Women in Democracy

Advanced Campaign Consulting
Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, UAE

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
FY05 $ 426,457

The project provides advanced personalized, practical campaign training to female candidates in the Middle East and North Africa region running in elections in 2006 and 2007.

Support Women's Political Participation and Candidacies
MEPI region

National Democratic Institute
FY05 $ 375,000

This project supports women's participation in building democratic pluralistic societies through both political representation and civil society strengthening. It offers a women's campaign school to teach key campaigning skills to women candidates from North African countries running for elected public office.

Gulf Campaign School for Women
Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia

International Republican Institute
FY05 $375,000

Potential women candidates and campaign activists from the Gulf region take part in ongoing political skills training in order to more affectively wage professional and credible campaigns at the national, regional and local level. Training includes campaigning, monitoring elections, and managing organizations democratically.

Women in Technology
Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Yemen

Institute of International Education
FY05 $1,250,000

This program builds a turn-key model of sustainability for women's organizations in the Gulf by providing them with cutting-edge business and technology training. In addition to improving their own skills, each organization will, in turn, be responsible for training other women in their community. Participating groups will receive the training and resources necessary to (a) diversify their economic structure, (b) more effectively serve their existing clientele, and (c) attract, educate and mentor a new, younger audience. As a result, with a cost-recovery model in place, the groups will reinforce their economic and political engagement and broaden their role in the advancement of a pluralistic society.

Empowering Women's Community-Based Organizations

Jordan

American Near East Refugee Aid

FY03 $500,000

The program enables women's community organizations to participate effectively in women's empowerment, political dialogue and democratic reform through capacity building and training. In order to convert training into action, a small grants program provides funding for projects organized by the participants.

Building Women's Trade Union Participation

Jordan , Algeria, Bahrain

Solidarity Center

FY04 $560,263

This program empowers working women to take a more active role in shaping union and public policies. Through versatile gender-specific training modules, the program trains a cadre of trade union women to lead local workshops for working women seeking larger political and leadership roles in their unions and communities.

Strengthening Women's NGO Networks

Egypt

Center for Development and Population Activity

FY03 $465,420

FY04 $330,000

The program strengthens the capacity of non-governmental organization networks in four governorates in Egypt to advocate for operational policy changes beyond the local level. The project increases the influence of women on governorate operational polices. The program provides training and intensive technical assistance on network formation and advocacy for nascent women's empowerment advocacy.

Egyptian Women's Leadership Network for Civil Society and Business

Egypt

South-East Consortium for International Development

FY03 $793,299

The project aims to be a bridge between Egypt's corporate and civil society sectors in order to increase the private sector's understanding of community needs and to enable non-profits to mobilize local resources, particularly the expertise, time, and assets of local businesses. The program provides workshops to strengthen civil society leadership by developing managers' leadership skills; building business leaders' understanding of community and civil society programs; and linking business leaders to civil society through board development, volunteering programs, and networks.

Arab Women's Forum

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Iraq

Egyptian Center for Women's Rights

FY03 $120,000

This project follows up on a U.S.-sponsored conference that brought together 25 women activists from 14 Middle Eastern countries. The forum includes sessions focused on developing advocacy, political activism, communication and media skills.