Fostering Meaningful and Responsive Representation

$6.63M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	International Republican Institute
Country	Timor-Leste
Start Date	Mar 01, 2011
End Date	Nov 05, 2014
Duration	1,345 days
Number of Grantees	95
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`194555-76`

Grant Description

USAIDs Fostering Meaningful and Responsive Representation supports the country's political parties in their efforts to become more effective, transparent, and responsive by strengthening grassroots structures and research and communications capacity.

Through this grant, USAID helps members of the Parliament increase their representation of constituent concerns by developing outreach capacity and assists political parties increase their collaboration with local administration.

In addition, USAIDs Fostering Meaningful and Responsive Representation assisted in promoting free, fair and peaceful elections during the 2012 national elections in Timor-Leste by providing civic/voter education and elections observation support.