Rights and Democracy - Institutional Support 2010-2012

This project represents Canada's institutional support to Rights & Democracy. Rights & Democracy uses these funds along with other donors' funding to achieve its mandate. Rights & Democracy is an independent Canadian institution created by Parliament in 1988. It has an international mandate to promote advocate and defend the democratic and human rights set out in the International Bill of Human Rights. In cooperation with civil society and governments in Canada and abroad Rights & Democracy initiates and supports programmes to strengthen laws and democratic institutions principally in developing countries. CIDA's institutional support to Rights & Democracy allows them to focus programming on women's rights indigenous peoples' rights economic and social rights and democratic development. Most of Rights & Democracy's programmes include a component to build the capacity of civil society partners or state bodies through training knowledge transfer or assistance with resources.