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Displaying records 1-25 of 36 results
All results totalling $2,948,733
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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 future candidates.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $89,800
Note: This is the total grant amount and includes a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Enhancing Iranian Citizen Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To engage Iranians as citizen journalists and accurately inform Iranians of timely news events. The project will develop and maintain a web-based platform where they will train individuals in the fundamentals of citizen journalism, who will in turn produce breaking news stories otherwise unavailable for an online radio station designed for audiences in Iran.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $60,000
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 promote discussion of feasible responses to social, economic, and political issues facing contemporary Iran among democratic activists. An online journal will solicit and publish contributions from a broad range of experts, analysts, and academics on a range of topics pertinent to a future democratic Iran.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $46,000
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about and monitor human rights violations in Iran and enhance communication and information access for Iranian activists. The project will publish a monthly, printed human rights violation report for distribution, and chronicle and compile reported violations.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $79,000
Project Title: Strengthening Iranian Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the professional skills and legal protection of journalists in Iran and establish a forum where democratically minded journalists may interact. The grantee will launch and maintain a website providing news and information of relevance to media professionals, including features on the latest developments in ethical and professional best practices, defense of freedom of expression, and legal statutes and procedures governing media in Iran.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $100,000
Project Title: Struggles against Censorship in Iran
Organization Name: The Siamak Pourzand Foundation (SPF)
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enable Iranians to circumnavigate means of censorship and provide forums for Iranians denied free expression. The Siamak Pourzand Foundation (SPF) will continue an online resource providing means for combatting and coping with censorship. SPF will launch a blog analyzing the issue; produce a Podcast series on fighting censorship; and produce audio case studies affording Iranian artists, journalists, and writers the practical means to protect themselves from political persecution.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $44,553
Project Title: Promoting Accountability with Political Process Monitoring
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To help Iranians better understand and influence the quality of governance at several levels and advocate for adherence to legally mandated standards for governance and political processes. The project will provide training, reference guides, and assistance with creating well-designed monitoring plans to help citizens to better monitor official institutions and processes and advocate for greater transparency and responsiveness.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $230,000
Project Title: Raising the Legal Debate in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To raise awareness and enhance discussion among Iranian lawyers on the rule of law and fundamental rights and develop and consolidate a network of democratically-minded jurists in Iran. The project will publish a Farsi-language law journal for electronic distribution among a network of Iranian lawyers, law students, and clerics in Iran.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $66,600
Note: This is the total grant amount and includes a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Online Radio in Transition
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To ensure the continued availability of free and independent media for Iranian listeners. The project will produce content disseminated via online radio in the form of daily news reports and feature articles.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $30,600
Note: This amount is a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Empowering Civil Organizations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enable local civic groups to advocate transparency and accountability. The grantee will help establish and support coalitions of civic actors to discuss issues of governance and accountability, and prioritize issues of common concern to their constituencies. The local coalitions will then develop advocacy plans to push for redress of community concerns in the context of future elections.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $71,100
Project Title: Advocacy at the Local Level
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description:
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $45,831
Project Title: Iran Human Rights Memorial Project
Organization Name: Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
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: 2014
Award Amount: $199,100
Note: This is the total grant amount and includes a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Solidifying and Empowering Iranian Labor
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide educational and reference materials for citizens committed to defending and promoting worker rights and freedom of association in Iran. The project will promote and electronically distribute information on internationally recognized labor rights, comparative histories of labor-rights movements and campaigns in various countries, and the roles of a variety of voluntary institutions in upholding and advancing labor rights.
Year: 2014
Award Amount: $67,700
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 future candidates.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $39,800
Note: This amount is a supplement that was approved separately.
Project Title: Engaging Civil Society in Environmental Accountability
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enable the public to hold national and local authorities accountable on water management issues. The organization will raise civil society and public awareness of the actions of state agencies in handling the country's water management systems and the role they have played in Iran's current drought conditions, endeavoring to elevate the issue of accountability to inform the broader public debate about the drought.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: Monitoring Human Rights Violations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness about and monitor human rights violations in Iran and enhance communication and information access for Iranian activists. The grantee will publish a monthly report providing coverage of a wide range of human rights issues of concern to ordinary Iranians, support local monitors to carry out documentation of new cases, and compile a comprehensive record of violations.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $83,000
Project Title: Enhancing Iranian Citizen Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To engage Iranians as citizen journalists and provide accurate information to Iranians about timely news events. The project will develop and maintain a web-based platform providing training on the fundamentals of citizen journalism. Participants will in turn produce breaking news stories otherwise unavailable, for dissemination via an online radio station streaming to smart phones and Internet users in Iran.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $60,000
Project Title: Spotlight on Political Prisoners
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of political prisoners' rights and enhance activists' ability to report on current cases. The program will train Iranian activists in the fundamentals of prisoner's rights and how to report on them. Participants will then publish updates, prisoner profiles, and compelling reports for dissemination to the Iranian public.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $99,000
Project Title: Strengthening Independent Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance journalistic and research skills among Farsi-speaking journalists that will facilitate the efforts of citizens to press for greater transparency and accountability. The project will provide Farsi-language online tools and resources to help journalists utilize digital public data in reporting, and will provide a forum for ongoing exchange and guidance through an online network.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $116,366
Project Title: Strengthening Iranian Journalism
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To enhance the professional skills of and legal protection for journalists in Iran and establish a forum where democratically minded journalists interact. A website providing news and information of relevance to media professionals will be maintained that includes features on the latest developments in ethical and professional best practices, defense of freedom of expression, and legal statutes and procedures governing media in Iran.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $55,000
Project Title: Empowering Civil Organizations
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To enable local civic groups to advocate transparency and accountability. Information and technical assistance will be provided to networks of civic actors to prioritize governance issues of common concern to their constituencies in eleven Iranian regions and advocate for their redress to local governments and in the coming parliamentary elections.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $72,000
Project Title: Countering Censorship in Iran
Organization Name: The Siamak Pourzand Foundation (SPF)
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To raise public awareness about the role of the arts in social and political expression and enable Iranian authors to circumnavigate state censorship. The grantee will launch Underground Art, an online platform for uncensored dialogue on Iranian arts and culture, giving writers and artists a space to share experiences, challenges, and ideas for engaging the wider public.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $40,487
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 promote discussion of feasible responses to social, economic, and political issues facing contemporary Iran among democratic activists. An online journal will solicit and publish contributions from a broad range of experts, analysts, and academics on topics pertinent to a future democratic Iran.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $47,700
Project Title: Raising the Legal Debate in Iran
Project Region: Middle East & North Africa
Project Country: Iran
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To raise awareness and enhance discussion among Iranian lawyers on the rule of law and fundamental rights and develop and consolidate a network of democratically-minded jurists in Iran. The project will publish a Farsi-language law journal for electronic distribution among a network of Iranian lawyers, law students, and clerics in Iran.
Year: 2015
Award Amount: $18,900
Note: This amount is a supplement that was approved separately.
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: $35,000
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