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Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen technical skills among civil society activists. Activities will include trainings for civil society and human rights activists, and the creation of a series of products that assist with the documentation of human rights violations. Advocacy products will also be produced.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen human rights organizations' abilities to demand adherence to international human rights standards. Activities will include trainings, workshops, public forums on international human rights standards, and a newsletter on human rights issues. Activities will also include interactions and advocacy with global human rights organizations in order to inform them about human rights violations throughout the country.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights through Creative Tools
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster a better understanding of human rights and the documentation of human rights violations in communities as well as to strengthen the capacity of community members to use cultural tools in raising awareness on human and civil rights. Cultural tools and human rights workshops will be used to disseminate pro-human rights messages in communities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Independent Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To engage journalists and media outlets in defending freedom of expression and democracy. Activities will include trainings on investigative journalism tools and the use of social media in disseminating news. The project will also foster media pluralism. Activities will also include monitoring and reporting on the state of media throughout the country.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership and Democratic Values
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To expand and strengthen a network through promoting democratic values; and to bolster democratic knowledge, leadership skills, and participation of citizens through democratic capacity-building efforts. Activities will include civic education workshops and cultural events targeting vulnerable communities. Dissemination of democratic ideas and values will occur with participants.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,850
Project Title: Promoting Youth Political Engagement and Advocacy for Youth Public Policies
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote participation and to advocate for the inclusion and implementation of public policies. A network of emerging leaders and activists will be strengthened, and tools to engage in the decision-making process and reinforce the project management capacity will be shared with emerging leaders.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a national human rights network. Activities will include the provision of technical and advocacy skills, and assistance to human rights activists as needed. Legal and material assistance will also be provided to select beneficiaries.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $67,050
Project Title: Raising Awareness on Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about the state of human rights in the region and to foster the capacity of civil society and human rights defenders. Civil society awareness on human rights violations and social conflicts in their communities will be raised and human rights violations documented. The information collected will be disseminated through a dedicated website.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Reporting Human Rights Violations and the Humanitarian Crisis
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To bolster freedom of expression and information by enhancing a network of journalists and authors to document and report on human and social rights violations. Participants will be trained in storytelling, how to document the ongoing crisis and increase its visibility. Investigations, interviews, photographs, and videos will be produced and disseminated via social networks and through partnerships with national and international news outlets.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $15,000
Project Title: Reporting on Human Rights Violations and the Humanitarian Crisis
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To increase visibility of the humanitarian crisis and human rights violations. Testimonies from victims will be collected and reports on human rights abuses and the consequences of the humanitarian crisis will be compiled and disseminated. Practical information on how to document and process complaints will be shared
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $37,694
Project Title: Strengthening Female Leadership in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To empower women in leadership positions through capacity building. Women will improve leadership skills and establish strategic alliances to articulate and promote their interests and agendas. Women leaders will increase their participation in politics and civil society. Capacity building efforts will provide technical assistance for hundreds of female leaders.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Strengthening Freedom of Association
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote freedom of association in Venezuela. Activities will include a survey of labor rights violations, an analysis of trends, and the development of information for domestic and international audiences. Public events and forums will also be conducted to discuss and raise awareness on freedom of association in the country.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To consolidate a network of human rights defenders and increase its reach internationally. Information on human rights norms and how to document human rights violations will be shared with civic leaders, and the existing domestic network will be expanded. Collaboration and interactions with like-minded organizations will be promoted.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $41,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights Institutions
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the role and capacities of human rights defenders and engage citizens in the defense of human rights and to increase international attention and condemnation against attacks on Venezuelan human rights defenders and activists. Capacity building workshops will be held for defenders and awareness raising campaigns will be organized, domestically and internationally.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $34,964
Project Title: Strengthening Outreach, Communication and Organizational Capacity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen outreach, communication, and organizational capacity; and to encourage participation in the upcoming political processes. Increased interaction and synergies between civil society and grassroots organizations throughout the country will be promoted, and public campaigns to educate citizens and encourage participation in upcoming political processes will be designed.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $210,150
Project Title: Supporting Democratic Actors
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen a network of organizations promoting democratic values. Activities will include trainings on democratic values and civic engagement. The project will also promote tolerance and reconciliation as means to decrease political polarization, and engage citizens to jointly address main community challenges. Activities will include community events and discussion promoting democratic values and collaborations among different community leaders.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $27,426
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase understanding of the deteriorating political and socio-economic situation in Venezuela; and to engage civic-minded leaders. Activities will include fostering greater citizen awareness of and investment in democracy in Venezuela and carrying out activities in local communities to express solidarity.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $9,900
Project Title: Monitoring the Human Rights Conditions in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and raise awareness on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Project activities will include monitoring and reporting human rights violations; organizing trainings on democratic values and human rights; and producing and disseminating reports in Venezuela and abroad. Presentations both in and outside Venezuela will also be organized.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $5,000
Project Title: Supporting Democratic Actors
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen a network of organizations promoting democratic values. Activities will include trainings on democratic values and civic engagement. The project will also promote tolerance and reconciliation as means to decrease political polarization, and engage citizens to jointly address main community challenges. Activities will include community events and discussion promoting democratic values and collaborations among different community leaders.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $7,426
Project Title: Strengthening Venezuelan Democratic Actor Strategies
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To assist democratic actors in strengthening governance agreements and coalitions in the face of challenges affecting the ability to support democratic ideas and values. The project will help develop political agendas and mobilization strategies to adapt to a variety of scenarios.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $253,233
Project Title: Supporting Critical Communications Capacities
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To promote an informed citizenry that is better equipped to make decisions about the political future of Venezuela. The institute will bolster the communications capacity of democratic political and civic organizations through technical assistance to establish effective communication strategies and systems to coordinate with each other. The institute will help to reach consensus on messaging around proposals to alleviate Venezuela's severe humanitarian, economic and political crisis, as well as develop mechanisms to widely disseminate and obtain citizen feedback on those proposals.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Best Practices in Citizen Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To enhance understanding on best practices for increasing citizen participation in selected states. Successful strategies for engaging citizens will be identified and shared in states that have traditionally low levels of participation. Grassroots social and political activists will be trained on best practices and alternative communication tools.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $29,180
Project Title: Building Public Awareness on Democratic Initiatives
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To build public awareness about democratic initiatives throughout Venezuela. Activities will include providing targeted assistance to democratic actors throughout the country. Activities will also comprise a public awareness campaign targeting different groups and involve monthly updates and hosting a series of public events throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Circumventing Censorship and Informing Citizens
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To circumvent government censorship of independent media, allowing citizens to access daily news reports. Short daily audio and video reports, a weekly broadcast, and a new program summarizing investigations will be disseminated. All content produced will be disseminated and posted online. In addition, a targeted communications campaign will be conducted.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $83,618
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase the visibility of human rights violations and political prisoners in Venezuela. Information and tools on human rights, due process, the Venezuelan legal system, and international human rights instruments will be shared with local activists and grassroots leaders in targeted states. Emblematic human rights cases will increase visibility.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Engagement and Political Innovation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To foster increased political engagement among citizens and promote innovation. Through trainings, networking, mentoring, and small funding, youth will develop projects that address the humanitarian situation, engage citizens in public affairs, and reach out to new sectors and groups. Activities will foster greater civic engagement in targeted communities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Ensuring Access to Independent and Uncensored Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the availability and reliability of independent, verified and uncensored information in Venezuela, and to raise awareness about misinformation campaigns, especially via Twitter. Contingency plans will be developed to protect independent media from cyberattacks, and joint investigations in four critical areas will be published. The use and spread of misinformation via Twitter will be reported.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Facilitating Humanitarian Aid Relief
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a network that will monitor and coordinate relief efforts for vulnerable populations. Activities will comprise monitoring, recording, and informing domestic and international audiences about the critical situation and litigating cases before domestic and international human rights bodies. Activities will also include coordination with a collation of diverse civil society organizations.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $42,390
Project Title: Fostering Leadership in Low-Income Communities
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To enhance the democratic values and leadership skills of grassroots leaders. Civic education and grassroots organizing workshops will be carried out with women heads of household using an existing network of community centers. Communities will be encouraged to identify and respond to local demands.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Improving Local Democratic Governance
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To improve democratic governance in municipalities; and to overcome polarization by the promotion of community level socio-economic programs. A network of community leaders will advocate for solutions to public challenges in municipalities. This network will promote democracy, rule of law, and good governance. These leaders will also encourage citizen participation in political processes at the local level.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Conditions
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor and report on human rights conditions among marginalized populations and provide trainings for human rights defenders. Data collection, interviews, analysis of information, and the development of materials will raise awareness on the human rights situation in the country. An annual report will be produced and presented at public events.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,799
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of human rights defenders and organizations to engage citizens in monitoring and advocating for human rights and to facilitate discussions on transitional justice and reconciliation. Activists in several regions will increase their understanding of concepts and tools for human rights documentation and learn about the peace process and transitional justice.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $101,410
Project Title: Monitoring the Human Rights Conditions in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and raise awareness on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Project activities will include monitoring and reporting human rights violations, organizing trainings on democratic values and human rights, and producing and disseminating reports in Venezuela and abroad. Presentations both in and outside Venezuela will also be organized.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Promoting Access to Justice
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To raise domestic and international awareness about the criminalization of social protest in Venezuela. Activities will include tools and trainings on holistic risk analysis and digital, physical and organizational security will be shared with human rights defenders. Activities will also include interactions with the global human rights community to raise awareness about the human rights situation in the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To bolster freedom of expression and information by enhancing a network of citizen journalism, alternative media platforms and civil society organizations; and to raise awareness about the current humanitarian, economic, security and human rights crises. Civil society organizations, journalists and citizens at large are trained on the use of alternative media platforms to share news and information.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $42,760
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation and Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To bolster the capacity of citizens to monitor and defend human rights and document human rights violations and to denounce internationally these violations. The organization will build off previous years' work and use renewed Endowment support to foster citizen engagement in the defense of human rights and raise awareness on the situation in Venezuela.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $51,950
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression and Access to Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise awareness of freedom of expression violations in Venezuela. Special reports on the state of freedom of expression, censorship, and attacks against independent media will be completed and presented to the general public. Activities will also include public forums and discussion related to freedom of expression in the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $92,730
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen human rights organizations' abilities to demand adherence to international human rights standards. Activities will include trainings, workshops, public forums on international human rights standards, and a newsletter on human rights issues. Activities will also include interactions and advocacy with global human rights organizations in order to inform them about human rights violations throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,435
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of civil society network in region. This network will be expanded to advocate for human rights and democracy in several states of Venezuela. This network will document and denounce rights violations, document illegal activities, and will collaborate with domestic and international organizations to raise the visibility of select cases.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $75,920
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights through Creative Tools
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster a better understanding of human rights and the documentation of human rights violations in communities, as well as to strengthen the capacity of community members to use cultural tools in raising awareness on human and civil rights. Cultural tools and human rights workshops will be used to disseminate pro-human rights messages in communities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $81,665
Project Title: Promoting Independent Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To engage journalists and media outlets in defending freedom of expression and democracy. Activities will include trainings on investigative journalism tools and the use of social media in disseminating news. The project will also foster media pluralism. Activities will also include monitoring and reporting on the state of media throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Political Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To train and promote participation in politics, thus advocating for democracy and rule of law and to continue strengthening participation in local and national governance and build capacity for renewed leadership. A network of emerging leaders will be consolidated and trained. Similarly, emerging leaders will learn new tools and knowledge to engage in decision-making processes and strengthen their project management capacities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen youth leadership and help articulate a national network of youth groups. Young leaders from across Venezuela will be identified and trained, and they will carry out joint activities and a cohesive advocacy strategy. A national forum will be organized and the organization will provide training to the participants attending the forum.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $81,713
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership and Democratic Values
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To expand and strengthen a network through promoting democratic values; and to bolster democratic knowledge, leadership skills, and participation of citizens through democratic capacity-building efforts. Activities will include civic education workshops and cultural events targeting vulnerable communities. Dissemination of democratic ideas and values will occur with participants.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a national human rights network. Activities will include the provision of technical and advocacy skills, and assistance to human rights activists as needed. Legal and material assistance will also be provided to select beneficiaries. Dissemination of human rights violations with the international community will also be part of the project.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $65,600
Project Title: Providing Timely Coverage of Political Developments
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To develop a nationwide network of professional and citizen-journalists to provide timely coverage of political developments in Venezuela. Journalists and citizens will be trained on journalistic principles and the use of appropriate technology, and will be field to several regions of the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $75,060
Project Title: Raising Awareness on Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about the state of human rights. A network defending human that raise awareness of the social and human rights situation will be strengthened. Civil society groups in the country will foster their collective advocacy for the respect of human rights and return to democracy in their communities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Reporting on Human Rights Violations and the Humanitarian Crisis
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance journalists, activists, and communications students use narrative journalism to document and report on human and social rights violations. Participants will be trained in storytelling, how to document the ongoing crisis, and increase its visibility. Investigations, interviews, photographs, and videos will be produced and disseminated via social networks and through partnerships with national and international news outlets.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Strengthening Female Leadership in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To empower women in Venezuela through capacity-building, and to foster the organization, coordination, and articulation of female leaders. Women in leadership positions will be empowered and will establish strategic alliances to articulate and promote their interests and agendas. Women's participation in political parties and civil society will be improved.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Strengthening Freedom of Association
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote freedom of association in Venezuela. Activities will include a survey of labor rights violations, an analysis of trends, and the development of information for domestic and international audiences. Public events and forums will also be conducted to discuss and raise awareness on freedom of association in the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To consolidate a network of human rights defenders to document and denounce human rights violations; and to promote increased collaboration and advocacy efforts at the international level for a coordinated response to the humanitarian crisis. Grassroots leaders will learn how to document, denounce violations, and advocate for solutions regarding human rights abuses.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Strengthening Outreach, Communication and Organizational Capacity
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen the communication capacity of democratic actors and to strengthen the nationwide civil society network. Communications teams will develop a message of hope and support for democracy, and help disseminate it through its nationwide network of local activists. It will also continue to provide training and support to local activists to maintain a nationwide presence.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $91,280
Project Title: Strengthening Regional Citizen Networks
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen and mobilize a nationwide network of citizens in support of democratic change in Venezuela. Citizens will engage in regional and national activities to promote a peaceful and constitutional resolution to Venezuela's crisis. Through on-site assessments and training workshops, regional citizen platforms will be strengthened and articulated.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $102,950
Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Nascent Civil Society Organizations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen the capacity of nascent organizations to defend the rights of vulnerable groups and report human rights violations. Through trainings, mentoring, small grants and regional exchanges, new civil society voices will be consolidated. The group will also facilitate regional exchanges to discuss common challenges, share lessons learned, and identify joint advocacy strategies.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $59,565
Project Title: Updating Policy Recommendations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To update a package of policies on critical issues affecting citizens. A series of surveys and focus groups will be conducted with a set of targeted groups. A newsletter and report will be published. A series of forums will promote the findings. Activities will address issues related to the humanitarian crisis.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $83,860
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Association
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote democratic values and freedom of association. Activities will include trainings on consensus building, democracy, and citizen participation. In addition, public awareness and advance the rights and interests of vulnerable populations will be advanced. Activities will include informational public forums and community discussions dealing with freedom of association rights throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen human rights organizations' abilities to demand adherence to international human rights standards. Activities will include trainings, workshops, public forums on international human rights standards, and a newsletter on human rights issues. Activities will also include interactions and advocacy with global human rights organizations in order to inform them about human rights violations throughout the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $23,430
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase the visibility of human rights violations and political prisoners in Venezuela. Information and tools on human rights, due process, the Venezuelan legal system, and international human rights instruments will be shared with local activists and grassroots leaders in targeted states. Emblematic human rights cases will increase visibility.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $15,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a national human rights network. Activities will include the provision of technical and advocacy skills, and assistance to human rights activists as needed. Legal and material assistance will also be provided to select beneficiaries. Dissemination of human rights violations with the international community will also be part of the project.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $15,600
Project Title: Strengthening Regional Spaces for Democratic Dialogue
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen regional spaces for dialogue that seek to address economic and political challenges in Venezuela. The center and its partners will host consensus-building activities to provide Venezuelan citizens with spaces for democratic dialogue at the local and regional levels. Program activities will include developing local public policy agendas and training workshops that discuss the importance of democracy and private-sector led development. The center and its partners will also rely on a public awareness campaign via media channels.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $313,010
Project Title: Establishing a Democratic Framework for State-Owned Asset Privatization and Recovery
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen Venezuela's democratic players in developing a democratic framework for the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the recovery of stolen assets in a short window of opportunity. The center and its local partners will develop actionable solutions to the obstacles associated with state-owned asset divestment and asset recovery to help implement the first steps of bringing Venezuela back to a democratic and functioning economy.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $248,094
Project Title: Supporting the Production and Dissemination of Independent News Media
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support the operational capacity and sustainability of independent media outlets and content dissemination organizations in Venezuela. The institute will provide technical and financial assistance to these outlets for their continued production and dissemination of information, with a focus on promoting access to information through a variety of platforms for Venezuela's lower income sectors.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $350,000
Project Title: Assessing Perceptions of Democracy in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To assess the state of democracy in different locations throughout Venezuela. Project activities will include surveying Venezuelans to get a better understanding of citizen perceptions of democracy across the country. Activities will also include conducting interviews, focus groups, and publishing the findings of the study of democracy in the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Building Public Awareness on Democratic Initiatives
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To build public awareness about democratic initiatives throughout Venezuela. Activities will include providing targeted assistance to democratic actors throughout the country. Activities will include monthly updates and hosting a series of public events throughout the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Circumventing Censorship and Providing Access to Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide access to information. Trainings will occur and information on development will be delivered on a regular basis. Best practices and trust building will be promoted during activities.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Conducting Civic Engagement on Pressing Public Problems
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To conduct civic education and empower citizens. A manual will be developed and workshops will be conducted. Civic engagement campaigns will then occur in different locations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Defending Freedom of Association and Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote human rights and freedom of association principles throughout Venezuela. Activities will include trainings on how to monitor and document violations, and a network will be established to defend freedom of association in the country. Reports will be published and advocacy will be conducted before regional and international rights bodies
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Defending Freedom of Expression Online
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend freedom of information and document disinformation campaigns. A new tool will track and document disinformation campaigns in Venezuela, and a public awareness campaign involving a series of digital, print, and public events will be carried out. The project will involve trips to relevant conferences and opportunities to disseminate information. A targeted audience will be informed.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase understanding of human rights courts processes and procedures among civil society organizations; and to document human rights violations in Venezuela and contribute to the completion of investigations. The organization will document human rights violations in Venezuela collecting evidences and testimonies. Additionally, the organization will raise awareness about Venezuela's open cases focusing on CSOs and media.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of human rights violations and political prisoners in central and western states of Venezuela. In collaboration with local activists, grassroots leaders, and family members of political prisoners, the organization will provide information and tools on human rights, due process, the Venezuelan legal system, and international instruments to protect rights. It will work to raise the visibility of emblematic cases before domestic and international audiences.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $43,000
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations and the Humanitarian Crisis
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise awareness about the current humanitarian crisis and increase international support for democracy in Venezuela. The organization will raise awareness on the current Venezuelan humanitarian crisis around the world by producing audiovisual products, which will be widely disseminated around the world. The organization has the ambitious goal to reach millions of people worldwide.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $34,700
Project Title: Documenting Human Rights Violations Tied to Migration
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor human rights violations against Venezuelan migrants. Activities will include documenting and reporting on violations in and out of the country. A final report will be produced and social media platforms will be used to disseminate information. Activities will also include developing international awareness with global human rights organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Empowering Female Students as Political and Social Leaders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower female students to become political and social leaders who promote democratic change. The group will train women on leadership, political advocacy, and the role of women in a democracy. Twelve groups will carry out micro-projects and receive mentorship and feedback. The organization will carry out a national event for female leaders from political, social and student organizations. Leaders will discuss key issues facing women and youth, and develop an advocacy strategy to raise awareness about a topic that the government is not addressing.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Engaging in Political Innovation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To foster increased political engagement among citizens and promote innovation. Through trainings, networking, mentoring, and small funding, youth will develop projects that address the humanitarian situation, engage citizens in public affairs, and reach out to new sectors and groups. Activities will foster greater civic engagement in targeted communities.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Ensuring Access to Independent and Uncensored Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the availability and reliability of independent, verified and uncensored information; and to raise awareness about the use of disinformation, especially in an electoral context. The organization will develop contingency plans to protect from cyber-attacks, and will promote increased coordination to carry out joint freedom of expression endeavors and investigate human rights violations and large-scale corruption.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Facilitating Humanitarian Aid Relief
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a network that will monitor and coordinate relief efforts for vulnerable populations. Activities will comprise monitoring, recording, and informing domestic and international audiences about the critical situation and litigating cases before domestic and international human rights bodies. Activities will also include coordination with a collation of diverse civil society organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Fostering Best Practices in Civic Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To foster the organization and coordination of democratic actors in ten states; and to improve levels of citizen engagement and grassroots organizing in selected states. The organization will identify successful strategies to foster political best practices and foster participation. The organization will train grassroots, social and political activists on best practices, facilitate greater interaction across groups and states, and promote alternative communication tools to reach citizens.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,022
Project Title: Fostering Democratic Values and Understanding
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To increase domestic support and understanding for democratic values and ideas by raising awareness on the achievements of previous democratic governments. The organization will restore public knowledge and memory associated with the democratic Venezuelan history. Products developed will be widely disseminated in Venezuela through partnership with education institutions, civil society organizations and political actors.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Fostering Political Participation and Leadership
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote Venezuelan democratic activism and participation in politics through trainings, thus advocating for democracy and rule of law. The organization will build capacity for renewed democratic leadership in one state, to provide emerging leaders with tools and knowledge to engage in decision-making processes and strengthen their activism capacities. The organization will consolidate its network of emerging leaders, activists, and members of civil society organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,115
Project Title: Fostering Youth Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster the active participation of youth leaders in democratic activities through capacity building. The project will foster democratic values and educate young leaders to help them contribute to economic reconstruction, the reestablishment of democracy, and to strengthen their own organizations. The project will include trainings for hundreds of participants across Venezuela and aims to contribute to restore a social fabric based on democratic principles.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Increasing Transparency of China-Venezuela Relations
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen transparency and accountability regarding Venezuela's political, economic, technological, and military relation with authoritarian countries. The project will include engagement with independent media organizations to investigate and document Venezuelan relations over the past 15 years. Once completed, the research will be published in a dedicated website, and will be presented in individual meetings to civil society, academics, and members of the National Assembly.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Increasing Understanding of the International Criminal Court
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To increase understanding of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) processes and procedures among civil society organizations in Venezuela; and to raise awareness about the Venezuela case open under the ICC jurisdiction to international constituencies. The organization will provide training on and facilitate visits to the ICC with partners, and support the ICC investigation on Venezuela.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $64,653
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Conditions
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor and report on human rights conditions among marginalized populations and provide trainings for human rights defenders. Data collection, interviews, analysis of information, and the development of materials will raise awareness on the human rights situation in the country. An annual report will be produced and presented at public events.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Monitoring the Human Rights Conditions in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and raise awareness on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Project activities will include monitoring and reporting human rights violations, organizing trainings on democratic values and human rights, and producing and disseminating reports in Venezuela and abroad. Presentations both in and outside Venezuela will also be organized.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Engagement
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster democratic participation by promoting leadership and help articulating a national coalition of civil society groups and citizens in support of democratic participation. The organization will set up a broad coalition of experts, civil society organizations and citizens in eight states in order to advocate and defend a democratic and open system in Venezuela.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of expression and information by supporting a network, alternative media platforms and civil society organizations; and to raise awareness about the current humanitarian, economic, security and human rights crises. The organization will focus on amplifying, curating and disseminating information coming from its vast network and from other independent media outlets. It will support an disseminate information on topics such as medicine shortages, the state of public services, the covid-19 crisis and other issues of public concern, and will produce infographics and reports to disseminate .
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,040
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation and Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To foster democratic activism in underserved communities through activities; and to promote reconciliation and dialogue through peace-building activities. The project will foster citizen engagement in the defense of democracy, through different socio-cultural initiatives as an entry point to debate with underserved communities, and create spaces for dialogue, engagement, and activism.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,746
Project Title: Promoting Civic and Political Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote civic and political participation. The group will strengthen its network of community leaders to oversee political processes in their municipalities and to advocate for solutions to public challenges in their municipalities. The network will promote citizen participation in identifying problems and mobilize citizens to advocate for the resolution of these issues with their local authorities. Lastly, the group will train and prepare its members to participate in political processes.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression and Independent Thought in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote freedom of expression and independent thought among Venezuelan intellectuals and citizens. The group will edit and reprint two books that portray authoritarianism and the deterioration of the Venezuelan state. It will also publish four new books on topics including corruption, torture, women's rights, and the crisis of basic services. The organization will carry out monthly discussion groups on these issues and build a network of engaged readers.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $63,000
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression and Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise awareness of freedom of expression violations in Venezuela. Special reports on the state of freedom of expression, censorship, and attacks against independent media will be completed and presented to the general public. Activities will also include public forums and discussion related to freedom of expression in the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen human rights organizations' abilities to demand adherence to international human rights standards. Activities will include trainings, workshops, public forums on international human rights standards, and a newsletter on human rights issues. Activities will also include interactions and advocacy with global human rights organizations in order to inform them about human rights violations throughout the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $70,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights through Art and Cyber Activism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To bolster the capacity of youth to monitor and defend human rights through art and to empower the Venezuelan diaspora to expose and denounce rights violations at the international level. Infographics, social media campaigns and other communication tools will engage youth in the diaspora in the defense of democracy in Venezuela.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $64,550
Project Title: Promoting Independent Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To engage journalists and media outlets in defending freedom of expression and democracy. Activities will include trainings on investigative journalism tools and the use of social media in disseminating news. The project will also foster media pluralism. Activities will also include monitoring and reporting on the state of media throughout the country.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Promoting Political Participation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote Venezuelan youth participation in politics through trainings, thus advocating for democracy and rule of law. The project will continue its training program to provide emerging leaders with tools and knowledge to engage in decision-making processes and strengthen their activism capacities. The project will consolidate its network of emerging leaders, activists, and members of civil society organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $24,000
Project Title: Promoting Solutions Based Journalism
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen media ecosystems in Venezuela. Training programs will be conducted for journalists working on select stories. Tailored mentorship will also provide a space for additional learning. Stories will be published.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Promoting Transitional Justice Principles
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote transitional justice principles. Technical assistance will be provided and workshops will occur. There will also be a communications campaign on these issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $47,700
Project Title: Promoting Youth Leadership and Democratic Values
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To expand and strengthen a network through promoting democratic values; and to bolster democratic knowledge, leadership skills, and participation of citizens through democratic capacity-building efforts. Activities will include civic education workshops and cultural events targeting vulnerable communities. Dissemination of democratic ideas and values will occur with participants among their respective communities.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a national human rights network. Activities will include the provision of technical and advocacy skills, and assistance to human rights activists as needed. Legal and material assistance will also be provided to select beneficiaries. Dissemination of human rights violations with the international community will also be part of the project.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To provide assistance to victims of human rights abuses in Venezuela and before international mechanisms; and to raise international visibility on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Victims of arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances receive legal representation. A report on the prevalence of this issue is published.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $69,450
Project Title: Providing Live Coverage of Political Developments
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To consolidate a nationwide network of journalists to offer timely coverage of political developments in Venezuela. Journalists and citizens will be trained on journalistic principles and the use of appropriate technology, and will be field to several regions of the country. Special reports on the migration and humanitarian crisis will be produced.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $120,263
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