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Public Diplomacy Small Grants
To apply for a Public Diplomacy small grant, please fill out the Small Grant Application below and submit it to the Public Affairs Section (email preferred: please send to ircsanaa@state.gov). Grants are awarded in most cases for no more than $10,000.
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• Public Diplomacy Small Grant Application (Note: Currently being updated)
Following is a list of small grants awarded by the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy in recent years:
PD GRANTS 2004-2005
- • Hadramout Women Association, Tareem
“Building Women’s Digital Capacity”
Budget: $ 9,000
Status: Completed
• Yareem Association for Women’s Development, Ibb Governorate
“Digital Reform Initiative”
Budget: $ 9,140
Status: Completed
• Description: The two projects above are similar in scope and substance. The Embassy provided funds to purchase computer equipment for the two organizations above, and paid for trainers to visit the new computer centers and provide workshops in general computer skills to local women. The initial trainees of these workshops, in exchange for free tuition for the training course, are now themselves trainers, allowing this project to sustain itself and increase considerably the computer literacy levels in these areas.
• Working Children Rehabilitation Center
“Reading and Children Rights Education”
Budget: $ 4,700
Status: Completed
• Amideast, Aden
“Journalist English Language Courses”
Budget: $ 19,200
Status: Ongoing
• Description: This project is designed to enhance the English skills of a select number of journalists in the Aden vicinity, by providing English language classes for these journalists at Amideast’s Aden office.
• Challenge Association for the Disabled
“Fourth of July Volunteer Project”
Budget: $ 2,000
Status: Completed
• Description: With this grant, the Challenge Association for the Disabled purchased eight wheelchairs and twenty sets of crutches. The grant was extended in tandem with a volunteer effort from the Embassy community – Embassy volunteers built a wheelchair ramp at the building entrance, cleaned and smoothed the facility garden, and made other repairs and rehabilitation of the site.
• Seeds of Peace
“Participating in the Seeds of Peace program”
Budget: $ 4,200
Status: Completed
• Description: With this grant, the Embassy provided supplementary funding for five Yemeni young people—two girls and three boys, including one returning camper—to participate in the Seeds of Peace summer camp in the United States, bringing together young people from around the world to learn from one another how to overcome their differences.
• Yemen Association for Sight, Aden
“Workshop on Glaucoma”
Budget: $ 8,000
Status: Completed
• Description: This training workshop was conducted by a visiting specialist from the United States. With the additional funding provided by the Embassy, the Yemen Association for Sight was able to purchase a variety of medicines and glaucoma equipment.
• As-Salam School, Bani Hushaish
“Building roofs in and installing doors and windows in four classrooms”
Budget: $ 5,000 (supplemented by $4,000 in additional Embassy funding)
Status: Completed
• Description: This grant enabled the construction and rehabilitation of several classrooms of a local school.
• Women Center for Development and Fight Against Violence, Sana’a
“Workshop on Prisoners Rights”
Budget: $ 1,150
Status: Completed
• Description: With the funding provided by this grant, the Women Center for Development and Fight Against Violence conducted a two-day workshop for prison guards and officials on the subject of female inmate rights.
• United Nations Information Center (UNIC)
“PC Literacy Training of Trainers”
Budget: $ 2,100
Status: Completed
• Description: The funding for this grant supported a series of training sessions, conducted by Edutech, for UNIC employees.
• Society for the Development of Women and Children (SOUL), Sana’a
“Strategic Planning Workshop”
Budget: $ 9,872
Status: Completed
• Description: The initiative for this project came about with a strategic planning session conducted by a State Department officer for members of the SOUL non-governmental organization. In view of the success of this workshop, SOUL itself coordinated and conducted a workshop, with Public Diplomacy grant funding, for forty additional participating NGOs, incorporating various techniques for organizational strategic planning.