International Development and Trade $320,000

A. Promoting Policy and Program Change in U.S. and Multi-Lateral Institutions that Govern International Development and Trade

Bank Information Center (BIC): $30,000 a) For general support of this organization, which partners with civil society in developing countries to influence the World Bank and other International Financial Institutions (IFIs) to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainablility ($25,000); and b) for support of its activities in Guatemala. ($5,000)

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR): $30,000 For its global economic policy project, which seeks to change the debate over trade, development, and global economic integration on issues that are pivotal to economic and social progress of developing countries, especially for Latin America.

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL): $30,000 For its project to reform International Financial Institutions (IFIs), which aims to improve the social and environmental impacts of the IFIs, especially the Export Credit Agencies (ECAs), by increasing their transparency, public accountability, and sensitivity to the effects of their financing on human rights and the environment.

Forest Peoples Programme (FPP): $30,000 For its project, Promoting Accountability and the Implementation of International Standards on Forests and Forest Peoples, 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.

Public Citizen: $25,000 For its Global Trade Watch project, which offers a unique contribution to the trade dialogue by providing precise legal and economic critiques of the corporate-led globalization model, and by making this analysis available to the public, the media and policymakers in the United States and Latin America.

The Development Group for Alternative Policies (DGAP): $10,000 For DGAP’s activities in support of the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART), a national network of labor, family-farm, religious, women’s, environmental, development and research organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and development.

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

Amazon Watch: $30,000 For general support of this organization, which works to defend environmentally pristine areas from industrial mega-projects by building capacity among indigenous communities and by informing investors and financial institutions about the financial risks of investing in such projects.

Center for Economic Justice (CEJ): $30,000 For its Indigenous Peoples and Globalization Project, which works in collaboration with partner organizations in Guatemala, Honduras, and Chiapas, Mexico to ensure that indigenous people in these countries participate in decisions about trade policy and internationally financed development projects, and that the decisions benefit their natural environments and socioeconomic well-being.

Center of Concern: $15,000 For support of its project, Gender, Trade and Development for Economic and Social Justice in the Americas, which aims to analyze trade policy and press for structural change by documenting the impacts of trade liberalization on women and producing materials on alternatives that can be used by policy organizations.

Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean (EPICA): $30,000 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.

Friends of the Earth-Canada: $10,000 For confronting Guatemala’s Gold Rush: from the Grassroots to the International, a joint project with Ceiba in Guatemala to address the growing problems associated with the mining sector in Guatemala, by coordinating an international coalition to challenge mining in Guatemala; to engage the Canadian government and mining companies to try to mitigate the damage their activities are causing; and to mobilize a coalition to try to stop World Bank funding of mining in Guatemala until the indigenous and environmental rights issues are resolved.

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

Sierra Club Foundation: $20,000 For the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Project, which seeks to educate the public about potential environmental threats posed by current global trade rules and to organize citizens at the state and local levels to work for environmentally responsible trade policies.