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for support of Mexico Evalua's public expenditure program Mexico Evalua is a policy research center founded in early 2009 with the mission of evaluating public policy outcomes as they pertain to economic development priorities in Mexico. A new program support grant from the Hewlett Foundation would enable Mexico Evalua to continue its work to examine budgetary practices in Mexico. Building on its research to analyze public spending in critical economic sectors, the organization intends to invest considerable resources to analyze and propose improvements to institutional mechanisms and incentives that affect federal and subnational government coordination. The aim is to increase the effectiveness of spending on health, education, infrastructure, and other social programs.
for a media program to increase accountability in the health and education sectors in Uganda Uganda Radio Network is an independent, public interest news agency in Uganda. The network curates news stories and features for over 100 subscribing radio and print media houses, reaching nearly 80% of Uganda’s population. With this grant, the network will provide information and training to media partners to increase their reporting on reproductive health and environmental issues throughout Uganda. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for an analysis to scale design thinking projects The International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF) uses a rigorous analytical process to help organizations with ideas of how to solve social problems to replicate and bring those ideas to a larger scale. This grant will support the next phase of ICSF’s partnership with Marie Stopes International and IDEO.org in Zambia, which is using human-centered design to more effectively reach teens with contraceptive services. The ICSF team will provide strategic advice and analyses to Marie Stopes Zambia and develop a specific plan to, at the request of Zambia’s Ministry of Health, scale up services for teens through the public health system.
for support of applying behavioral insights to improve family planning reproductive health services This supplement grant will further IntraHealth’s partnership with Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) to increase its organizational capacity to understand and utilize behavioral science theory and methodology. Through this collaboration, Intrahealth staff in East Africa participate in a series of experiential learning workshops and apply new behavioral science knowledge, skills, and tools to advance the uptake of reproductive health services in the subregion.
for a project to increase accessibility and inclusion of staff Open Institute is a Kenyan civil society organization that works with government institutions, citizens, and grassroots groups to promote responsive governments and active citizenship. With this grant, Open Institute will make its workplace more accessible to staff living with disabilities.
for the creation of the Center for Accountability and Research This grant will help establish the Center for Accountability and Research at American University. The Center seeks to support social accountability practitioners to achieve greater impact through access to research tools, partnerships with researchers, and resources to build organizational capacity. The Center’s activities aim to bridge the gap between research and practice by providing intensive learning exchanges and joint researcher-practitioner pilots for practical research projects.
for expanding impact evaluation in Tanzania With this grant, the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), a Tanzanian think tank, will conduct a three-week training in impact evaluation for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. ESRF will also provide follow up support to participants interested in conducting or commissioning evaluations and explore expanding its own impact evaluation work.
for the Maternal, Adolescent, and Child Health program (MatCH) This grant would allow the MatCH program to expand access to appropriate contraceptive methods and other sexual and reproductive health services in South Africa and the greater region through research, training, and technical assistance. Given the region's high prevalence rates of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and unplanned pregnancy, MatCH will continue to focus on research that supports female and male condom programs and other STI and HIV prevention interventions such as medical male circumcision. In addition, MatCH will continue supporting the South African Department of Health in its HIV/STI prevention interventions.
for support of a board governance and organizational review This grant will enable the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to complete a review of its global governance structure, strengthen ongoing employee engagement activities, and offer enhanced management training. Combined, these activities contribute to ICRW’s aim to ensure the health and sustainability of the organization so that it can continue to produce and leverage research evidence that promotes gender equality and social inclusion.
for general operating support The Natural Resource Governance Institute promotes effective management of oil, gas, and mineral endowments to ensure that citizens of resource-rich countries benefit from these resources. At the country level, the institute works with local partners to provide training, technical assistance, and evidence to inform and improve policies and decisions about natural resource extraction and revenue allocation and use. The institute also contributes to strengthening international governance and transparency norms, notably the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and Open Government Partnership, and promotes uptake of those norms at the country level. The institute works in 12 resource-rich countries to accelerate the energy transition, ensure that governments get a good deal from natural resource contracts, minimize resource dependency, and address state capture. The institute also deepens implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative requirements; promotes data use by civil society, media, and citizen groups for advocacy; and generates evidence to inform reforms of state-owned extractive companies. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for IT systems planning With support from an Organizational Effectiveness grant, Bread for the World will engage a consultant to conduct an assessment of the organization’s information management needs to plan immediate and long-term investments in technology.  As Bread has grown, the organization has found itself using multiple systems to track such information as memberships, marketing and fundraising, accounting, and fund development. Bread's current system is not functional in an organization-wide capacity and makes usability across departments difficult. Community IT Innovators will assist in making recommendations to find the right software to consolidate and streamline Bread’s information systems.
for general operating support IDinsight designs, deploys, and promotes evidence-generating tools designed to help organizations combat poverty worldwide. The organization’s guiding principle is to inform decision makers’ priorities, maximizing rigor within decision makers’ budgetary, time, and operational constraints. IDinsight’s medium-term goals include (a) building long partnerships that help governments improve specific policies and programs while simultaneously building their capacity to use evidence; (b) expanding its data innovation work (including survey infrastructure that allows for quick, cheap data collection); and (c) sharing its tools and learning with others. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of the Gender and Macroeconomics Conference This grant will contribute to the Gender and Macroeconomics Conference, which will be held at the International Monetary Fund in March 2017. The grant funds will be used primarily to support travel for approximately 40 researchers from low-income countries. The conference is intended to provide a forum to discuss innovative empirical and theoretical research on gender and macroeconomics, with specific application to the challenges of developing countries. The conference will feature presentations on topics such as barriers to women’s economic empowerment, financial inclusion, gender inequality in wages and employment, and unpaid work.
for an analysis of the causes of fertility differences and population policy options in Africa None
for strengthening evaluation systems An Organizational Effectiveness grant to the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) will support a contract with Mission Measurement to create a monitoring and evaluation plan. The consultant will help IGD define anticipated outcomes and will conduct research to further test and refine the validity and 'measurability' of these impact statements.  Clearly defining impacts and establishing an M&E plan at the outset will assist in sharpening the focus and design of IGD's planned 3-year program expansion.
for general operating support Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR) is a think tank in Senegal focused on agriculture, land rights, natural resource management, and environmental issues. IPAR seeks to inform policy in Senegal and other countries in West Africa through research, capacity building, and policy dialogue among diverse stakeholders. IPAR implements its strategic plan, and advances new institutional priorities to contribute to evidence-informed policymaking in Senegal.
for support of UNFPA's advocacy program The mission of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is to promote the right of every woman, man, and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA supports countries in using population data for policies and programs to reduce poverty and to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person is free of HIV/AIDS, and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect. Engaged in programs in over 150 countries, UNFPA also undertakes advocacy and fundraising efforts to (1) foster an enabling environment that will encourage both donor and developing countries to implement the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and (2) mobilize resources to finance population and sexual and reproductive health programs in developing countries. This recommended funding would help strengthen UNFPA's advocacy efforts, including its collaborations with partners in key donor countries to improve funding for the programs it promotes. As of January 1, 2011, UNFPA has a new executive director, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin. Under his leadership, the organization will strive to generate stronger results in its core areas: population and development, reproductive health and rights, and women's empowerment and gender equality.
for a project to promote implementation of the U.S. oil and mining payment disclosure requirement This project will enable Oxfam America, as a leading member of the Publish What You Pay US coalition, to mount a broad legal strategy to promote implementation of Section 1504 of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, which creates a new global standard for oil, gas, and mining company payment disclosure.
for elevating voices of Southern CSOs in the localization discourse The Urban Institute is a research nonprofit focused on elevating the debate on social and economic issues and policies. This grant supports Urban to convene three events to consider how local partners and grantees think about the process of localization, whereby funding is increased and agenda setting authority is shifted from international actors to local actors, and what they hear when outsiders discuss them. This grant seeks to explore whether the framing by outsiders supports and strengthens such agency as local partners may have or want or whether well-intended localization efforts can be usefully rethought. This grant will not resolve the complexity surrounding localization, but it will (a) engage grantee counterparts in explaining their own diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) efforts in their local contexts and how support from their various funding sources aligns with, enhances, or distracts from their ambitions and (b) strengthen the Urban Institute’s work to support clearer thinking about how to balance and integrate sometimes competing objectives of inclusion, equity, and justice with more traditional metrics of development.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights This project aims to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights remain a priority in Africa’s development agenda beyond 2015, after the time frame for the Millennium Development Goals and Maputo Plan of Action comes to an end. As a leading sexual and reproductive rights organization, with significant success in setting agendas and initiating policy dialogues among decision makers in national governments and the African Union Commission leadership, the International Planned Parenthood Africa Regional office will facilitate consensus building among key stakeholders. The project will enhance collaborative North-South advocacy to make sexual and reproductive health and rights a high priority at the international level. Key outcomes will be a consensus by national governments, African Union Commission leadership, community service organizations, and development partners on Africa’s sexual and reproductive health priorities and how they should be addressed.
for strengthening monitoring and evaluation to improve government performance and accountability Twende Mbele, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, is a peer learning partnership of African governments and regional organizations interested in using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to strengthen government performance and accountability. The partnership aims to (a) stimulate demand to use M&E among governments, parliaments, and civil society; (b) share experience and learning in the use of M&E; and (c) support active collaboration in developing government M&E systems for a smaller group of core partners.
for support of EngenderHealth’s programs and strategy in West Africa This grant will support the work of EngenderHealth to deepen and expand its program for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Francophone West Africa. EngenderHealth will focus on its work with youth-led organizations in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo to strengthen their organizations and their impact as voices for accountability in the region. EngenderHealth is a leading global health organization working to implement high-quality, gender equitable programs that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity).
for an analysis to scale design thinking projects The International Centre for Social Franchising (ICSF) uses a rigorous, analytical process to help organizations with ideas effective in solving social problems to replicate and bring those ideas to a larger scale. This grant will support ICSF to work with Marie Stopes International-US and IDEO.org to assess which aspects of Foundation-funded work Zambia and Kenya can be brought to a larger scale. The projects ICSF will examine are those created using human-centered design to improve reproductive health services for teens in those countries.
for a digital media project to increase civic engagement in Kenya Debunk Media is a Kenyan nonpartisan media platform that uses interactive storytelling to engage readers on issues of public interest. In a context of voter apathy, heightened polarization, and democratic disillusionment, Debunk Media will launch a two-year project to reclaim trust in independent journalism and increase the civic engagement of its audience. Through their coverage of “people, politics, and pop culture,” Debunk Media will construct respectful spaces where readers discuss issues of public interest and engage directly with public officials. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a program to create a pipeline for African students to access graduate schools worldwide University of Zurich carries out scientific research and teaching in the public interest. This grant will support a program designed to decrease the barriers African students face when applying for graduate programs. The long-term aim is to increase African representation in global knowledge production and policymaking in the long run. During the grant period, the team will scale its mentorship program, professionalize teaching and communication materials, negotiate application fee waivers for candidates, and establish quarterly exchanges with other organizations working toward the same goals. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for creating a task force comprised of public and private sector development experts, from both developed and developing countries, to consider ways of improving the delivery of aid programs None
for a project to simplify and facilitate access to more complete and comparable data on aid flows None
for promoting the right to information in Mexico and globally through advocacy and legal assistance Support for Article 19 would help the organization continue its work in Mexico and around the world to strengthen access to information. In Mexico, Article 19 is working on two fronts: implementing state-level reform of access-to-information laws and using access-to-information tools to track the delivery of public services in Mexico City. With previous support from the Hewlett Foundation, Article 19 has played a critical role in strengthening proactive disclosure of public interest information and protecting the legal framework for access to information in Mexico, which has faced serious rollback attempts in recent years.
for general operating support As a long-standing member of Africa’s women’s rights movement, Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) fosters inclusive governance in Uganda that is women-centered, transformative, and accountable. Through a multi-pronged approach, FOWODE enhances the political leadership capacity of women legislators, bolsters women’s economic empowerment through gender-responsive budgeting processes, and advocates for increased access to contraception. FOWODE works to maintain its community-level social accountability work, sustain engagement with policymakers, and promote gender-equitable norms that support women’s reproductive, economic, and political rights in Uganda. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a project to apply design thinking to reproductive health in Mali This support would allow Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) to continue its partnership with IDEO.org. The current collaboration between MSI and IDEO.org in Zambia has shown promising early successes in increasing the number of young people using MSI’s services. MSI would partner with IDEO.org in Mali to uncover insights specific to the Malian context and use human-centered design to design and test innovative new programming targeting young people in Bamako and surrounding urban areas.
for support to strengthen in-country advocacy capacity This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant to Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) will support an external scan of the policy and program environment on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya to identify key advocacy entry points and opportunities.  The information will be used to develop an advocacy strategy for DSW's Kenya office.  The consultant engaged for the OE project will also help develop tools and processes so that DSW's country offices in Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda can also conduct similar external scans and develop advocacy strategies. Strengthening the advocacy capacity of its country offices is one of DSW's priorities as it implements the new strategic plan.
for support of democratic governance and feminist civil society organizations in Burkina Faso Diakonia is the joint international development organization of two Swedish churches. Its overall goal is to change the unjust political, economic, social, and cultural structures that generate poverty, inequality, oppression, and violence. Diakonia works with the most vulnerable people, local partners, and other strategic actors for the realization of the right of all to live in dignity, regardless of age, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, political belief, or religion. This grant will allow Diakonia, which has been a key player in promoting good governance, citizen participation, and democracy in Burkina Faso, to leverage its role as a catalyst for civil society action synergies, for active and responsible citizen participation, as well as for the strategic strengthening and positioning of feminist and youth movements in the country. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support Open Data Watch supports countries to realize the full potential of their national statistical systems by providing open access to high-quality statistics. The organization measures the openness of statistical data, monitors progress, and offers ways to achieve open data, including for low capacity countries. During this grant period, Open Data Watch plans to develop detailed guidelines and an interactive toolkit for governments to incorporate open data in their national statistical development strategies. It would also develop the Open Data Inventory, which would provide a publically available assessment of the coverage and openness of official statistical systems.
for general support of the African Population Studies Research and Training Program None
for the CCiudadano program CCiudadano is a program of the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology that partners with local citizen groups to improve oversight of government spending at the municipal level in Mexico. With this grant, CCiudadano will continue to provide technical assistance to partner organizations and apply research to better understand the pathways through which citizen oversight improves public service delivery.
for general operating support Since 1993, Equilibres & Populations (E&P) has pioneered the population and sexual and reproductive health field in France. It advocates for more efficient, sustainable development assistance by mobilizing French, European, and Francophone policymakers and the public to prioritize and support improved health, education, and rights, particularly for women and girls. Funding would enable E&P to maintain its focus on population challenges, particularly in Francophone West Africa, by securing continued support from the French government and other donors for sexual and reproductive health programs and by strengthening political and financial commitment to these issues from the governments of developing countries. Through its regional office in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, E&P works in six West African countries to develop and implement advocacy campaigns that advance population, gender, and adolescent issues in collaboration with local partners. E&P is also a member of the EuroNGOs, a European network of sexual and reproductive health advocacy organizations.
for support of in-country advocacy partnerships This grant will support Population Action International (PAI) to implement the Reproductive Health Advocacy Partnership (RHAP) in Zambia and Malawi. Through multiyear general operating support and sustained technical assistance, PAI partners with civil society organizations (CSOs) to invest in their institutional and advocacy capacity using a principled approach grounded in flexibility, shared learning, and mutual accountability. Through this approach, CSOs aim to advance sexual and reproductive health policies and funding at the country and regional levels. During the grant period, PAI and CSO partners seek to influence philanthropic practice by documenting and disseminating best practices from the RHAP model. (Substrategy: Local Advocacy)