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All results totalling $125,875,699
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Project Title: Promoting Rule of Law
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote impartiality and transparency in trial processes. The project will provide legal and media support for individuals facing politically motivated charges to ensure due process and the right to a fair trial. Two studies will analyze the legal punishments used in politicized crimes, the laws governing prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $9,800
Project Title: Online Academy for Promoting Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To strengthen civil society groups' ability to monitor political processes and media using new technology and to support the development of watchdog groups in the region. The organization will prepare new training content on budget and financial accountability, offer four rounds of its online course on accountability to 100 civil society activists, and facilitate four internships for top trainees.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $26,300
Project Title: Promoting Civil Society and University Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster greater cooperation among local civil society organizations and universities and promote community service learning. The organization will partner with a university in Fes to establish a legal aid program and engage law students to work with local civil society and community leaders on priority issues. It will also organize a series of monthly workshops on participatory approaches to advocacy and local policy planning and monitoring and lead civil society-university initiatives on community priority issues.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Participatory Decision Making Process
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote accountability and mobilize civil society to advocate for a participatory approach to decision making at the local level. The organization will lead training on human rights-based approaches to development and local governance, organize community thematic meetings, engage local CSOs in advocacy initiatives, solidify a local forum, and conduct a program evaluation.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $27,000
Project Title: Promoting Dialogue on Human Rights and Democracy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To educate and promote dialogue among citizens on political, social, cultural, and human rights issues through digital media. The project will establish a monitor and produce reports on the state of democracy and human rights in Egypt. The project will also produce multimedia products that illustrate the findings of the reports and explain various citizen rights protected by Egyptian law, such as freedom of association and expression, transparency, and privacy rights.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $27,000
Project Title: Human Rights Memorial Project
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and democracy education, discourse and advocacy. The organization will monitor and document human rights violations, publically disseminate its findings, and advocate for greater accountability to international treaty obligations as well as for victims of human rights violations. The grantee will also expand its human rights database and online documentation initiatives.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $24,000
Project Title: Policy Advocacy on Collective Lands
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote good governance practices and advocate for effective regulatory instruments on collective lands. The grantee will organize citizen forums on the newly passed laws related to women's rights to land, convene a national symposium on the law governing collective lands and its impact on governance and local development, and lead an advocacy initiative at the national level.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Online Campus TV
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To expand freedom of expression and encourage youth activism on university campuses. The organization will continue to produce content for its online TV channel in Arabic targeting university students. It will also train young journalists, technical staff, and volunteers on TV program content production, editorial guidelines, and presentation skills.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $33,000
Project Title: Youth Political Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To advance national debate on youth political participation in Morocco. The organization will conduct a national study on youth political participation, organize a public event to share the study results and findings, and convene a series of meetings with civic and political actors and political parties to advocate its study recommendations.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: "Women's Voices" Radio Program
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower women at the grassroots level to influence policymaking. The grantee will produce radio programs featuring women from different classes, broadcast each one-hour program live every week. The organization will hold a one-day workshop to present the radio program outcomes targeting representatives from government bodies, local and international organizations, and media, and produce and distribute a report on women's priorities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $28,000
Project Title: Academy for Economic Policy Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enable leaders from the MENA region to engage in economic policy reforms. The grantee will lead two rounds of an economic policy academy that includes training workshops, virtual mentorship, and policy paper production. The first round will focus on the role of institutions in economic development and democratic consolidation and the second will focus on the role of host country civil society and the private sector in refugee integration.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $114,242
Project Title: Accountability in Access to Healthcare
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote accountability in the health sector. The project will help marginalized communities learn about their rights to access healthcare and social security; the necessary procedures to receive healthcare and social security; and how to advocate for the proper application of new legislation on the right to health through civic campaigns, seminars, animation videos, and free legal consultation.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
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: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Activating the Leadership Role of Young Iraqi Women
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen young women's participation and leadership in civic and political life. The grantee will connect a new generation of Iraqi women activists to create a nationwide network that will advocate for women's political rights. The grantee will lead training workshops in three provinces, assist trainees in leading initiatives, and host a final conference.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $34,000
Project Title: Addressing Obstacles to Women's Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To support and strengthen women's participation and representation in public life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Building on survey results that identify challenges facing women public figures in the region, the grantee will hold roundtables to identify recommendations and work with government and political party leaders to advocate for their implementation. The grantee will produce and present an annual report summarizing the outcomes of these proceedings to parliamentarians and government officials.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Advancing Access to Justice
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To strengthen access to justice. The project will examine the legal, logistical and financial obstacles that restrict the efficiency of justice with a diverse community of stakeholders in the justice system. The project will propose and support civil society in advocating recommendations to overcome these challenges.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote national government accountability through youth participation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The grantee will strengthen youth engagement on advancing social accountability and democratic reform through mentoring three youth watchdog teams and assessing the performance of the Ministry of Social Development in the three governorates of Gaza, Nablus, and Hebron.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Advocacy for the Freedom of the Press
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To reinforce legal protection of freedom of the press and expression. The organization will launch a campaign to advocate for amendments to the Publication Penalty Law and the newly proposed Cybercrimes Law. The organization will also work to raise awareness among the public and social media influencers on the need to change these laws. The organization will monitor and document violations against journalists and produce an annual report detailing them.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Advocating Effective Youth Public Services
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen a culture of accountability and transparency at the municipal level in Fes. The organization will raise awareness among municipal officials regarding national legal mechanisms for youth participation and empower youth to coordinate actions across target municipalities. The grantee will hold capacity building trainings and dialogue and will provide continued support as youth councils monitor local spending on youth priorities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Advocating Electoral Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen civil society organizations' ability to influence electoral reforms in the MENA region. The grantee will organize and lead two nine-day electoral reform missions, including capacity-building seminars, in countries holding elections in 2019 and early 2020. The grantee will produce reports on each mission and provide an assessment outlining recommendations and advocacy strategies for electoral reform. Building on new and past missions, a regional conference will facilitate exchange of experiences and case studies and create a platform to follow up on specific reform recommendations.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $90,000
Project Title: Advocating for Budget Transparency
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen governance and civil society oversight of public financial resources. The organization will engage civil society organizations in southern Iraq and organize dialogue sessions to advocate for greater transparency in public finances at the local and federal levels. The organization will publish a guidebook on enhancing budgetary transparency based on existing Iraqi laws and will organize advocacy meetings with government officials to call for the implementation those laws.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Advocating for IDPs and Reconstruction in Tahamah
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To engage youth from underserved districts in advocating for reconstruction and internally displaced people in the Tahamah region. The grantee will train and mentor four youth teams to advocate for internally displaced people (IDPs) and reconstruction in two war-torn districts. The youth teams will monitor and document IDP needs and damaged infrastructure, produce quarterly and annual reports on their findings, compile stories of victims of conflict, and advocate authorities to improve conditions for these communities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Advocating Internally Displaced People's Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage civil society organizations in advocating for the rights of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Marib. The grantee will continue working with its network of local organizations to advocate for IDPs. It will monitor the performance of the newly established Government Joint Committee for Responding to IDP Needs through field visits to IDP camps in ten districts and monthly public meetings. The project will also establish an e-platform to encourage the local government to respond to IDP and host community needs.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Advocating Legislative Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To mobilize youth in civil society to monitor and advocate for legislative reforms, and to raise citizens' awareness of their rights and freedoms and how bills and laws affect them. The organization will monitor and analyze draft laws for constitutionality, conduct advocacy workshops, and organize public events to involve youth in advocating for inclusive legislation that respects the constitution.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $27,000
Project Title: Advocating Transitional Justice and Rule of Law
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Algeria
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote rule of law, human rights, and transitional justice practices. The organization will convene debates and a conference on rule of law and independence of judiciary, organize a seminar on collective memory and transitional justice, continue support to its research center on the preservation of memory and human rights, and enhance its weekly radio program on topics related to human rights and transitional justice in Algeria.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Arab Network for Human Rights Films
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To broaden public dialogue and debate on human rights through film festivals and to strengthen a regional network that promotes and advocates for human rights. The organization will support a regional network for human rights films by providing expertise and technical assistance on using films as a platform to discuss and advocate for human rights, facilitating cooperation among member organizations and other likeminded groups, and making information, research tools, and resources available to the human rights film community in the region.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $57,000
Project Title: Building Civic Life
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To strengthen youth leadership and re-engagement in public affairs. The grantee will train emerging civic activists in the province and prepare them to lead local civic initiatives. The project will select, mentor and support ten advocacy campaigns or community initiatives led by beneficiaries to respond to local priorities.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Building Consensus for Democratic Reforms
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To build consensus among diverse actors on key issues and policies related to protecting and defending human rights. The organization will produce documents on the most urgent political, economic, and legal reforms needed to protect human rights. Human rights organizations and experts will discuss the documents at a consultative meeting. Attendees will hold subsequent meetings with civic and political activists to lay the groundwork for dialogue among civic actors.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Building Resiliency in Civil Society
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To build institutional and leadership capacities of civil society organizations (CSOs) active in democracy, women's, and human rights. The grantee will convene a regional Training of Trainers workshop on leadership and organizational development. It will also hold follow-up capacity-building workshops for participating CSOs, and host one-on-one mentoring and training sessions for activists and women leaders from the Gulf region.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Challenging Censorship
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of the censorship law's implementation and advocate for revised legislation that supports freedom of expression. The grantee will expand and train its network of freedom of expression defenders and support them to lead civic initiatives, continue to advocate for the transfer of the Lebanese Bureau of Censorship to civilian jurisdiction, and strengthen its online anti-censorship campaign.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Citizen Engagement through Alternative Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote and encourage civic participation through alternative media and the arts. The organization will lead citizen advocacy and awareness-raising initiatives using alternative media tools including documentaries, short video programs, and cultural exhibitions. The organization will make its in-house studio accessible to other civil society organizations (CSOs) and community activists for media production, and rebuild its online observatory highlighting the work of CSOs across the country.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Civic Engagement and Accountability in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in Gaza in civic action, oversight, and interaction with national representatives on accountability and anti-corruption measures. The organization will lead four-day capacity-building courses on anti-corruption mechanisms, and support trainees to develop social audit reports, conduct a \seminar and awareness sessions for grassroots activists, and produce video clips that highlight the reports' findings.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Civic Monitoring of Parliamentary Performance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance the transparency and accountability of the Iraqi Council of Representatives (CoR). The organization will continue monitoring the incoming CoR and its 22 committees. It will prepare monthly and quarterly reports, organize press conferences to publicize its findings, and compile and publish a cumulative annual monitoring report.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Civic Space Watch
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To expand opportunities for regional collaboration and strengthen coordinated advocacy to protect and defend civic space. The grantee will maintain and expand a regional Civic Space Watch that includes an electronic platform for monitoring, documenting, and sharing information on shrinking civic space trends from across the region. In addition, the grantee will convene regional CSO leaders to facilitate regional coordination, collaboration, and strategizing to defend civic space.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $75,000
Project Title: Civil Society Fellowships
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To provide opportunities for civil society activists to continue meaningful civic engagement and to enhance civil society organizations' (CSOs) and activists' ability to protect themselves against increasing cyberattacks. Fellowships with regional and international CSOs will provide Egyptian civil society activists with opportunities to enhance their work. Digital security tools will allow CSOs to protect themselves against cyberattacks.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Civil Society Strengthening
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To support knowledge sharing and exchange of best practices among civil society activists, particularly in the area of democratic governance and civic engagement in local governance. The grantee will deliver two eight-week online courses for civil society leaders, activists, practitioners and academics from throughout the MENA region. Each course will consist of three interrelated activities including reading resources, weekly online discussions, and weekly assignments.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,400
Project Title: Civil Society Support
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To provide opportunities for civil society leaders to continue meaningful civic engagement and preserve the capacity and voice of civil society and to facilitate dialogue among civil society leaders on the future of civil society and the protection of basic rights and freedoms. The project will organize regional or international fellowships for civil society leaders and host a series of dialogue sessions to assess the challenges, opportunities and strategies for reforms in Egypt.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $230,000
Project Title: Civil Society's Role in Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote participatory governance practices at the local level. The organization will host forums on mechanisms to engage youth in local public affairs, organize roundtables for local actors and thematic meetings with local civic groups, and conduct workshops on public petitions and their role in promoting accountability and public service oversight.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Combating Corruption
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To expose and combat corruption. The organization will form and train a monitoring team composed of local journalists who will investigate and document local corruption cases, particularly administrative corruption that effects access to public services. The grantee will publish its findings in a print and online newsletter and will hold regular meetings with local authorities to present and advocate action on reported cases.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Combating Corruption in Herat
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance local governance through better accountability, transparency, and responsiveness of local governmental institutions in Herat. The organization will campaign against corruption through street banners, posters, and radio and TV ads and maintain a phone line for citizens to safely report cases of corruption. Its three advocacy committees will investigate corruption allegations to enhance good governance and produce monthly and quarterly monitoring reports on corruption, host quarterly press briefings, and produce a monthly radio talk show.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Combating Fake News, Hate Speech, and Incitement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Libya
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To combat fake news, hate speech, incitement, and disinformation in Libyan digital media. The organization will conduct an awareness and education campaign to highlight the negative impact of Libya's current media environment on exacerbating and prolonging violence and conflict, launch a digital media research platform, publish data about incitement and hate speech, and promote information about professional journalistic standards for media consumers and producers in Libya.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: Combatting Discrimination against Women in Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To protect and promote women's rights by educating media professionals on fair coverage of women's issues in the media. The organization will hold workshops for leading media figures and civil society activists on documenting and analyzing coverage of women's rights. The organization will conduct a survey on the issue and use its results to engage heads of media establishments in advocacy meetings to urge them to have less discriminatory coverage of women in their programs.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Community Monitoring and Advocacy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society groups' ability to monitor development projects, contribute to shaping development plans in their countries, and hold their governments accountable. The grantee will provide technical support to its members, produce and disseminate information and analysis on international finance institute's (IFI) activities and policies, facilitate the engagement of its members and partners in the region with IFIs, develop the institutional capacity of the coalition and strengthen collaboration among members in six countries
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $70,000
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: 2019
Award Amount: $70,000
Project Title: Defending Civic Space
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To defend and protect youth civic engagement. The project will monitor the state of civil rights for youth, disseminate regular updates on related developments through social media, and produce a report to highlight prominent issues affecting civic space. Legal aid to youth will support their participation in civic life.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Defending Human Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To defend human rights and monitor violations in the Gulf. The grantee will work with its network of local human rights activists to compile cases on human rights violations, publish and distribute reports on human rights conditions, and carry out international and regional advocacy campaigns.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $84,000
Project Title: Defending Media Freedom
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To defend media freedom and the rights of media professionals. The project will provide legal defense for journalists and bloggers facing legal prosecution because of their work. A study will analyze a new media regulatory body and its effect on media freedoms in Egypt. A training will support a small group of journalists and bloggers to organize an advocacy campaign on a prominent media rights issue.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $38,000
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: 2019
Award Amount: $110,000
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: 2019
Award Amount: $44,000
Project Title: Domestic Election Monitoring
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote a transparent electoral process through a domestic election monitoring initiative. The organization will conduct trainings on domestic election monitoring, lead impartial and professional domestic monitoring of scheduled legislative and presidential elections, and produce a comprehensive observation report on the electoral process.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $59,982
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