Project & Activities Overview

Current Projects & Activities

To realize our mission, the Foundation implements projects in Iraq that promote our vision. In addition to our humanitarian efforts, the Iraq Foundation currently has six active projects for the project year 2007, which focus on human rights, civil society, and democracy building:

Human Rights Advocacy Initiative
Women's Empowerment Project
Iraq Anti-corruption and Transparency Project

Achieved Projects & Activities

Human Rights Educaton Project (HRE)
A project that promoted human rights education throughout Iraq.

Human Rights Defenders Network Project (HRDN)
A project that set up a group of human rights advocates to monitor and report on human rights violations in Iraq.

Pledge for Iraq Project (PFI)
A project to assit the PFI campaign and implement legislation that promotes democracy and safegaurds minority rights.

Iraqi American National Network (IANN)
Capacity-building of emerging Iraqi communities around the United States.

Iraqi Community Organizing Project (ICOP)
A service program for Iraqi refugees in cities around the United States.

Iraq Civil Society Program (ICSP)
Promotion of women's participation in all facets of public life in Iraq.

Iraq Research and Documentation Project (IRDP)
Harvard University/Iraq Foundation project to catalogue Iraqi government documents.

RISE
The Revitalization of Iraqi Schools and Stabilization of Education.

Eden Again
Project to Study and Aid in the Restoration of the Southern Marshes

Voter Education Project
PDF Report (Arabic)

Human Rights Advocacy Initiative

The goal of the Iraq Human Rights Advocacy Initiative is to empower Iraqi human rights leaders—in civil society as well as in government ministries, parliament and in the media—to be better advocates for human rights. The Iraq Foundation proposes a basket of initiatives designed to consolidate Iraq’s budding human rights community into a strong, broad-based advocacy coalition pressing to hold the Iraqi government accountable for the state of Iraqis’ civil and political liberties. The initiatives will be designed and synchronized to be mutually enhancing and reinforcing.

Women's Empowerment Project

The goal of the project is to train disadvantaged Iraqi widows on a set of skills that will empower them politically, and increase their economic independence. The project also aims to enhance the Iraqi women’s understanding of their rights and civic responsibilities to be better able to participate in the democratic process and civic life.

Iraq Anti-corruption and Transparency Project

In March 2007, Iraq Foundation launched an anti-corruption and transparency (ACT) initiative in Iraq. The goal of the ACT project is to support anti-corruption efforts through mobilizing Iraqi public opinion against corruption, encouraging transparency and accountability in government, and introducing a legislative agenda to help combat corruption and promote transparency. The project wil l spread public awareness on international standards of transparency and anti-corruption through fostering the growth of national mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability and demonstrating the correlations between transparency and accountability.