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Displaying records 26-50 of 59 results
All results totalling $8,376,649
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Project Title: Promoting Citizen Oversight of the Legislative Branch
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster citizen oversight of legislative bodies using a digital platform. The grantee will promote its citizen platform, which currently monitors the National Congress in three Mexican states. It will complement this accountability program by allowing civil society groups and organized citizens to propose legislation to policy makers. The grantee will also leverage online digital platforms, social media, and open data to present relevant information in a visual format that is accessible to citizens.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $33,436
Project Title: Sustainable Solutions to Corruption and Insecurity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To improve transparency and accountability in the operations of state-owned enterprises; and to enhance private sector and civil society solutions to challenges posed by citizen insecurity. The project will focus on state-owned enterprises as major conduits of corruption to improve transparency and accountability for how they are run, managed, and monitored. The project will also work with the private sector and civil society organizations at the state level in North Baja California and at the national level to find solutions to challenges posed by citizen insecurity.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $269,776
Project Title: Legislative Strengthening and Party Reform
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To strengthen the capacities of national legislators and legislative staff to consider and legislate policy options addressing issues of concern to Mexican citizens, including citizen security and transparency; and strengthen the capacities of political parties to develop and implement political and internal party reforms. The institute will conduct policy round tables; technical assistance sessions for legislators, legislative staff and political party representatives; and regional conferences and exchanges.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $550,000
Project Title: Workers Advancing Transparency, Accountability and Democratic Space
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To advance the rule of law and support authentic freedom of association in Mexico. The center will assist partners in effectively positioning worker-centered proposals for labor law reform, supporting enforcement and documenting labor rights compliance, and consolidating community-led processes for accountability and government transparency.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $609,018
Project Title:
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To monitor and advocate for the establishment of an independent national prosecutor's office and its respective sub-national counter parts. As one of the most influential think tanks in Mexico, the organization will assess the state of the existing attorney general's office, publish three policy briefs and a final report making specific recommendations on how to transition to an independent prosecutors office. The think tank will also coordinate a strategic communications campaign that raises awareness about the findings of the study.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Investigative Journalists Combating Corruption and Impunity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To combat systemic corruption and support investigative journalism throughout Mexico. The organization will host a national investigative journalism conference to develop its national network of connections with journalists, editors, and media outlets. The group will then train, mentor, and provide seed funding for local journalists as they publish stories investigating corruption cases around the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Access to Justice for Indigenous Populations in Campeche
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote access to justice and active participation of indigenous groups in the reform of the criminal justice system in Campeche state. The organization will work with indigenous populations being denied due process under Mexico's new penal justice system. The groups will provide legal services and strategic litigation for emblematic cases affecting indigenous populations. The organization will also engage public officials, both state and federal, to provide recommendations on ways to improve access to justice for indigenous women and men in Mexico.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Access to Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of human rights victims and their families to demand their right to access to justice, a proper investigation, and due process of law. The organization will offer judicial literacy trainings for families in Chihuahua, Mexico. The group will also train organizations outside of the state on its methodologies.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $31,600
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Oversight of the Legislative Branch
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To leverage new technology and increase the transparency, accountability, and citizen oversight of Mexico's national legislature. The organization will further develop a digital platform that supports civil society coalitions advocating on issues that are critical to the public. As part of these efforts, the group will host training workshops for civil society coalitions seeking to improve their respective advocacy strategies in Congress. The organization will also conduct eight complementary trainings focused on engaging new legislators with civil society experts and constituents during the policy making process.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $31,412
Project Title: Promoting the Rights of Vulnerable Communities
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To create engaging public narratives that advocate for the rights of vulnerable communities throughout Mexico. The organization will work with civil society organization and young filmmakers to produce a series of documentaries that tell the stories of vulnerable groups, building targeted issue-advocacy campaigns across Mexico. The group will conduct a series of workshops on storytelling, planning effective advocacy campaigns and using alternative civil society networks to distribute the documentary films. At the end of the project, the group will screen the films and host a series of roundtables where the protagonists, documentary makers, civil society leaders, journalists, and policy makers will discuss solutions to the problems presented in the films.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $94,950
Project Title: Providing Gender-Balanced News Programs
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide gender balanced news coverage combatting stereotypes about women and promoting a human rights perspective. The organization will leverage its network of 140 correspondents in 32 states to produce a daily news program empowering women's voices throughout Mexico. The program will cover politics, culture, economics, sports, and other relevant topics affecting women's lives across Mexico. At the end of the project, the organization will conduct a thorough evaluation of the content and audience of its news program, making adjustments to ensure long-term sustainability.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Providing Oversight of the Implementation of Citizen Security Policies
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To monitor, document, and report on the establishment of the National Guard and the implementation of citizen security policies across the country. The organization will regularly fact check and report on government public statements related to security. The group will also establish a civil society observatory that will provide oversight of the National Guard. The organization will publish two reports on transparency and the governments positioning on security policies, as well as the roll out of the National Guard, focusing on respecting human rights.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Strengthening the Rule of Law in Mexico
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To strengthen the rule of law by applying new litigation techniques that address systemic public policy problems across Mexico. The organization will work with its Latin American counter parts to gather information on legal suits that addressed structural and system problems in Argentina and Colombia. The group will then publish case studies, a final report addressing how these techniques apply to Mexico's recently reformed judicial system and partner with prominent Mexican law schools to disseminate information on these new litigation techniques.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $37,500
Project Title: Open Parliament and Party Reform
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To contribute to internal reform processes that generate more open and inclusive legislatures and political parties in Mexico. The institute will strengthen the capacities of legislators at the national and state level as well as civil society to implement open parliament initiatives. They will also strengthen the capacities of political parties to implement internal reforms addressing internal democracy, transparency, and inclusion.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $576,183
Project Title: Strengthening the Role Of Civil Society In The Management Of Energy SOEs
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the oversight role of civil society in the management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector. The center will work with the local partner to map how energy SOEs are managed and produce a report highlighting key findings and recommendations. The center will then work with the partner, an expert civil society organization, to disseminate the report and develop the watchdog capabilities of civil society organizations to oversee SOEs.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $87,995
Project Title: Advancing the Rule of Law and Democratic Worker Representation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote freedom of association and the rule of law. The center will support workers and local labor movement partners in leveraging the new opportunities afforded by the recent labor law reform in Mexico, which is intended to overhaul the adjudication of labor justice, thus facilitating the formation of independent labor unions, and making it more difficult to form non-democratic worker organizations without workers' express consent.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $597,994
Project Title:
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To monitor and advocate for the establishment of an independent national prosecutor's office and its respective sub-national counterparts. As one of the most influential think tanks in Mexico, the organization will assess the state of the existing attorney general's office, publish policy briefs and a final report with specific recommendations on how to transition to an independent prosecutors office. The think tank will also coordinate a strategic communications campaign that raises awareness about the findings of the study.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Analyzing Citizen Security Policies
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To contribute high quality analysis of public policies responding to citizen security challenges in Mexico. The group will conduct two studies on how the National Guard is changing citizen security policies across Mexico, as well as a second report on how security environment affects the work of journalists in seven states. The organization will disseminate the findings of the studies hosting a series of public events, publishing articles, conducting interviews with the press, and posting on social media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $64,815
Project Title: Bolstering Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To bolster the capacity of investigative journalists working on stories about the ties between organized crime and power in Mexico. The organization will conduct a training course for 25 investigative journalists working on stories. The group will partner with a leading public university and train journalist on how to conduct investigative stories while taking the appropriate security precautions. The group will partner journalists with subject matter experts, award-winning journalists, and academics who will mentor journalists as they publish stories in the leading media outlets of the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Building Awareness on the Costs of Militarization
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To build public awareness on the human rights costs of militarization, especially for vulnerable communities. The organization will host a closed-door seminar on the negative effects of militarization with security experts, human rights activists, and members of the feminist movement. The group will explore ways that activist can leverage Mexico's federal system to slow down the rates of militarization. The organization will also launch a public awareness campaign that will include eight online conferences, eight short videos, six infographics for social media, and four op-eds in a leading digital media publication.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Building the Capacity of Editors in Independent Media
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To build the capacity of a national network of editors in independent media outlets throughout Mexico. The organization will launch an innovative training program for editors focused on planning, supporting, and running investigative pieces, while providing the appropriate levels of physical and digital security for journalists. The organization will also host a boot camp on storytelling, multi-media production, mitigating risks for reporters, and the ideation of future stories. The comprehensive program will also pair each editor with an experienced mentor to assist with day-to-day newsroom issues, as well as the production of series of investigative stories.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Building the Capacity of Women's Rights Organizations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To build the capacity of women's rights organizations working on civic and political engagement projects around the 2021 elections in Mexico. These projects will likely focus on encouraging women to participate in the elections, advocating to include women's rights issues into political platforms, and monitoring the electoral process. The organization will provide tailored technical assistance to each group, organize thematic meetings, and connect participants with mentors and peer organizations in the women's rights movement in Mexico.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $65,000
Project Title: Documenting Arbitrary Detentions in Mexico
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To document and build awareness about arbitrary detentions in Mexico. The organization will expand a network of civil society organizations documenting arbitrary detentions to three additional states (Jalisco, Veracruz, and Mexico). The group will also train youth and partnering organizations on how to document and report arbitrary detentions according to international standards. The organization will also use the data to produce quarterly reports, raise public awareness on the issue, and advocate for state and local policies to address arbitrary detentions.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $54,185
Project Title: Empowering Women to Hold Government Accountable
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To empower women's right organizations to hold government accountable in their respective communities. The group will conduct a training program covering transparency laws and ways to hold government official accountable. The group will also provide technical assistance to women's rights groups implementing accountability programs in their respective communities. Finally, the organization will also promote outcomes with prominent media outlets and at a closing event
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Investigating the Impact of Social Programs
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Mexico
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To conduct a yearlong investigative series into the impact of the government social programs. The group will produce a series of bi-monthly products with accompanying short videos and audio-visual materials for social media platforms. The launch of each story will be coordinated with six to eight collaborating media outlets.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $54,000
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