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Regional Goal	Initiative	Primary Approaches	Grants
Set clear goals	Develop set of complementary initiatives	Select strategic approaches	Support effective organizations

Regional Goal Initiatives Primary Approaches

GrantsShow amounts

450

Community Life Project Amount awarded: $1,290,000
UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning Amount awarded: $500,000
Human Development Initiatives Amount awarded: $250,000
Centre for Social Justice Amount awarded: $294,000
Independent National Electoral Commission Amount awarded: $900,000
Centre for Law Enforcement Education Amount awarded: $550,000
Community Life Project Amount awarded: $700,000
Global Rights Amount awarded: $250,000
Osun State Government Amount awarded: $200,000
Communicating for Change Amount awarded: $234,000
Hattaway Communications Amount awarded: $200,000
Social and Economic Rights Action Center Amount awarded: $591,000

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Community Life Project

For education, training, organizing & the creation of a media & cutting-edge information & communications technology platform to promote electoral transparency and democratic accountability in Nigeria

Amount	$1,290,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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UN African Institute for Economic Development and Planning

To develop and pilot short courses on trade and mining-contract negotiations for public officials, establish visiting researcher & researcher-in-residence programs & make its library accessible online

Amount	$500,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Human Development Initiatives

To establish Local Government Accountability watch groups to sensitize key stakeholders at the local level about the misuse of public resources & to build media capacity to monitor budget performance

Amount	$250,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Centre for Social Justice

To build civil society capacity to advocate for, monitor and evaluate implementation of statutory requirements for fiscal accountability and transparency in public budgets and expenditures

Amount	$294,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Independent National Electoral Commission

To build the information and communications technology capacity of the commission and its Electoral Institute & develop comprehensive media, communications & information management policies & systems

Amount	$900,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Centre for Law Enforcement Education

For research on governance & security challenges in southeastern Nigeria & to bring citizens & security officials together in monthly forums & increase awareness of the illegal oil trade & its impact

Amount	$550,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Community Life Project

For community organizing and the creation of a media and information and communications technology platform to promote electoral transparency and democratic accountability

Amount	$700,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Global Rights

For a pilot project to build the capacity of local communities to hold government accountable for harm caused by unregulated artisanal extractive mining in Zamfara State, Nigeria

Amount	$250,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Osun State Government

To craft and implement an economic governance strategy and plan focusing on agriculture and trade, and to build the institutional capacity of its civil servants

Amount	$200,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Communicating for Change

For the strategic use of mass media to promote peaceful, credible and transparent elections at the local, state and federal levels in Nigeria

Amount	$234,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Communications and Public Education

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Hattaway Communications

For the BeHeard Nigeria training program to help grantees improve current communications, strengthen their communication skills & develop new tools and strategies for communicating with key audiences

Amount	$200,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Communications and Public Education
Secondary Approach	Communications and Public Education

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Social and Economic Rights Action Center

For policy research, litigation, training, community and media advocacy against corrupt practices in the energy sector that hinder the advance of transparent and accountable governance in Nigeria

Amount	$591,000
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Democratic and Accountable Government
Initiative	Promoting Transparent, Effective and Accountable Government
Primary Approach	Research and Public Policy Analysis

Regional Goal Initiatives Primary Approaches

GrantsShow amounts

450

The Fate Foundation Amount awarded: $750,000
LEAP Africa Amount awarded: $750,000
Handcraft in Transit Amount awarded: $400,000
Development Initiatives Network Amount awarded: $540,650
Centre for Microenterprise Development Amount awarded: $617,500

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The Fate Foundation

To scale up its entrepreneurship training programs in Nigeria

Amount	$750,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Economic Fairness
Initiative	Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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LEAP Africa

To expand the Business Leadership Program across Nigeria, organize regional meetings for the program’s growing alumni network and pilot a training of trainers program and for research and publications

Amount	$750,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Economic Fairness
Initiative	Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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Handcraft in Transit

Tie-off support to complete its new office building and provide business development services for the craft sectors in Ghana and Nigeria

Amount	$400,000
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Economic Fairness
Initiative	Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling
Secondary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Development Initiatives Network

Final support for the Financial Literacy Project and to provide capacity building, technical assistance and advisory services to the National Museum and business training to creative entrepreneurs

Amount	$540,650
Period	2010
Region	West Africa
Issue	Economic Fairness
Initiative	Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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Centre for Microenterprise Development

To promote value chain interventions that increase farmers’ access to markets and create jobs and for programs to facilitate access to financial services by micro-, small and medium enterprises

Amount	$617,500
Period	2011
Region	West Africa
Issue	Economic Fairness
Initiative	Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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