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Associação Juvenil para a Solidariedade (AJS): Institutional Support and Youth Local Participation
US$ 62,685.00
Catholic University of Angola (Social Sciences and Humanities Laboratory): Monitoring Governance of 2017 Post-Elections
US$ 50,000.00
Angola Human Rights Defenders’ Fund
US$ 130.000,00
Centro de Estudos Jurídicos da Faculdade de Direito
da Universidade Católica de Angola (CEJ/UCAN): International Conference
of Criminal Law and Procedural Criminal Law
US$ 50.000,00
SCARJoV: Sex Workers and their Social Rights
U$ 150.000,00
The grant was intended to support the AJS to continue its work to mobilise and engage young people from the municipalities of Lobito and Catumbela. The grant was intended to help to promote dialogues focussing on the implementation of youth policies and initiatives at a local level and engage the issues related to general elections to ensure broader youth participation in the process. The particular focus was on mobilisation for voter registration and engaging with political parties to discuss electoral programmes.
This grant to the Catholic University of Angola (Universidade Católica de Angola, UCAN) was to monitor Angola’s governance, focus on citizens’ perceptions and expectations, and evaluate the six months and one year plan of the office of the new President. The project would collect information on citizens’ assessment of the election’s promises and compare them with the new Government’s achieved results during one year. Hence, the project’s purpose was to retain election promises on the public agenda and discourse.
The purpose of this project was to maintain a continued fund for human rights defenders. Through which we could rapidly respond to the increasing human rights violations that activists and journalists undergo as a result of their work in promoting democratic and open society values and ideals in Angola. The fund also responds to situations where those involved in such violations enjoy total impunity, and the victims have no visible support from society. The project supported human and civic activists’ legal defence in Cunene province involving local Government and community members; the process is waiting for the court decision. The Municipal Court in Cacuaco in Luanda took legal action against five members of a youth movement who had attempted to organise a public demonstration. OSISA-Angola provided defence and paid fees to the court, and the youths were freed.
The fund strengthens civil society and provides human rights defenders tools and knowledge. During the year 2017, this fund supported two training programmes for human rights defenders held by the International Commission of Jurist and Protection International. The training provided knowledge and tools for human rights defenders to strengthen the informal network. With these two training programmes, OSISA assures to continue to support the human rights defenders in Angola. The fund also guaranteed support of the participation of the human rights defenders in regional meetings.
The grant was to support the Centre for Legal Studies of Law of the Catholic University (CID-UCAN) to organise the second International Conference on Criminal Law and Procedural Law in Angola. The conference created an opportunity for the judiciary and civil society to make contributions and incorporate their recommendations to ensure that Parliament and the Justice Reform Commission is aligned with the Constitution.
This grant allowed SCARJoV to continue to implement social advocacy activities to improve social conditions and legal framework for sex workers, based on the conclusion and recommendations of the study carried out on the target group in 2016.
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