Amazonian Initiative Movement /AIM
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include grassroots organizing and health education to reduce threats to women’s rights and welfare in the Mano River region.
Bo Peace and Reconciliation Movement /BPRM
$5,000 For BPRM’s project to promote women’s rights by helping female victims of violence seek justice in both the statutory and customary legal systems.
Centre for Democracy and Human Rights /CDHR
$20,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting both women’s rights and economic, social and cultural rights in northern Sierra Leone by helping female victims of violence access the justice system and by training communities to monitor and inform the allocation of government resources for essential services.
Community Advocacy and Development Movement /CADEM
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the rights of indigenous and rural communities that have been displaced by strip mining operations in southern Sierra Leone.
Defense for Children International, Sierra Leone /DCI
$20,000 For its project to document human rights abuses committed against children in the justice system and to pilot a children’s center that provides psycho-social and legal support as well as vocational training to address the welfare and rights of street children.
Dignity Association (formerly Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association)
$8,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include working to end violence and discrimination against LGBT Sierra Leoneans through public education and outreach to government officials, medical service providers and school administrators.
Forum of African Women Educationalists /FAWE
$10,000 For this organization’s project to challenge impunity for violence against women in rural areas and to mobilize its grassroots constituency to support implementation of recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Foundation for International Dignity /FIND
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training refugees and internally displaced persons in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to promote and defend their rights and to facilitate peaceful conflict resolution between refugees and host communities.
Kailahun District Development Foundation
$5,000 For general support of this organization which trains community activists in eastern Sierra Leone to hold the government accountable for promoting economic rights by allocating sufficient resources to basic services and presses for greater participation by women in local governance.
Legal Access through Women Yearning for Equality, Rights and Social Justice /LAWYERS
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights by providing legal aid to women in prisons and to female victims of violence.
Movement for the Restoration of Democracy /MRD
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting economic, social and cultural rights by monitoring the government’s provision of basic services to poor, rural communities, and campaigning against the use of child labor in mines in eastern Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Programme /SLCMP
$10,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting judicial accountability by monitoring and reporting on criminal proceedings at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, national court systems, Anti-Corruption Commission, implementation of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the newly established National Human Rights Commission.
Timap for Justice
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include training a network of community-based paralegals to help people in rural communities challenge human rights abuses and access the justice system in northern and southern Sierra Leone.
United for the Protection of Human Rights /UPHR
$5,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing women’s committees in Port Loko District to reduce customary practices that violate women’s rights and to mobilize women to demand the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations.
Women’s Action for Human Dignity /WAHD
$5,000 For general support of this organization which challenges traditional practices that prevent girls from being educated and helps women seek justice for violence through customary and statutory legal systems.
