The IBA Foundation, Inc, Funded Projects

The Foundation has funded a variety of programs since its creation in 1986. The following are some examples of the kinds of programs the Foundation has funded in the past five years. We hope these examples will serve as a guide to grant seekers as to the kinds of projects that fall within our programmatic areas.

• IBA Human Rights Institute’s Task Force on Terrorism (2010) The Foundation is the major funding source for research and publication of a new report on international terrorism and human rights by the IBA’s Task Force on Terrorism. The IBA’s original Task Force on Terrorism report made a significant contribution to the debate on combating terrorism, and the new report is expected to do the same.
• City University of New York Distance Learning Initiative (2009) In a follow-up project, the Foundation is contributing to costs to market and disseminate the distance learning program the Foundation previously funded to train non-lawyers at community based organizations to become accredited to assist immigrants with their applications.
• Sierra Madre Alliance (2009) The Foundation assisted SMA with funding to create and broadcast radio programs on territorial and other rights to over 70,000 indigenous people in State of Chihuahua, Mexico and thereby improve their access to justice.
  
• International Bridges to Justice(2008) To improve the administration of criminal justice in Zimbabwe, the Foundation contributed to funding to develop and publish legal skills tool kits for judges, magistrates, and defense attorneys on the new Criminal Procedure and Evidence Judicial Services Acts
• The New Family Organization for the Advancement of Family Rights (2008) The Foundation contributed to New Family’s Center of Family, Justice & Law to publish and distribute a booklet, The Guide to Inheritance Rights, to assist the 800,000 families in Israel not recognized by the religious authorities and therefore not by the state.
• The Center for Justice & Accountability (2007) The Foundation assisted with funding for a project to train 80 Honduran Prosecutors to handle human rights abuse cases. In addition to the basics of international law, investigation, and case development, the sessions also provided participants with specific examples of legal strategies  used by prosecutors, judges and attorneys for non-governmental agencies in the courts of Argentina , Chile, Peru, Spain and the United States.
• City University of New York Distance Learning Initiative (2005). Funding for the design of the information/instructional on-line training materials, to be used to train staff at community based organizations so that they can offer critically needed legal services to the expanding immigrant population in New York City and throughout the United States.
• British Institute on International and Comparative Law (2005). Funding for the preparation of sourcebook and CD-Rom of comparative materials, to help strengthen the capacity of lawyers in Commonwealth African States in death penalty cases and in the discussion of law reform.
• Legal Tools for Commonwealth Africa – Death Penalty Cases (2005). Funding for the compilation of comparative legal materials to strengthen the capacity of lawyers in death penalty cases and in the discussion of law reform.
• IBA Terrorism Task Force (2003). The Foundation contributed to the development of the report of the International Terrorism Task Force, and to the establishment of a forum for public discussion on “International Terrorism: Legal Challenges and Responses”.
• Pacific Judicial Conference (2003). Helped fund the conference to produce Principles of judicial administration in the South Pacific region.
• Organization of the Commonwealth Caribbean Bar Association (2003). Contribution to the OCCBA’s Access to Justice (Information Technology) Project. The legal aid projects of the seventeen bar member associations have been linked and the website is operational.
• IBA Committee on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Digital Book on Legal and Other Issues in Protection of cultural Heritage – The Latin American and Caribbean Experience in Context (2001-2004). Contributed to the development of the groundbreaking digital book.
• IBA General Professional Program/IBA Human Rights Institute Bar Leaders Conference (2000) Support was given to assist with the programming and educational aspects of a Conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from September 14-16, 2000, as well as to facilitate attendance from developing nations.
• CLE, Ethics and Office Management Training (1999) A grant was made to support the educational elements of the IBA African Regional Conference held April 7-10, 1999 in Accra, Ghana.