Support to Human Rights Defenders in Honduras and El Salvador Stöd till MR-försvarare i Honduras och El Salvador Projektförslaget lämnades in av Fonden för globala mänskliga rättigheter och syftar till att stärka respekten för och skyddet av människorättsförsvarare genom att upprätthålla och stärka kapaciteten hos lokala människorättsorganisationer i El Salvador och Honduras.

Fonden för globala mänskliga rättigheter är en ideell organisation som skapades 2002 och är baserad i Washington DC. Fonden har ett latinamerikanskt regionalt program som tillhandahåller vidareförmedling av finansiella medel och teknisk assistans till 56 frontlinjeorganisationer i Mexiko, Guatemala och Honduras. Detta projekt har utformats i nära samråd med lokala intressenter i El Salvador och Honduras.

Fonden kommer att utveckla strategiska portföljer av partnerorganisationer i varje land (5 partners i El Salvador och 8 partners i Honduras). Varje organisation kommer att få ett års operativt stödbidrag, i belopp som sträcker sig från $ 10.000 till $ 35.000.

I El Salvador kommer projektet att stödja organisationer som arbetar med kvinnors rättigheter, med fokus på sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa. I Honduras kommer projektet att stödja organisationer som arbetar med mark- och naturresursrättigheter.

Ambassaden bedömer att det finns ett mervärde att stödja fonden, eftersom den redan arbetar med ett brett utbud av Honduranska organisationer, istället för att stödja enskilt var och en av dem. Fonden identifierade möjliga partners i El Salvador i ett besök som genomfördes i juni 2017.

The proposal was submitted by the Fund for Global Human Rights and it is aimed to strengthen respect for and protection for Human Rights defenders by sustaining and strengthening the capacity of local human rights organisations in El Salvador and Honduras. 

The Fund for Global Human Rights is a non-profit organisation based on Washington DC, created in 2002. The Fund has a Latinamerican regional programme which it is providing grant-making and technical assistance to 56 frontline organisations in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. This project has been conceived of in close consultation with local stakeholders in El Salvador and Honduras.  
The Fund will develop strategic portfolios of grantees in each country (5 grantees in El Salvador and 8 grantees in Honduras). Each organisation will receive one-year operational support grants, in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $35,000.

In El Salvador the Project will support organisations working on women’s rights, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health rights. In Honduras, the Project will support organisations working on land and natural resources rights.

The Embassy assess that there is an added value in supporting the Fund as this organisation it is already working with a broad range of Honduran organisations, instead of supporting individually each one of them. In El Salvador, the Fund already identified possible partners in El Salvador in a visit conducted in June 2017. The proposal was submitted by the Fund for Global Human Rights and it is aimed to strengthen respect for and protection for Human Rights defenders by sustaining and strengthening the capacity of local human rights organisations in El Salvador and Honduras. 
The Fund for Global Human Rights is a non-profit organisation based on Washington DC, created in 2002. The Fund has a Latinamerican regional programme which it is providing grant-making and technical assistance to 56 frontline organisations in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. This project has been conceived of in close consultation with local stakeholders in El Salvador and Honduras.  
The Fund will develop strategic portfolios of grantees in each country (5 grantees in El Salvador and 8 grantees in Honduras). Each organisation will receive one-year operational support grants, in amounts ranging from $10,000 to $35,000. Strengthen respect for and protection of land and natural resource rights, as well as land and resource rights activists, in Honduras and women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in El Salvador.  By the end of the three-year of the initiative, the Fund will achieve the following results: 1) A demonstrated increased capacity among Honduran human rights organizations to defend and promote land and resource rights, as well as to protect human rights defenders working to promote land and natural resource rights; and, 2) A demonstrated increased capacity among El Salvadoran human rights organizations to defend and promote women’s rights, specifically women’s sexual and reproductive health rights. 3)  Providing short term support to the independent media in El Salvador, to cover the human rigths situation in the context of the COVID 19 Pandemia. The Fund will accomplish these outcomes through implementing a number of activities in both countries.