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All results totalling $6,564,131
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Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation and an Informed Electorate
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote citizen participation and foster a new generation of leaders during a period of political transition in Ecuador and to promote an informed vote in elections scheduled for 2019. The organization will build the capacity of citizens to monitor the activities of the all-important Council on Citizen Participation and Social Oversight and to enable those interested to run for election to the council. It will identify candidates to serve as monitors and conduct workshops to train them.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,332
Project Title: Promoting Government Transparency and Accountability
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparency and accountability by collecting, systematizing, and analyzing information on government corruption. Areas of focus will include drug trafficking, extractive industries, and human rights violations, and the information will be made available for civil society organizations to produce legal briefs. Investigative journalism and alternative ways of exercising freedom of expression and freedom of the press will be fostered.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $15,000
Project Title: Building Private Sector Consensus for Democratic Development
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen private sector advocacy for public policy reforms in Ecuador. The center and its partner will develop a private sector-led National Business Agenda to make public policy recommendations to the government. Program activities will include organizing sector specific working groups, drafting a National Business Agenda document, and holding agenda launch events in five cities around Ecuador. The center and its partner will also develop a communications and digital media strategy to advocate for policy changes.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $258,304
Project Title: Strengthening Transparency, Political Participation and Reform
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To strengthen Ecuador's democracy and foster a more inclusive and accountable political system. The institute will strengthen political organizations, processes, and initiatives to promote greater participation of citizens in Ecuador's political and electoral system and strengthen the capacity of Ecuadorian lawmakers to more effectively promote consensus building, accountability, legislative openness, and transparency in the National Assembly.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $550,000
Project Title: Supporting Municipal Governments for Decentralized Transparency and Citizen Oversight Initiatives
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve Ecuadorian municipal government access to resources, tools, and frameworks to carry out responsibilities required by transparency and decentralization laws in coordination with national government authorities, and to build capacity to conduct specific citizen oversight processes according to these laws. The institute will support these governments to advocate for shared needs through development of a common agenda and by supporting their coordination with civil society to socialize and implement citizen oversight mechanisms.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $200,000
Project Title: Combating Impunity in Violence Against Women and Improving the Administration of Justice
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To reduce impunity in cases of violence against women and improve the administration of justice. Training workshops and focus groups will be conducted to propose draft legislation for implementation of special measures for judgment and punishment in cases of domestic violence, sexual violence, and hate crimes.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,535
Project Title: Defending Women's Rights in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise women's awareness of laws and mechanisms designed to prevent violence against them and to help victims of violence seek legal assistance and reparations. Workshops will be conducted to explain the measures enacted under the national Law for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence Against Women to members of women's organizations and train them in protective measures. The organization will also work with the large population of Venezuelan women who have arrived in Ecuador as a result of the political and economic crisis in their home country.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $46,090
Project Title: Democracy Training for the Future
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen the leadership skills and democratic commitment of Ecuadorian youth to become agents of change in their communities. A training program targeting young leaders from across the country will be conducted in collaboration with universities and other civil society organizations. On-site and online training workshops will focus on leadership, participation, gender equality, and democratic values. To complete the training program, youth will design democracy projects for their communities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Institutional Reform During a Democratic Transition
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To encourage the development and inclusion of Ecuador's civil society agenda in institutional reform as part of a democratic transition. Working meetings around the country will address problems in three areas: the justice system and its lack of independence, corruption, and the complex and confusing electoral system.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Monitoring Freedom of Expression and the Press in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend freedom of expression and the press and to raise awareness nationally and internationally of violations of freedom of expression. Repression of journalists and media groups will be monitored and documented through an alert network, and the information will be disseminated through international organizations and domestic news channels.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $115,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Oversight of the Justice System in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote citizen advocacy for judicial independence, due process, and transparency. The organization will continually monitor the process of installing new judges and prosecutors and press for transparency and the appointment of independent, qualified members of the judicial system. It will also provide training for civil society leaders on the use of digital tools for monitoring the administration of justice and independence of the courts.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,900
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation and an Informed Electorate
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote citizen participation and foster a new generation of leaders during a period of political transition in Ecuador and to promote an informed vote in elections scheduled for 2019. The organization will build the capacity of citizens to monitor the activities of the all-important Council on Citizen Participation and Social Oversight and to enable those interested to run for election to the council. It will identify candidates to serve as monitors and conduct workshops to train them.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $105,921
Project Title: Promoting Government Transparency and Accountability
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparency and accountability by collecting, systematizing, and analyzing information on government corruption. Areas of focus will include drug trafficking, extractive industries, and human rights violations, and the information will be made available for civil society organizations to produce legal briefs. Investigative journalism and alternative ways of exercising freedom of expression and freedom of the press will be fostered.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $99,900
Project Title: Promoting Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of expression and accountability in Ecuador through high-quality independent investigative reports. An innovation laboratory to research and experiment with new story-telling techniques will be consolidated. It will collaborate with Ecuadorian NGOs in disseminating information on human rights and will strengthen its network of contributors and its linkages to other independent media outlets.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Judicial Independence, Human Rights, and Government Accountability
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To monitor and report on the performance and independence of the judiciary and raise national and international awareness about violations of human rights and due process and to hold public officials accountable in the areas of corruption, human rights, and the administration of justice. The organization will produce reports assessing the state of due process and judicial independence and will address violations of due process and of human rights. It will analyze any executive decrees to assess interference in the judiciary and any violations of freedom of the press and association.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $43,552
Project Title: Strengthening Democratic Principles Among Youth
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen leadership skills and knowledge of democratic principles among Ecuadorian and Latin American youth and to raise regional awareness on the political situation in Ecuador 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 Ecuador. Following the seminar, Ecuadorian participants will organize replication workshops in the provinces, and regional and Ecuadorian youth will collaborate in an international awareness campaign.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,178
Project Title: Transparency and Open Government in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote increased transparency, accountability, and citizen oversight of the National Assembly and an informed vote in municipal elections. The organization will present detailed information on each Assembly member, political parties, and movements represented in the Assembly, as well as analysis of draft legislation and new laws. It will monitor the floor of the Assembly during the legislative period and attend key committee hearings, alerting citizens to any possible infringement of their rights and encouraging citizen advocacy in the legislative process.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $60,024
Project Title: Ecuador Empresario: An Inclusive Entrepreneurship Program for Ecuadorian Youth II
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the entrepreneurship and leadership capabilities of rural Ecuadorian students and to promote awareness of the benefits of democracy, rule of law, a free-market economy, and the role of private enterprise among university students from the Ecuadorian countryside. The Center will educate 80 university students from outside the capital on democracy, free markets, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Students will complete 100 hours of educational sessions, produce democracy videos, develop business plans, and implement leadership and entrepreneurship workshops for other members of their communities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $220,711
Project Title: Building Capacity for Transparency, Accountability, and Anti-Corruption Initiatives II
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To support elected officials in key metropolitan municipalities to strengthen transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption measures. The institute will provide follow-up on municipal action plans, coordinate a best practices conference, consult with new administrations, and provide targeted training to municipal personnel. To support citizens and civil society organizations to advocate for anti-corruption measures at the municipal level, the Institute will provide capacity and coalition-building trainings to civil society organizations.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $214,085
Project Title: Monitoring Freedom of Expression and the Press in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend freedom of expression and freedom of the press and to raise awareness nationally and internationally of violations of freedom of expression. The project will monitor and document the repression of journalists and media groups through an alert network.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $70,864
Project Title: Democracy Training for the Future
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen the leadership skills and democratic commitment of Ecuadorian youth to act as agents of change within their communities. In collaboration with universities and other civil society organizations, a training program will target young leaders from across the country. On-site and online training workshops will focus on leadership, participation, gender equality, and democratic values. To complete the training program, youth will design a democracy project for their communities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Oversight of the Justice System in Ecuador
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To raise awareness and promote citizen advocacy for due process, accountability, and increased transparency in Ecuador's judiciary. Judicial independence at the local level will be promoted, and the performance of judges and prosecutors will be monitored in light of citizen reports of corruption.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $39,920
Project Title: Promoting and Defending the Rights of Indigenous Populations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of indigenous leaders to understand and utilize international human rights mechanisms; and to raise domestic and international awareness on restrictions to freedom of association and assembly and violations of environmental rights.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To defend human rights in Ecuador through strategic litigation at the international and national levels; and to research and monitor the independence of Ecuador's judicial system, with a particular focus on combating corruption. Emblematic cases that illustrate the degree to which the court system operates independently will be analyzed, and training workshops in six Ecuadorian cities will be held.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,852
Project Title: Promoting Women's Leadership and Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Ecuador
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote women's participation and leadership in government and the political process and to strengthen women's voices and women human rights defenders to advocate for the rights of vulnerable populations. Training workshops will strengthen the capacity of women leaders to make their voices and agendas heard. Indigenous women will be educated about their rights and opportunities for participation.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $43,030
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