Nigeria


Number of Grants: 25

Alliance for Credible Elections (Abuja, Nigeria)
$430,000 to promote citizen participation in the electoral reform process (over one year). (2009)

Alliances for Africa (Lagos, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of information, communication, and public advocacy on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in Arabic (over three years). (2007)

Benetech (Palo Alto, California)
$59,000 to support the National Human Rights Commission of Nigeria to implement its Martus software to gather and utilize human rights information. (2008)

Centre for Human Rights in Islam (Kano, Nigeria)
$25,000 to promote and protect universal human rights from an Islamic perspective. (2008)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$240,000 to improving judicial protection of human rights. (2009)

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (Abuja, Nigeria)
$183,000 to document the status of justice sector reform, human rights, and juvenile justice in Nigeria. (2008)

Citizens Assistance Centre (Ikorodu, Nigeria)
$30,000 to support a class action suite for illegally detained inmates awaiting trial in Lagos State and to publish a Resource Book to be entitled,"Out of the Cage" . (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$1,150,000 to support a police-public partnership in policing policy formulation and implementation and to conduct and disseminate crime victimization surveys in Nigeria (over three years). (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ojodu, Nigeria)
$200,000 in support of general operations. (2009)

CLEEN Foundation (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$193,000 in support of a second national electoral survey as a complementary and reliable source of information to official statistics on elections in Nigeria. (2007)

CLEEN Foundation (Ikeja, Nigeria)
$231,000 to conduct a post-election national survey to measure public perceptions of the electoral process in the April 2007 general elections. (2007)

East Africa Law Society (Arusha, Tanzania)
$300,000 to promote knowledge of both regional and sub-regional human rights mechanisms and procedures among lawyers in East Africa (over 3 years). (2009)

Global Rights (Washington, D.C.)
$100,000 in support of activities to build the capacity of human rights organizations in Kano state to monitor, document, and report on human rights violations. (2007)

Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$50,000 to monitor Internet accessibility and to carry out research, in conjunction with the Open Net Initiative, into the deliberate tampering of the Internet during the elections in Nigeria that were held in April 2007. (2007)

Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Port Harcourt, Nigeria)
$250,000 to support the use of a paralegal program to document incidences and seek redress for human rights violations by law enforcement officials in Rivers State (over three years). (2008)

Legal Defense and Assistance Project (Anthony Village, Nigeria)
$450,000 to strengthen and reform the administration of criminal justice in six states in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Legal Research Initiative (Abuja, Nigeria)
$275,000 to incorporate and apply the provisions and practices contained in the United Nations Convention into the operations of law enforcement agencies in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)

Legal Resources Consortium (Abuja, Nigeria)
$320,000 to support the establishment of the Rights Nigeria Information Centre (over two years). (2008)

National Human Rights Commission (Abuja, Nigeria)
$80,000 to host a meeting of the Network of National Human Rights Institutions of Africa and National Human Rights Institutions of West Africa. (2008)

National Human Rights Commission (Abuja, Nigeria)
$400,000 to build the capacity to implement the National Action Plan for the promotion and protection of human rights and to document and report on human rights violations in Nigeria (over three years). (2007)