FUNIDES II

$500K USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	Nicaraguan Foundation for Economic and Social Development
Country	Nicaragua
Start Date	Nov 28, 2009
End Date	Sep 14, 2014
Duration	1,751 days
Number of Grantees	8
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`188931-76`

Grant Description

This program has three components: Component 1: Institutional Strengthening, which seeks to improve the foundations administrative and financial sustainability over the long term, improve its strategic planning capacity and strengthen its financial and personnel management and its internal institutional controls; Component 2: Definition and implementation of the foundations policy research agenda, aimed at improving its research program; and Component 3: Communication and outreach, finalizing the drafting and approval of the foundations medium- and long-term communication strategy and implementing it as well as strengthening the dialogue with universities to improve the populations knowledge and influence Nicaraguas policy definition.