Building Open Societies SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK | 2002 REPORT Building Open Societies SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK 2002 REPORT OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 USA www.soros.org Building Open Societies: Soros Foundations Network 2002 Report © 2003 by the Open Society Institute 400 West 59th Street, New York, NY 10019 USA All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Contents Introduction 6 Expanding the Open Society Network President’s Message 12 Global Expansion, Advocacy, and a New Movement Regions 18 CENTRAL EURASIA 21 Central Eurasia Project 22 Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Armenia 23 Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Azerbaijan 25 Open Society Georgia Foundation 26 Soros Foundation–Kazakhstan 27 Soros Foundation–Kyrgyzstan 28 Mongolian Foundation for Open Society 29 Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Tajikistan 30 Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Turkey 31 Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation–Uzbekistan 34 SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE 37 Open Society Foundation for Albania 38 Open Society Fund–Bosnia and Herzegovina 39 Open Society Institute–Croatia 40 Kosova Foundation for Open Society 41 Foundation Open Society Institute–Macedonia 42 Serbia: photographed by George Georgiou 44 Soros Foundation–Moldova 45 Foundation Open Society Institute–Representative Office Montenegro 47 Fund for an Open Society–Serbia 48 CENTRAL EUROPE: EU ACCESSION COUNTRIES 51 EU Accession Monitoring Program 52 Open Society Foundation–Sofia (Bulgaria) 53 Open Society Fund–Prague (Czech Republic) 54 Open Estonia Foundation 55 Soros Foundation–Hungary 58 Soros Foundation–Latvia 59 Open Society Fund–Lithuania 60 Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland) 61 Open Society Foundation–Romania 62 Open Society Foundation–Bratislava (Slovakia) CONTENTS 3 64 RUSSIA AND UKRAINE 67 Open Society Institute–Russia 68 International Renaissance Foundation (Ukraine) 69 International Soros Science Education Program 70 Russia: photographed by Thomas Dworzak 74 SOUTHEAST ASIA 77 Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative 79 Burmese Refugees: photographed by Dean Chapman 80 AFRICA 83 Open Society Foundation for South Africa 84 Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa 85 Open Society Initiative for West Africa 86 Africa: photographed by Ami Vitale 90 THE AMERICAS 93 Fundacion Soros–Guatemala 94 Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (Haiti) 96 2002 Foundation Expenditures Initiatives 98 LAW, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS 101 Open Society Justice Initiative 102 Democracy Coalition Project 103 Network Women’s Program 104 Roma Programs 107 AIDS and Stigma: photographed by Eric Gottesman 108 PUBLIC HEALTH 111 Network Public Health Programs 114 Drugs and Harm Reduction: photographed by John Ranard 118 EDUCATION 121 Network Children and Youth Programs 123 Education Support Program SOROS 124 English Language Programs FOUNDA 124 International Higher Education Support Program 125 Network Scholarship Programs TIONS 126 2002 Central European University NETWORK REPORT 4 128 INFORMATION AND MEDIA 131 Information Program 132 Network Media Program 132 Project Syndicate 133 Open Society Archives 134 Bosnia Campaign Posters: photographed by Leslie Fratkin 136 Central European University Press 139 Arts and Culture Network Program 140 East East Program: Partnership Beyond Borders 141 Economic and Business Development Program 141 International Policy Fellowships 142 Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative 144 2002 Program Expenditures U.S. Programs 146 A Year of Change 149 Justice 153 Fellowships 155 OSI–Baltimore 156 Day Labor: photographed by Jon Lowenstein 158 Youth Initiatives 160 Medicine as a Profession 162 Project on Death in America 163 Program on Reproductive Health and Rights 164 Governance and Public Policy 164 Concluded Programs 165 OSI–Washington, D.C. 166 2002 U.S. Programs Expenditures OSI Offices 170 Open Society Institute 170 Open Society Institute–Brussels 171 Open Society Institute–Budapest 172 Open Society Institute–Paris 173 Open Society Institute–Washington, D.C. Application Information 174 Directory 176 CONTENTS 5 INTRODUCTION the Expanding Open Society Network SOROS FOUNDATIONS NETWORK 2002 REPORT 6 INTRODUCTION 7 The Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Soros About Our Donor Partnerships foundations network implement a range of initia- As OSI and the Soros foundations network evolve and tives to promote open society by shaping govern- expand globally, partnerships with other donors are ment policy and supporting education, media, becoming ever more significant in making possible the public health, and human and women’s rights, work described in our annual reports. In some instances, as well as social, legal, and economic reform. these partnerships involve explicit agreements with other donors to share costs. At other times, they take place The goal is to transform closed societies into open informally when another donor determines to support a ones and to protect and expand the values of project we initiated or, conversely, when we build upon existing open societies. another donor’s initiative. In a relatively small number Open societies are characterized by the rule of of cases, other donors contribute directly to one of the law; respect for human rights, minorities, and Soros foundations in support of a particular project. minority opinions; democratically elected govern- Our donor partners include: ments; market economies in which business and ½ Intergovernmental bodies such as the World Bank, the government are separate; and thriving civil societies. World Health Organization (WHO), UNAIDS, UNICEF, OSI was created in 1993 by investor and philan- the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe thropist George Soros to support his foundations in (OSCE), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Council of Europe, and the European Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Commission; Union. Soros established these foundations, starting ½ National government aid agencies, including the in 1984, to help the countries in the region in their United States Agency for International Development transition to democracy. (USAID), Britain’s Department for International The activities of the Soros foundations network Development (DFID), the Swedish International have expanded to other areas of the world where the Development Agency (SIDA), the Canadian International transition to democracy is of particular concern. Development Agency (CIDA), the Dutch MATRA program, The network encompasses more than 50 countries the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, the with initiatives in Africa, Central Asia and the German Foreign Ministry, and a number of Austrian government agencies, including the ministries of educa- Caucasus, the Middle East, Latin America and the tion and foreign affairs, that operate bilaterally; Caribbean, and Southeast Asia, as well as in Haiti, ½ American private foundations Mongolia, and Turkey. OSI also supports programs such as Ford, MacArthur, Bill and Melinda Gates, Annie E. Casey, Charles Stewart in the United States and selected projects elsewhere Mott, American Austrian, and Atlantic, the Irene in the world. Diamond Fund, Carnegie Corporation, and the German To foster open society on a global level, OSI aims Marshall Fund; to bring together a larger Open Society Network of ½ European private foundations such as the Robert Bosch other nongovernmental organizations, international Foundation, the King Baudouin Foundation, the Rausing institutions, and government agencies. At the heart Trust, the European Cultural Foundation, and the German of this growing Open Society Network are the Soros political party-affiliated foundations; foundations, OSI, and the many organizations with ½ European and American institutions that administer which OSI has formed partnerships. assistance funds obtained from their governments such as the Swedish Helsinki Committee, Press Now (Dutch), 8 Vera Institute of Justice NOVIB (Dutch), the British Council, Norwegian People’s ½ for its innovative efforts to Aid, MedienHilfe (Swiss), Freedom House (American), pursue criminal justice reform programs in such coun- the International Research and Exchanges Board or IREX tries as Russia, South Africa, and the United States; (American), the National Endowment for Democracy ½ Global Witness for its investigations of the connections (American), the Eurasia Foundation (American), and the between resource exploitation, corruption, the arms trade, International Nazi Persecutee Relief Fund (American, and severe abuses of human rights; French, and British); ½ Center for Public Integrity for promoting transparency ½ And national governments in several countries that in government and for exposing corruption; cofund programs sponsored by our foundations in those ½ local chapters of Transparency International for their countries, especially in education. work with Soros foundations on anticorruption measures; We also want to acknowledge the Baltic-American ½ Médecins Sans Frontières, the AIDS Foundation East- Partnership Fund and the Trust for Civil Society in Central West, Doctors of the World, and Partners in Health for their and Eastern Europe. OSI is not only a donor to these efforts in addressing crucial public health emergencies initiatives, but also a partner of both. that are often connected to abuses of human rights; The Open Society Institute and the Soros foundations in different parts of the world are deeply grateful to