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Project Title: Advancing the Leadership of Palestinian Women in the Economy and Civic Life
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To advance women's leadership in the market economy and civic life through issue advocacy and associational excellence. The Center will support its partner organization's thought leadership and advocacy around reform priorities to improve the business-enabling environment for women entrepreneurs, while fostering cooperation within civil society to enhance the association's representational role. The Center will build capacity within the partner organization to seize strategic opportunities and strengthen a sustainable membership model to achieve financial and organizational independence.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $360,424
Project Title: Fostering Business Champions, Economic Advocacy and Democratic Success
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen public-private dialogue and collaboration on economic reform at the regional and national levels; support the development of organizations to advance market reforms and represent business constituencies; and deepen understanding of economic issues and private sector perspectives among Tunisians. The center will help its partners advocate for a better business environment and advance reform recommendations. The center will build the capacity of organizations to work with the private sector on economic issues, and contribute new ideas to Tunisian discourse about economic challenges.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $840,000
Project Title: Empowering Independent Voices to Push Back Against Closing Democratic Space
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To continue to foster increased transparency and accountability by providing understandable government data to private sector stakeholders and other citizens in Turkey. The center will empower civil society to advocate for increased access to information and transparent governance and support independent media by working with a local partner to publish data collected by the government in a central, online location.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $238,732
Project Title: Strengthening Worker-Driven Independent Unions
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To restore confidence in the Palestinian labor movement and to expand and strengthen it. The center will support unions to promote an economic platform addressing workers' needs to improve the inclusion of women and youth and use the media to highlight union victories. To strengthen the independent labor movement in Jordan to advance freedom of association, the center will guide unions in drafting a new law in line with ILO conventions and support a radio program to serve as the public voice of independent unions.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $201,000
Project Title: Jordan and Palestine: Independent Unions as Leaders for Change
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To assist workers in the Middle East and North Africa to work collectively to defend their rights and advocate for their needs through independent unions. The center will train unionists on workplace level representation and internal organizing, who will then train elected workplace level union representatives. The center will also convene a regional meeting for union representatives from MENA countries currently experiencing restrictions against freedom of association to enable them to share their experiences and learn from each other.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $750,000
Project Title: Laying the Groundwork for Lasting Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Algeria
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To support government and non-governmental stakeholders in engaging around issues affecting citizens' political, social, and economic well-being. The institute will lead a set of program activities to foster dialogue around priority challenges and to build consensus around Algeria's future via a roadmap. The institute will also lay the groundwork to promote open dialogue and trust building among key political, business, and civil society players, while encouraging engagement with citizens to solicit input and feedback on the developed roadmap.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $400,000
Project Title: Promoting Political Process Dialogue among Syrian Civil Society
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To prepare Syrian civil society groups to effectively engage in internationally-brokered political dialogues determining the peace process. The Institute will conduct a mapping exercise, a series of consultations to identify needs and priorities for inclusion in political process dialogues, and a strategic gathering of Syrian civil society groups to present findings and provide resources and recommendations for next steps.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Promoting Partnership between Civil Society and Local Government
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support local governments in adequately addressing concerns of their communities, the Institute will collaborate with local elected officials and civil servants, civil society groups, and social entrepreneurs to build partnerships that will engender more effective, responsive policies. By adopting more inclusive and cooperative decision-making approaches, these communities will promote the political empowerment of citizens, build democratic habits with application beyond the boundaries of this program, and serve as potential models for other communities.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $750,000
Project Title: Empowering Small Businesses to Close the Implementation Gap on SME Legislation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To empower small business owners, business leaders, and opinion leaders to engage policymakers in consensus-building dialogue to close implementation gap, and to enhance the ability of the partner to introduce evidence-based cost-benefit analysis in its advocacy efforts to advance SME policy reform. The Center will work with the partner to study the gap between legislation to benefit SMEs and its implementation and - in consultation with the SME community, government, and parliament - will generate recommendations to facilitate implementation of this legislation, which will also apply to the forthcoming SME law.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $293,659
Project Title: Empowering Private Sector Stakeholders to Advance Market Reforms
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To maintain space for the private sector to engage in policy dialogue with diverse stakeholders in an increasingly restrictive environment and to enhance the capacity of the Egyptian private sector to develop, communicate, and advocate reform ideas and policies to facilitate the development of a private sector-led market economy based on rule of law. The Center will continue its national dialogue series; develop youth capacity to engage in public policy by further developing its public policy training program; and continue its support for private sector engagement in policymaking at the national and grassroots levels.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $614,760
Project Title: Mobilizing Champions for Market-Based Economic Recovery
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To enhance business association capacity to serve and represent members and to promote private sector perspectives and market-based solutions to Lebanon's economic crisis. The Center will build the capacity of the national manufacturing association of Lebanon as an effective service provider and advocate for its embattled private sector constituency. The Center will also partner with leading think tanks to provide analysis of critical issues and promote market-based solutions for economic recovery in Lebanon.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $462,144
Project Title: Building Association Capacity to Serve and Represent Moroccan Businesswomen
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the organizational capacity of Moroccan business associations to serve and represent their female members. The Center will help a women's business association in the Souss Massa region to enhance member services and overall management, and begin building advocacy skills. The Center will also facilitate transversal exchange with other businesswomen's organizations in the region, as well as with CIPE partners beyond Tunisia.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $210,000
Project Title: Strengthening Policy Advocacy at the Federal, Regional, and Provincial Levels
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen policy advocacy at the federal, regional, and provincial levels to enhance transparency and disclosure, promote economic opportunities, and improve revenue sharing in Iraq's decentralized system, and to improve the capacity of the private sector led coalitions to effectively engage key decision-makers and advocate public policy reforms. The Center will support private sector coalitions to engage public authorities in policy advocacy to implement laws that enhance transparency and improve economic conditions. The Center will also work to improve the capacity of the private sector coalitions by strengthening their internal organization and augmenting their external communications and advocacy skills.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $615,507
Project Title: Private Sector Leadership in Anti-Corruption and Democratic Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To mobilize private sector stakeholders to foster responsible governance through anti-corruption compliance initiatives and to facilitate the participation of local private sector leaders in regional economic development decision-making through advocacy efforts in Turkey. To combat corruption through private sector approaches and enable democratic learning, the Center will institutionalize standards of anti-bribery compliance controls and enhance governance at the national level in Turkey. The Center will also strengthen the voice of private sector stakeholders by enhancing their advocacy capacity in support of participatory democracy in Turkey.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $487,227
Project Title: Reducing Risks to Democracy from Corrosive Capital Flows
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To counter the malign influence of authoritarian countries in the MENA region on democratic movements and democratic development in the region, by increasing objective knowledge about capital flows from such countries and how governance gaps are exploited to exert influence; to strengthen exchange between stakeholders across the MENA region on corrosive capital and strategies for combatting its deleterious effects on democratic movements and democratic development; and to improve the ability of civil society, media, and the business community across the MENA region to identify gaps in governance allowing foreign capital flows to exert malign influence and, individually and collectively, advocate recommendations to close them. The Center will work with local researchers to outline the key d
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $1,000,000
Project Title: Citizen Participation and Community Leadership in Closed Societies II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To develop the leadership and relationships skills of activists in closed and closing spaces in countries such as Egypt and the Gulf states, the Institute will conduct online workshops, regional skills-building gatherings, issues-based convening and ongoing individual mentorship. In addition to skills-building, this program highlights the Institute's commitment to standing in solidarity with activists working in challenging political environments to ensure civil society remains active even in such difficult circumstances.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Promoting Issue-Based Politics II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote issue-based political discourse in Lebanon, the Institute will amplify alternative voices in civil society, using public opinion polling and trainings to help them develop effective strategies to advocate to political leaders and to educate and mobilize citizens on top policy priorities. To assist reform-minded political parties and independent candidates to compete against established political actors, the Institute will conduct capacity building trainings for nascent organizations, party democracy trainings for established organizations, and seminars for civil society and political parties to facilitate citizen-responsive platforms.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $700,000
Project Title: Coordinating An Economic Reform Dialogue
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To build consensus among stakeholders on the key economic issues facing Tunisia, and the policies needed to address them, the Institute will facilitate a national dialogue on economic reform and enable the Prime Minister's Office to better coordinate across ministries to relay a cohesive policy agenda to the public. The Institute will support inter-ministerial coordination through strategy sessions, communications trainings, and public relations trainings. To encourage consensus around economic policy through the national dialogue, the Institute will engage in public opinion polling, consultations, and policy development workshops with relevant stakeholders, including political parties, labor unions, public sector and civil society. The national dialogue process will serve to build consens
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $500,000
Project Title: Investing in a Democratic Future
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote political dialogue, policy-driven political debate, and youth inclusion in political decision-making, the Institute will conduct public opinion research and present findings to Turkey's mainline political parties. The Institute will continue to train young leaders in political and policy skills, as well as reconnect with recent alumni of the Institute's youth programming. Finally, the Institute will continue to promote evidence-based policy discussion among higher-level political party leaders, and to bring together those professionally engaged in Turkey's relationship with the West. At time of writing, it is unsafe and illegal to hold public gatherings in Turkey due to the COVID-19 crisis. If this situation continues through the beginning of the grant, then the Institute wi
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $700,000
Project Title: North Africa (Tunisia, Morocco, & Algeria): Building Worker and Trade Union Power to Influence Sustainable Democratic Change
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To build worker and trade union power in Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, the Center will strengthen the labor movements there to influence sustainable democratic change by advancing respect for freedom of association and collective bargaining, contributing to economic and administrative reform processes, advocating for the rights of young people, and in Tunisia, by encouraging public policies that promote the Ratification of ILO Convention 190 on Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $1,300,253
Project Title: Encouraging New Civic and Political Voices
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To support the inclusion of new civic and political voices in Iraq's reforming electoral landscape, the Institute will leverage the nation's surge of civic duty to work with nascent civic organizers as they implement responsive advocacy while working with first-time candidates and political parties to prepare campaign strategies and voter contact for the next parliamentary elections, expected (as of August 2020) to be held in summer 2021.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $450,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society's Engagement in Open Government Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To foster inclusive and informed civil society engagement in promoting open and accountable governance in Morocco, the Institute will identify and train a group of diverse civil society organizations (CSOs) to form a network to engage with decision makers on open government reform and subsequently become active members of the CSO Forum that Morocco has committed to establishing as part of the Open Government Partnership (OGP).
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $280,000
Project Title: A New Social Contract Post COVID-19
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of unions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to advocate for a new social contract in their countries, using gaps in social safety nets exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to demand better protections for workers, the Center will convene unions to discuss gaps, exchange ideas and connect to the ITUC's global campaign for a new social contract. The Center will support unions in three countries in activities to identify the needs of workers and propose recommendations for systemic reform.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $300,000
Project Title: Laying the Groundwork for Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To prepare the ground for future engagement in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, the Institute will identify, expand and deepen connections with reform-minded government and non-governmental stakeholders to understand priorities and needs in the context of declining hydrocarbon prices. Information collected during exploratory activities will be used to help design future programs.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $200,000
Project Title: Supporting Citizen Voices in the Constitutional Process
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To increase the transparency of the Syrian constitutional process and ensure citizen priorities are represented, the Institute will strengthen the ability of Syrian civil society to serve as a link between citizens and the constitutional process and will support Syrian civil society in fostering informed, inclusive dialogue on Syria's future within and beyond the constitution process.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $450,000
Project Title: Coordinated Advocacy for Good Governance (CAGG) in Nangahar Province
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To amplify citizen demands for better governance in at-risk communities of eastern Afghanistan, the Institute will facilitate a coordinated advocacy campaign for accountability in Nangahar Province focused on generating reform via collective action. The Institute will convene and support a coalition of civil society groups to design and execute an advocacy campaign against corruption in public health services in their province.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $400,000
Project Title: Prioritizing Youth Leadership in Souss-Massa
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To increase the meaningful participation of youth in the decision-making process, and their engagement with both local government representatives and senior political party members in the run up to Morocco's 2021 elections, the Institute proposes Prioritizing Youth Leadership in Souss-Massa. The Institute will increase youth capacity to become future political leaders and improve their visibility in political party and local government decision-making processes by equipping and supporting young party members from Souss-Massa with key skills that will help them engage in all aspects of politics - from political party engagement, to elections, to governing.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $600,000
Project Title: Empowering Private Sector Stakeholders to Advance Market Reforms
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To maintain space for the private sector to engage in policy dialogue with diverse stakeholders in an increasingly restrictive environment and to enhance the capacity of the Egyptian private sector to develop, communicate, and advocate reform ideas and policies to facilitate the development of a private sector-led market economy based on rule of law. The Center will continue its national dialogue series; develop youth capacity to engage in public policy by further developing its public policy training program; and provide support for private sector engagement in policymaking at the national and grassroots levels.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Strengthening Policy Advocacy at the Federal, Regional, and Provincial Levels
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen policy advocacy at the federal, regional, and provincial levels to enhance transparency and disclosure, promote economic opportunities, and improve revenue sharing in Iraq's decentralized system, and to improve the capacity of the private sector led coalitions to effectively engage key decision-makers and advocate public policy reforms. The Center will support private sector coalitions to engage public authorities in policy advocacy to implement laws that enhance transparency and improve economic conditions. The Center will also work to improve the capacity of the private sector coalitions by strengthening their internal organization and augmenting their external communications and advocacy skills.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Strengthening Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen investigative journalism by exposing journalists to best practices. The grantee will host four, six-month fellowships for MENA journalists, especially those from closed or in-conflict countries, to work with experienced investigative journalists on investigative reports or media projects. The fellows will also attend workshops, trainings, and an annual conference to learn about new skills, experiences, strategies, and tools for investigative journalism.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $70,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society's Role in Post-Conflict Rebuilding
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen emerging youth volunteer groups and enable them to play a constructive role in reviving civic engagement. The organization will train and mentor youth as they lead community initiatives. The organization will hold training workshops, support the youth groups in carrying out the community initiatives, and act as a link between citizens and the local and national governments.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Measuring Indicators of Democracy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To provide the public and policy-makers with indicators of the status of democracy in Iraq. The grantee will publish and disseminate an annual report that measures Iraq's democratic progress and the role of civil society in advancing good governance based on public opinion surveys and expert interviews. The grantee will release the report findings and conclusions at a conference attended by media, policy and decision-makers and civil society leaders.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Enhancing Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen civil society's role in informing public policy. The organization will convene professional unions and civil society organizations to produce policy papers aimed at improving governance and public services. The organization will produce a booklet including the policy papers and convene meetings to call for the adoption of the booklet's recommendations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Community Radio and Human Rights Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen independent media reporting through community radio in Sulaimaniyah. The grantee will continue to develop its Human Rights Journalism Unit, publish its women's issues newspaper and monthly reports on local government performance, broaden public outreach through its website, and conduct a human rights reporting competition.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Accountability in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote accountability and rule of law in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The grantee will produce biannual reports that assess government officials' follow through on campaign promises to combat corruption, form a corruption monitoring team to advocate for the resolution of four identified cases, and produce a final report on its findings and progress.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Empowering Women for Political Party Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To advance women's political party engagement and develop local women party activists' leadership skills. The program will train women from political parties and women candidates for upcoming provincial elections. The trainings will enable the women party activists to seek stronger representation within their parties including in leadership positions.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $17,500
Project Title: Enhancing Government Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Jordan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government responsiveness to citizen demands and priorities, particularly at the decentralized level. The grantee will lead a nationwide effort to identify the needs of local communities, determine whether these needs are prioritized by local authorities, and verify implementation of government promises. The organization will hold meetings to identify priority issues, conduct localized multi-faceted advocacy campaigns, and publish short reports on the results.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $18,000
Project Title: Promoting Political Pluralism and Citizen Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To stimulate citizen participation and discourse on governing systems and minority representation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The grantee will leverage its region-wide network of contacts with political parties to organize roundtable discussions, meetings, print and distribute its magazine, develop and publish research briefs, and organize a conference to present and advocate for recommendations that promote inclusive governance.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Engagement in Local Democracy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To connect citizens to decision-makers and promote participatory local governance in Kasserine Governorate. The organization will conduct a diagnostic study on the needs of three municipalities, develop a joint capacity building action plan with the municipal councils, and hold a series of trainings on local governance and accountability for municipal council members and local civil society.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen youth participation in local governance in Medjez el Bab. The organization will lead a local governance council in monitoring municipal work, produce a monthly report on the performance of the municipality, disseminate monthly videos with local council members discussing the reports, publish monthly policy recommendations, and produce weekly videos on key issues facing citizens in Medjez el Bab.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote civic engagement and advocate for youth empowerment and good governance in northern Balkh province. The organization will hold a series of civic and community engagement sessions to promote human rights and political participation and to foster dialogue and collaboration between local leaders and government. In addition, the grantee will strengthen its existing Youth Civic Groups across the province.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Empowering Youth Leaders
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower local youth leaders to promote peace and tolerance and to enhance cooperation between community leaders and local decision makers. The organization will train youth leaders on responsible leadership, civic values, the rule of law, and conflict resolution. Graduates will subsequently lead a number of community initiatives. The organization will also produce TV and radio programs to educate a wider audience on civic responsibilities, civic values, and the rule of law.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about human rights and strengthen the capacity of human rights defenders. The organization will monitor, document and report on human rights violations. The grantee will work closely with human rights defenders to build their reporting and advocacy skills, and will share its monitoring findings with the United Nations and international human rights organizations.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $26,300
Project Title: Strengthening Citizen Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Mauritania
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen youth participation in public policy development at the local level. The organization will organize one workshop for youth on advocacy techniques and strategies and another on local governance. It will also lead advocacy efforts to promote youth engagement in public life through policy monitoring and evaluation and continue providing technical support for local youth councils.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: Developing Community Youth Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Libya
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a community of peacebuilding practice and community dialogue to respond to localized conflicts in Libya. The organization will build the capacity of a cadre of youth through a two-week intensive course on peacebuilding and conflict management and assist to develop community-focused mechanisms for conflict prevention and community mediation.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $22,000
Project Title: Defending Youth Detainees
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support and defend young political detainees and prisoners. The project will provide legal, psychosocial, and medical assistance to youth detained or imprisoned on politically motivated charges. Lawyers will be assigned to provide legal representation, counselors or psychologists will provide psychosocial support and mentorship during and post detention, and medical and other support will be provided on a case-by-case basis.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Supporting Human Rights Activists
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support human rights defenders and activists in Gulf States. The grantee will hold an annual training for a network of activists in the region, monitor and publicize human rights violations in Gulf countries, provide assistance and guidance to human rights activists on utilizing the United Nations and international support systems, and conduct advocacy campaigns.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Promoting Gender Equality in Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote women's participation and gender inclusion in public affairs. The organization will engage elected officials, civil society, and women councilors to advance women's roles in decision-making and policy processes. It will convene a study day on gender equality, lead workshops on gender-responsive budgeting, and advocate gender inclusion in local policies and in the local and regional councils' policy agenda.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation in Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen youth's ability and capacity to transition from protest to participatory civic engagement and accountability. The organization will conduct training on monitoring public policy and government performance; form three working groups on topics related to access to information, transparency and good governance; convene a regional seminar and lead an awareness campaign on effective youth policy.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Freedom of the Press and Expression
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support press freedom and strengthen access to independent information in the Gulf. The grantee will continue monitoring and documenting violations against the press and free expression in the Gulf and will publish its findings in an annual report. The grantee's website will serve as a platform for contributions and publications related to freedom of expression and the press in the Gulf.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $40,000
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