Grants and Contributions

Capacity building for Ethiopian CSOs on utilizing a human rights based approach and human rights monitoring

To help increase confidence in the electoral processes, UNAMI will deploy a contingent of UN experts with as broad a geographic coverage as possible, to - inter alia - provide a strengthened, robust and visible UN team, in advance of Iraq’s forthcoming election, to monitor Iraq’s election day and to assist with the election, in a manner that respects Iraqi sovereignty, and report to the Secretary General on the election process. The project will also launch a strategic messaging campaign to educate, inform, and update Iraqi voters on election preparations, and UN activities in support of elections in advance of and on election day.

Multiculturalism Program

Increasing access to justice for survivors of sexual violence by deploying a mobile application that helps clinicians document medical evidence of sexual assault in Nakuru County, Kenya

The project will work with local partner groups to leverage opportunities for engagement with voters in non-traditional spaces

Building on Phase I of this project, which works to establish a cross-border cohort of journalists and activists to respond and report on peaceful pluralism issues, Phase II aims to solidify gains achieved, and further expand participant skills, collaboration, and networking in both countries. Project activities include: (1) furthering the skills of women that were trained on peaceful pluralism issues in Phase I, now as mentors; (2) providing training to a core cadre of women journalists and activists on digital safety and security to respond to contextual and gender challenges; (3) organizing cross-culture media exchanges and supporting technical story productions; (4) building the capacity of youth in peaceful pluralism, media, and civil society; and (5) expanding national and regional networks by providing an open space to discuss religious and ethnic diversity issues between media, women journalists, activists and other stakeholders.

This project, managed by International Organization for Migration (IOM), improves information collection and analysis of the use of fraudulent documents (e.g. passports and visas) and false identities and thereby helps to disrupt and minimize migrant smuggling in South East Asia. The previous phases of the project established a regional Document Examination Centre; created a regional network for best practices of the project; deployed the “Verifier Travel Document and Bearer” machine; and provided regular trends analysis to key stakeholders. This project will strengthen capacity for trends analysis; reinforce the sustainability of the Verifier TD&B system; improve interoperability with other critical databases and institutionalize networks within national and regional systems.

Improvement of human rights in the far north region of Cameroon by strengthening the capacity of human rights defence organizations.

The project aims to strengthen press freedom for climate and environmental journalists in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda.

This one-year grant provides institutional support to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization by all peoples of all the rights set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties. Project activities of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights include: (1) preventing human rights violations; (2) ensuring respect for all human rights; (3) promoting international cooperation to protect human rights; (4) coordinating related activities throughout the United Nations; and (5) strengthening and rationalizing the United Nations system in the field of human rights. It will also support the advancement and ongoing operationalization of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Office Management Plan.