GCSS LWA Consortium Partners:
Leader
Counterpart International is the Lead implementer for the LWA, and will apply its core technical competencies in: civic engagement and citizen mobilization, advocacy and oversight, institutional strengthening and financial sustainability, network building and policy dialogue with local and national governments; along with program design, evaluation, assessment and development of innovative best practices and new approaches.
Associates
The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI) will focus its expertise under the GCSS on civil society legal and regulatory frameworks and providing legal services to CSOs. ABA-ROLI will also provide experienced legal professionals—lawyers, judges, prosecutors and law professors—to work in tandem with host country legal professionals and reformers in both the governmental and nongovernmental sectors.
Casals and Associates, Inc. will implement civic participation and oversight activities, applying their expertise in working with host governments, civil society, and international donors on transparency and good governance, peace and democracy, and other sustainable development challenges.
Development & Training Services, Inc. (dTS), an 8(a) certified woman-owned SDB, will apply its innovative approaches to integrating gender and youth considerations and concerns of underrepresented populations into the design, implementation and evaluation of programs under GCSS.
Freedom House will lead consortium efforts related to democracy activists and human rights. With over a dozen offices spread over four continents, Freedom House brings a network of front-line democracy reformers to the GCSS.
The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) will provide expertise in legal and regulatory frameworks in the not-for-profit sector, and will provide technical and research assistance to support the reform of laws affecting CSOs.
The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) will implement civic education activities to promote effective citizen participation and promote the establishment of civic culture, providing the highest quality technical assistance and research to promote the active engagement of citizens with their governments.
The International Labor and Rights Forum (ILRF) is the GCSS’s lead partner for work with trade unions, and will actively fight for worker rights and labor standards through its participation in and leadership of CSO coalitions around the world, close collaboration with trade unions and other CSOs and ongoing dialogue with governments.
The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) will lead the Consortium’s media and freedom of information activities, and has global experience working with—and bringing together—media lawyers, regulators, journalists, editors and owners, advertising and other business-side managers, journalism educators, professional associations and industry organizations.
Management Systems International (MSI) leads program design and learning activities for the Consortium and will develop civil society tools and conduct civil society assessments around the world, as well as cross-sectoral large and small scale evaluations and trainings.
Resource Partners: Depending upon the direction and needs of USAID, GCSS resource partners may be called upon on a short- or long-term basis to support Associate Awards. The GCSS Resource Partners include: