Past Democracy Commissiona Small Grants

Pro Media, CimTV

Andrei Bargan

29-Oct-03

PRO-Media will offer the population of Cimislia district access to local audiovisual information

Women for Children’s Rights Organization - Lariola

Olga Scegoleva

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the organization of several activities designed for youth to educate them to better respond to critical situations of the adult life, as well as to avoid them.

Vocea Basarabiei Radio Station

Veaceslav Tibuleac

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the procurement of new equipment that will expand the coverage of the radio signal to Edinet, Soroca and Balti.  In parallel, the Vocea Basarabiei will produce a set of radio shows focusing on women’s issues.

Time to Live

Maxim Berlean

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the organization of trainings for young journalists covering social issues.

Institute of Social Technologies

Ludmila Alexei

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the production of 50 radio shows that will be broadcast twice a month for 30 minutes.  The goal of the shows is to provide civic education and discuss the most important issues from the society.

Health for Youth

Galina Lesco

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the organization of training seminars with the participation of young people of different ethnic groups (Romanian, Russian, Gagauz, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Roma) parents, teachers and psychologists, representatives of the local public administration.

Didactica Pro…

Nadia Cristea

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the publication of special issues focusing on economic education, tolerance and democracy.

Ateneu

Constantin Cojocaru

01-Feb-04

The grant will underwrite the organization of a series of activities that will improve the interethnic dialogue and tolerance in Edinet raion.

Verbina - Glow Camp

Ana Levinte

29-Mar-04

Verbina is a non-governmental, non-political, and nonprofit organization founded in 2001.  The goal of the project is to educate and inform 120 teenage girls coming from vulnerable families from all regions of Moldova about their rights and responsibilities as females and as future citizens of Moldova by organizing a one-week summer camp at the end of June 2004.  The camp will be organized with American Peace Corps volunteers.  The camp will focus on gender roles, cultural diversity, health education, and decision-making.

Protection of Citizens' Rights

Vladimir Gladun

29-Mar-04

Protection of Citizens’ Rights is a non-governmental organization with vast experience in publishing legal literature.  The goal of the NGO is to inform the population on their rights in different fields thus building the legal knowledge of the population.  Under this project the NGO intends to raise awareness on the rights of citizens to what regards the medical services in the new conditions, i.e. newly implemented medical insurance system.  The organization will work together with the specialists from a specialized medical publication (Family Doctor) to produce and publish a guide that will contain questions and answers on the most frequent issues.  The guide will be bilingual and will be partly distributed and partly sold in bookstores.

Center for Transparency and Democracy

Petru Jitaru

29-Mar-04

The Center for Transparency and Democracy is a nongovernmental organization aiming to increase the civic participation among adult citizens from Gratiesti and Truseni villages. The NGO will publish a citizen’s guide, promotion materials; organize roundtables and seminars about civic participation and improving the partnership between citizens and local authorities.

Children's Center for the Intellectual and Creativity Development

Aliona Birna

29-Mar-04

CCIC is a non-governmental organization created in 2000.  The purpose of the project is to involve the youth in the development of local communities.  The NGO will create a network of junior leaders, train them, and have them solve the problems of their communities using the learned skills.  The NGO will organize seminars and trainings for junior leaders, roundtables with mayors and school directors and then will try to establish a partnership among them and solve specific community problems, particularly the ones related to youth and children.  Leaders will have to identify

the problems, locate funds and resources and then develop and implement mini-projects.  The project will result in more informed, better prepared, and more active society members among local youths.

Doctors for Ecology

Oleg Nagornii

29-Mar-04

The NGO will publish a supplement focusing on the issues of interest to the non-governmental sector.  The supplement will provide information for NGOs taken from Internet, Contact center, donor organizations, and agencies.  The supplement will be distributed throughout the Transnistrian region.

Parents' and Teachers' Association

Tatiana Bostan

29-Mar-04

The Parents’ and Teachers’ Association is a new non-governmental organization with the mission to support the local educational process and provide alternative education.  The PTA will organize a series of activities aiming at promoting tolerance and gender equality, and prevention of domestic violence.

Vatra Satului

Maria Machedon

29-Mar-04

The project will approach the issue of domestic violence and will promote gender quality in the village of Larga Noua.  The NGO will organize ten seminars, three public debates; publish leaflets and information bulletins and will install two information boards on domestic violence.  The beneficiaries of the project will be 250 women victims of domestic violence and their families.

Pro-Democratie

Viorica Cutitaru

29-Mar-04

Pro-Democratie is an NGO with the mission to facilitate the access to information of the citizens.  The NGO will work with the local public administration and local NGOs to increase the effectiveness and collaboration between them. Pro-Democratie will organize a set of roundtables and seminars focusing on public administration, communication skills, decision-making, set up information boards and publish leaflets on local public administration.

Maetonium

Liviu Raischi

29-Mar-04

Maetonium is a non-governmental organization aiming at promoting youth involvement in community life.  The project will be implemented in partnership with several other NGOs from the region.  The NGO will organize eight seminars in four villages for twenty participants on gender issues, HIV/AIDS prevention, domestic violence, and human trafficking.  The NGO will also install four information boards in the villages, organize two roundtables, and provide Internet Services.

Center for the Protection of Human Rights in Transistria

Grigorii Valovoi

29-Mar-04

The purpose of the project is to support the functioning center for the protection of human rights in Transnistria, monitor the observance of human rights, and offer free information and consultations on human rights.  The grant funds will be used to cover the venue rental, the services of qualified lawyers and legal experts and the costs of a laptop that will contain a database on international and Transnistrian legislation.  The NGO will monitor human rights and publish a bulletin (500 copies) every three months.

Association of Independent Press

Petru Macovei

01-Aug-04

API is a NGO created and registered in 1997. The Association includes 14 local independent newspapers throughout Moldova. API intends to publish a supplement that will be distributed through  the 14 independent newspaper included in API network. The supplement will have a permanent column dedicated to public discussion of important issues for rural dwellers.

Pilgrim-Demo Youth Center from Gagauzia

Mihail Sircheli

15-Sep-04

Pilgrim-Demo from Kirsovo is a NGO founded in 2003.  The goal of the NGO and this project is to promote social cohesion, democratic values and social participation among Moldovan youth.  The NGO will organize a get-out-the-vote campaign in the Gagauz region for the 2005 parliamentary elections.

Speranta - Organization of Veterans

Valentina Carchelan

15-Sep-04

Speranta is a regional NGO focusing on the issues of vulnerable people and the elderly.  The goal of the project is to inform the elderly and involve them in community life.  The organization will hold roundtable discussions and seminars in 14 villages in the Ialoveni district on healthcare issues and topics pertaining to legal and social assistance for the elderly.
 

Conflicts Resolution Institute

Veaceslav Gututui

15-Sep-04

INRECO is a NGO founded and registered in 2003 focusing on the reintegration of the country and its ultimate integration with the European structures. The organization intends to organize public debates in 9 localities from Moldova on local development. The results of these debates will be advertised in local mass media.

Golubka Women's Club

Natalia Topciu

30-Sep-04

In order to stimulate civic participation in Basarabeasca, the NGO will be responsible for conducting town-hall meetings and developing and producing twelve bi-monthly issues of a community newsletter “ETHNO-Plus” which will inform the people in the community about the most pressing social, political and economic issues in Basarabeasca.  Golubka will invite the community members to discuss their views and opinions in a series of public debates on the quality of utilities, quality of the roads, water supply, knowledge of state language, migration, and other important issues. The beneficiaries of the project include the citizenry of Basarbeasca, consumers of municipal services, youth, vulnerable and at-risk families, and local organizations.

Ograda Noastra

Ruslan Stinga

20-Sep-04

Roma Awareness Campaign is designed to create a dialog between different social and political structures including NGOs, professional groups, local and regional administration and all potential agents that generate negative stereotypes about the Roma population in Moldova. All the proposed activities (round tables, seminars and a Roma Congress) will invite  Roma and the aforementioned groups to express their aspirations, eventual solutions, and future expectations about ethnical harmony in Moldovan society.

Mar-Sor TV

Emilia Bobeica

20-Sep-04

SorTV is an independent television station from Soroca that will organize six balanced debates in six villages in the Soroca raion on issues important to communities based on investigations carried out by the television team.

Singera Information Center

Victor Mocanu

20-Sep-04

Singera Inforomation Center has the goal to inform efficiently and objectively community members about the activities of the local government, local businesses and state organizations through radio debates.  Radio Singera will broadcast their own programs and programs of the Association of Electronic Press network members: Antena C, Vocea Basarabei Radio, Sanatatea Radio, Blue Star, Vanoles, Vocile Tinerilor, thus, providing the audience with multiple perspectives about different ways of solving problems.
 

Invisible College

Nicolae  Chirtoaca

20-Sep-04

The project aims at building potential for the consolidation of democratic institutions in Moldova through direct involvement of young leaders in promoting democratic principles and values, public awareness campaigns, advanced educational training. The backbone of the project is a radio broadcast program with the participation of young representatives of political parties, civil society, mass media, and businesses. The project goal will be reached through organization and broadcasting of 40 radio shows/debates. The programs will be broadcast by the independent station Radio Nova in cooperation with Antena C, and EuroTV.

Millenium Training and Development Institute

Vitalie Cirhana

20-Sep-04

The purpose of this project is to provide free access to information and involve local community members in the decision making process regarding the present issues of community development.  The organization will conduct a campaign to inform the population about the activities of local public administration regarding community development and stategy in Cricova; organize information seminars on key community issues; organize round tables in order to facilitate discussions and debates on strategic community issues and decisions of local administration.  The project

will end with a creation of a council for a community development which will involve representatives of all social categories and function as an advisory board for the local administration.  The project will result in a plan of actions regarding the implementation of the development strategy in Cricova.

Impact Media Agency

Viorel Margineanu

20-Sep-04

This project benefits from the support provided by the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections, which is a voluntary coalition of nongovernmental organizations from the Republic of Moldova seeking to contribute to ensuring free, fair, transparent and democratic elections in the Parliament of Moldova. Media Agency IMPACT is member of the Civic Coalition for Free and Fair Elections. Among the main partners of the project are 16 local and regional television channels, which expressed their readiness to support activities directed towards producing 336 television programs

based on the following subjects: elections and voter education, short term and long term election monitoring, prevention of electoral violations and promotion of fair and democratic elections.   This project is a premiere on the media market, as well as for the political community and for NGOs  targeting electoral processes in Moldova. Seeking media opportunities to support parliamentary elections and to develop election campaigns and being deprived of access to the Company „Teleradio Moldova”, election actors will benefit, for the first time in Moldova, from media that

is both more effective and more accessible and consequently has a greater impact on voters. Audiovisual media from Moldova will be provided with technical, logistic and legal assistance and these concrete actions will directly contribute to strengthening civil society and to ensuring citizens’ participation in elections, respect of voters’ rights and the principle of equal participation of all candidates in the electoral process.

Hyde Park

Oleg Brega

20-Sep-04

Hyde Park is a nongovernmental organization registered and founded in 2003. Hyde Park will publish a weekly bulletin with  views and opinions of ordinary citizens; organize  monthly meetings in the countryside offering a free microphone to those willing to express themselves;  organize seminars and roundtables on the right to free speech in Soroca, Causeni, Cahul, and Chisinau.

NIT Media Company

Svetlana Curmei

20-Sep-04

NIT is an independent television station that intends to organize twelve monthly interactive television debates on developments in Moldova, governmental decisions, investment climate, living standards, quality and price of utilities, etc.

United Gagauzia

Mikhail Formuzal

20-Sep-04

The purpose of the project is to establish a free and independent newspaper that will be distributed throughout Gagauzia. The newspaper will be in Russian and will begin by publishing 1,000 copies  weekly for three months.

Hope/Speranta

Viorica Rotaru

20-Sep-04

Hope/Speranta Women club is a nongovernmental organization founded and registered in 2002 that will produce a series of radio programs in an effort to ensure transparency and broad public participation in local decision making.

Association of Electronic Press

20-Sep-04

The Association of Electronic Press is a nongovernmental organization founded in 1999. The NGO will organize a training for journalists involving international experts and will produce a set of debates aired on EuroTV and DTV on political and economic topics. The Association will also produce a series of election debates with representatives of different political parties in Moldova.

Angelica Zhelnova
September 2004
The purpose of this project is to provide funds for a new radio transmitter for an independent radio station from the Transnistrian region. The radio station will produce monthly 45 min. radio programs on tolerance, democracy, youth issues, patriotism, etc.

Independent Journalism Center
Corina Cepoi
September 2004
The Independent Journalism Center (IJC) will carry out a media elections monitoring project. The monitoring will be performed in accordance to the methodology developed by Oxford Media Research for ARTICLE 19. IJC will train 10 election monitors and carry out monitoring of the print and audiovisual media during the election campaign.