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Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Years: 2016 - 2017
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Project Title: Strengthening the Capacity of Trade Unions and Worker Rights Organizations to Advance Democratic Process in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To enhance workers' democratic participation through union activities in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, and Libya. The center will strengthen the capacity of union partners and workers' rights organizations to organize; promote leadership and advocacy trainings for workers, especially women and youth; and campaign for gender equality and rule of law. The center will also support its partners through legislative reform processes and defense of social and economic rights. Regionally, the center will support advocacy efforts for an ILO Convention to end gender-based violence in the workplace.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $853,000
Project Title: Human Rights Monitoring
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor and report on human rights violations in Gulf States. The grantee will work with a team of local monitors to collect and document information on human rights violations, and publish and distribute monthly and annual reports on human rights conditions in the Gulf. The grantee will also use the findings to lead advocacy campaigns to promote respect for human rights in accordance with international human rights standards.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Youth Civic Participation in Upper Egypt
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To engage youth in local governance. Two series of workshops will prepare and educate 40 youth interested in running in municipal elections. Topics will include local governance, advocacy campaigns, community engagement, and public budgeting. Participating youth will develop and implement advocacy campaigns to address community priorities related to service delivery and governance.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $19,394
Project Title: Supporting Independent Associations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To promote the right of association and to build the capacity of a network of independent associations. Training workshops will strengthen the management, strategic planning, advocacy, and campaigning skills of associations. A convening of senior association leaders will facilitate the drafting and enhancement of strategic planning documents of participating associations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,667
Project Title: Youth Participation in Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparency in public service delivery at the local level. Workshops for young community leaders on local governance and an advanced training on public budgeting and resource allocation will prepare youth to communicate community needs and priorities to local officials. Participants will visit small communities, identify their priorities and needs, and assist them in finding constructive forums through which to communicate to local governments.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $21,000
Project Title: Public Private Dialogue at the National Level
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To improve stakeholder analysis and promote reform-oriented dialogue among national government and private sector stakeholders on corruption, institutional failure and strategic planning in Iraq. The center will commission policy papers from a local think tank based on priorities identified for democratic and economic growth. This will form the basis for public private dialogue forums and advocacy work initiated by a local business association. Finally, the center will organize training programs in economic analysis and reporting skills for independent journalists to complement ongoing dialogue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $425,000
Project Title: Public Political Dialogue
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve accountability in Iran by facilitating improved communications between citizens and members of Parliament. The grantee will customize and promote a set of online tools that will allow Iranian citizens to engage elected officials in matters of concern to them through constructive dialogue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,064
Project Title: Strengthening the Independent Voice of the Private Sector II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the independent voice of the private sector and to engage the public and private sectors in dialogue to advance free market economic reforms. Technical expertise and support will assist a local business association in implementing its organizational reform plan. A comprehensive review of legislation governing Egypt's investment climate will inform reform efforts.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $370,192
Project Title: Local Accountability in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To encourage public engagement in citizen oversight of local governance. The group will continue its local accountability program in Sulaimaniyya and will extend its outreach to Kirkuk and Koye to monitor the implementation of public works projects contracted to private companies. Project activities include forming community groups in each city to engage with the local government and other relevant institutions, conducting a survey among residents, issuing reports, and organizing follow-up visits.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $43,500
Project Title: Youth Civic Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote youth civic engagement in local public issues. The grantee will organize a series of workshops on traditional and social media, civic initiative management, and public policy paper writing for youth activists. The grantee will establish a civic action team to advocate for effective government and community responses to citizen priorities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Human Rights Advocacy for Medical Impartiality
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen a regional network to monitor violations, advocate for medical impartiality in the MENA region, and strengthen the advocacy skills and effective use of UN mechanisms among human rights defenders from the Gulf region. The organization will work with its members to document and produce reports on medical impartiality violations in the region, prepare and lead two delegations for advocacy missions in Geneva, and expand and cultivate relationships with international medical and human rights organizations as well as global and regional media outlets.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $127,100
Project Title: Bringing the Voices of Local Business to Reform II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To build the role of Sfax's small and medium industry sector as a constructive partner in economic reform and to enhance the voice of business in Tunisia's democratic process. The center will support its local partner in its efforts to develop a regional small and medium industry sector reform agenda. The center will also assist in outreach efforts to industry leaders in other regions, and efforts to enhance the partner's overall ability to represent members and engage with decision makers about urgent reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $309,870
Project Title: Enhancing the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enable marginalized communities to effectively participate in community-level and political decision-making processes in the Middle East and North Africa. The institute will train a group of youth activists from marginalized communities across the region on political leadership and advocacy skills, and assist them in applying those skills to better organize their communities and lead advocacy initiatives to address local concerns. The institute will support participants in training their peers on new skills gained through this program to broaden the impact on their communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $194,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Policies
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower and equip youth activists with the knowledge and skills to advocate for youth priorities and policies. The grantee will form a five-member civil society committee; select 12 youth leaders to participate in a series of three-day learning courses on policy analysis and advocacy of youth socioeconomic empowerment, employment, and counterterrorism in the interior regions; publish and publicize policy papers at a press conference; and launch an interactive web competition.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $28,000
Project Title: Advancing Social Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote local accountability on municipal service delivery in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The program will strengthen youth engagement on local accountability through a coordinated series of eight debates, eight public hearings and three town hall meetings with municipal leaders.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $57,700
Project Title: Challenging Censorship
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of the implementation of Lebanon's censorship law, in support of revised legislation that supports freedom of expression. The program will illustrate the limitations the current Lebanese censorship law places on freedom of expression through 12 discussion forums, three short videos, a "know your rights booklet," and one-on-one meetings with government officials.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $39,500
Project Title: Preparing Political Parties for Decentralization and Subnational Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To enable Tunisian political parties to implement locally based campaigns and to develop the ability of women and youth at the regional party level to participate in party activities in advance of municipal elections. The institute will consult with national and regional level party leaders on the skills and information necessary to conduct locally-based campaigns and provide appropriate assistance to prospective young and female candidates on a multi-party basis.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $380,000
Project Title: Strengthening Accountability in Ibb
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the role of youth and women in local government accountability in Ibb governorate. The program will select and train 29 community representatives on citizen monitoring. The grantee will also monitor and report on local government accountability in delivering services to citizens, and hold two forums to discuss the findings and recommendations of the monitoring reports among governorate officials, district council members and local directorate employees.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Strengthening Citizens' Engagement in a Changing Syria III
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To build support among Syrian youth for a market-based democracy and enhance their engagement in developing enterprise solutions to the country's challenges; and to build the capacity of a local partner to convene Syrian private sector stakeholders in support of democratic, market-oriented policy solutions. The project will enhance the sustainability of civic education and advance private sector solutions to development challenges in Syria through community-based dialogue and engagement with decision-makers.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $402,170
Project Title: Preparing Entrepreneurs to Lead
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To promote the participation of Tunisian youth in civic action and policy processes; and to encourage substantive engagement between young entrepreneurs and policymakers regarding meaningful reforms to the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The center will work with a local partner to build the collective voice of young entrepreneurs and develop their potential as a constituency. Activities will include developing specific recommendations to improve the entrepreneurship ecosystem, as well opportunities to build skills and experience in engaging decision makers.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $279,543
Project Title: Strengthening Youth Identification of Democratic Priorities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote civic engagement of disenfranchised youth in the West Bank and Gaza in voicing their own priorities for national development. The program will lead a film competition on future aspirations for young Palestinian women filmmakers, and use the winning film as a conversation starter to conduct 23 moderated discussion screenings throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Promoting Local Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance the capacity of local civil society to advocate good governance and local accountability on government adherence to environmental regulations in Gabes. The project will produce an assessment study on environmental degradation and its effects on local communities, organize two one-day seminars on environmental rights and democracy, host a two-day workshop on environmental rights and accountability, and lead a campaign to advocate for better living conditions for local communities in Gabes.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: Protecting Public Space for All
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To bridge sectarian and political divides through engaging youth in advocacy campaigns for open access to public spaces. The grantee will mentor two youth community action teams in rallying official and popular support for the campaign. The teams will produce three short awareness-raising videos, lead three public initiatives, and hold regular meetings with local elected officials in Beirut and Tyre.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Empowering Youth Voices
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth civic participation and engagement with elected local and national leaders and to build the capacity of a nascent youth group. The grantee will lead a series of two-day advocacy workshops in seven governorates for 175 youth, elect 14 regional youth representatives to participate in a two-day advanced national advocacy workshop in Tunis, and launch a media campaign to raise awareness on regional youth concerns.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Expanding Political Process Monitoring for Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To improve local cultures of accountability and civic engagement in Iran. The project will build the capacity of Iranian citizens to conduct community-level political process monitoring through a focused training program, including conducting workshops on monitoring and training skills, delivering Farsi-language materials and developing new resources, and mentoring participants.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $200,000
Project Title: Strengthening Worker Democracy through Tripartism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To enhance Gulf trade union leaders' understanding of the UN's Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights. Through sub-regional training, the center will work with highly qualified trainers to build knowledge of tripartite strategies and examples. As part of the program, local federations will create national action plans for using business and human rights agendas as launching pads for civic advocacy.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $200,000
Project Title: Legislative Advocacy for Freedom of Information in Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote legislative reform that strengthens freedom of information in Iraq. The grantee will form a legal team to draft amendments to existing legislation and draft laws, organize consultation meetings to seek feedback and mobilize support for the proposed changes, and organize working meetings with members of Parliament and government officials. A booklet that lists all pending ordinary and organic laws that need to be drafted or amended will also be printed and distributed.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Advocacy Campaign for Minority Rights in Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To advocate for legal protections for displaced minorities in Iraq. An advisory group composed of major stakeholders from minority and displaced communities will convene meetings in Baghdad, Kirkuk, Duhok, Erbil, Sulaimaniyya, Karbala, Najaf, Samawa, Basra, and Nasiriyya to build support among government officials and parliamentarians to adopt the IDP Protection and Disaster Management draft law, first proposed in 2015.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,250
Project Title: Strengthening Local Actors to Support Regional Development
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the ability of Moroccan business associations to better meet the needs of members. The center will seek to activate local voices of business in Morocco by supporting a federation of ten regional business associations in its efforts to build the capacity of regional member associations. The center will work with the federation to take on a more public role within the private sector and activate new voices among its members at the regional level.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $157,112
Project Title: Strengthening Advocacy through Grassroots Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To give Turkey's citizens the space and opportunity to collectively shape their country's political and social priorities. The institute will partner with a network of civic groups from around the country to strengthen advocacy efforts by gathering citizen input on key issues facing Turkey. To multiply the effect of in-person discussions, the program will integrate technology and social media platforms into these initiatives.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $735,000
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 increased accountability, transparency, and responsiveness of Herat local governmental institutions. The organization will work with its three advocacy committees to enhance good governance and produce monthly and quarterly monitoring reports on corruption, quarterly press briefings, and monthly radio talk-shows.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,500
Project Title: Social Cohesion Advocacy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Mauritania
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To advocate for social cohesion and the rights of marginalized communities and foster conflict mediation best practices among local communities in the Brakna region. In conjunction with a network of mediators and ten peace committees, the grantee will conduct a two-day workshop on conflict prevention, local governance, and advocacy; produce a short documentary on conflict mediation best practices; organize 'community viewing circles;' conduct a series of inter-community dialogues; and lead an advocacy and awareness raising campaign.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $31,000
Project Title: Raising Women's Rights Awareness in Bamyan
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To raise awareness of women's rights under Afghan law and enforce laws combatting violence against women in Bamyan Province. This program will include a series of trainings and discussions for religious leaders, educators, and students that will promote participants' understanding of women's rights under the laws of Afghanistan and their compatibility with Islam. Participants will also develop action plans to promote women's rights in their local communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,500
Project Title: Supporting Judicial Accountability in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote judicial transparency and accountability in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. The grantee will continue its court monitoring efforts in the cities of Sulaimaniyya, Erbil, and Duhok, and extend its activities to Halabja and Kalar. Activities will include a training for the monitoring team, publishing an annual report, and engaging various stakeholders to press for action on judicial reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $52,500
Project Title: National Integrated Youth Strategy Monitoring
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote accountability and evaluate the implementation of the government's national youth strategy, and to strengthen the organization's capacity in monitoring and advocacy. The grantee will hold three one-day consultations to develop the terms of reference for its program; organize three two-day workshops on the national integrated youth strategy and public policy monitoring tools and techniques; convene a series of meetings with stakeholders and government institutions; and produce a comprehensive evaluation report.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,500
Project Title: Strengthening Investigative Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote accountability, transparency, and access to information through investigative journalism. Two five-day investigative journalism trainings and workshops will equip 15 journalists from across Tunisia with understanding, skills, and tools necessary for in-depth reporting on critical civic matters. The grantee will and provide ongoing guidance for participants throughout the production of in-depth stories.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $57,771
Project Title: Developing Worker Advocacy in Jordan and Palestine
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To enhance and support the ability of Palestinian workers to advance their fundamental labor rights and increase the participation of women in the Jordanian labor movement in order to combat gender-based violence and discrimination. This project will include raising awareness of Palestinian workers of their legal rights, skills development of local union leaders, strengthening the organizing and bargaining capacity of local unions, and education about gender-based violence in the workplace to assist Jordanian unions in developing mechanisms to monitor and address the problem.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $500,000
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 active engagement in political parties in Dhi Qar Province, develop the leadership skills of local women party activists, and support an emerging organization in Basra. The organization will train a cadre of women activists to launch a long-term women's leadership training program in four local political parties, and support the new trainees to lead activities to further engage the community in women's political empowerment. It will also mentor a nascent organization in Basra as it fosters a new generation of civic activists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $22,100
Project Title: Supporting Independent Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the emergence of free and independent media. A weekly 50-minute radio program that will address topics of political, civic, social and economic reform through stories of accomplished and inspirational activists who have used their expertise for peacebuilding and community development in Syria and the Middle East.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Grassroots Engagement in 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 a total of four ten-day electoral reform missions, including capacity-building seminars, in countries holding elections in 2016. The grantee will produce reports on each mission, provide an authoritative assessment, and outline recommendations and advocacy strategies for electoral reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $90,000
Project Title: Local Accountability in Erbil
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To encourage citizen engagement and oversight to strengthen local accountability in Erbil. The organization will organize a two-day training workshop for provincial council members and five public meetings convening the council members and the general public to discuss provincial council performance and areas for improvement. The program will also include five follow-up meetings and a working meeting.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Expanding Women's Democratic Practice in Palestine through Reform-Oriented Dialogue and Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To elevate the voices and enhance the democratic participation of Palestinian women by engaging female entrepreneurs, and micro and small enterprise owners, in reform-oriented dialogue. The center and its local partner will encourage dialogue among Palestinian businesswomen about challenges and opportunities for enterprise growth and sustainability, and achieving full civic participation. The program will leverage the democratic engagement and the findings generated by this process to mobilize businesswomen as a constituency for democratic reform.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $281,432
Project Title: Enhancing Dialogue
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Lebanon
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen an independent forum for dialogue and to energize civic debate among all citizens of southern Lebanon. The project will support a broad platform for civic dialogue, publish four magazine issues, maintain a daily news and analysis website, and facilitate four seminars on political, educational, and societal matters in the region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $80,000
Project Title: Parliamentary Watch
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance the accountability, transparency, and responsiveness of the Afghan Parliament. Program activities will include work with 13 parliamentary committees, preparing monthly and quarterly reports, organizing quarterly press briefings, holding monthly half-hour radio talk-shows, and compiling and publishing a cumulative monitoring report.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $68,000
Project Title: Iran Parliament Watch
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote transparency in Iranian politics and engage citizens to advocate accountability and responsiveness to citizens' needs on the part of parliamentarians. The grantee will develop and maintain a website providing cross-referenced records of the public statements, legislative records, and other public activities of parliamentarians and candidates for office.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Building Future Leaders for a Democratic Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To empower young leaders to play a role in the development of Iraqi institutions and strengthen youth involvement in the civic space. The grantee will enhance and further develop its youth leadership and mentorship academy, with a particular focus on engaging young leaders in the political process, advocacy and government monitoring. The project will combine a series of intensive training workshops, with practice, networking and long-term mentorship and guidance to young civic leaders from ten Iraqi provinces. The grantee will also use its recently launched FM radio to educate a broader audience on democratic ideas and values.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $354,000
Project Title: People's Radio Herat
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise civic awareness through radio broadcast of civic education programs and to build the capacity of an independent media organization. The grantee will maintain a website, develop its radio program, mentor 16 male and female student interns from Herat University journalism faculty, and produce and broadcast a wide range of civic education programs including talk-shows, debates, and investigative reportage on political, economic, and social affairs in Herat city and province.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $105,000
Project Title: Community Cross-Sectarian Peace Building in Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote civic engagement, tolerance, and appreciation for pluralism among Iraqi citizens. The online TV station as well as the Baghdad-based Moderation Council will engage moderate voices, especially among youth, to produce video programs and lead community peace-building initiatives. The project will also build support to launch a similar council in Tikrit.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $70,000
Project Title: Promoting Democracy amongst Youth
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Libya
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote democratic values and human rights among youth leaders and civil society organizations. The grantee will conduct two three-day democracy awareness workshops for 50 youth in the greater Tripoli area, and carry out a four-day training of trainers program for six regional youth civil society organizations on active citizenship.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Strengthening Professional Independent Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance professional capacity and foster regional networks among professional and citizen journalists through access to media tools, information and training opportunities. The grantee will lead a ten-month mentorship program for new media start-ups and maintain and enhance IJNet Arabic through new content, resources and live chats for media professionals in the MENA region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $170,000
Project Title: Fostering Responsive Local Governance
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen community participation in local decision making and increase the responsiveness of the provincial council in Diyala. Seven one-day public forums will bring together elected officials, civil society organizations, academics, students, and other segments of the general public to conduct solutions-oriented dialogue on local governance issues. The project will continue to create a comprehensive record of the proceedings of the provincial council and publish the record via semi-annual reports.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Women's Rights and Islam in Accord
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To raise awareness of women's rights under Afghan law in Laghman province and mobilize local mullahs and community leaders to actively advocate for women's rights in their communities. A series of informational seminars will utilize religious texts to promote women's empowerment, address social issues, and illustrate that women's rights protected under the laws of Afghanistan are compatible with Islam. Participants, including mullahs and community leaders, will bring these ideas to their local communities in Laghman province.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,500
Project Title: Civic Engagement in Accountable Reconstruction in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage youth in civic action, oversight of public spending, and interaction with local representatives. The grantee will run a broadly participatory campaign to reinforce citizens' roles in Gaza's reconstruction and sustain a civil society coalition to serve as a watchdog throughout the process. Program activities will include four four-day trainings for coalition members, 15 district-level study circles that report on reconstruction findings, and 50 district-level workshops to present findings and lead discussions on accountability with the general public.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $41,000
Project Title: Youth Civic Participation in Erbil
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To encourage youth civic participation in Erbil. A nine-month extensive workshop will provide training for 25 university students on the role of civil society, the importance of government accountability, and the roles of various government institutions. The program will also include five radio shows, a one-day conference, and the launch of a youth civic activists network.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $20,000
Project Title: Promoting Human Rights in Gaza
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote a human rights culture in the Gaza Strip. The organization will lead six four-day introductory courses on human rights standards and their application for 180 social and political activists from Gazan universities, as well as a six-day advanced course for 20 previous graduates. The group will also lead three one-day introductory workshops at youth clubs, expand membership of its youth group affiliate, and hold ten meetings to expand the association's work on a human rights culture within universities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $36,000
Project Title: Engaging Civil Society in Public Policy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To engage civil society organizations in public policy processes through advocacy and monitoring at the local level in the Azilal province. The grantee will organize two study days on the constitutional role of civil society in monitoring and evaluating local public policies; conduct three two-day workshops on public petitions, gender inclusion in local public policy, and mechanisms of participatory democracy; and solidify its network of civil society organizations in Azilal region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Increasing Institutional Capacity and Access to Information 2016
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To develop the capacity of the Afghan private sector, elected officials, and policy makers to improve Afghanistan's business climate and support the ongoing democratic transition. The center will strengthen and expand the Afghan business community's advocacy programs to improve the business climate at the sub-national level, and will enhance the ability of policymakers to identify and analyze specific policy and regulatory impediments to a business enabling environment consistent with democratic and market principles. The center will also work with the business community and policymakers to craft and implement legal and regulatory remedies to relevant issues, and will support the continued growth of public-private policy dialogue at the sub-national level..
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $967,740
Project Title: Engaging Political Leaders and Civic Activists
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To encourage peaceful and constructive engagement among Yemeni political leaders and civic activists in identifying collaborative approaches to post-conflict planning. The institute will facilitate ongoing dialogue among key political movements, political parties and civil society both inside and outside Yemen. The project will allow Yemeni civil society to effectively engage in the national-level political discourse during gatherings outside of Yemen and through online discussion forums.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $225,000
Project Title: Youth for Peace and Coexistence
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To promote a culture of peace and coexistence in Yemen. The grantee will hold two three-day trainings for 20 youth activists on strengthening these values in diverse communities, five visits to high schools and universities to promote the acceptance of others, and a seminar supporting religious leaders to develop messages of peace to be incorporated in their Friday sermons and community work.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Monitoring Freedom of the Press and Violations against Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To support and defend journalists and media freedom. The project will monitor the rights of media professionals and organizations and issue regular updates on violations and related developments. Monthly and annual reports will inform advocacy and support legal efforts to defend and protect the rights of media professionals and institutions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Civic and Political Participation in the Kurdish Region of Iraq
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote democratic values and processes among political parties in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. The organization will conduct five four-day training workshops for 25 young participants drawn from five political parties with significant representation in the parliament and the government. The group will also organize a seminar and lead consultations to propose a legislative framework to end political parties' abuse of power, especially the unlawful use of instruments of violence.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Civic Forums
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote active participation in civic and political debate among youth activists in Tunisia. Program activities will include ten forums on democracy and political transitions, a two-day conference on political Islam and religious extremism in the MENA region, and six two-day workshops for youth activists on conflict prevention, local democracy, youth civic engagement, and good governance.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $59,000
Project Title: Supporting Women's Political Leadership and Participation
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To strengthen women's political leadership and participation in local governance. Women community leaders will lead community dialogue sessions on local priorities in their cities and villages. The sessions will facilitate community members' advocacy efforts through local mechanisms. Additionally, training workshops will prepare 40 women candidates to develop campaigning skills for upcoming local elections.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,000
Project Title: Monitoring Hate Crimes
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To strengthen the rule of law on hate crime violations and enhance the functionality of a monitoring network. Local monitoring networks will be strengthened and will continue to monitor and document hate crime activity. It will also publish a briefing paper and an annual report for distribution to decision makers.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Building Capacity and Enhancing Citizen Engagement with Municipal Councils
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To build the capacity of municipal councilors and citizens to effectively encourage citizen engagement with local councils, strengthen participatory policy-making, and foster responsive local governance. The program activities will prepare participants, particularly women and youth, to enhance municipal councils' citizen engagement and governance, develop relationships to coordinate and collaborate, and build their skills in participatory policy development, to be able to better serve their communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $325,000
Project Title: Strengthening the Democratic Participation of Small Business Associations - Phase II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Jordan
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To build the capacity of small business associations to act collectively in pursuit of shared reform priorities and to foster public-private dialogue that expands the small business community's voice in national-level decision-making processes. The center and its local partner will build a coalition of small business associations to advance collective interests and priorities. This coalition will engage in sustained dialogue with relevant government offices and leaders to raise awareness of the common concerns of the small business community.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $236,557
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: $418,500
Project Title: Human Rights Monitoring in Sulaimaniyyah
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote protection of human rights in government custodial institutions in the city of Sulaimaniyyah. The grantee will form a team of monitors to document and report on human rights violations in detention and transfer centers, police stations, adolescents' detention facilities, and women's shelters. The grantee will also publish its findings in two biannual reports and will follow up with the appropriate government offices on the documented cases.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Discourse, Dialogue & Democracy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To diminish discrimination and discriminatory discourse in the Turkish public sphere. An open access, online archive and library will feature extensive resources on preventing discrimination and hate speech. The grantee will also establish local and national networks to combat related practices.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Civic Education through Youth Self-development
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 organization will lead two six-day training courses on self-development and civic engagement in local communities for 60 youth. It will then mentor 40 of the trainees as they lead follow-on activities at youth centers in the northern and central West Bank. Finally, the group will compete and support, on a competitive basis, six community initiatives that are designed by the youth to meet their civic participation needs within their local communities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $29,800
Project Title: Countering Hate Speech
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To enhance ethical journalism practices and guard against inflammatory rhetoric and hate speech in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The grantee will campaign against hate speech in print media in MENA countries, survey media organizations, and host roundtables and training workshops on guarding against hate speech. It will also form and work with local groups and advisory councils to raise awareness of and mobilize action against the proliferation of hate speech in print media.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $81,000
Project Title: Strengthening Private Sector Engagement
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To strengthen the strategic, research, and communications capacity of the local private sector and to engage private sector stakeholders inside and outside Yemen to prepare for a robust and active role in a post-conflict transition. The center will provide ongoing capacity-building support for taskforce members, focusing on improved strategic communications and policy paper research and drafting skills.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $279,507
Project Title: Promoting a Policy-Based Political Debate and Enhancing Political Party Competition
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Turkey
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To continue to promote open, constructive and policy-based political competition in Turkey. The institute will present its public opinion polling data to a broad range of key decision-makers, train and provide consultations for youth and women political activists, facilitate policy-based discussions, and assist in policy development and advocacy efforts.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $625,000
Project Title: Youth Leadership Academy for Conflict Resolution
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: _ Gulf Regional
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To enhance the capacity of emerging young leaders from Gulf States to engage their communities in ways that foster an environment more open to reconciliation. The project will implement two ten-day Youth Leadership Academies and a series of online trainings and virtual mentorship. Participants will receive in-depth skills training and direct, hands-on experience in promoting dialogue and reconciliation.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $261,000
Project Title: Social Entrepreneurship
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Developing Market Economy
Description: To build a thriving startup community through hands-on learning opportunities and to equip social entrepreneurs and innovators with leadership and management skills. The project will select and train 30 social entrepreneurs and pair them with 30 mentors. The entrepreneurs will be divided into cohorts of 10 and receive four months of hands-on mentorship, and training in leadership and management skills. Each group will receive a five-day accelerator business model validation lab training followed by extensive mentorship and skill development programs.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $28,175
Project Title: Protecting Freedom of Association for Independent Unions - Phase II
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Freedom of Association
Description: To strengthen the capacity of unions in the MENA region to defend the rights of workers and improve working conditions in multinational corporations. The center will work with its local partner to carry out capacity-building programs for its affiliated unions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $225,000
Project Title: Local Accountability in Sulaimaniyya
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To build the capacity of the provincial councils in Sulaimaniyya and Halabja and encourage public engagement in citizen oversight. The organization will lead monitoring activities and publish quarterly reports on the findings; organize six training workshops for council members in Sulaimaniyya and Halabja; air 10 radio talk-shows; convene 10 civic forums; and continue to utilize its website to increase outreach.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Promoting Quality Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen a nascent national network on civic journalism, and raise awareness about democracy and human rights among regional and local journalists. The organization will lead four regional forums for local journalists; organize four one-day workshops on civic journalism, human rights, and democracy themes; and plan four one-day trainings on techniques and standards of civic journalism. It will also conduct a two-day workshop on investigative journalism; hold a national conference on the role of civic journalism in promoting democratic practices; and build a national network of young journalists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,500
Project Title:
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Civic Education
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. Organization will produce and broadcast civic educational programs through its FM radio news channel and rebroadcast them on Shahr-ba-Shahr Radio in Kabul, Parwan, Kapisa, Panjshir and Sar-e-Pul Provinces, and mentor 16 journalism faculty students.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: Promoting Participatory Advocacy
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To foster greater cooperation among local civil society organizations, municipalities, and universities on issues related to local governance and development. The group will engage 20 local organizations, elected officials, and 20 student leaders from three target universities in Fes-Sais, Oujda, and Beni Mellal in a series of monthly capacity-building workshops on community mapping and participatory approaches to policymaking. The group will also lead 30 community meetings on strategic planning and local projects on community priority issues, and conduct an evaluation to assess the impact of its program.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about, monitor and document human rights violations and to enhance communication and information access for human rights activists. The organization will publish and distribute reports on human rights violations and compile related data. It will also provide technical assistance in the fields of communication and online security.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $124,500
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: 2016
Award Amount: $26,819
Project Title: Enhancing Local Service Delivery
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Yemen
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the role of youth in monitoring and advocating for improved public services in four governorates of Tahama region. The grantee will assist youth leaders in efforts to monitor local service directorates, and will moderate focus groups with youth activists on community priorities. Based on their findings, the grantee will produce reports on findings and recommendations, and hold public meetings with local decision-makers to advocate for better services.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,000
Project Title: Protecting Human Rights Defenders
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To protect and assist at-risk Egyptian, Libyan, and Syrian human rights defenders; and to help sustain their human rights activities through facilitating engagement and coordination with other human rights stakeholders at the national, regional and international levels. The grantee will direct rapid and flexible financial assistance to human rights defenders and provide coordination and coaching services to ensure medium and long-term sustainability of their human rights activities.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $51,000
Project Title: Strengthening 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 active in democracy, women's rights, and human rights. The grantee will hold a regional training workshop for 15 civil society leaders from eight MENA countries in organizational development, strategic planning, and principles of monitoring and evaluation. The grantee will provide ongoing mentorship to participating organizations during and after the workshop.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Project Title: Strengthening Human Rights and Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Libya
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the capacity of journalists to report on human rights issues in conflict areas. Three three-day human rights and journalism workshops will provide intensive training for 45 journalists in the western, eastern, and southern regions of Libya. Following the workshops, the grantee will track journalist production of conflict-sensitive and human rights news stories.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,871
Project Title: Constitutional, Legislative and Policy Observatory
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To support the creation of a political, cultural and legislative environment supportive of democracy and human rights; and to contribute to the production of and access to knowledge related to democratic transformation. The grantee will convene diverse civic and political actors from Egypt, Libya and Tunisia at both the national and regional levels to review, assess and make recommendations on the role of constitutional guarantees for human rights in political transitions. The grantee will also launch an electronic database and produce two reports.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Supporting Women in Local Elections
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Tunisia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To promote women's participation in local elections and raise awareness of and advocate for women's economic and social rights in Sidi Bouzid. The organization will hold a conference on local gender issues; organize four training sessions over 10 days for women activists and members of political parties on advocacy skills and women's rights; hold an exercise simulating a local assembly; organize two regional conferences; and develop and distribute a list of recommendations to local councils.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $29,318
Project Title: Support Platform for Civil Society Activists
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Egypt
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To support and strengthen civil society organizations and human rights defenders. An online resource portal will provide and share key information, best practices, opportunities, and relevant news and updates that are beneficial to civil society and human rights activists. One-on-one consultations will be available to activists to provide assistance with their work.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $51,755
Project Title: Youth Participation in Civic Affairs in Najaf
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To empower youth in Najaf to participate in civic life and seek solutions to local governance challenges. The project will train 80 young male and female participants who are college students or active in community groups to build the skills necessary to better serve their communities. Selected participants will organize meetings and facilitate forums for interaction between the local government and citizens and run advocacy campaigns on important issues affecting Najaf.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Youth Priorities
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote youth priorities at the local and regional level. The organization will conduct a needs assessment study on youth issues in Meknes-Fes and Tangiers-Tetouan regions, conduct four one-day workshops on mobilization strategies and advocacy, mediation and negotiation skills, and youth leadership; organize four roundtables to discuss the needs assessment findings; orchestrate a three-day regional forum on social, economic, and political themes related to youth; and publish a final report.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $42,000
Project Title: Towards Representative Government
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen government representation of and response to citizens' needs and priorities in the West Bank, with a particular focus on upcoming elections. The organization will lead a coalition to train and deploy local election observers for the upcoming local elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It will also train field researchers to interview voters on Election Day and produce a report on voter behavior. Following the elections, the group will lead six workshops, four seminars and a concluding conference that will analyze these local elections and their implications for holding national, parliamentary elections.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $50,918
Project Title: Promoting Transitional Justice
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Libya
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote transitional justice and national reconciliation. The initial phase of the project will be a multi-country comparative case study on transitional justice experiences as well as a national study on transitional justice developments in Libya. The organization will then arrange three, two-day consultative workshops and a one-day conference to determine a viable transitional justice and national reconciliation framework for Libya.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Strengthening Independent Media
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Syria
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the emergence of free, independent media. The grantee will provide timely, well-sourced news and information for local communities, focusing on security and humanitarian developments that affect residents' daily lives. It will produce a hard-copy print edition of its weekly newspaper and provide regular updates to its website.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $44,800
Project Title: Engaging Young Women as Community Advocates
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iraq
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To mobilize young women to advocate for community needs and priorities. Leadership and advocacy training for 21 young women volunteers will pave the way for creating a youth forum for young women. Participating women will gain experience in providing training to students in leadership skills, assessing community needs, and devising community-supported responses as they plan and carry out initiatives such as bringing students to observe the Provincial Council, promoting volunteerism in universities and high schools, and conducting humanitarian-relief drives.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $25,000
Project Title: Promoting Local Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote social accountability and youth participation in good governance in Al-Hoceima. The grantee will conduct a two-day workshop on social accountability, one-day training on Article 139 of the Constitution with a focus on public consultations, five public dialogue forums, two-day trainings on "scorecard" methods of evaluating local government performance, and a one-day seminar on participatory decision-making. It will also lead a one-day conference on the findings of its monitoring initiative on publicly funded development projects.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $26,500
Project Title: Female Journalists Club
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: West Bank / Gaza
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen the role of female journalists in Palestinian media and public life. Program activities will include 10 two-hour dialogue meetings with stakeholders on relevant political and social issues, three public debates with representatives of the media sector, two two-day workshops on sexual harassment law and gender policies for a total of 25 female journalists, and production of 16 stories related to the debates and dialogue sessions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,100
Project Title: Strengthening Parliamentary Oversight over Government
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: MENA Regional
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enhance parliamentarians' capacity to oversee and hold their governments accountable for anti-corruption efforts and obligations. The grantee will hold a regional workshop for parliamentarians on using tools and mechanisms established by the U.N. Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) to follow up on government self-assessments and review reports. The grantee will then work with trainees to lead national workshops in their home countries and hold hearings for government officials to brief parliamentarians on their UNCAC reports, assessments and plans.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $34,868
Project Title: Promoting Accountability on Human Rights
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Morocco
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote accountability through monitoring government policies with regards to human rights. The grantee will hold consultations with experts; conduct two one-day trainings on investigative methodologies and techniques; and host a series of half-day workshops to analyze its evaluation findings. Additionally, the grantee will publish four policy papers with recommendations; organize a study day to discuss the findings and recommendations of the papers; hold a press conference to publicize papers' findings; and convene meetings with leaders of relevant national institutions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,000
Project Title: Women's Rights and Empowerment
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Afghanistan
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote women's rights in Herat and to strengthen the institutional capacity of a women's organization. The program will raise awareness of women's rights through a series of seminars in rural Herat province; provide free legal assistance and counsel to victims of gender-based violence; and conduct a public forum on the status of women and women's rights in Afghanistan, engaging local officials, lawyers, ulema, and civic activists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $28,000
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