia. The organization will continue to offer free legal assistance to women; to provide training on the legal framework to multiple stakeholders; and to complete shadow reports on Bolivia's compliance with ratified international human rights agreements and conventions.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $85,399
Project Title: Building the Capacity of Digital and Mobile Journalists
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To improve the capacity of working journalists, improve the quality of information they publish, and foster the creation and use of digital media platforms. The organization will train journalists on mobile and digital journalism techniques as well as journalism ethics.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,165
Project Title: Building Consensus on Reform Agenda
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To develop public policy research and recommendations on fiscal responsibility and economic diversification, judicial reform, and education. The grantee will expand its research to include transparency, access to public information, and electoral reform, and foster informed and pluralistic debate on national public policies.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,184
Project Title: Promoting and Protecting Prisoners' Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower inmates to advocate for their rights, and especially the right to information; and to raise public awareness on prison conditions and the responsibility of the state to protect the rights of inmates. Building on previous research, the group will draft a manual on inmates' rights to access information, due process, and humane living conditions. The organization will then disseminate the manual through information workshops. Finally, it will publish a newspaper insert with information on prison conditions in Bolivia to educate the public at large.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,910
Project Title: Promoting a Women's Agenda
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To strengthen the analytical, collaboration and advocacy skills of female state legislators to advance a women's agenda. The group will facilitate meetings and exchanges between female state legislators and women's civic groups to improve collaboration and develop joint strategies, and will bolster the management and technical skills of newly-elected leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $43,867
Project Title: A Platform for Democratic Dialogue
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster the private sector's role in formulating public policies and promoting an informed democratic dialogue based on statistical evidence. The center will support the analysis and advocacy activities of one of Bolivia's business confederations. The center's local partner will conduct technical analysis of pending economic legislation that will inform reports for private sector representatives and used in their dialogue with the government. The center's 's partner will also develop original policy proposals to present to the government.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $170,169
Project Title: Promoting Transparency and Accountability
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To encourage citizen oversight of electoral reforms and the fulfillment of campaign promises; and to advocate for access to information law and improved transparency standards at the sub-national and national levels.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $16,202
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights in Marginalized Communities
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase understanding of human rights issues and to strengthen the capacity of organizations to document and denounce human rights violations. The organization will work with groups to establish human rights committees and equip them with the technical skills needed to monitor and denounce human rights violations in their territories.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,997
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Accountability of Local and Regional Governments
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote increased accountability among local and regional authorities through effective citizen oversight. Working in conjunction with a network of civil society organizations, the grantee will offer trainings on developing technically sound public policies and budgets. The group will also carry out an assessment of its partner organizations' capacity to monitor local governments and compile this information into a final report.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $31,000
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor violations of due process in national and international human rights jurisprudence. Statistical information and emblematic cases will be analyzed to assess compliance with domestic and international access to justice and due process. Based on these observations, strategic litigation will be used to strengthen domestic jurisprudence.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,868
Project Title: Implementing Judicial Reform in Bolivia
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To improve civil society participation in the implementation of judicial reform in Bolivia. The grantee will provide technical assistance to relevant civil servants, as well as defend the public's right to access to justice. The organization will work closely with other civil society groups in order to collectively advocate for judicial pluralism and universal access to justice.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,000
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the grantee's ability to advocate for freedom of expression in Bolivia and enhance its alliances with domestic and international organizations in support of freedom of expression in Bolivia. The group will also carry out a public awareness campaign on freedom of expression, inviting international guests.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $51,177
Project Title: Advocating Against Gender-Based Violence
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower women to make their own legal decisions in defense of their rights and to raise domestic and international awareness of the pervasiveness of gender-based violence in Bolivia. The grantee will continue to offer free legal assistance to women; provide training on the legal framework to multiple stakeholders; and complete shadow reports on Bolivia's compliance with ratified international human rights agreements and conventions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $43,508
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