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Search results for Project Country: Venezuela
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Displaying records 26-50 of 222 results
All results totalling $12,902,496
Total may include redundant amount due to supplements.


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Project Title: Promoting Innovative Solutions
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote citizen engagement in the development of innovative alternatives to address Venezuela's democratic challenges. The project will promote the development of a digital platform to foster international solidarity and help address Venezuela's most pressing needs. The effort will focus on strengthening alternative and citizen actions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,583
Project Title: Raising Awareness about Human Rights Situation in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about the human rights situation in Venezuela by fostering a dialogue between civil society leaders and their counterparts throughout the world. The group will organize a series of meetings and trainings related to international human rights standards.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,916
Project Title: Promoting Dialogue and Reconciliation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote political dialogue and reconciliation. Discussions that bring together citizens across the ideological spectrum to promote democratic dialogue and reconciliation will be organized.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $55,692
Project Title: Encouraging Electoral Participation in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To encourage citizen participation across Venezuela. Project activities will include coordinating a civic awareness campaign and convening a series of meetings and gatherings to educate citizens on the importance of getting involved in the political process.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Strengthening Local Governance
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen local governance through increased citizen participation. The project will use technology to bolster citizen participation in the local decision-making process, and will offer trainings for local officials on how to use new technologies to better serve their constituents.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $32,570
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Expression and Information
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise awareness on 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.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,297
Project Title: Assessing the State of Democracy
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote research and analysis on the state of democracy in Venezuela. Political developments will be monitored, and assessments and recommendations to improve the quality of democracy in the country will be produced. Dialogue and roundtable discussions on policy proposals will be facilitated.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Developing Public Policy Solutions
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To develop a public policy package to address evolving challenges in Venezuela. A needs assessment will identify the sectors of Venezuelan society that are facing the most urgent challenges. Using this data, recommendations will be developed on how to address the most pressing public needs.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $33,000
Project Title: Fostering the Political Participation of Youth
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To improve the capacity and consolidate a network of volunteers, focusing on increasing political participation from disenfranchised groups. Civic education opportunities for citizens will be provided.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $14,000
Project Title: Advocating for Reforms that Restore Checks and Balances
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote the restoration of checks and balances as well as respect for human rights. The state of Venezuela's democracy will be surveyed, and specific recommendation in areas than can be strengthened will be provided. A targeted awareness campaign to address some of these issues will be conducted.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $43,600
Project Title: Strengthening Democratic Principles Among Youth
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen leadership skills and democratic principles among Venezuelan and Latin American youth. The program will organize an international youth seminar in Venezuela. Following the seminar, Venezuelan participants will carry out replication workshops in the provinces, and regional and Venezuelan youth will collaborate in an international awareness campaign.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $39,970
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Governance at the Local Level in Venezuela
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote human and civil rights in Venezuela; and to improve local governments' capacity to respond to citizens' concerns. The program will work with civil society to raise awareness on the human rights violations and social conflicts in their communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $34,970
Project Title: Building Strategic Capacity for Local Democratic Actors
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To support the strengthening of democratic actors in the development of agendas and strategies that can adapt to a variety of scenarios. The program will hold working sessions with democratic actors and domestic and regional experts, and then follow-on sessions to fully develop the products.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $200,000
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 document human rights violations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Facilitating Humanitarian Aid Relief
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To establish a network that will monitor and coordinate relief efforts to vulnerable populations. Activities will include informing domestic and international audiences about the critical situation and litigating cases before domestic and international human rights bodies.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $43,290
Project Title: Promoting Democratic Values
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote democratic values among vulnerable populations in Venezuela. Citizens will learn the value of leadership and public service, and will gain experience to take on greater leadership roles in their respective communities and organizations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $59,240
Project Title: Defending Human Rights Victims
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To defend human rights victims before domestic and international courts, and raise international visibility on the human rights situation in Venezuela. Information collected from legal assistance efforts on behalf of victims of arbitrary detentions and torture, will inform a report on the human rights situation in Venezuela.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $17,000
Project Title: Developing Tools for Agile Communication
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To increase understanding of citizen needs and priorities through agile and interactive communication tools. Activities will include conducting a survey of the population in order to better understand citizens' priorities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Cohesive Strategic Communications
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote an informed citizenry that is better able to make decisions about the future of Venezuela. The project will provide technical assistance to create a nationwide, coordinated communications plan, and craft effective messages using non-traditional media. These activities will ensure that Venezuelan citizens and members of the international community receive objective messages that accurately inform them about the country's economic, social, and political realities.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $115,000
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. Data collection, interviews, analysis of information, and the development of materials will raise awareness on the human rights situation in the country.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,000
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: 2017
Award Amount: $49,900
Project Title: Generating Consensus for an Emergency Plan
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the technical capacity of Venezuelans to efficiently respond to the socioeconomic crisis unfolding in disenfranchised communities. Data from a survey will provide information on the needs of the average Venezuelan citizen and ensure that policy making is inclusive and responsive to citizen demands.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $18,820
Project Title: Monitoring the Human Rights Situation
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and raise awareness on the 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.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To document and denounce human rights violations. Civic leaders will learn about human rights norms and engage in increased interactions with like-minded organizations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $39,802
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation and Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Project Country: Venezuela
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the capacity of citizens to monitor and defend human rights, especially freedom of expression. Activities will include an advocacy campaign that utilizes art and online activism to promote human rights and democratic values in Venezuela.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $34,983
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