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Search results for Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Year: 2016
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Displaying records 176-200 of 252 results
All results totalling $23,188,302
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Project Title: Exchanging Experiences in Economic Empowerment and Democratic Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To facilitate the exchange of ideas and best practices within the MENA region in democratic governance and participatory democracy. The grantee will work with a local partner to organize workshops, consultative meetings, and an advocacy campaign to support the development of independent cooperatives. The grantee will also host an academy on local governance for regional civil society leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $54,000
Project Title: Policy Advocacy for Academic Freedom and Curriculum Reform
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote academia's involvement in policy debate in Iraq. The organization will launch a pilot platform and collaborate with education experts to prepare working documents proposing reforms designed to protect academic freedom and an open process for curriculum review. The organization will lead a mobilization campaign by conducting consultation meetings, organizing workshops for university professors, and coordinating meetings with relevant elected and government officials.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Citizen Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote citizen participation in the municipal council elections and facilitate engagement with elected municipal councils. The group will train 20 youth leaders to promote voter awareness campaigns and community forums, organize five dialogue meetings between citizens and elected officials, arrange five radio talks on the role of citizen engagement in local governance, and produce a report on recommendations for civil society collaboration with municipalities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Community Dialogues
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote community dialogues in the southeastern border regions. The organization will pilot a series of eight community dialogue sessions with 200 diverse stakeholders on the challenges of smuggling networks, criminal activity, and marginalization in the southeastern border cities of Ben Gardane and Dhiba. The organization will compile dialogue proceedings into a working paper and produce a short documentary film featuring citizen opinions and advocate recommendations to national and local authorities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Civic Participation in Municipal Government IV
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To improve the accountability of municipal councils in addressing citizen priorities and strengthening the relationship between citizens and their local governments. The institute will support four municipal-level citizen committees, which will engage local mayors and municipal councils to undertake community development and improvement projects in response to citizens' expressed concerns. The institute will also conduct a pre-election assessment, and provide technical assistance to its two partner groups to develop their internal organizational and management capacities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $355,119
Project Title: Enhancing Youth Civic Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote youth civic participation in Morocco. The center will organize 10 two-day capacity building workshops on self-development, volunteerism and networking for university students and youth CSO activists; conduct six two-day trainings for 50 civil society leaders on effective leadership and its importance in local public affairs, and extend outreach to activists in Mauritania.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $17,000
Project Title: Creating Democratic Youth Groups with Institutional Character
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To encourage and prepare youth to serve as vocal and effective advocates for their local communities. The grantee will host capacity-building workshops on team building, advocacy, and volunteerism for 80 youth leaders from four districts. These workshops will enable youth to become effective leaders and advocates in their communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Syrian Thought Forum
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote civic values through open dialogue and exchanges among Syrian youth on the future of Syria, and to build the capacity of emerging community leaders and facilitators among youth refugees. The project will comprise 24 half-day dialogue workshops for youth on current concerns, and 24 capacity-building workshops for core teams of emerging community leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $38,000
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 and hold their governments accountable. The grantee will disseminate, train, and provide technical support to civil society organizations in the Middle East and North Africa on its "Community Project Monitoring Manual," train trainers on the main concepts, processes, and mechanisms for monitoring development projects, and support local groups to train local communities impacted by development projects.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Engagement in Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen a regional network on social accountability and participatory governance; and to empower and build the capacity of youth to lead social accountability efforts. The grantee will create a training manual on engaging youth in participatory governance and social accountability, work with its members to hold workshops based on the manual for local youth participants in seven countries, and support youth-led social accountability initiatives.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Monitoring Sectarian Discourse and Hate Speech in Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To call attention to sectarian discourse and hate speech in the media in Iraq and mobilize support for eliminating it. The grantee will continue an initiative to provide systematic tracking and analysis of media practices. A monitoring team composed of qualified journalists will observe media practices and incidents on an ongoing basis, analyze trends, and disseminate the findings publicly through quarterly reports. A series of roundtables will provide recommendations for reducing the prevalence of divisive sectarian discourse.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,792
Project Title: Promoting Effective Legislation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote and advocate for civil society's input in the legislative process, and build the capacity of a nascent think tank in Tunisia. The grantee will lead a series of consultations with various stakeholders, develop policy recommendations on the new Independent Commission for Good Governance and Anti-Corruption (ICGGAC), organize a one-day workshop and a one-day conference to discuss article 130 of the constitution and the framework for establishing the commission; and produce a draft law proposal on the establishment of ICGGAC.
Year: 2016
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 monitor, document, raise awareness, and advocate for freedom of the press and for access to information. The organization will monitor and document violations against journalists and media groups in Gulf countries, produce monthly Arabic and English reports on those countries' adherence to international standards for media freedom, and publish an annual report on the status of media freedom in Gulf States.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Human Rights Violation Documentation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a human rights culture in Syria. The organization will support field efforts to verify and compile documentation and reporting on human rights violations committed by all actors in Syria's ongoing civil war. Daily and monthly reports will be released online to provide timely information to the public on an ongoing basis. The project will also produce several thematic reports.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Engagement in Gafsa
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote constructive youth civic engagement. The organization will lead three two-day trainings for 25 youth leaders and civic actors, convene four dialogue meetings between youth and various local stakeholders, and publish a final report on the resulting findings and recommendations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Youth Rights Advocacy and Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To educate young Afghan citizens in rural Farah, Badghis, and Herat communities about their political rights and obligations and strengthen dialogue between community leaders and local governments. The organization will hold 18 symposiums on good governance and political processes for 540 students and teachers in Farah province. It will also hold three town hall meetings and 15 radio roundtables to support dialogue between the community leaders and state officials.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $140,000
Project Title: Women's Political Leadership
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To promote women's leadership within political parties. The program will continue to develop and strengthen women's political skills, visibility and agenda-setting strategies within political parties. Workshops will include emerging leaders and representatives of diverse Egyptian political parties. A research project will also collate information on women's party leadership roles.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Iran Human Rights Memorial Project
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote the education and discussion of human rights and democracy in Iran. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) will grow its database and expand its on-line projects: the Human Rights and Democracy Library and Omid. ABF will monitor and document the ongoing human rights violations and disseminate its findings to the public in Iran. ABF will further advocate for accountability to its international treaty obligations and for the people they are to protect.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Promoting Debates on Iran's Future
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To engage members of the Iranian intelligentsia in public deliberation on the social, economic, and political prospects of a democratic Iran. An online forum will facilitate debate among Iranian activists, students and academics on relevant issues. The project will also publish an online journal and solicit contributions from experts on topics pertinent to Iran's future.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,600
Project Title: Monitoring Waste Management in Municipalities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance accountability efforts at the local level. The association will lead an accountability and monitoring alliance of NGOs that will investigate, monitor and document waste management in five municipalities. These efforts will be captured in a final report that will be shared with decision-makers and used as an advocacy tool to pressure local and national leaders to more effectively address citizen concerns.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $38,400
Project Title: Strengthening Local Accountability and Transparency
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote local transparency and accountability regarding health and environmental rights. The project will support advocacy efforts for improved service delivery and solutions to urgent community needs. A study, listening sessions, advocacy campaign and report will inform local government of citizen needs and satisfaction on local health, environment and accountability issues.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $18,727
Project Title: Arab Network for Human Rights Film Festivals
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 project will support a recently formed regional network for human rights film festivals, and will work with network members to provide support and expertise to groups using films as a platform to discuss and advocate for human rights. The network will facilitate cooperation among members and other likeminded groups; encourage and expand human rights film production; and provide greater information and resources.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $56,200
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. The grantee will organize a one-day civil society forum, as well as workshops and trainings focused on citizenship, communications skills, and strategic planning., The grantee will also hold a one-day conference on youth and local democracy and lead the establishment of a youth local council in Imilchil.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Human Rights Advocacy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To advocate for human rights, as codified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to strengthen community outreach, especially among young human rights activists. The organization will lead campaigns and advocate for legislative and regulatory action to protect basic human rights. The project will also include three sets of training workshops for human rights activists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $51,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Engagement Through Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support a pro-democracy TV station and to engender a culture of civic engagement through citizen journalism. Daily news, investigative reports, and civic education programs make up a 60-minute daily program designed to promote awareness of rights and obligations in Herat province. In addition, the station will provide internships for both male and female students from Herat University's journalism faculty.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $105,000
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