National Assembly

$33.4M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening
Country	Venezuela
Start Date	Apr 10, 2020
End Date	Mar 16, 2023
Duration	1,070 days
Number of Grantees	137
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`208400-76`

Grant Description

USAID is building the capacity of the democratically elected National Assembly (NA) to function effectively as a legislature and to raise awareness to its constituents regarding the work that a NA should be performing but unable to under the current restricted environment imposed by President Maduro, the judicial branch, and the newly created Constituent Assembly.

The latter was created in an arbitrary and unconstitutional manner by President Maduro in order to draft a new constitution that will likely consolidate PSUV's (ruling party) power.

Consequently, USAID support to the NA will now focus on building communication capacity, constituent relations and elaboration of policy positions for sectors such as health, education, economic recovery and citizen security.