Grants for 2010

Action for Community Task (ACT)

$7,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training police and government officials in the remote Pujehun district to implement national legislation that protects women's and children's rights.

Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM)

$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include challenging the practice of female genital mutilation and other threats to women's health and rights in northern Sierra Leone.

Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL-SL)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include pressing for judicial accountability by monitoring criminal proceedings within the national court system, Anti-Corruption Commission, Special Court and local customary courts.

Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDHR)

$45,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include helping female victims of violence access the justice system and training communities to monitor and inform the allocation of government resources for essential services.

Community Advocacy and Development Movement (CADEM)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include campaigning for the rights of indigenous and rural communities that have been displaced by strip mining operations in southern Sierra Leone.

Defence for Children International Sierra Leone (DCI-SL)

$30,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed against children in the justice system and pressing for the implementation of policies that defend children's rights.

Dignity Association 

$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include working to end violence and discrimination against LGBT Sierra Leoneans through education and outreach among the human rights and women's rights communities, and with government officials and medical service providers.

Foundation for Development, Democracy and Human Rights (FODDHR)

$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activites include training community activists in eastern Sierra Leone to hold the government accountable for promoting economic rights by allocating sufficient resources to basic services and pressing for greater participation by women in local governance.

Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD)

$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training local human rights activists to monitor the government's provision of basic services to poor, rural communities in eastern Sierra Leone and to hold public officials accountable for promoting economic rights.

National Accountability Group (NAG)

$37,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training community activists to monitor the expenditure of public funds on health, education and development projects and to press the national government to hold high officials accountable for corruption.

United for the Protection of Human Rights Port Loko (UPHR)

$7,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing women's committees in ten chiefdoms in Port Loko to challenge customary practices that violate women's rights.

Women's Action for Human Dignity (WAHD)

$22,500 For general support of this organization, whose activities including challenging traditional practices that prevent girls from being educated and helps women seek justice for violence through customary and statutory legal systems.