• Establishing legal frameworks to protect and promote civil society.
• Increasing citizen participation in policy processes and oversight of public institutions.
• Increasing institutional and financial viability of civil society organizations.
• Enhancing free flow of information.
• Strengthening democratic culture and gender equity.
• Supporting anti-sweatshop initiatives.
• Bolstering conflict prevention and resolution.

• Strategic Planning to strengthen the nonprofit sector at the grassroots and the national levels.
• Analysis for assessments, program design, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Training in advocacy, fund raising, volunteer recruitment, project and financial management.
• Institutional strengthening to build capacity for nongovernmental organizations and networks.
• Grant management focused on results-based performance.
• Rapid response capacity and the ability to link rapid response to longer-term democracy promotion in conflict and post-conflict settings.
• Conflict resolution and prevention through training, civic education, dialogue and media programming.

The Global Civil Society Strengthening prorgam was created to enable USAID and the State Department to quickly implement short- and long-term civil society strengthening activities. From 2001 to 2008, the following Associate Awards were established:

• Bangladesh Human Rights Advocacy Program
• Support to Local Initiatives for Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in the West Bank & Gaza
• Civic Engagement for Education Reform in Central America
• Liberia Community Peace-Building and Development Project
• India Increasing Access of Vulnerable Populations to Justice
• Sri Lanka Peace Support Project
• India Increasing Access of Vulnerable Populations to Justice
• Peru Local Management of Quality Basic Education/Innovations in
• Decentralization and Escuelas Activas
• South Asia Regional Initiative/Equity Support Program
• Conflict Prevention and Resolution Activity in Guatemala
• Nepal Transition to Peace Initiative
• Expansion of the MENA Media Sustainability Index \
• Strengthening Civil Society Monitoring Capacity in Moldova
• Darfur Community Strengthening Project
• Organizational Development of Nicaraguan Civil Society
• Jordan Civil Society Development Program
• Supportive Framework for Civil Society in Nicaragua

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