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Youth rights inclusion and political engagement in southern Kyrgyzstan
Details
Locations:Kyrgyzstan
Start Date:Aug 1, 2009
End Date:Aug 1, 2011
Contract value: EUR 187,305
Sectors: Human Rights, Youth
Categories:Grants
Funding Agencies:
Date posted:Nov 23, 2012
Description
Youth rights inclusion and political engagement in southern Kyrgyzstan.
The objective of the programme is to assist civil society in developing greater cohesion in working on human rights (political, civil, economic, social and cultural), political pluralism and democratic political participation and representation. Furthermore the programme will contribute to the peaceful conciliation of group interests, the fight against discrimination on any ground, and to develop equal participation of men and women in social, economic and political life, thus becoming an effective force for positive change, through cooperation among local civil society organisations and stakeholders. Specific activities in the fields of gender equality, the children's rights, and the rights of persons with disabilities are particularly relevant.
The following priorities of the call for proposals are structured areas of activity for projects to be financed under EIDHR:
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building towards consensus on disputed or controversial areas of policy by means of civil society dialogues which seek to bridge societal divides and which bring together a wide range of stakeholders to share experience and analyse common problems. Policy issues may relate, for instance, to peaceful conciliation of group interests, transitional justice and reconciliation, including the specific role of women in such processes, the rights of persons belonging to minorities and indigenous peoples’ rights, religion and the state, land reform, and control of natural resources, in a broader perspective of strengthening democratic institutions and human rights;
- enhancing political representation and participation, including the empowerment of women and other underrepresented groups such as ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples, and responsiveness and accountability, by means of initiatives by civil society in dialogue with “political society” (e.g. with political parties, groups of parliamentarians or legislative bodies)
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initiatives to enhance the inclusiveness and pluralism of civil society, for example by supporting activities and capacity-building of new or fragile civil society organisations formed by groups whose interests are underrepresented, or otherwise contributing to the empowerment of such groups (e.g. minority groups, indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, women workers, rural groups, internally displaced persons etc.), and initiatives to promote independent media excluding hate media