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Search results for Project Country: Bolivia
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Displaying records 51-75 of 82 results
All results totalling $5,478,349
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Project Title: Monitoring the National Electoral Process
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To contribute toward a fair and transparent national electoral process through citizen participation in election monitoring. The organization will lead a coalition of civil society groups and form an election-monitoring platform, which will deploy election monitors across the country. The platform will develop an instruction manual and provide online and in-person training for the observers.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,808
Project Title: Promoting an Informed Electorate
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To educate citizens about the electoral process in Bolivia and raise awareness of their political rights. The radio network will broadcast informative interviews with experts in Bolivia's politics and electoral system, focusing on provisions of a new law on political organizations. Radio journalists will interview members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, and political scientists will provide comparative analysis of election laws and procedures in other countries.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,920
Project Title: Promoting and Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote and defend human rights in Bolivia through strategic litigation at the national and international level. The organization will offer training workshops on access to international human rights mechanisms and publish reports on emblematic cases litigated before international bodies. It will bring new cases and continue to monitor the progress of cases already before the courts.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $34,036
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote citizen participation and transparency in the lead up to the 2020 municipal elections in the city of Santa Cruz. The organization will support an innovative initiative to foster citizen participation in the local election campaign, transparency in the electoral process, and responsiveness by local political candidates. The organization will conduct training workshops for the citizen candidates on the legislative process, constitutional norms, urban planning, public budgets, and political communication.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,000
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 in-depth news reports. The organization will continue to cover political, economic, and social issues. It will especially focus on the presidential and national legislative campaigns and the performance of the Supreme Electoral Council, which exercises control over the electoral process, and it will publish a special report on the inauguration of a new presidential term.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Providing Independent Political News and Election Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide independent, high-quality news coverage, with an emphasis on human rights, government accountability, and the electoral process. The organization will provide Bolivian citizens reliable and independent information about political developments during a highly controversial national election this year and will continue to report on government and politics following the vote.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $92,153
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 strengthen the capacity of civil society to promote transparency and accountability in the justice system and defend human rights in Bolivia. The organization will facilitate public debate among political parties to inform voters during a national election campaign while continuing to promote civil society oversight and participation in Bolivia's judicial system. It will conduct research, organize training workshops, facilitate meetings with civil society and government representatives, and carry out monitoring and advocacy initiatives.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $118,000
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 organization will visit rural communities to offer technical assistance and training.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Stimulating an Informed National Debate
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enhance public discourse on a strategic vision for Bolivia's future. The center and its partner will organize forums with civil society leaders, journalists and prominent social media influencers to increase public knowledge and receive input on an overarching national strategy, as well as promote democratic engagement in public policy debates.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $270,031
Project Title: Building Dialogue and Reconciliation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote dialogue and reconciliation among women in leadership positions to build a shared vision for the future. The organization will build channels of communication, dialogue, and negotiation across sectors to prevent any resurgence of violence and respond to potential conflict in a swift and peaceful way. Through a series of meetings with women leaders, first by sector and later across sectors, the group will build interpersonal trust; identify common challenges, perceptions, and misperceptions; and build a joint vision for democratic governance.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $52,958
Project Title: Countering Disinformation in the Political Process
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise awareness among citizens of the effects of disinformation posted on social networks during national election campaigns. The organization will analyze the impact of messaging on digital social networks and will quantify and classify the types of political messages disseminated on these platforms. It will determine their source, fact-check their accuracy, and categorize them as false, true, or cannot be determined and will disseminate the information to the public.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $53,500
Project Title: Engaging Youth in Local Governance
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To build the capacity of youth in Bolivia to participate in public policymaking and exercise their political rights. The organization will conduct workshops in the cities of El Alto and Sucre, and the departments of Santa Cruz and Tarija, and use digital media platforms to train youth in legislative processes and political leadership and increase understanding of their rights. It will also train members of youth organizations to serve as election monitors.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Monitoring the National Electoral Process
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To contribute toward a fair and transparent national electoral process through citizen participation in election monitoring and an informed vote. Following an abrupt change in Bolivia's government after a disputed election in 2019, the organization will consolidate the network it successfully put together for the previous election to replicate its monitoring and voter-information activities for elections in early 2020.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $92,920
Project Title: Promoting and Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote and defend human rights in Bolivia through strategic litigation at the national and international levels. The organization will advocate for reparations for victims of human rights violations and will expand and diversify its mission to include more research, analysis, and training in the area of human rights jurisprudence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $59,043
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Institutional Reform
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To contribute to an informed public debate about necessary reforms of Bolivia's political institutions during and after an election year. The organization will conduct political analysis and hold discussions among respected political and economic experts to produce in-depth reports and help to inform debates in the national legislature about political reform.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,280
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Values
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen democratic values and tolerance among Bolivian citizens through training and countering hate speech. The organization will create a training program to instill democratic values and a culture of peace and tolerance, focusing its efforts primarily on women, youth, and indigenous populations. It will concentrate its training workshops in areas that have been prone to a climate of conflict and political polarization - La Paz, El Alto, Viacha, Cochabamba, and Punata.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Values Among Youth
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen democratic values among Bolivian youth and promote their active political participation. The organization will identify 50 youth leaders from around the country and work with them to promote core democratic values - respect for the rule of law, the need for strong democratic institutions, and the importance of taking part in the country's political life.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $49,330
Project Title: Promoting Dialogue and Social Reconciliation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote dialogue and social reconciliation following post-electoral violence. The organization will facilitate a series of local and regional dialogues among citizens and political actors to foster a culture of peaceful debate and contribute to prevention of a recurrence of violence during an election year. Based on the discussions, the organization will publish a report on citizens' views of the state of Bolivian democracy and recommend steps to avoid future election violence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Promoting Dialogue and Tolerance during a Democratic Transition
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote tolerance and political dialogue in a sharply divided society during a national electoral process. The organization will bring together members of diverse political parties to discuss and debate the tensions in Bolivia's political arena and the challenges to reconstructing Bolivia's democracy. The organization will also conduct an intensive training program for key participants from civil society groups that took part in citizen protests and counter-protests following election in 2019 to identify points of agreement among them and promote reconciliation.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $49,908
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights and Justice
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote democratic culture and the value of political dialogue in Brazil. The organization will carry out a series of discussions with high-level public personalities in Brazil with divergent views. The debates will be recorded and broadcasted in traditional media and shared through social media. The conversations will shed light on policy solutions to salient issues of public interest and contrast different ideas in a constructive and civil fashion.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $92,290
Project Title: Promoting Judicial Reform during a Political Transition
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote best practices in judicial reform and independence during a political transition, in keeping with international standards. The organization will facilitate an informed debate within civil society that will contribute to designing a roadmap for judicial reform and a restoration of the judiciary as a democratic institution. It will convene an international meeting and domestic workshops of experts and civil society to foster a discussion during this year's election campaigns about the need to draft a reform agenda for Bolivia's judiciary.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Promoting Policy Debates
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote policy debates among diverse political and civic actors in the framework of the 2020 national electoral process; and to foster youth participation in and oversight of the political and electoral process. The organization will articulate a coalition of academic institutions, independent media and civil society to foster analysis and debate on the policy agenda of the incoming government. After the elections, the group will encourage youth to monitor the new government's policies and advocate for the implementation of relevant reform proposals.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Protecting the Environmental Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To expose corruption by fostering investigative journalism on human rights and the environment in indigenous territories. The organization will raise public awareness of the damage to the habitats of indigenous peoples caused by extractive industries, agribusiness, and large infrastructure projects and expose corruption in government contracting by training and supporting investigative journalists to cover these issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
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 in-depth news reports. The organization will continue to cover political, economic, and social issues. It will especially focus on the presidential and national legislative campaigns and the performance of the Supreme Electoral Council, which exercises control over the electoral process. It will also cover the performance of the new government after the election.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $64,792
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society via Digital Platforms
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Bolivia
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of civil society, activists, and journalists to use digital platforms to inform the public and demand government accountability. The organization will establish a digital laboratory to train civil society organizations, youth activists, and journalists in the use of digital tools in their work and to help them disseminate their information to a wider public.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
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