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Search results for Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Year: 2016
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Displaying records 151-175 of 252 results
All results totalling $23,188,302
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Project Title: Holding Public Officials Accountable
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability from the media and its viewing audience. The grantee will produce and broadcast 24 episodes of a hard-talk television program, Sa'et Ramel. The 55-minute, recorded program will address accountability in ministries and municipalities, and will feature civil society leaders, officials, and decision-makers in political, economic and social realms.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $55,200
Project Title: Promoting Democracy through Traditional Forums
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enhance citizens' knowledge of democratic opportunities and roles in civic life and foster a more inclusive media culture in eastern Afghanistan. This project will incorporate the teaching of democratic values into the curriculum of its Jalalabad and Kandahar learning centers; provide practical training in media for post-madrasah students; and produce news and drama radio programming addressing local social and political issues.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $107,200
Project Title: Returnees and Inclusion in Liberated Areas of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To build the capacity of local groups and establish dialogue for developing a roadmap to address the needs of internally displaced people as they return to devastated post-Islamic State areas. The grantee will partner with a local NGO to identify a team of facilitators, organize an intensive training workshop, conduct a survey on returnees' needs, and generate reports highlighting policy recommendations for addressing issues and challenges affecting returnees.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $84,502
Project Title: Policy Forum on Reform in the Gulf Region
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote reform in Gulf countries through an online platform. The organization will facilitate an online, bilingual platform for policy debates on reform in the region and engage experts, prominent activists, journalists, academics, and reformers from across the Gulf region to contribute.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $48,204
Project Title: Empowering Community Leaders in Eastern Afghanistan
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To engender a culture of civic responsibility and engagement among community leaders in eastern Afghanistan. The organization will hold five civic education seminars for male and female community leaders in the capitals of three eastern Afghan provinces - Khost, Kunar, and Paktia. It will also organize five public-private dialogues and help participants present their concerns to the relevant government officials.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $38,000
Project Title: Enhancing Civil Society Oversight of Legislation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Jordan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage civil society in legislative processes and oversight. The institute will lead nine one-day workshops on Jordan's new elections, decentralization, and municipalities laws. At the end of the workshop series, the institute will develop and publish a policy brief that analyzes its findings and recommendations, based on workshop feedback.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,600
Project Title: Islam 21 Civic Education Network
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To develop a platform for moderate Islamic educators and cultural influencers to solidify efforts at countering narratives of hate and extremism and to strengthen the capacity of a regional civic education network that promotes youth civic participation in the context of Muslim beliefs and culture. The grantee will incubate an Arab Initiative for Muslim Educators and lead two training workshops for young civic educators and facilitators.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $100,000
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 and advocating solutions to citizen needs. The grantee will engage 25 youth to advocate for citizen needs, share their experiences across the province, and visit activists in nearby provinces to explore areas of future coordination. The project will also support an emerging civic group to equip youth to serve as dynamic and effective community leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Empowering Marginalized Youth
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To encourage youth engagement in civic life in the marginalized community of Douar Hicher. The organization will conduct three two-day workshops on democracy, entrepreneurship, and non-violence; organize two two-day capacity-building workshops for members of CSOs active in Douar Hicher; and hold 12 youth dialogue events.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Civic Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth civic participation. The grantee will organize nine two-day capacity building workshops using the Success in a Changing World curriculum, in addition to two seminars, four round-table discussions, and two follow-on workshops, to encourage civic engagement among youth in Tunisia.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Building Business Association Capacity and Enhancing Public-Private Dialogue
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To build the capacity of industrial sector business associations as representative membership organizations and to encourage participatory public policymaking affecting the industrial sector in Lebanon. The center and its local partner will enhance the sustainability of industrial sector associations and develop grassroots constituencies for democratic reform through improved governance, programs and services, issue advocacy, and the facilitation of public-private dialogue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $316,056
Project Title:
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To raise public awareness of citizens' rights and responsibilities and to strengthen public dialogue between local community leaders and government officials on local policies. A local radio station will produce and broadcast civic educational programs through its FM news channel and mentor eight journalism faculty students in Kabul.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $88,000
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 40 youth leaders from the MENA region to effectively engage in economic policy reform issues. The center will lead two rounds of an economic policy training academy for 40 participants that will include workshops on economic policy analysis, development and advocacy, a virtual mentorship program, and the production of policy papers on economic issues. The program will specifically focus on advocating reforms aimed at improving the business climate, promoting entrepreneurship and empowering a strong and competitive private sector.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Empowering Community Leaders
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower local religious leaders with dispute mediation skills and to enhance cooperation between community leaders and local decision makers. The project will train 20 religious scholars on responsible leadership, rule of law, and conflict resolution. Graduates will then lead awareness-raising seminars for 390 local leaders in four provinces in the North East. The organization will also produce TV and radio programs to educate a wider audience on public responsibilities, civic values, and the rule of law.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Empowering Iranian Women to Demand Economic Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To empower civil society to advocate for the increased legal rights of women and decrease obstacles to their integration and full participation in the national discourse. The project will increase the capacity of local civic actors to lead efforts for increased legal rights of businesswomen in Iran and advocate to reform laws that discriminate against women.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $351,532
Project Title: Youth Debate Training and Outreach
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To enhance youth participation in public discourse and debate forums and expand a network of debate trainers, participants and audiences in Algeria and the Gulf. The grantee will conduct outreach and partnership development visits to its new target countries, work with its network of trainers throughout the Middle East and North Africa to hold 50 debate outreach and training workshops, and facilitate youth participation in online and televised debate competitions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Engaging Local Civil Society in Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To engage civil society groups in local governance in Jerrada province. The organization will conduct two two-day capacity building trainings for local groups; hold a one-day seminar on the opportunities for civil society to engage in local policy development; conduct four one-day workshops on strategic planning, advocacy, and social accountability; organize a two-day training on evaluation techniques for local affairs; produce a needs assessment study on citizen priorities in Jerrada region; and facilitate two dialogue meetings between local civil society and local elected officials.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $21,000
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 for women's rights as citizens of Afghanistan. The grantee will produce and perform 20 plays on five women's rights subjects in public and academic forums in Kabul province. After the performances, the actors will solicit responses and feedback from the audience.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Fushat Amal: A History of 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 expand its interactive Arabic-language memorial on the missing and disappeared. It will also lead four one-day trainings on documenting cases for 50 university-aged youth, conduct 40 interviews with surviving families, integrate 80 profiles into the database, lead three commemoration events, produce an awareness-raising video, and coordinate three meetings of its civil society working group on the issue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Schools of Politics
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To strengthen the ability of Syrian activists to organize in their communities and support women and youth participation in nascent political organizations. The institute will conduct a series of "Schools of Politics" focused on empowering nascent Syrian political organizations with the skills, knowledge, and capacity to build a sustainable and inclusive democracy that represents the views of youth and minorities. Through the "Schools of Politics," the participants will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of political party organization and development, including platform development, policy creation, communications, and constituent outreach.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $275,000
Project Title: Women's Rights Monitoring in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To reinforce protection of women's rights in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The grantee will continue to act as a watchdog over the progress made toward full implementation of the Combating Family Violence Law. The grantee will conduct court monitoring, publish bi-annual monitoring reports, conduct a study, and continue advocacy alongside its partners.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Research and Leadership Development
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth and women's participation in public life and to strengthen the capacity of a professional Shura in Herat province. The grantee will research economic development and the root causes of unemployment; publish a daily news bulletin and a bi-monthly magazine on local affairs; provide six leadership trainings for 180 university graduates; and conduct 12 workshops on advocacy skills, responsible citizenship, democracy, human rights, and good governance for 480 civil society activists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Advocating Rights of Workers with Disabilities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To protect and advocate the rights of people with disabilities. Disability community leaders will receive training on rights and access to opportunities from a legal perspective, and will gain advocacy campaign skills to conduct two campaigns to advocate for solutions to rights violations. The project will also provide legal-aid assistance for workers with disabilities who are victims of violations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Citizen Engagement and Local Accountability in Duhok
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote local accountability and encourage citizen engagement in Duhok. The program will monitor government services on an ongoing basis, focusing on health and education. The program will finalize working relationships with relevant government offices, form a monitoring team, conduct field visits, publish four reports, coordinate discussions, and organize two working meetings.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $27,000
Project Title: Youth Dialogue Forum
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote a platform for youth dialogue on public policy in Sanaa, Yemen. In response to shrinking space for public debate and to promote dialogue amongst youth, the organization will develop safe spaces for youth, writers, and artists to present differing perspectives on public policy.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
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