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International Work Grants Awarded, 1997-2004
Links to other organizations are included where available.
GLOBAL POLICY:
Action Canada for Population and Development Ottawa, Canada $25,000 for members of the Youth Coalition to travel and participate in activities of the U.N. General Assembly Special Session for Beijing + 5 (2000-2001).
Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) Washington, DC $10,000 to enable two CEDPA partners and OSI colleagues from Guatemala and Russia to attend the U.N.'s five-year review of the ICPD Programme of Action (1999).
Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) Takoma Park, MD $100,000 in start-up funds. CHANGE conducts operations research to measure policy and program compliance with U.N. commitments at Cairo and Beijing to reproductive health and rights and women's empowerment (1998-2000).
Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) Washington, DC $85,000 to support CPA's Beijing + 5 Project. CPA, a progressive policy institute, provides policy development on global women's issues (2000-2001).
Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), Rutgers University Foundation New Brunswick, NJ $100,000 to support CWGL's Beijing +5 project. The center has led efforts to promote women's human rights worldwide by organizing women's leadership institutes and by convening women's human rights caucuses and tribunals (2000-2001).
Center for Women's Global Leadership, Rutgers University Foundation New Brunswick, NJ $90,000 to support a program, Deepening and Strengthening Women's Human Rights: The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender, centered on the U.N. World Conference Against Racism (2001-2002).
Conference on Non-Governmental Organizations Foundation, Inc. (CONGO) New York, NY $65,000 to ensure full and representative participation of international non-governmental organizations in the planning and implementation of the Beijing +5 review (2000-2001).
Council on Foreign Relations New York, NY $66,000 for a roundtable series that convenes leading policymakers in international affairs and women's rights to consider how international women's human rights issues affect U.S. security and economic interests (1998-1999; 2001-2002).
Equality Now New York, NY $200,000 for the Beijing + 5 Campaign to hold governments accountable for the commitments they made to women's human rights at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (1999-2001).
International Center for Research on Women Washington, DC $150,000 to send senior Senate and House staff to reproductive health facilities abroad in order to increase key policymakers' understanding of international family planning and women's rights (1998-2000).
International Rescue Committee New York, NY $300,000 for the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Project which developed a model sexual violence and reproductive healthcare program in refugee camps in Tanzania that has been replicated among other refugee populations, most recently in Kosovo (1998-2002).
Madre New York, NY $12,000 to support Madre's strategic planning process (2001-2002).
Public Media Center San Francisco, CA $200,000 for the Advanced Leadership Program for the State Family Planning Commission of China, which exposed China's family planning officials to best practices in reproductive health-oriented family planning programs and provided an opportunity for U.S. audiences to better understand Chinese goals and objectives (1998-2000).
United States Committee for the United Nations Population Fund $30,000 to support an educational trip for congressional staff to UNFPA, USAID, and U.S. government-funded NGO sites in Morocco (2001-2002).
University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL $20,000 to support the "Towards Unity for Health" meeting (2001-2002).
Women's Human Rights Net New York, NY $75,000 in start-up funds for a trilingual website, developed by 23 organizations, that features news, information, web links, and discussion forums on women's human rights issues, advocacy, and strategies (2000-2001).
Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature & Development New York, NY $30,000 to provide training and develop projects in women's health and reproductive rights publishing in southern Africa, in partnership with the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1998-1999).
EASTERN EUROPE:
Federation for Women and Family Planning Warsaw, Poland $101,500 to support the federation's expansion of its programs and initiation of ASTRA, a regional central and eastern European reproductive health coalition (2000-2001).
Institute for Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Perinatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Moscow, Russia $14,735 to Reproductive Health Alliance Europe in conjunction with OSI's Public Health Program to research reasons for maternal mortality related to abortion in the Russian Federation (2000).
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Toronto, Canada $132,000 for graduate scholarships in reproductive health law for students from central and eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and southern Africa (1998-2002).
HAITI:
Association pour la Promotion de la Santé Intégrale de la Famille (APROSIFA) Port-au-Prince, Haiti $9,500 for the Haitian Creole translation of the Hesperian Foundation book Where Women Have No Doctor (1999-2000).
Madre New York, NY $30,000 to support Women's Health/Women's Right, a reproductive health initiative in Haiti (2000-2001).
Partners in Health (PIH) Cambridge, MA $243,276 to transform the Projè Santé Fanm (Women's Health Project), part of PIH's Haitian affiliate, Zanmi Lasante (ZL), into a model center for women's reproductive healthcare in Haiti (2000-2001).
Techniques d'Administration et Gestion (TAG) Port-au-Prince, Haiti $30,000 for the sociological/policy component of a research project, Situation Analysis on Abortion and its Complications in Haiti (1999-2000).
University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL $1,000,000 to develop a demonstration family and community healthcare project in central and northern Haiti as an innovative means of improving maternal and child health (1998-2001).
AFRICA:
Global Fund for Women Palo Alto, CA $250,000 to fund grassroots non-governmental organizations that promote the social, economic, and political development of women in southern Africa (1998-2000).
OSISA Braamfontein South Africa $15,000 for the South Africa Women's Health Project to research funding opportunities in the area of women and HIV/AIDS (2000).
Research, Action & Information Network for Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO) London, England $50,000 to fund RAINBO's new Amanitare initiative, the African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women (2001-2002).
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