Action for Community Task, Sierra Leone (ACT-SL)
$5,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting the implementation of national legislation that protects women’s and children’s rights in the isolated, rural Pujehun District by training police and government officials and promoting access to justice.
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 northern Sierra Leone.
Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CDHR)
$25,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting women’s rights and economic, social and cultural rights in northern Sierra Leone by 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)
$15,000 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 general support of this organization whose activities include documenting human rights abuses committed against children in the justice system and promoting the implementation of policies that defend children’s rights.
Dignity Association (formerly Sierra Leone Lesbian and Gay Association)
$10,000 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 and medical service providers.
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
$10,000 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.
Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD)
$15,000 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.
Sierra Leone Court Monitoring Program (SLCMP)
$15,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include promoting judicial accountability by monitoring criminal proceedings within the national court system, Anti-Corruption Commission, Special Court and local customary courts.
United for the Protection of Human Rights (UPHR)
$5,000 For general support of this organization, whose activities include organizing women’s committees in ten chiefdoms in Port Loko 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)
$10,000 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.
