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for support of the Campbell Collaboration Secretariat The Campbell Collaboration supports the production and use of systematic reviews of evidence in social and economic policy. Campbell develops new methods, trains, and coordinates researchers that produce systematic reviews. It also makes evidence syntheses publicly available, and develops partnerships to produce synthesized evidence that responds to the needs of decision makers, and encourages policymakers and practitioners to use this evidence.
for a film; "Half the Sky: Building Awareness of the Maternal Health Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa" None
for strengthening strategic communications capacity of new advocates for FPRH With these project funds, the Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC) proposes to work with organizations seeking to influence reproductive health funding and policies in East and West Africa to communicate more effectively with policy audiences. CCMC plans to organize workshops for local advocates to develop more sophisticated communications strategies, including by identifying target audience and tailoring specific messages, and by using evidence and multimedia tools creatively.
for support of the International Education Funders Group This grant would provide support to the International Education Funders Group, an affinity group for 69 foundations making grants to support basic education in the developing world. The Funders Group will help members to improve their grantmaking by providing opportunities for networking, learning, and collective action among foundations.
for general support of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law FROM PREVIOUS GRANT:
for support of "Supporting Stakeholders in their Advancement of the Right of Access to Information" None
for strengthening and updating internal financial systems Aúna is a nonpartisan educational platform hosted at Ruta Civica to support women, regardless of political party or affiliation, to promote collaborative leadership styles and participatory decision-making processes in democratic governance. With this grant, Ruta Civica will develop new accounting processes and software to comply with Mexico's new fiscal reporting requirements. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a project to support the Accountability Network in Mexico Centro de Investigación y Docencias Económicas (CIDE) is a Mexican public university that specializes in economic, legal, and policy research to improve public policy in Mexico. CIDE hosts the Accountability Network, a project that brings together civil society organizations, academics, media, opinion leaders, and public agencies to produce new research and diversify policy dialogue around how Mexico could develop a more comprehensive policy framework to improve public sector accountability. This renewal would permit the Network to generate more specific research to inform proposals for institutional improvements to increase accountability.
for propelling IDinsight’s strategy in East and West Africa IDinsight generates and helps policymakers use evidence to inform decision making. This grant will help IDinsight broaden and deepen its work in East and West Africa on three domains. First, IDinsight will extend its partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation in incorporating remedial education into the government’s Free Senior High School program. Second, IDinsight will identify African organizations in Kenya, Ghana, and Senegal that can serve as efficient entry points for further government engagement. Third, IDinsight will respond to opportunities with East and West African governments that align with its strategy.
for a project to support Rwanda's commitment to population and family planning None
for support of the Social Innovation and Citizen Participation Program This grant will support the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) to encourage the participation of and to strengthen the organizing skills of young people and indigenous and Afro-Mexican women to advocate for better sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in Mexico. ILSB will ensure that their voices and needs are reflected in advocacy processes and recommendations regarding the implementation of SRH services and activities to decrease unplanned adolescent pregnancies. ILSB will give a particular focus to monitor and follow up on the impact and reach of its advocacy/awareness campaigns. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for Public Agenda to administer a second year of the "Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index" None
for a project to advance decision-focused impact evaluation of development programs in Africa The Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) is an association of East African researchers who advance impact evaluations designed to inform policy decisions. The association is housed at the United States International University - Africa. NIERA will conduct impact evaluations and systematic reviews designed to inform policy issues, conduct policy outreach, and work to build impact evaluation capacity through a mentorship program and through introducing new courses in African universities. During this grant period, NIERA will also grow its membership, partnerships, and funding base.
for the Feedback Labs program Hosted by the GlobalGiving Foundation and launched with seed funding from a previous Foundation grant, Feedback Labs is a collaboration among fifteen organizations active in international development and philanthropy. The members seek to shorten the feedback loops between beneficiary populations, donors, and implementers to improve the way nonprofits, social enterprises, aid agencies, and private funders operate. In addition to staffing the collaboration, the grant will support the rapid prototyping and testing of at least two new feedback approaches, and allow Feedback Labs to explore turning the collaboration into a distinct legal entity.
for activities to ensure the participation of disadvantaged stakeholders in the trade policy arena None
for research on the impacts of US food aid reform on the shipping industry George Mason University (GMU) will conduct economic analysis of the impact of the U.S. Government's food aid reforms on the U.S. shipping industry, and their implications for the efficiency and effectiveness of U.S. food aid programs capacity to respond to needy populations in emergency and humanitarian situations. The results of this analysis will support policy makers and advocates working to improve the efficiency of U.S. food aid programs. GMU expects the results of the analysis may lead to feeding more needy people without increasing the budget.
for a project to apply design thinking to reproductive health in Zambia Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) is one of the largest family planning and reproductive health service delivery organizations in the world. This grant would support a partnership between MSI and IDEO.org to use design thinking, or human-centered design, to prototype new ways to increase the number of young people who use reproductive health services in Zambia. MSI’s program in Zambia seeks to increase the number of youth using its services, given this population’s high unplanned pregnancy rates, and this collaboration with IDEO.org is expected to provide innovative solutions for MSI to test. This project also seeks to demonstrate to the field the potential value of design thinking as an approach for increasing reproductive health services more broadly. The grant is proposed as part of the Foundation’s new strategy to use new tools and approaches to make sure that no woman has an unintended pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa.
for learning advocacy within the post-2015 development goals With this support, Women Thrive would continue its work with Global South organizations using a variety of advocacy tactics to shape the post-2015 development agenda so that the concepts of quality learning and gender equity in education are advanced. Women Thrive defines success as: (1) a stand-alone goal focused on equitable learning and (2) education and women’s organizations from the Global South showing improved advocacy capacity and directly influencing post-2015 education and learning proposals.
for enhancing performance measurement systems Organizational Effectiveness funds will support phase one of the process to develop and implement new systems for  information gathering from Marie Stopes country programs.  This will assist MSI-US with the ability to aggregate the information for reporting purposes and demonstrate Marie Stopes's global impact.
for an Executive transition With the support of this grant, the Center for Global Development will conduct an executive search for a new president, following the announcement that the founding president will step down after 14 years of service to the Center.
for strengthening a citizens' social policy observatory The mission of Iniciativa Ciudadana y Desarrollo Social (Incide) is to encourage participation of civil society organizations in policy debates, especially those related to economic and social human rights. In practice, the realization of such rights must result in effective access to, and improved quality of, basic services such as health, education, food, housing, employment, and a safe environment. Previous Hewlett Foundation support has enabled Incide to develop and nourish an online Social Policy Observatory that presents and organizes the regulations, policies, and data of social programs to assess the access, availability, and quality of basic public services—information that is key for human rights and budget watchdogs. This renewal grant will allow Incide to keep its database updated, improve public access to online data, develop special thematic reports on core services, and develop an outreach strategy to strengthen dissemination of its work.
for a project to promote inclusive and responsible natural resource management and policy design The Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies is a research and advocacy think tank based in Kampala, Uganda. The institute promotes social justice policies in the Great Lakes region of Africa through research, advocacy, capacity building, and civic engagement. This grant will enable the institute to promote regional and national policies that are responsive to the needs of communities affected by natural resource extraction. The institute will also undertake policy advocacy and communication through its journal publications and policy briefs, with a focus on elevating the voices and priorities of women, youth, and other marginalized groups in extractives policy debates in the region. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for collaborative doctoral training and research mentorship at the Population Research Institute None
for supporting civil society engagement with the Open Government Partnership The Dutch nongovernmental organization Hivos hosts the Civil Society Coordination team, an independent facilitator of civil society engagement with the Open Government Partnership (OGP). By broadening and strengthening civil society networks, the Civil Society Coordination team ensures that civil society communities at the national level are better equipped and informed to push for change and to work in partnership with their governments. At the international level, the Civil Society Coordination team also liaises with the OGP Support Unit and the Independent Reporting Mechanism to ensure that civil society interests are reflected in the OGP’s governance arrangements, strategic priorities, and public statements and events.
for a study of effective school-based HIV/AIDS prevention in resource-poor settings None
for support of the Right to Information Program A19’s mission is to promote freedom of expression and of information globally. This grant will support the Right to Information Program at Article 19’s Mexico office to promote the right to information (RTI) and access to information (ATI) in three states (Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Yucatan) and with three groups (indigenous women and rural communities; collectives; civil servants of RTI and ATI at the local and state level). A19 will raise awareness and provide training sessions on RTI with communities, local journalists, and media; provide legal assistance and follow up on freedom of information requests; develop advocacy strategies; establish dialogues with decision makers; and monitor guarantor bodies, among other activities. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for general operating support This grant to the Center for U.S. Global Leadership will support the organization’s continued efforts to build strong, bipartisan support for effective U.S. investments in development and diplomacy. Over the next two years, the Center will focus on three core objectives: 1) ensure that the next president and key administration officials will consolidate the gains that have been made, particularly with respect to improving the effectiveness of foreign assistance; 2) build bipartisan support in the 113th Congress for a smart power agenda that seeks to position aid reform as part of the solution in a time of government austerity; and 3) protect the international affairs budget. In pursuit of these objectives, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership will continue to mobilize business leaders, military voices, and development practitioners to make the case for smart, sustained investments in development and diplomacy.
for a multi-country field study of U.S. government approaches to country ownership This grant will support analysis of how U.S. development agencies define and implement aid effectiveness principles related to country ownership. The in-depth study, which includes field-based work for country case studies, intends to deepen policymakers’ understanding of differing U.S. government approaches to aligning donor assistance with partner country priorities, and relying more on countries themselves for implementation of donor-funded programs. The project will also consider the challenges faced in implementing country ownership principles, and identify practical ways of improving U.S. performance in this area.
for professional development and strategic planning This grant to GIRE will support a professional development program for key staff, and a portion of the annual all-team evaluation of the 2017-2018 strategic plan. The professional development plan includes courses for key staff to match the institutional needs, such as leadership training, public policy and reproductive rights, and use of social media, among others. GIRE will review the activities carried out in 2017 by thematic area. The work agenda will be divided into four working sessions: 1. Identify lessons (obtained results, and misaligned activities); 2. Reflection on 2018 external and institutional context; 3. Generation of work plans by thematic areas; 4. Concerns that leadership should take into account.
for the videoconferencing project This videoconferencing grant would provide the Center for Global Development in Europe (CGD Europe) with a high quality videoconferencing system in its new London office. The equipment would be instrumental in facilitating CGD Europe’s institutional growth by enabling more interactive and productive communications, both with CGD staff in Washington DC and with external partners such as the World Bank, research institutions, and donor agencies and foundations.
for support of African scholars' participation in the Working Group in African Political Economy The Working Group in African Political Economy is an association of researchers who meet each year to discuss new research in the political economy of African development. Hosted at the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, the group meets annually at rotating universities to discuss the latest scholarship on African political economy. This grant will provide the working group with resources to include the participation of more Africa-based researchers and to incubate partnerships between Africa-based and U.S.-based researchers.
for support of the East African Documentary Film Fund The East African Documentary Film Fund (Docubox) supports independent filmmakers through production grants, mentorship labs, training, and networking opportunities to create high-quality films that are used to bring about change in society. This grant will enable Docubox to develop a pilot project working with 10 filmmakers to produce films about sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) and conduct community impact screenings across East Africa. This project aims to show the power of storytelling as a tool to advance African-led SRHRJ narrative and policy change. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for organizational planning The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision makers. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the Center in transitioning to a new organizational structure, including refining the goals underpinning its new thematic program structure, institutionalizing the new structure, and clarifying the leadership roles and responsibilities that derive from the new structure.
for general operating support Publish What You Fund (PWYF) undertakes research and targeted advocacy to promote transparency and accountability in international development. Prior advocacy and technical support by PWYF has resulted in increased publication of aid data by donors. PWYF works to expand its transparency advocacy to development finance institutions and providers of humanitarian aid, and to engage its technical partners to improve the quality and use of aid and development finance information by governments and civil society. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the 2010 Women Deliver Conference This global conference of over 3,000 participants will focus worldwide attention on the urgency of Millennium Development Goal 5-reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters-and on interim and short-term solutions to improve the health and well-being of girls and women.
for continuation of internal diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonpartisan think tank that works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision makers. The center’s research and policy engagement are structured around five program areas: U.S. and U.K. development policy initiatives; global health policy; migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy; sustainable development finance; and technology and development. This Organizational Effectiveness grant will support the Center’s efforts to promote and sustain an internal culture that embraces diversity, inclusion, and equality.
for general operating support EarthRights International defends human rights and promotes environmental justice through litigation and legal advocacy, training and leadership development, and policy advocacy and education campaigns. In addition to the grassroots legal defense and empowerment work with individuals and resource-rich communities, EarthRights also pioneers international norms and standards that promote corporate and governmental responsibility for transparent and accountable natural resource extraction. EarthRights deepens the legal empowerment of resource-rich communities and individual environmental activists to enable them to protect and defend their rights and environments and promote responsible and accountable natural resource extraction in the Amazon and Mekong regions. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for a program to strengthen international data collaboratives and increase responsible data sharing The National Center for Civic Innovation serves as the fiscal sponsor for the New York University GovLab. The GovLab builds awareness and gathers operational evidence about "data collaboratives" in which participants from different sectors, in particular private companies, exchange their data to create public value. Under this grant, the GovLab will advance two goals. First, it seeks to foster more sustainable and institutionalized sharing of privately held data. Second, it seeks to build data responsibility frameworks that help data providers and users balance between the risks and benefits of using private data for public good.
for strategic planning in West Africa Ipas has a global mission to train health care providers to provide abortion services safely and advocate for improvements in the policy environment for abortion provision. This support would provide the resources necessary for Ipas to develop a new strategy for Francophone West Africa, where abortion provision is highly restricted and the quality of services available to women who might qualify as very poor. Ipas’s strategy for Francophone West Africa will consider which countries might have governments and civil society supportive to addressing the issue of unsafe abortion; identify potential clinical, research, and advocacy partners; and assess potential sources of funding for their work in the region.
for a database and analysis of evaluation research on women's economic empowerment This grant to New York University would assemble a database of research by the World Bank and Innovations for Poverty Action that assessed programs intended to foster women’s empowerment. The University would work with scholars from low- and middle-income countries to assess, harmonize, and re-analyze the studies to answer questions of how, for whom, and under what conditions programs work, and to harvest lessons to guide future research, interventions, and policy development.
for support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work 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. NRGI has started an internal process to promote the values and practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in all aspects of its work. This grant will enable NRGI to engage a DEI specialist to design and lead this process (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability).
for support to strengthen impact evaluation capacities in East and West Africa The Partnership for Economic Policy provides funding to researchers in low- and middle-income countries, and mentoring and training to help build research and policy engagement skills. With this grant, the partnership will support researchers in East and West Africa that conduct impact evaluation of government programs. Additionally, it will provide technical support to East and West African governments interested in conducting impact evaluations.