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for general operating support Population Action International (PAI) and its global partners collaborate to advance the health and human rights of women, young people, and at-risk communities and strengthen a bold, diverse global sexual and reproductive health and rights movement. PAI strategically advocates for supportive U.S. policies and global actions that increase funding for and access to quality reproductive health services, information, and supplies.  (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for development of a digital monitoring and evaluation system This grant will enable the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) to build a digital platform to integrate and migrate its monitoring and evaluation processes to it; and carry out two operational planning meetings corresponding to 2018 and 2019.
for general operating support DKT International uses commercial marketing techniques to promote and distribute contraceptive and safe abortion products in 19 countries, extending the availability of these products beyond the clinical setting. This flexible support will allow DKT International to expand the marketing of contraceptives—particularly long-term methods—to doctors, nurses, midwives, and consumers through pharmacies, informal drug shops, and franchised private clinics. This grant also provides support for DKT International to enter new markets such as the Sahel region in Africa.
for collaborative doctoral training and research mentorship at the Population Research Institute The Population Research Institute (PRI) at Pennsylvania State University has trained world class population scientists for more than forty years, drawing on more than sixty faculty members for its acclaimed dual degree graduate programs in demography. PRI works in partnership with the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana (RIPS, a Hewlett Foundation grantee) to enhance the doctoral training of African scholars studying at RIPS. The recommended grant would continue support for PRI to train RIPS’ top doctoral candidates for a year at Penn State, where they receive intensive dissertation mentorship, and access to coursework in advanced methodologies currently unavailable at their home institution. Following the year at PRI, RIPS fellows return to Africa to complete their doctoral programs, carrying with them prospective research relationships that will support their early career development. The partnership has already begun to bear fruit: two of the first PRI-RIPS fellows will step into tenure track faculty positions at the University of Ghana within the next year.
for youth advocacy for effective and transparent sharing of natural resource revenues Citoyens Actifs pour la Justice Sociale (CAJUST) is a network bringing together various youth organizations and movements from Senegalese civil society that work on civic issues and the promotion of human rights. CAJUST’s vision is based on the conviction that an active civic awareness of young people and women is one of the most appropriate ways to guarantee social justice for all. Its mission is to build active citizenship in order to combat all forms of injustice and social inequality through promotion of effective and qualitative participation of young people and women in decision-making bodies; contribution to democratic and transparent governance of natural resources and public goods; and promotion of respect for human rights and protection of vulnerable groups. With this grant, CAJUST will work on enhancing an effective distribution of revenues from the mining sector by requiring both the government and operating companies to comply with their obligations for the benefit of communities and local development. CAJUST seeks also to foster transparency mechanisms in oil and gas revenue management through advocacy for publication of data relating to oil and gas revenues. Because the implementation of this project involves much advocacy and campaigning, CAJUST will use part of this grant to strengthen the capacities of their members to implement effective and efficient public facing, media and social media advocacy and campaigning. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for fundraising planning Global Integrity plans to use the Organizational Effectiveness funds to support a consultancy to help assess and improve systems, processes and practices for funder relations and development,.  This will improve their ability to diversify and improve the sustainability of our sources of funding. The consultancy will help the organization to learn about, establish and utilize more effective systems and processes to identify funders, cultivate relationships with prospects, solicit a broader set of funders and steward funder relationships.   The consultancy will produce a detailed development assessment, a 12-month development workplan, and related coaching and advising of GI staff.
for a strategic and financial planning consultancy Controla Tu Gobierno is a Mexican watchdog organization that partners with community associations to monitor public infrastructure and service delivery. Over the next year, they will engage a consultant to develop a strategic plan and accompanying fundraising strategy.
for general operating support The Center for Global Development is an independent "think and do tank" that works to reduce global poverty and inequality. The Center melds rigorous research with strategic communications and engagement with the policy community aimed at influencing policy change in areas such as foreign aid, trade, debt, migration, climate change, global health, and education. During this grant period, the Center expects to place particular attention on informing and shaping the evolving global development agenda, including the next round of global development goals to be agreed upon by the international community in 2015; and encouraging innovations in development finance instruments.
for the design of a behavioral insights research project to improve civic monitoring platforms The Behavioral Ideas Lab, Inc. (ideas42) is a research organization and network of behavioral scientists that partners with governments, foundations, and civil society organizations to address social problems with behavioral insights. In this project, they will identify the trade-offs of potential models for a research collaborative to study the application of behavioral insights to increase the responsiveness of public officials to reports from civic monitoring platforms.
for support of efforts to improve impact evaluation practices This grant will build Innovations for Poverty Action staff capacity to engage with decision makers in long-term partnerships and to focus on the needs of decision makers in creating and sharing rigorous evidence in two countries.
for a project to present evidence and recommendations for the post-2015 global development framework The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to eliminate poverty will be revised in 2015 and replaced with a new framework for international development.  The objective of this grant to the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is to prepare and share relevant and timely information about the process and politics of the global discussion on a post-2015 development strategy.  Ultimately, this information will be of use in enabling civil society organizations and those who support them to influence the outcome of negotiations by helping them strategize and coordinate more effectively to ensure that a post-2015 agreement is appropriate to the problems of global poverty and enables and facilitates positive changes in the lives of poor people.  ODI is Britain's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues and is well positioned to undertake this work because of its strong expertise, links with key European and UN actors, and range of partnerships on the post-2015 agenda.
for support of in-country advocacy partnerships This grant will support Population Action International to partner with civil society organizations to provide funding and assist them in developing locally led and owned advocacy campaigns and strategies in support of more funding and better policies for family planning and reproductive health. Over five years, PAI will expand and deepen their advocacy work and partnerships, and further support the growth and development of strong civil society champions. It can also help the in-country advocacy organizations connect effectively with global-level processes and opportunities. PAI intends to focus on the in-country advocacy work in Zambia and Malawi, two of the priority countries identified in the current strategic plan.
for redevelopment of website and social media presence Over the past sixteen years, the Water Integrity Network has grown into a mature and well-respected NGO working closely together with its partners to place the issue of integrity in the water and sanitation sector higher on the global agenda. WIN had achieved meaningful results on the ground in a number of countries and organizations. WIN has recognized that the task of building integrity takes time and commitment. As a small organization, WIN has created a niche for itself as a catalyst for the promotion and implementation of integrity actions in the water supply and sanitation sector. They rely strongly on their partners and other stakeholders as they strive together to achieve integrity. This grant is to support the redevelopment of their website and social media presence as part of the objective 4 of their current strategy which is aims at the organizational development of the Network
for support of executive transition The Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria (CIEP) A.C. is a think tank in Mexico that contributes to the public debate and decision making on economic and public finance issues. This project will support executive coaching and board strengthening.
for support of applying behavioral insights to improve family planning reproductive health services This grant will enable IntraHealth International to partner with Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) and the Ugandan Ministry of Health on a project to address behavioral barriers to family planning uptake in the eastern region. Through this collaboration, IntraHealth aims to identify priority behavioral problems, and design and adapt a proven behaviorally-focused intervention that can be scaled in public health facilities that provide family planning services. The partnership includes capacity building to equip IntraHealth with behavioral science knowledge and skills that can be integrated in strengthening the quality and utilization of family planning services in Uganda and across the global network.
for the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium to produce research on issues of trade, development, and poverty alleviation None
for demographic training, research and policy dissemination in sub-Saharan Africa None
for a project to increase youth access to abortion services This grant would allow Ipas to test a new model for increasing the availability of quality reproductive health and safe abortion services for young women in Zambia and Sierra Leone. In Zambia, Ipas will focus on community activities designed to ensure that young women have the knowledge, skills, social support, and care in their communities to prevent and manage unwanted pregnancies. In Sierra Leone, Ipas will strengthen links between communities and health facilities and increase the capacity of the public health sector to provide quality reproductive health services for young women, including post-abortion care and post-abortion family planning.
for general support and a trade and development advocacy project to benefit women in poor countries None
for better measurement of evidence-informed decision making The Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE) is a new research organization with the mission of reducing poverty and inequality in Africa and South Africa through the use of evidence. With this grant, the team will synthesize and advance knowledge on using evidence to strengthen policy implementation, explore ways to measure the use of evidence in both policymaking and policy implementation, and assess how gender issues can be more effectively incorporated into evidence to policy efforts. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for the videoconferencing project IntraHealth International strengthens the skills of health workers and improves health systems in developing countries to allow each to be better able to meet the needs of the communities they serve.  This grant to IntraHealth would support  installation of videoconferencing equipment in its Dakar, Senegal office -- equipment that would directly benefit Hewlett Foundation-funded IntraHealth projects based in Senegal. This grant builds on a successful videoconferencing grant awarded to IntraHealth in 2012 to install similar equipment in its Nairobi, Kenya office. The organization has videoconferencing equipment in its Chapel Hill, NC and Washington, DC offices, which will allow staff in the organization's United States offices be able to more effectively communicate with staff in East and West Africa.  Creating this fourth video conferencing hub in Senegal for IntraHealth will also reduce the need for staff travel to and from the United States and strengthen IntraHealth’s global communications infrastructure.
for the Global Economy and Development program The Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution undertakes research and dialogue activities to shape the policy debate on how to manage globalization and fight global poverty. This grant would support the program’s work in three areas: 1) aid and development policy, with a focus on informing the Post-2015 global development goals; 2) African economic growth and development, with a focus on regions experiencing a continued and rapid growth trajectory; and 3) inclusive growth for development, with a focus on the role of global institutions.
for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab's website redesign An Organizational Effectiveness grant to Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) will support a project to redesign the J-PAL website, including re-branding, technical updates and improved user experience. Hewlett will support J-PAL's discovery and planning work to ensure the new website is effective communication tool for researchers, policymakers and J-PAL partners and staff.
for technical assistance to the Open Government Partnership Reboot will facilitate the co-creation of action plans with public officials and civil society organizations in Sekondi­Takoradi in Ghana and Elgeyo-Marakwet County in Kenya to address governance and service delivery challenges as part of the Open Government Partnership subnational pilot.
for general operating support She is More Than is a women-focused organization in Uganda that supports victims of sexual violence and women in general by providing psychosocial support to women and teen girls. The general activities of the organization include an economic empowerment program for female victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking in Uganda, and also increased community engagement with local decision makers providing public services in the Wakiso district of Uganda.
for communications coaching The organizational effectiveness grant would support an executive transition at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), one of core research grantees of the Global Development and Population Program.  Wendy Baldwin was recently hired as President of PRB.  As President, her mandate includes   maintaining the core strengths of PRB while broadening support for the work and expanding areas in which it works.  Funds will support the President and PRB's senior staff to work with a consultant to craft messages about PRB’s capabilities in ways that appeal to potential donors, including smaller foundations and individual donors, and other partners to strengthen its base of financial support and develop new program areas.
for general operating support This grant to UK Citizens Online Democracy, or mySociety, builds on previous research on the effects of civic technologies on behaviors of citizens and public officials. During this grant period, mySociety will focus on inclusive participation and government responsiveness to requests from citizens, using platforms like Alaveteli, which tracks access to information requests, and FixMyStreet, which enables municipal governments to track and respond to service delivery complaints from citizens.
for support of self-care for sexual and reproductive health This grant to Population Services International will support the Self-Care Trailblazer Group to expand its field-building activities to promote user-controlled sexual and reproductive health services. Co-funded with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, this project brings together advocates, researchers, and other stakeholders to promote and study user-controlled sexual and reproductive health care. This grant is a bridge to allow for continuity of programming while planning together for a larger next phase to begin in early 2024. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy under the outcome on innovation in service delivery for equity. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for using agriculture data to improve agriculture policy in Senegal 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 and dialogue among diverse stakeholders. This grant will support a partnership with the Senegalese national statistical agency to collect, analyze, and publish agriculture data, and use these data to inform agriculture policy.
for support to strengthen ACET's Gender Equality Program As a pan-African economic policy institute, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) supports sustainable and resilient growth in Africa. Through its Gender Equality Program, ACET aims to embed a gender-responsive lens in economic policy formulation. Over the next few years, the Gender Equality Program will develop the African Transformation Report on Gender Equality and support African governments in designing gender-responsive macroeconomic policies and implementation models. This flexible program grant will enable ACET to deepen these focal areas, including sustained, meaningful engagement with policy actors and civil society. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)
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: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for general operating support The International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) mobilizes a global network of experienced lawyers and law firms to provide pro bono services to developing countries to strengthen their legal, regulatory, and enforcement frameworks. ISLP also assists local activists and civil society organizations to navigate the legal terrain and participate effectively in decisions affecting their communities, especially decisions involving natural resource management and associated investments, trade, and tax policies. ISLP’s programmatic priorities include deepening its engagement in Guyana, Malawi, and Zimbabwe, and developing new tools for advancing just, inclusive, and accountable development.
for general operating support With this support, Global Integrity would continue to produce the Global Integrity Report, and Africa Integrity Indicators, disseminating information about how countries are performing on measures to improve governance and transparency. This support would also contribute to their work on using technology to support research on issues related to corruption, open government and open data in both their Washington, D.C., and South African offices. They would also continue to coordinate the operations of the Open Government Hub, a working space in D.C. that is home to twenty-eight organizations working on issues related to improving government transparency and accountability.
for support to the Global Goals for Local Impact project The Global Goals for Local Impact project, coordinated by the Open Institute, will inform Kenyan citizens in six villages about their government’s commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals, and facilitate citizen engagement in the prioritization and implementation of development policies and public services. The project builds on a 10-month pilot in Lanet Umoja in north Nakuru County, which increased citizen engagement and local government responsiveness to the demand for clean water.
for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative The Transparency and Accountability Initiative, hosted by Proteus Fund, is a donor collaborative that coordinates research and exchange among transparency and accountability donors. This grant will support implementation of a new three-year strategy to increase members’ collective impact by facilitating collective action around four streams of work: (a) data use for accountability, (b) taxation and tax governance, (c) strengthening civic space, and (d) learning for improved grantmaking.
for support of the Bretton Woods Project's Gender Equality and Macroeconomics Project This grant to ActionAid UK will support the Bretton Woods Project (BWP) and its partners. The Bretton Woods Project focuses on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to challenge their power and open space for civil society and social movements to contribute to the development of policies that are gender transformative, equitable, environmentally sustainable, and consistent with international human rights norms. This grant will challenge the ways in which macroeconomic policies promoted by international financial institutions, particularly the IMF and the World Bank, undermine gender equality and women’s rights. BWP will work in partnership with the Gender and Development Network and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of IEJ’s cross-cutting feminist and intersectional analytical program work The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) seeks to advance economic justice by collaborating in the provision of rigorous, accessible research and policy alternatives that empower progressive social actors to create systemic change across Africa. To achieve this mission, IEJ applies a feminist and intersectional analytical lens across its programmatic and organizational work. Over the next few years, IEJ aims to strengthen African feminist economic research and policy networks by bolstering feminist economic analysis, teaching, and policies, as well as the structural positions of feminist scholars and policy influencers. This flexible program grant will enable IEJ to deepen these focal areas. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)