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MacArthur At a Glance • MacArthur has invested $234 million in Africa, with nearly in Africa 45 percent of that going to organizations based on the continent. The majority of funding goes to organizations working in Nigeria, but the Foundation has also invested in 18 African nations.

• Work focuses on conserving biodiversity in the Albertine Rift and Madagascar, on strengthening universities and human rights organizations in Nigeria, and on reducing maternal mortality and promoting the reproductive rights of young people in Nigeria.

• Much of MacArthur’s investment is used to demonstrate the efficiency of new technology and ideas, and to then help grantees build on those proven strategies to obtain greater support from governments and other donors. For example, the Foundation’s funding has helped bring faster Internet access to a dozen African universities in six countries, including six in Nigeria, at one-third the cost paid by most institutions in Africa.

Conservation and Sustainable research on the biological significance of grantmaking has amounted to approximately Development Madagascar and the Albertine Rift, and to $15 million over the past five years, and is sustain key conservation training focused in two areas: The Foundation’s conservation and programs at national universities in • the Albertine Rift, including the highland sustainable development program is Madagascar, Uganda and Rwanda. forests of western Uganda, Rwanda, dedicated to conserving biodiversity — Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic the species, ecosystems, and ecological Conservation grantmaking concentrates of the Congo and western Tanzania; processes that make up the web of on selected areas where the Foundation and life — over the long term and to increasing has made the long-term commitment • Madagascar — the coastal and terrestrial understanding of the integral relationship required to generate lasting impacts. ecosystems of this biologically unique between the health of the biosphere Grants are focused in areas that exhibit island. and human well-being. MacArthur high levels of species diversity (the number support in Africa has helped to mobilize of species), endemism (the percentage of Grounded in these geographic focal areas, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) those species found nowhere else), and the Foundation also supports research to work with national leaders to save threat (the degree of endangerment to investigating trade-offs that exist between critical ecosystems, to fund scientific those species). In Africa, conservation human well-being and biodiversity 2 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

conservation goals and exploring new admissions process, and granted To achieve the greatest impact from its approaches to conservation practice, autonomy to the universities to manage investments in higher education, MacArthur policy, and training that addresses the their own academic, administrative, and joined with other international foundations impacts of climate change. Complementing financial affairs. to form the Partnership for Higher Education the core CSD program in Africa, the in Africa in 2000. The Partnership, which Foundation also supports the Critical MacArthur’s support of Nigerian and now includes the Carnegie Corporation Ecosystems Partnership Fund (CEPF), a Malagasy higher education is based on and the Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon, Kresge, global conservation initiative that includes the belief that robust universities and and Hewlett foundations, has contributed grantmaking activities in five regions intellectual freedom are essential to $300 million for higher education to 50 across the continent: Cape Floristic developing and sustaining healthy, African universities in nine African countries, Region, Eastern Arc and Coastal Forests, economically vibrant, democratic societies. with the majority of MacArthur funding Guinean Forests of West Africa, An investment in universities is an provided to Nigerian universities. The Madagascar, and the Succulent Karoo. investment in the social capital of the Partnership has set itself a goal of country. Since 2000, MacArthur has investing $350 million over 10 years. committed a total of $47 million in support of African universities. Grantmaking is One prime example of the Partnership’s Higher Education Initiative directed to areas of highest priority, as ability to pool resources and encourage identified in conjunction with the universities, innovation and transformation on a large Africa higher education grantmaking is with the objective of reinforcing existing scale is its success in greatly increasing geographically focused in Nigeria and reform efforts while avoiding the duplication the speed of Internet connectivity at Madagascar and includes MacArthur’s of core funding already provided by the Nigerian universities. To address the high participation in the Partnership for Higher government. MacArthur supports projects cost of expanding Internet capacity and Education in Africa. that include: providing greater Internet access in • improving information and communication Africa, the Partnership formed the For African universities, the 20th Century technologies; Bandwidth Consortium with a coalition of has been marked by periods of growth, 19 African institutions of higher education • staff and faculty development; decay, and renewal, shaped by the and the African Virtual University, an political and economic events of the time. • library support (updating and expanding organization dedicated to satellite-based In Nigeria, after independence from electronic and print collections); distance learning in Africa. The following colonial rule in 1960, higher education • upgrading university facilities, with Nigerian universities are currently part of began to experience a small renaissance emphasis on facilities/equipment for the Consortium: University of Ibadan, fueled by considerable investments in scientific research; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ahmadu research and infrastructure and the Bello University, Bayero University, • encouraging collaborations and emergence of strong leaders in the University of Port Harcourt, and University linkages with other universities and the community. Before some newly formed of Jos. Today, the bandwidth consortium private sector; institutions had a chance to establish and is one of the largest Internet service deepen their roots, the civil war, military • strengthening strategic planning; and providers in Africa, supplying competitively rule, and currency devaluation that • building fundraising capacity. priced bandwidth to 39 sites and 19 characterized portions of the 1970s and universities in Africa. 1980s plunged Nigerian higher education MacArthur’s involvement encompasses into serious neglect and deterioration. four of Nigeria’s leading universities: the Further information on the Partnership Since the re-establishment of a democratic University of Ibadan, Bayero University, can be found at www.foundation- government in 1999, Nigerian universities Ahmadu Bello University, and the University partnership.org. have begun to reclaim their position in the of Port Harcourt, and in Madagascar, the academic world. Universities in University of Antananarivo. These Madagascar are following a similar universities were selected for their quality trajectory. Following a period of crisis in the of leadership, innovation, and national early 1990s, a reform program was significance and in the belief that they inaugurated. The government brought will also serve as models for other ballooning student enrollments under universities in Nigeria, Madagascar and control, introduced a more selective Africa as a whole. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 3

Human Rights and an accessible African Court of Human Garment for women experiencing International Justice and Peoples’ Rights. Grants are also postpartum hemorrhage. A substantial given to increase the effectiveness of portion of an $11 million grant made to The Foundation’s grantmaking in human the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pathfinder International in September rights and international justice has three through support of human rights 2007 to work on postpartum hemorrhage primary objectives: to strengthen the advocates that monitor Court practices, will be spent in Nigeria. human rights infrastructure through disseminate information, and facilitate support of human rights organizations the interaction of victims with the ICC in To promote the reproductive health and with an international reach; to support countries under investigation. rights of young people, the Foundation local efforts in the countries of Russia, focuses its grantmaking on initiatives that Mexico, and Nigeria; and to promote the implement the federal government’s further development of the international national sexuality education curriculum. justice system. Population and With Foundation support, NGOs in the six Reproductive Health focus states are implementing a sexuality In Nigeria, MacArthur has partnered with education curriculum in selected schools over 30 Nigerian organizations to protect The Foundation’s population and with a total student population of and promote human rights, including both reproductive health grantmaking is approximately two million students. Grants NGOs and the National Human Rights focused in Nigeria, both at the national have been made for the development and Commission. With a total investment of level and in six states: Borno, Cross River, bringing to scale of models for out-of- about $15 million since 2000, the program Enugu, Lagos, Kano, and Plateau with school youth, so that they can be has focused on improving the legal additional activities in Niger state. replicated in other states and nationally. architecture for human rights and reducing police abuse. Geographically, it emphasizes The two themes that form the core of this programs in Rivers, Lagos, Plateau, and grantmaking are: 1) reducing maternal Kano states. The incorporation of mortality and morbidity; and, 2) advancing Recent Grantmaking international human rights standards into the sexual and reproductive health and national law is encouraged, as is the use rights of young people. Total investments Conservation and Sustainable of regional justice mechanisms such as in Nigerian population and reproductive Development the African Commission on Human and health have exceeded $11 million over Peoples’ Rights when domestic remedies the past five years. Albertine Rift are unavailable. Concrete accomplishments have included a revision of the Laws of In the area of maternal mortality and African Wildlife Foundation the Federation of Nigeria and their morbidity, the Foundation is supporting Washington, DC publication in hard cover and electronic efforts that contribute not only to the $450,000 to strengthen long-term form; a National Human Rights Action federal government’s goals, but also to management capacity for conservation Plan; the conduct of two national crime the Millennium Development Goal of and to provide short-term emergency victimization surveys that will begin to reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent support in the Virunga-Bwindi transboundary region of the Albertine Rift serve as a baseline for measuring the by 2015, compared to the level in 1990. (over three years). frequency and level of police abuse; and Grants are made in support of NGOs that improved case of management in the seek to reduce maternal mortality in administration of criminal justice in six Nigeria by improving access to, use of, American Geophysical Union - START states that appears to have significantly and quality of maternal health care. The Washington, DC decreased the length of pre-trial detention Foundation’s work on maternal mortality $300,000 in support of building capacity of suspects. will increase the chances that women will for conserving biodiversity in a changing have safer pregnancies and deliveries, a climate in the Albertine Rift region (over In the area of International Justice, grants in worthy goal in itself, but also an indicator two years). Africa are made to further the development of the availability of services that are and integration of the African justice needed for women to make informed system, including the professionalization reproductive choices. For example, the of the African Commission on Human and Foundation is supporting testing and use Peoples’ Rights and the establishment of of a low-tech neoprene AntiShock 4 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

BirdLife International National University of Rwanda Madagascar Cambridge UK Department of Biology Butare, Rwanda $250,000 in support of assessing the Asity impact of climate change and developing $390,000 to provide quality conservation Antananarivo, Madagascar an adaptive management framework for sciences courses and training for $200,000 in support of conservation of conservation in the face of climate change undergraduate students from Rwanda the Mangoky-Ihotry complex and building in the Albertine Rift and as a model for and neighboring countries in the Albertine the capacity of a Malagasy NGO (over other parts of Africa (over two years). Rift (over three years). three years).

Office Rwandais du Tourisme et des Conservation Through Public Health Blue Ventures Conservation Parcs Nationaux Port Townsend, WA London, United Kingdom Kigali, Rwanda $190,000 in support of building Uganda $280,000 in support of community $500,000 in support of the establishment Wildlife Authority’s capacity for wildlife managed coastal and marine protected of a conservation training center (over health monitoring (over three years). areas in southwest Madagascar (over three years). three years). Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Society for Conservation Biology Atlanta, GA Centre Ecologique Libanona Africa Section $125,000 in support of mountain gorilla Fort Dauphin, Madagascar Alexandria, VA protection, monitoring, and research $115,000 to establish field-based training $150,000 in support of building capacity through the re-establishment of the programs in southern Madagascar (over for conservation science in the Albertine Karisoke Research Center (over two years). three years). Rift (over two years).

Greenwatch Development and Environmental Uganda Wildlife Authority Kampala, Uganda Law Center Kampala, Uganda $280,000 in support of capacity building Fianarantsoa, Madagascar $215,000 in support of improved for Ugandan judicial and law enforcement $270,000 to build capacity for the management of Rwenzori Mountains officers (over three years). application of public interest law to National Park (over three years). environmental law and to improve Makerere University community governance and management Institute of Environment and University of East Anglia of natural resources in Madagascar (over Natural Resources Overseas Development Group three years). Kampala, Uganda Norwich, United Kingdom $220,000 in support of building capacity $160,000 in support of developing Field Museum models for cross-scale conservation for conservation training in Uganda (over Chicago, Illinois partnerships in Rwanda (over three years). three years). $325,000 in support of an assessment of the impact of climate change on the Mbarara University of Science Wildlife Conservation Society elevational distribution of Malagasy land and Technology Bronx, NY vertebrates and building capacity in Institute of Tropical Forest $300,000 in support of regional conservation biology (over three years). Conservation collaboration and NGO capacity building Kabale, Uganda in the Albertine Rift region (over three Groupe D’ Etudes Et De Recherche $270,000 in support of strengthening years). Sur Les Primates De Madagascar adaptive management of conservation Antananarivo, Madagascar landscapes in the Albertine Rift (over $470,000 in support of planning, capacity $125,000 in support of primate research three years). building and coordination for landscape- level conservation across four nations of and conservation planning in Makira the Albertine Rift (over three years). Protected Area by a Malagasy NGO (over three years). $250,000 in support of an assessment of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Albertine Rift region (over two years). The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 5

Missouri Botanical Garden Conservation International University of Michigan St. Louis, Missouri Arlington, VA School of Natural Resources $300,000 to assess impacts and mitigate $12,000,000 in support of continuation of and Environment consequences of climate change upon the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund Ann Arbor, MI Madagascar’s plants (over three years). (over three years). $305,000 in transition support for the International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research network (over Tany Meva Foundation Indiana University three years) Antananarivo, Madagascar Workshop in Political Theory $350,000 to strengthen the Trust Fund and Policy Analysis capacity to support community Bloomington, IN Yale University management of conservation areas (over $145,000 in transition support for the School of Forestry and three years). (2007) International Forestry Resources and Environmental Studies Institutions (IFRI) research network (over New Haven, CT three years). $250,000 to establish Online Access to Universite De Toliara Institut Research in the Environment (OARE) Halieutique Et Des Sciences Marines (over three years). Toliara, Madagascar IUCN - World Conservation Union $150,000 in support of the establishment Gland, Switzerland of field-based training sites for marine $175,000 in support of the World Parks protected areas (over three years). Congress for participants from the developing world (over two years). Higher Education University of California Berkeley $350,000 in support of an assessment of Natural History Museums species vulnerability to climate change Strengthening Institutions Berkeley, California (over two years). $390,000 in support of technological innovations for biodiversity conservation Ahmadu Bello University IUCN - World Conservation Union USA Zaria, Nigeria in the face of climate change in Washington, DC $2,500,000 in support of information Madagascar (over two years). $300,000 to facilitate the exchange of technology, library development and

scientific ideas and generation of new related university strengthening activities Wildlife Conservation Society management tools for coral reef ecosystems (over three years). Bronx, New York that are under stress due to the effects of $500,000 in support of the consolidation $50,000 in support of the purchase of global climate change (over three years) of an integrated strategy for conservation science books (over three years). and sustainable natural resource use in Madagascar’s Antongil Bay Landscape The Nature Conservancy Arlington, VA Bayero University (over three years). Kano, Nigeria $500,000 to develop practical methods $3,100,000 in support of staff development for applying resilience principles to coral and the refurbishing and upgrading of reef conservation and sharing the science Cross-regional/Research University facilities (over three years). and methodology of coral resilience through training programs in areas of high $2,000,000 in support of activities to Arizona State University coral reef importance around the world Global Institute of Sustainability develop staff, upgrade computer (over three years). Tempe, Arizona technology, and establish a faculty $4,300,000 in support of an of agriculture (over three years). interdisciplinary research initiative on Stanford University Institute for the Environment advancing conservation in a social Federal Ministry of Education Palo Alto, CA context (over three years). Abuja, Nigeria $350,000 in support of a demonstration $250,000 in support of strengthening the project that applies benefit-cost analytical higher education sector in Nigeria (over tools to ecosystem management and one year). ecosystem services at a landscape scale in three test sites in Africa, China and California (over three years) 6 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Institute for Policy and African Virtual University Library Development Economic Research Nairobi, Kenya Abuja, Nigeria $1,270,000 in support of supplying JSTOR $150,000 in support of a planning grant discounted bandwidth to a consortium of New York, NY to launch a new Institute for Economic universities in Africa (over three years). $280,000 in support of strengthening and Policy. academic libraries in Nigeria (over Federal Ministry of Education three years). International Foundation for Science Information Technology Stockholm, Sweden Garki, Nigeria New School for Social Research $3,500,000 to improve the science $75,000 to use information and Graduate Faculty of Political and infrastructure base of universities in communication technology to improve Social Science Nigeria and Madagascar (over two years). education. New York, NY $280,000 in support of strengthening University of Antananarivo International Development Research academic libraries in Nigeria (over Madagascar, Antananarivo Centre Centre de recherches pour three years). $857,000 to build an information and le developpement international Ottawa, Canada communication technology infrastructure Sabre Foundation that will support biodiversity conservation $370,000 in support of supplying Cambridge, MA and higher education in Madagascar discounted bandwidth to a consortium of $260,000 for the supply of educational (over three years). universities in Africa (over three years). materials to universities in Nigeria (over three years). University of Ibadan - Nigeria Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions Ibadan, Nigeria Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation Abuja, Nigeria $4,000,000 in support of strengthening Abuja, Nigeria $350,000 to supply affordable and the human capital, institutional facilities, $50,000 for the strengthening of the sustainable bandwidth to universities and governance system of the University Olusegun Obasanjo Research Library supported by the Partnership for Higher (over three years). (over 18 months). Education and other African research and $3,000,000 in support of initiatives to education institutions. strengthen the university, with a particular University of Illinois focus on staff develop­ment (over three $400,000 in support of improving ICT in at Urbana - Champaign years). Partnership universities (over three years). Champaign, IL $201,000 in support of improving user access to research and information University of Port Harcourt South African Institute for Distance materials at university libraries in Nigeria Port Harcourt, Nigeria Education Information Technology (over three years). $2,500,000 in support of institutional Johannesburg, South Africa strengthening (over three years). $1,200,000 to improve the use and development of educational technologies $75,000 in support of the purchase of within universities supported by the Technical Support science laboratory equipment. Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (over four years). Ahmadu Bello University Technical Support Information and Communication University of Cape Town Zaria, Nigeria Technology Cape Town, South Africa $100,000 in support of fundraising from $100,000 in support of two forums alumni (over two years). ABTI-American University of Nigeria in Africa for university leaders (over School of Information Technology two years). Bayero University & Communication Kano, Nigeria Yola, Nigeria $100,000 in support of improving teaching $100,000 in support of the establishment and learning facilities (over two years). of a hub for the Center for Information and Communication Technology Innovation and Training. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 7

Council for Advancement and Ahmadu Bello University, Faculty of Centre for Research and Support of Education Law Centre for Islamic Legal Studies Documentation Washington, DC Zaria, Nigeria Kano, Nigeria $197,000 to improve educational $110,000 in support of public education $50,000 in support of a project on fundraising at the four universities on Sharia’h criminal procedure in the Conflict Management and the Media in supported by the Foundation in Nigeria northern states of Nigeria. Nigeria. (over two years). Alliances for Africa Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Tides Center Africa Grantmakers Lagos, Nigeria Abuja, Nigeria Affinity Group $400,000 in support of the establishment $183,000 in support of documenting the San Francisco, CA of an effective African Court on Human status of justice sector reform, human $75,000 in support of general operations and Peoples’ Rights (over three years). rights, and juvenile justice in Nigeria. (over three years). American Bar Association Fund Civil Liberties Organisation University of Ibadan for Justice and Education Ikeja, Nigeria Ibadan, Nigeria Chicago, IL $40,000 Campaign for the Abrogation of $250,000 in support of building the $183,000 in support of a training program the Public Order Act. culture of educational philanthropy (over to prepare Sudanese lawyers for effective three years). advocacy before the International $230,000 to research and publish Criminal Court. information on human rights violations in Nigeria (over two years).

Avocats Sans Frontieres Brussels, Belgium CLEEN Foundation Human Rights and $250,000 in support of legal assistance Ikeja, Nigeria International Justice for victims of human rights violations $193,000 in support of a second national participating in the International Criminal electoral survey as a complementary and Africa Legal Aid Court case in Congo (over two years). reliable source of information to official Accra, Ghana statistics on elections in Nigeria. $50,000 in support of a colloquium on BBC World Service Trust $200,000 for the conduct of a national Africa and the Globalization of Justice: London, England electoral survey as a complementary and Engaging the Islamic Communities. $210,000 in support of media outreach reliable source of information to official by journalists in West Africa on the trial statistics on elections in Nigeria. of the former President of Liberia, $120,000 in support of an International Charles Taylor. $330,000 for the conduct and use of a Public Lecture on Africa and the national crime victimization survey as a International Criminal Court and the complementary and reliable source of Benetech Training of the Judges of the Superior information to official statistics on crime in Palo Alto, CA Courts of Record of Ghana on the Nigeria (over two years). Application of national and international $59,000 to support the National Human human rights norms (over 18 months). Rights Commission of Nigeria to $475,000 in support of activities to implement its Martus software to gather increase police accountability in Nigeria and utilize human rights information. African Human Rights Consortium (over three years). Gabarone, Botswana $500,000 in support of capacity-building Center for Human Rights in Islam Crisis Action for African civil society organizations Kano, Nigeria London, United Kingdom (over two years). $25,000 for promoting and protecting $220,225 for a campaign to promote universal human rights from an Islamic cooperation by inter-governmental perspective. Agir Ensemble pour les Droits organizations and member states to de l’Homme enforce the International Criminal Court’s Lyons, France Darfur arrest warrants. $200,000 in support of the “Campaign to Bring Hissène Habré to Justice” (over two years). 8 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Darfur Peace and Development Institute for Human Rights and International Criminal Tribunal Organization Development in Africa for Rwanda Fort Wayne, IN Banjul, Gambia Arusha, Tanzania $250,000 in support of the Darfur Atrocity $395,000 in support of a project to $144,000 in support of a meeting for Crimes Documentation Project. develop litigation for the African Court prosecutors from ad hoc tribunals, the on Human and Peoples’ Rights (over International Criminal Court, and Federal Ministry of Justice three years). regional and national prosecuting Abuja, Nigeria authorities to formalize cooperation and $200,000 in support of modernizing the Institute for War and Peace Reporting information sharing. administration of the criminal justice Washington, DC system (over two years). $600,000 to train journalists and develop International Rescue Committee, Inc. objective reporting on the International New York, NY Federation Internationale Des Ligues Criminal Court in the Democratic $50,000 for efforts to respond to the Des Droits De L’Homme Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Sudan humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Paris, France (over three years). $600,000 in support of activities to Justice Development and Peace facilitate victims’ participation in the early Institute of Human Rights and Commission Catholic Diocese of cases of the International Criminal Court Humanitarian Law Ondo, Nigeria (over three years). Port Harcourt, Nigeria Akure, Nigeria $250,000 for activities to support the use $25,000 in support of a project that Fund for War-Affected of its paralegal program to document addresses human rights violations resulting Children and Youth incidences and seek redress for human from illegal and extended pretrial detentions. New York, NY rights violations by law enforcement $1,500,000 in support of the officials in Rivers State (over three years). League for Human Rights establishment of a fund for community- Jos, Nigeria driven initiatives that foster peace, justice, International Centre for the Legal $240,000 in support of a project to and reconciliation in northern Uganda Protection of Human Rights promote the right to equality and (over one year). (INTERIGHTS) non-discrimination in Plateau State (over London, United Kingdom three years). Gender and Development Action $200,000 in support of a consultation on Lagos, Nigeria the African Human Rights System Legal Aid Council of Nigeria $30,000 for technical support for women Abuja, Nigeria in the National Conference on Political Institute of Human Rights and $300,000 in support of the Reform of Reforms in Nigeria. Humanitarian Law Pre-Trial Detention and Legal Aid Service Port Harcourt, Nigeria Delivery in Nigeria (over three years). $200,000 in support of work to strengthen Global Rights transparency and accountability relating Washington, D.C. Legal Defence and Assistance Project to public oil revenues in the Niger Delta $100,000 in support of activities to build Anthony Village, Nigeria (over three years). the capacity of human rights $450,000 in support of activities to organizations in Kano state to monitor, strengthen and reform the administration document, and report on human rights International Center for of criminal justice in six states in Nigeria violations. Transitional Justice (over three years). New York, NY $250,000 to support and develop Human Rights Watch Legal Research Initiative objective radio reporting on the New York, NY Abuja, Nigeria International Criminal Court in the eastern $50,000 for the creation and $275,000 for the incorporation and part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. dissemination of a video, DVD, and still application of the provisions and photographs to document and publicize practices contained in the United Nations the human rights crisis in northern Convention into the operations of law Uganda. enforcement agencies in Nigeria (over three years). The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 9

National Human Rights Commission Socio-Economic Rights and University of California – Berkeley, Abuja, Nigeria Accountability Project Human Rights Center $400,000 in support of building the Lagos, Nigeria Berkeley, CA capacity of the Commission to implement $150,000 in support of activities to $740,000 to conduct surveys of victims in the National Action Plan for the promotion generate new strategies to document ICC referral countries and to strengthen and protection of human rights and and litigate internationally recognized the capacity of human rights document and report on human rights economic, social, and cultural rights organizations to conduct quantitative and violations in Nigeria (over three years). before national and regional courts qualitative analysis of systemic human (over two years). rights violations (over three years).

Network on Police Reform in Nigeria $175,000 in support of The Database Ikeja, Nigeria TrustAfrica Project: Supporting the Reintegration Dakar, Senegal $300,000 in support of a research and of Child Returnees of the Lord’s $74,000 in support of a survey of issues, advocacy project on abuse of human Resistance Army. rights by police in Nigeria (over two years). opportunities, and strategies for supporting African regional organizations. University of Ibadan Faculty of Law Network of University Legal Aid Ibadan, Nigeria Institutions Ugandan Coalition for the $250,000 in support of strengthening the Abuja, Nigeria International Criminal Court human rights and rule of law program. $250,000 to expand the scope of Kampala, Uganda clinical legal education and complement $130,000 to support the work of the Women’s Initiatives for Gender official legal aid services in Nigeria (over Ugandan Coalition on the International Justice two years). Criminal Court to create a network of The Hague, Netherlands Ugandan civil society organizations that $400,000 in support of activities to are knowledgeable about the Court. Nigeria Police Force support training for victims and their legal Abuja, Nigeria representatives in the ICC’s first cases $300,000 for activities to increase United Nations Office of the High and to address gender issues in national Commissioner for Human Rights collaboration between civil society and implementing legislation for the Rome Geneva, Switzerland police in Nigeria. Statute (over two years). $250,000 to support the mapping of human rights violations in the Democratic Nigerian Bar Association Republic of Congo. Women’s Right Advancement Lagos, Nigeria and Protection $300,000 for the training and sensitization Abuja, Nigeria of Nigerian lawyers on the use of regional University of British Columbia LIU $250,000 in support of Islamic Family Institute for Global Issues and sub-regional mechanisms for human Law and Practices in Northwestern Vancouver, Canada rights protection and the review of the Nigeria (over three years). Fundamental Rights Enforcement $162,500 in support of activities in Procedure Rules (over two years). northern Uganda to implement traditional justice mechanisms and coordinate them with national and international justice Redress Trust, London efforts (over two years). United Kingdom Population and $20,000 in support of a seminar and $100,000 for activities in northern Uganda Reproductive Health assistance to the ICC on protection of that facilitate the interaction of local victims and witnesses in Congo. actors and international justice efforts. Action Health Incorporated Lagos, Nigeria Social and Economic Rights $576,000 in support of the evaluation of Action Center the implementation of a sexuality Lagos, Nigeria education curriculum in public schools in $300,000 in support of the advancement Lagos State, Nigeria (over three years). of economic, social, and cultural rights in Nigeria (over three years). $430,000 in support of Family Life HIV/ AIDS Education and pre-service training of teachers in Nigeria (over three years). 10 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights Community Life Project National Commission for Colleges Lagos, Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria of Education $400,000 for work to promote the $150,000 to increase access to United Kingdom reproductive health and rights of women comprehensive reproductive and sexual $50,000 In support of implementation of whose lives are governed by Sharia’h health for out-of-school youth in Lagos the Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (over three years). State, Nigeria (over two years). curriculum.

Campaign Against Unwanted Pregnancy Federal Ministry of Health Pathfinder International Lagos, Nigeria Abuja, Nigeria Watertown, MA $300,000 in support of media education, $500,000 In support of promoting the $400,000 in renewed support of an research, and strengthening medical use of magnesium sulfate (over two initiative to improve maternal health in school curricula and teaching related to years). Nigeria (over three years). reproductive health and maternal mortality (over three years). Girls’ Power Initiative Population Council Calabar, Nigeria New York, NY Center for Communication and $300,000 in support of activities towards $30,000 to conduct research on married Reproductive Health Services scaling up the implementation of the adolescents in northern Nigeria. Bida, Nigeria national sexuality education curriculum $300,000 in support of implementation in Cross River State, Nigeria (over Society of Gynecology and of the Niger State Sexuality Education/ three years). Obstetrics of Nigeria Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education Jos, Nigeria (over three years). Global Health and Awareness $250,000 In support of reducing maternal Research Foundation mortality (over three years). Centre for Development and Enugu, Nigeria Population Activities $150,000 in support of implementation of University of Ibadan Department Washington, DC Family Life and HIV/AIDs Education in of Sociology $400,000 In support of education and Enugu State (over two years). Ibadan, Nigeria training on maternal mortality reduction $200,000 in support of building capacity (over three years). Ipas for monitoring and evaluation of sexuality Chapel Hill, NC education programs (over three years). Civil Resource Development and $400,000 in support of increasing access Documentation Centre to maternal health-care services in six Women’s Aid Collective Enugu, Nigeria priority states of Nigeria (over three years). Enugu, Nigeria $200,000 in support of activities toward $200,000 in support of a joint project with improving maternal health and Legal Research and Resource the Legal Research and Resource reproductive rights of women and young Development Centre Development Centre consolidating and people in Nigeria through the legal system Lagos, Nigeria scaling up activities to integrate (over three years). $200,000 in support of a joint project with reproductive health and rights into legal Women’s Aid Collective consolidating and education in Nigeria (over three years). Community Health and Research scaling up activities to integrate Initiative reproductive health and rights into legal Youth, Adolescent, Reflection & $175,000 to work with 10 local education in Nigeria (over three years). Action Center governments and the Kano state Jos, Nigeria government to reposition the Management Strategies for Africa $275,000 In support of Family Life and commitment to address maternal Ilford, United Kingdom HIV/AIDS Education in Plateau State mortality and morbidity through improved $300,000 In support of improving the (over three years). budgetary allocation and service delivery policy environment for the implementation (over thirty two months). of reproductive health programs in Nigeria (over two years). The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 11 12 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

For More Information about the About the MacArthur Foundation Foundation’s conservation and sustainable development grantmaking The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions Barry Lowenkron committed to building a more just, Vice President of the Program verdant, and peaceful world. In addition on Global Security & Sustainability to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we [email protected] work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make Steve Cornelius cities better places, and understand Acting Director, Conservation and how technology is affecting children Sustainable Development and society. More information is [email protected] available at www.macfound.org.

Elizabeth Chadri Program Officer, Conservation and Sustainable Development [email protected] The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Kole A. Shettima Director, Africa Office, and Co-Chair, Jonathan F. Fanton Higher Education Initiative in Africa President [email protected] 140 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1200 Chicago, Illinois 60603-5285 Raoul J. Davion Program Officer and Co-Chair, Phone: (312) 726-8000 Higher Education Initiative in Africa Fax: (312) 920-6258 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] TDD: (312) 920-6285 Mary R. Page Director, Human Rights and www.macfound.org International Justice MacArthur in India [email protected] Phone: (91 11) 2464 4006 [email protected] Brandee Butler Program Officer, Human Rights and MacArthur in Mexico International Justice Phone: (52 55) 3004 1692 [email protected] [email protected] MacArthur in Nigeria Godwin Odo Phone: (234 9) 234 8053 Program Officer, Africa Office [email protected] [email protected]

Judith F. Helzner Director, Population and Reproductive Health [email protected]

November 2008