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Search results for Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Year: 2017
Project Focus:
Displaying records 201-225 of 296 results
All results totalling $25,608,905
Total may include redundant amount due to supplements.


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Project Title: Civic Engagement through Women's Arts
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To develop women's capacity for civic activism through arts and culture and raise awareness of and support women's rights as citizens of Afghanistan. The grantee will produce and perform 30 plays on five women's rights subjects in public and academic forums in Kabul province. Actors will engage audiences by soliciting responses and feedback after performances.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title:
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To ensure women journalists' participation in local media and to strengthen independent media in Herat province. The grantee will maintain a media resource center for women; conduct six four-day seminars for 90 women journalists on online journalism, photojournalism, investigative reporting, and media advocacy; maintain a women-exclusive news agency; and organize a two-day conference to assess local media gains and challenges in western Afghanistan.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Fushat Amal: A National Campaign for the Disappeared
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a national reconciliation process that clarifies the fate of the disappeared in Lebanon and restores dignity to the victims. The grantee will raise awareness and advocate for the adoption of the draft law in the Lebanese Parliament to establish an investigative commission. It will publish a minimum of 1,000 profiles on its online database, train 50 youth to conduct 80 interviews with the families of missing persons, publish and distribute 400 copies of a 40-page booklet on the missing, and launch a three-phase lobbying campaign aimed at the public and political representatives.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $34,400
Project Title: Supporting Democratic Reformers through Knowledge and Experience Exchange
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To foster linkages and experience-sharing among pro-democracy, pro-free-market reformers in the region, facilitate access to knowledge and experience from reform efforts worldwide, and assist reformers in MENA to generate, disseminate, and advocate for democratic, free-market values, ideas, and policy solutions more effectively. The center will conduct regular online forums to facilitate knowledge- and experience-sharing among reformers in the region. It also will amplify reformers' voices through a web platform and a concerted, coordinated effort to engage in the regional policy debate taking place on social media.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $292,438
Project Title: Promoting Dialogue on Human Rights and Democracy Issues
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To educate and promote dialogue amongst citizens on political, social, cultural, and human rights issues through digital media. The project will include the production of 48 weekly multimedia products that explain various citizen rights protected by Egyptian law. Segments will cover such topics as freedom of association, corruption, transparency, violence against women, censorship, and privacy rights. The messages will be disseminated through social media and traditional media outlets.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $27,000
Project Title: Municipality Eye Watch
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote citizen oversight of local municipalities. The organization will work with its established task force to monitor and report on the activities of 10 local municipalities. The findings will be available on its web-based platform and discussed in a public conference in Beirut.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $35,200
Project Title: Women in Media Supporting Human Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To bolster women's political participation, build the capacity of a core group of women reporters and rights advocates, and institutionalize a women's media resource center. The organization will develop its media resource center and conduct courses for journalists and activists committed to the advancement of women's rights. Trainings will equip participants with a strong understanding of democratic principles and with journalism skills that will enable them to better advocate for those rights.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Community Radio and Human Rights Journalism in Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To encourage independent media reporting through community radio in Sulaimaniyah. The group will continue developing its Human Rights Journalism Units in Kalar and Kefry, continue publishing its groundbreaking women's issues newspaper, publish a monthly report on local government performance, continue to use its website for a broader outreach, and conduct a human rights reporting competition.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Youth Academy for Economic Policy Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enable youth leaders from the MENA region to engage effectively in economic policy reform issues. The grantee will lead two rounds of an economic policy training academy that includes workshops on economic policy analysis, development, and advocacy; a virtual mentorship program; and the production of policy papers on economic issues. The first round will focus on inclusive economic reforms to empower women and youth and the second will focus on challenges and economic outlook for countries in conflict.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $110,000
Project Title: Enhancing Fact-based Reporting
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote fact-based, real-time public knowledge and assessment of events affecting citizen life. The project will provide independent and fact-based news coverage around the clock on a wide array of issues pertinent to citizen life in southern Syria.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $25,200
Project Title: Promoting Policy and Budget Monitoring
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage and enhance the capacity of youth to engage in municipal budget and public policy monitoring processes. The organization will conduct a two-day training of trainers on budgetary monitoring for 30 representatives from civil society and youth organizations, organize two regional study days on youth and local public policy, and produce analysis and a recommendations report.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Advocating Freedom of Expression
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To advocate freedom of expression and assembly according to Turkish and international law. The project will work with a network of NGOs to carry out a campaign to counter current anti-democratic legislation and limits to freedom of expression, in particular those targeting writers, journalists, academics and students.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $50,200
Project Title: Strengthening Public Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen civil society and citizen engagement through public consultations. The organization will conduct two, two-day workshops for elected officials, two two-day trainings for civil society actors on public consultation mechanisms, and a regional forum on government-citizen interaction.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Engaging Youth to Strengthen Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To engage young civic leaders in strengthening local governance in the province, and to support emerging civic groups to equip youth to serve as dynamic and effective community leaders. The center will organize advanced training workshops; coordinate seven visits to government directorates; facilitate dialogue sessions with potential candidates for local and parliamentary elections; and organize seminars for 350 participants from the general public. It will also support an emerging civic group to replicate its youth engagement program.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Strengthening Civil Society's Role in Supporting Governance Reforms
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To enhance and strengthen the role of civil society in civic engagement, governance reform, and the legislative process of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The organization will coordinate with four NGOs in the areas of Sulaimaniyah, Halabja, Garmyan, and Raparin to form local advocacy groups for decentralization. It also will conduct four training workshops; field local surveys; organize four roundtable discussions; publish a monthly newspaper supplement; and produce awareness programs on TV and radio stations.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Empowering Small Business to Close the Implementation Gap
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To engage policymakers, and opinion and business leaders in dialogue to build consensus around the implementation of small and medium enterprise legislation, and to build the capacity of a local partner and its member associations to advocate for policy reform. The project will study the possible benefits of small and medium enterprise legislation and its implementation. It also provide recommendations to facilitate implementation of the forthcoming law.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $343,074
Project Title: Promoting Political Plurality Debate
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote a culture of political plurality in the Kurdistan Region. The organization will hold workshops and dialogue sessions with legal and political experts to stimulate citizen discussion of various systems of governance including the merits of presidential and parliamentary systems.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Promoting Accountability through Technology
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen civil society groups' ability to monitor political processes and promote government accountability using new technology and to support the development of a MENA regional coalition focused on accountability in the public and private sectors. The organization will host a fellowship program, link participants with leading watchdog groups in the Balkans, provide ongoing technical support and consultations to partners in the MENA region, and convene a meeting in Lebanon for MENA accountability experts.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $98,500
Project Title: Promoting Workers' Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Mauritania
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the institutional capacity and skills of independent syndicates. The grantee will lead a series of four, two-day trainings on collective bargaining, women's roles within syndicates, and workers' rights under the Labor Law and the Mauritanian Constitution. It will also create three community consultative clubs to identify priorities for building independent education syndicates, and raise awareness about labor rights and reform initiatives.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $22,000
Project Title: Empowering Rural Communities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth participation in public life and local governance in rural communities, and strengthen the capacity of five youth locals councils in Imilchil. The grantee will organize a one-day workshop on strategic planning, and four two-day trainings on communication, negotiation, advocacy, and community animation techniques., It will also help establish civic clubs within local schools, and lead discussions on issues related to human rights, citizenship and concepts of democracy.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,000
Project Title: Promoting Political Engagement With Online Tools
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To respond to growing demand for online Arabic content on democratic development and build citizens' knowledge and skills to increase effective political participation. The institute will create digital Arabic-language materials to promote youth and women's increased participation in politics; modify existing offline resources for online media; develop effective mechanisms for enhanced user engagement; and create interactive elements to improve understanding of the various topics. To ensure that training materials are widely accessed among younger populations in the MENA region, the institute will also implement a region-wide online outreach campaign.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $205,119
Project Title: Youth and Democracy: Radio Najah
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To improve young activists' ability to advocate on behalf of their communities to address important issues in cooperation with local authorities and to encourage youth civic participation. Workshops and youth action teams will expose youth to new knowledge and skills related to civic and democratic values. A nascent youth-run online radio station will expand outreach to the wider community.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Promoting Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote good local governance and strengthen a national network's ability to raise awareness and advocate for laws related to local governance and municipal elections. The organization will implement a two-year program to conduct day-long workshops in the interior governorates on local governance; convene national symposiums on decentralization and electoral laws; establish a team of national election observers; and conduct six workshops for newly elected local-council officials.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $12,000
Project Title: Promoting Cultural Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote cultural rights and free expression. The project will organize art and cultural activities for youth related to democratic values and hold theater performances to promote cultural diversity and acceptance. The project will also establish and support a network of arts and cultural organizations to advance cultural rights and produce a curriculum for promoting democratic values through art.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $24,000
Project Title: Civic Education through Youth Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To inspire and engage youth in public life through self-development and promote enlightened views on Islam, pluralism, and civil rights among Palestinian youth. The grantee will lead a self-development and civic education training program and pilot civic initiatives for Palestinian youth in the West Bank. It will train 50 Palestinian youth ages 18 to 29 in two four-day training sessions, and then select 20 youth fellows for further training to lead 40 workshops in Tulkarem and Jericho for a period of four months each.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $32,400
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