In recent years, Articulate Foundation has played a supporting role for allied organizations in adverse contexts with authoritarian drifts, helping them to coordinate and work together and to respond effectively, as well as to obtain and access international cooperation funds and to carry out their work of reflecting on the state of democracy and human rights in the Americas.
Likewise, Articulate Foundation has served as a coordination platform between donors and allied organizations to achieve important advances in the field of advocacy for democracy, human rights and citizen participation. One of the organization’s most notable features is that it has 501(c)(3) tax status from the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), which has facilitated the process of obtaining grants.
• Reports such as The Strategic Role of the UN in the Recovery of Democracy in Venezuela and Voices That Must Be Heard.
• Contributions to UN advocacy spaces to activate political rights mechanisms and promote humanitarian access.
• Development of Peace for Venezuela, a hub for sharing specialized content with the international community.
• Civil and political rights campaigns led by and for Venezuelan civil society.
• Activation of international networks during the COVID-19 humanitarian crisis.
• Launch of a directory of 170+ key actors in peace and security.
• Support for citizen-led electoral observation in authoritarian settings.
Latin American civil society organizations have benefited financially from international development cooperation through our experience, strengths and capabilities for the identification, formulation and international management of projects.
We have served as partners and representatives of consortiums of Latin American civil society organizations in more than 50 projects, providing secure environments and with the capacity to maintain transparent and auditable administrative management processes.
Countries where we have built a platform for assistance, accompaniment and monitoring of Latin American civil society organizations.
Latin American civil society organizations have been trained in tools for the defense of human rights, including the identification of violations, the documentation of cases, as well as the formal exercise of denunciation and, finally, dissemination.
