Southeast Asia

Focus Areas

Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders is a grantgiving and operational program of the Southeast Asia Initiative of the Open Society Institute and the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program of the Open Society Institute.

The mandate of Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders derives from the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program, which was created in 1991 in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, specifically in the context of post-socialist transition. Today, the East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program works internationally to support exchanges among civil society and nongovernmental organizations to share experiences and create new knowledge to advance principles of open society internationally.

Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders supports multinational initiatives of civil society and nongovernmental organizations in Southeast Asia, and the participation of these organizations in regional and global exchanges, to share best practices and lessons learned in the realization of practices of open society. 

Examples of initiatives supported by Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders include:

• Exposing and Challenging Undemocratic Displacement in Asia: Video Advocacy
• Campaign to End the Use of Child Soldiers in ASEAN Member States
• Crossover: From Civil Society to Civil Service
• Multimedia Training for Youth Affected by the Asian Tsunami
• Democratization Assessment and Grassroots Empowerment in Southeast Asia
• Transforming Asian Leadership: Globalization, Regional Integration and Cultural Diversity
• Linking Philanthropies in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia through Peer Learning

Southeast Asia: Beyond Borders does not support world congresses/annual conferences; artistic productions; individual travel/conference participation; consultancies; higher education research; translation/publishing; hard science; or, business/commercial/for-profit activities.

Further Information

For information and application guidelines, please contact:

Mary Frances Lindstrom
East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program
Open Society Foundation
mflindstrom@osf-eu.org