NED · ECUADOR — 12 grants, $2.9M
Key claim: The National Endowment for Democracy has 12 active grants totaling $2.9M for democracy, governance, transparency, and human-rights work in Ecuador.
Abstract
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has 12 active grants in ECUADOR totaling $2.9M (public listing as of 2026-07-15). Grantee names are largely withheld for grantee safety (NED duty of care). Sample projects: Improving Democratic Governance and Citizen Participation in Quito ($182.6K); Exposing China’s Influence ($237.9K); Utilizing Open Data to Increase Transparency ($160.8K); Promoting Judicial Independence in Defense of Human Rights ($195.8K).
Why this matters
Ecuador joins the growing set of NED country programs mapped in this vault, adding a $2.9M/12-grant Latin America portfolio spanning municipal governance, anti-corruption transparency, judicial independence, and monitoring of PRC influence in the Andean region. It sits alongside NED’s other Latin America country pages (Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela) and helps complete the regional picture of U.S. democracy-promotion pass-throughs downstream of the $315M State-to-NED core obligation.