The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Organisation:
The Coalition is organised under the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law. Unlike the other programmes run by the Centre, the Coalition enjoys a great deal of autonomy, since it has its own Executive Board.The Oslo Coalition has a secretariat physically situated in the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. It has access to the infrastructure, meeting and seminar rooms of the Centre. The coalition has one permanent employee: the Oslo Coalition Programme Director. At present the programme director is Barbara Sivertsen.
The Oslo Coalition works on a project basis, cooperating with partners with a similar agenda in a number of countries. The work is generally carried through by project groups. Each project group should contain at least one board member.
Funding for the secretariat and for many of the projects comes from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but participants in project groups are not paid for their time by the Oslo Coalition, unless special funding is obtained to carry out a survey or for special tasks requiring an outside expert. Project participants may however be funded by their own organisations, that support the Oslo Coalition in this way.
Funding for projects may also come from our international partner organisations.