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International
Nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs) play a critical and growing role in building and sustaining
civil society, democracy, and tolerance in many parts of the world.
While most of Mosaica’s work is domestic, the organization
also provides training and individual organizational assistance internationally.
Mosaica’s international work most often focuses on emerging
nonprofit organizations and on building civil society in areas of
conflict. Some examples of this work:
- Former Yugoslavia. During the
recent civil war, Mosaica provided training programs and individual
consultation to emerging
NGOs in the former Yugoslavia. First through Refugee Women in
Development (RefWID) and later through the International Rescue
Committee (IRC)
and OXFAM, Mosaica provided training during multiple visits to
Zagreb, Split, and Slavonski Brod in Croatia, and Sarajevo, Zenica,
and Tuzla
in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Among the training topics were expectations
for NGOs throughout the world, program and organizational planning
and management, governance, leadership development, resource
development, and coalition building. Mosaica also sponsored two
young doctors
from Sarajevo in a trip to the U.S. to learn about the independent
sector, and helped in the formation of the New Bosnia Fund (NBF).
During and for several years after the War, with funding through
the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), NBF assisted
in the development of the nonprofit sector in Bosnia.
- Middle East. Since before the formation of Mosaica, its President has been
providing organizational assistance to Jewish,
Palestinian, and binational organizations in Israel that work
for social change. Mosaica continues this relationship, carried
out
through Shatil, the capacity-building center of the New Israel
Fund. Mosaica has also provided training, both
in the Middle East and through video conferences, to Palestinian
groups in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; environmental groups
from Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt; Ethiopian organizations
in Israel; and Palestinian NGOs in Israel. Mosaica provided resource
development training to Fulbright Program staff from throughout
the Middle East. Most of this work was done under the auspices
of the American Cultural Center and the U.S. Department of State.
- Afghanistan.Working as a subcontractor to Refugee Women
in Development (RefWID), Mosaica has provided training to Afghan
community schools, women’s human rights groups, and women-led
NGOs. In 1998, Mosaica provided management, resource development,
and advocacy training for Afghan refugee groups in Islamabad and
Peshawar, Pakistan. In 2003, Mosaica provided training on use of
the Logic Model for planning and report writing to women’s
NGOs in Kabul. Training materials were translated into Dari.
- Latin
America. Mosaica provided Board and organizational development
training for the Corporacion Latino Americana para
el Desarrollo. Mosaica helped prepare the Board of Directors for
an active role in resource development. The organization was involved
in constitutional and justice reform issues, and funding came from
the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Mosaica
also provided training to the Ministry of Health and nonprofit
organizations in Guatemala who were interested in establishing
an HIV prevention community planning process modeled after the
U.S. system of HIV Prevention Community Planning Groups. These
services were provided as part of a project of the Academy for
Educational Development, funded by USAID.
- Multi-Country. Mosaica
helped to rewrite a Management and Labor Leaders’ Guide and a Facilitator’s
Guide for SMARTWork (Strategically Managing AIDS Responses
Together). This international program was designed to bring
together business
and labor leaders to work with governments and NGOs to develop
and implement workplace HIV/AIDS policies and programs. The
materials were used in seven countries: Dominican Republic,
Haiti, Nigeria,
Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Mosaica did the work for
AED, with funding from the U.S. Department of Labor, Department
of
International
Labor Affairs.
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