International Development and Trade $335,000

I. Promoting Policy and Program Change in U.S. and Multilateral Institutions that Govern International Development and Trade

Center for International Environmental Law : $30,000 For its project to reform International Financial Institutions (IFI’s), designed to improve the social and environmental impacts of the IFIs, especially Export Credit Agencies, by increasing their transparency, public accountability, and sensitivity to the environment, and build the capacity of Latin American non-governmental partner organizations that join this international effort.

Center of Concern : $35,000 For support of its project, Gender, Trade and Development: New Structures for Accountability and Just Policymaking in the Americas, which aims to provide an analytically sound and empirically grounded basis for the inclusion of gender issues within trade policy and trade liberalization-oriented policies and programs.

Forest Peoples Programme : $30,000 For support of its project, Promoting Forest Peoples Rights and Interests in International Forest Policy Making, which seeks to revise international policies regarding forests with the aim of ensuring that the rights and interests of forest peoples are at the forefront of decision-making.

Friends of the Earth : $40,000 For support of its program to reform international financial institutions, which play a major role in determining the development paths of many Third World countries.

InterAction : $30,000 For support of its Democratizing the Inter-American Development Bank: Opening Plan Puebla Panama to Civil Society project, which aims to strengthen the capacity of Central American and Mexican civil society organizations to monitor and advocate for alternatives to mega-projects of the Inter-American Development Bank.

International Rivers Network : $30,000 For its Mesoamerica Project, which works with communities that would be affected by dam projects planned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), helping them to oppose environmentally and socially destructive mega-projects and to propose alternative development plans.

Public Citizen : $25,000 For support of its Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) project, which seeks to fill a vacuum in the FTAA dialogue by providing precise legal and economic critiques of the agreement, and by making this analysis available to trade negotiators as well as activists.

Sierra Club Foundation : $20,000 For the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Project, which seeks to educate the public and organize citizens at the state and local levels to work for environmentally responsible trade policies, and to help ensure that the state and local impacts of such policies influence U.S. trade policy-making.

II. Supporting Communities and Populations Directly Affected by International Development and Trade

Amazon Watch : $20,000 For general support of this organization, which works with indigenous communities to defend their traditional lands and natural resources from industrial mega-projects such as oil drilling, pipelines, and roads, by informing private investors and financial institutions about the financial risks of investing in projects that have negative social and environmental impacts.

Development Group for Alternatives Policies: $10,000 For the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART) Project, which is the U.S. wing of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, a broad-based coalition of labor, environmental, family-farm, human rights and research organizations; ART documents the impact of hemispheric trade agreements and develops alternative proposals that promote the interests of the majority of the population.

Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA): $35,000 a) Recommended for support of the Convergence of Movements of Peoples in the Americas (COMPA), a coalition of grassroots organizations and NGOs from 16 countries in the Western Hemisphere, to support its efforts to build a continental movement for just and sustainable alternatives to the current model of economic globalization ($27,000); and b) For general support of EPICA, whose activities include supporting grassroots movements for economic justice such as COMPA ($8,000).

Georgetown University Law Center - Harrison Institute for Public Law : $30,000 For the Building a Forum on Democracy and Trade Project, which seeks to strengthen the capacity of U.S. and local officials to govern in a global economy and balance the needs of democracy and trade.