The Democracy Center

Over the course of two decades the Democracy Center has had the good fortune to work with and support a wide variety of progressive citizen action organizations, in the U.S. and across five continents. Here is a look at some of the groups we have worked with, including many with whom we continue to partner worldwide.

Our Key Partners

UNICEF: The global children’s advocacy organization founded in 1946 by the UN General Assembly to defend and promote children’s rights now operates in nations all across the globe. The Democracy Center has played a leading role in helping UNICEF expand and develop its policy advocacy work for children, assisting UNICEF offices from more than three-dozen countries worldwide.

The International Budget Partnership: The IBP works with civil society groups around the world to help citizens understand and impact government budget policies, a key part of the global fight against poverty. The Democracy Center has worked closely with the IBP since its founding, writing reports on issues such as Budgets and Human Rights and helping lead trainings and other projects in Latin America, the Balkans, Africa, and elsewhere. Read more our budget advocacy work here.

Institute for Policy Studies: Since 1963 the Washington-based IPS has been a widely respected leader in campaigns for peace and social justice. The Democracy Center and IPS joined together after the Cochabamba Water Revolt to help lead the global campaign that forced the Bechtel Corporation to drop its $50 million World Bank legal case against Bolivia. Today IPS and the Democracy Center work together on a set of global justice issues and are co-founders of the Network for Justice in Global Investment.

Fundación Abril: This is the Bolivian civic action group that arose in the aftermath of the April 2000 Cochabamba Water Revolt, with ongoing projects aimed to deepen public participation in water issues and other matters of basic rights. The Democracy Center has worked with members of Fundación Abril since the Water Revolt and in the fight against the Bechtel vs. Bolivia case.

Fundación Solon: Based in La Paz, Bolivia, Fundación Solon has worked since 1992 in support of a wide variety of economic justice and environmental campaigns. The Fundación and the Democracy Center work together on, among other issues, the crisis of global climate change, including documenting the experience of Bolivia as a way of raising global awareness.

Advocacy training with UNICEF in Geneva, Switzerland

Organizations We Have Trained and Supported

Organizations that have sponsored Democracy Center advocacy trainings and projects. Each of these has often involved dozens of other organizations from many different countries.

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