Eurasia Foundation

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The Eurasia Foundation is a publicly funded but private-led foundation that operates exclusively in the field of post-Soviet states and was founded in Washington, DC in 1992.

Its aim is to strengthen civil society and the market economy , private entrepreneurship as well as reforms of public administration and political reforms in twelve successor states of the Soviet Union. The USAID and the British government donated 19 million US dollars for the years 2016-2012. Other governments, the World Bank and private companies such as the mining company Newmont Mining are among the sponsors. By 2003, the foundation had spent approximately $ 130 million on 6,500 projects. Loans and grants are also awarded.

The foundation also includes sub-organizations such as the New Eurasia Foundation in Russia, the East Europe Foundation in the Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation in the South Caucasus and the Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia based in Kyrgyzstan . In many of the regions supported by the foundations, information platforms were created on the Internet as alternatives to the government press. B. in Kyrgyzstan or in Ukraine . The Open City project, launched there in December 2013 , not only served to introduce Ukrainian-English street signs in Kiev , but also created a platform for bundling the activities of NGOs and citizen protests against the government of the time.

In Ukraine, the Foundation also manages the extensive resources of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation . The most important recipient of the funds in Ukraine in the period up to 2003 was the Center for Philanthropy , which was almost entirely dependent on the foundation funds . This fact is also considered to be an "obstacle to anchoring the NGOs within society".

literature

  • Sarah E. Mendelson / John K. Glenn: The Power and Limits of NGOs: A Critical Look at Building Democracy in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. New York City: Columbia University Press 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A so-called "Public-Private Partnership".
  2. ↑ http://www.eurasia.org/NewAndUpdates/TAPAS
  3. ↑ Figures are uncertain, see Andreas Umland: Western funding programs in the Ukraine. Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen, working papers and materials No. 63, December 2004, p. 25 ( PDF file online ).
  4. ↑ http://www.irex.org/system/files/u105/EE_MSI_2012_Kyrgyzstan.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.irex.org  
  5. ↑ http://eef.org.ua/index.php?page=catalog&id=29&nid=363&lang=en
  6. ^ Andreas Umland: Western funding programs in the Ukraine. Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen, working papers and materials No. 63, December 2004, p. 37 ( PDF file online ).
  7. ^ Afterword by Astrid Sahm on Andreas Umland: Western funding programs in the Ukraine. Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen, working papers and materials No. 63, December 2004, p. 41 ( PDF file online ).