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for improving the quality and transparency of public spending in states and municipalities of Mexico A renewal grant to the Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) would enable the organization to continue producing original data (and continue using its pioneering methods of gathering it) on state- and municipal-level public budget and accounting practices in Mexico. The information that IMCO has produced with previous Hewlett Foundation support has been broadly disseminated and has been credited with sparking sustained public debate on government expenditures in Mexico, as well as having an impact on federal- and state-level budget practices. IMCO would produce two budget indices: one to measure the degree of budget discretion in all thirty-one Mexican states and the federal district of Mexico City, the other to focus on municipal-level spending. The data will provide evidence that diverse constituencies can use to press for better state- and municipal-level budget accountability in Mexico. Finally, the project will track and press for implementation of Mexico's reforms to standardize state-level accounting practices.
for strategic and communications planning This grant will help Global Citizen Year develop a strategy to scale their fellowship program to provide many more youth an opportunity for a bridge year experience in the developing world between high school and college. It will also help the organization to craft a communication strategy that will support these efforts.
for research and dissemination of the economic impacts of population and reproductive health With this grant, the Population Reference Bureau would work to increase the salience and impact of research funded under the Population and Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov) among policy audiences, including policymakers from developing countries, the media, and advocacy organizations. Since 2005, the Foundation and other funders have supported more than 100 research projects on the links between reproductive health, population dynamics, and economic development. The Bureau intends to enhance the researchers’ capacity to develop and communicate policy messages, create and disseminate research syntheses, and organize consultations at key venues to ensure findings from the Population and Poverty Research Initiative’s research can inform development policies.
for the global campaign for aid transparency Friends of Publish What You Fund seeks to foster greater openness and accountability in international development. In collaboration with Publish What You Fund, a UK-based public charity and other partners, Friends undertakes research and targeted advocacy to promote aid transparency in donor and recipient countries. Prior advocacy and technical support by Friends and partners has resulted in increased publication of aid data by donors. With this grant, Friends will advance three objectives: increase the visibility of aid data in partner countries; improve data quality; and promote use of aid data for budget planning and civic engagement in partner countries.
for family planning social marketing in Nigeria DKT has recently decided to start a program in Nigeria, where the current low level of use of family planning products has remained unchanged for more than ten years. The products will be distributed primarily through commercial channels and promoted widely using mass media and promotional activities in the community. DKT is investing $1 million of its own resources to start the Nigeria program; Hewlett funds will extend the reach of this program and help DKT attract other donor funding. This project grant reflects the Global Development and Population Program’s new emphasis on increasing the use of family planning services in countries such as Nigeria, where the current rate of use has recently stalled or plateaued.
for learning advocacy within the post-2015 development goals This grant would accelerate the momentum Women Thrive Worldwide and partner organizations in the Global South have generated to add learning and gender equity indicators to the post-2015 development framework. Women Thrive itself will be involved in advocating for the inclusion of equitable learning in a new framework, and it will work to amplify the voices of Global South organizations as it mobilizes key donors, governments, and citizen groups globally, in and outside the education sector, to influence the goal-setting process.
for a project to develop an online tool to simulate changes in tax policy in Mexico The Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria is a young nonpartisan think tank dedicated to informing public debate on fiscal and budget policy in Mexico. With this grant, the Centro will use public information to create an accessible, web-based tool that will simulate the effects of various changes to Mexico’s tax policy on the overall public budget. Simulations will model the fiscal impacts of declining oil revenue and an aging population, among other factors. The project will educate stakeholders on the importance of taking into account how Mexico’s public income is currently composed, and the risks associated with continued reliance only on existing revenue streams that will not be able to sustain current public spending practices over time. The results of the analysis will contribute to public education campaigns on the need for fiscal reform to improve Mexico’s overall financial health in the coming years.
for the BREAD development economics research network's activities on population/reproductive health The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is comprised of renowned economists working on population, poverty, and global development issues. Hewlett Foundation funds would enable African scholars to participate in the full range of BREAD’s activities, making it possible to include young faculty members and senior scientists in discussions of research, policy, and program improvements aimed at the developing world. In each year of the grant, two conferences will be organized, at which innovative research in the economics of population and global development will be presented and discussed. Select African scholars will also have the opportunity to collaborate with one or more BREAD members during extended visits to develop their research and analytical skills.
for general operating support of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais' Center for Development and Regional Planning None
for board development and other capacity building activities This grant will allow Equis to continue its institutional strengthening plans in five ways: strengthening of its Board of Directors; leadership training for Coordinators; design and implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system; capacity-building for staff on digital security and internal communications; and media training for spokespeople in the organization.
for the BREAD development economics research network's activities on population/reproductive health None
for the Natural Resource Charter project Hosted by the Revenue Watch Institute, the Natural Resource Charter provides guidance to governments, companies, and civil society groups for improving the governance and management of oil, gas, and mineral resources. Organized as a set of principles drafted by expert researchers and practitioners, the Charter establishes a global standard of best practice and serves as a planning tool for improving the use of natural resource wealth. This phase of the project would focus on (1) updating and expanding the Charter’s policy recommendations; (2) developing a framework that resource-rich countries can use to assess their progress in implementing the Charter’s principles; and (3) supporting civil society groups advocating for the Charter’s adoption in their countries.
for dissemination activities related to QEDC evaluations This grant to Results for Development Institute would enable them to translate the findings from evaluations of interventions in early-grade literacy and numeracy into actionable lessons and tools for practitioners, policymakers, donors, advocates, and researchers.
for the implementation of a civil society assessment of student learning in East Africa This grant to Hivos would provide continued support to Uwezo, a large-scale civil society assessment of student learning in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. In 2010–11, Uwezo mobilized volunteers across the region who collectively assessed over 145,000 children in reading and math. The results have sparked national, regional, and global debates about the magnitude of the learning crisis for schoolchildren. This renewal grant would support the ongoing and successful efforts to collect, analyze, and communicate the results of the nationwide learning assessment to stimulate citizen action and oversight in education and policy reform that supports improvements in student learning in East Africa.
for the Financial Transparency Coalition The Financial Transparency Coalition is a program of Third Sector New England that brings together civil society organizations, researchers, and technical experts from around the world to collaborate on research and advocacy to strengthen oversight and reduce secrecy within the international financial system. The coalition seeks to close taxation, accounting, and other financial loopholes that facilitate illicit outflow of revenues from developing countries. This grant will enable the coalition to foster greater collaborations among its members; strengthen taxation and accounting norms, standards, and practices, notably automatic exchange of information and beneficial ownership transparency; and promote the adoption and implementation of these norms, standards, and practices at the country level. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for work in developing countries with women's groups to ensure policies and interventions benefit the poor None
for the Enabling Evidence-Informed Development Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa project The African Institute for Development Policy aims to bridge the gaps among research, policy, and practice by enabling use of evidence in government decision making around development challenges. The Enabling Evidence-Informed Development Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa project has two goals: (a) to strengthen African governments’ technical capacity to use evidence to take advantage of the potential demographic dividend through changes in policies and practices and (b) to increase uptake of evidence by African parliamentary committees to strengthen their decision making and policy oversight.
for general operating support Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is a feminist pan-African organization building feminist leadership and collective power to deconstruct intersectional systems of oppression and advance gender justice. Under its new strategic plan, AMwA aims to scale up feminist activism on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Africa to secure better outcomes for women, girls, and gender-expansive persons. AMwA aims to deepen partnerships in Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Rwanda, and Ethiopia and at the regional and global level to mobilize a critical and growing mass of feminist advocates that actively supports intersectional SRHR activism. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a workshop on lessons learned in the conduct of large scale global health program evaluations This grant will support the Institute of Medicine with the National Academy of Sciences to plan and convene a two-day public workshop on "Lessons Learned in the Conduct of Large Scale, Complex, Multi-National Global Health Program Evaluations". The goal of this workshop is to capture and share the state of the art in evaluation science and to inform the planning and implementation of future large scale evaluations.
for support of an African Common Position on the post-2015 development agenda This project will support the development of an African Common Position on the post-2015 development agenda. Building on the report of the High-Level Panel on the post-2015 development agenda, a Secretariat will be established at the African Union to support Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as she works with African heads of state to analyze African development priorities, and assess the implications of post-2015 development goals for the region. The creation of a unified African voice on the next round of international development goals will help to ensure the relevance of the post-2015 agenda to the African context, and will increase the chances of successful negotiations among U.N. member states. The United Nations Development Programme will provide technical support to the African Union for this purpose.
for continued consolidation of an international program to promote government transparency The Sunlight Foundation works to help citizens better understand what government is doing. While Sunlight has traditionally focused on the United States, their international work, initiated in 2013 with a grant from the Hewlett Foundation, supports the work of similar civil society organizations around the world, including those seeking to improve parliamentary transparency and public access to information about how elections are financed.
for development of organizational structures Sunbird AI is a new nonprofit organization in Uganda focused on translating artificial intelligence and data technologies into usable products for societal good in Africa. This operational effectiveness grant will allow Sunbird AI to strengthen several elements of its governance and internal management systems in its a start-up phase. Institutional development of Sunbird AI advances goals under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy, especially to strengthen African institutions that work closely with governments to apply advanced data analytics to decision-making.
for emergency funding for Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial, a rural education program in Honduras This grant will provide emergency funding to Bayan Association to implement the SAT program (Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial) in Honduras, which is a low-cost rural education program that promotes critical thinking, developed by QEDC grantee FUNDAEC.  QEDC is currently supporting an impact evaluation of the program through the University of California at Berkeley’s Center of Evaluation for Global Action (CEGA) and recommends emergency support to Bayan to ensure the program continues during the life of the evaluation.
for a project to develop an online tool to simulate changes in tax policy in Mexico This grant will allow the Center to complete the development of its fiscal simulator, a public, Web-based tool that enables citizens to model different fiscal scenarios encompassing 95 percent of federal income and 90 percent of the federal expenditure. Given the recent energy reform, the fall in international oil prices, and the demographic dividend, the Center will develop two thematic modules within the simulator to analyze oil resources, as well as public expenditures in education, health, and the pension systems. The Center will also develop three reports: two separate reports that provide an analysis of expenditure in education and health and its relationship with the quality of the service, and a third report on expenditure in the pension system and its relationship to the demographic dividend.
for general operating support This grant will provide flexible resources to the International Women’s Health Coalition to advocate for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls around the world. During the grant period, the coalition plans to prioritize three objectives: (a) strengthening leaders and women-led organizations in developing countries advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights; (b) pressing governments and the United Nations to adopt policies and programs that advance women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and holding them accountable for implementation; and (c) generating knowledge and providing thought leadership to inform advocacy, policymaking, and programming on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for a pilot project to promote financial transparency among a group of international donor agencies None
to develop a targeted outreach and advocacy campaign to promote subnational governance reforms in Mexico Global Integrity is a DC-based, non-governmental organization that generates, synthesizes, and disseminates credible, comprehensive and timely information on governance and corruption trends around the world.  

Global Integrity has carried out fieldwork assessing the existence and effectiveness of anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability mechanisms in more than 100 countries around the world, including in some of the most challenging environments (Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, China, and Vietnam, to name a few).   The organization's Integrity Indicators approach and methodology have been described as "best practice" by the World Bank, and Global Integrity has been awarded prizes from Ashoka, The Elders, and Internews for its unique and impactful approach to stimulating evidence-based governance reforms.

Although this proposal is for a planning grant only, the ultimate objectives of an eventual full-blown sub-national project in Mexico are to:

1)	STIMULATE EVIDENCE-BASED REFORMS BY NATIONAL AND SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS IN MEXICO THAT ADDRESS IDENTIFIED SUB-NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION WEAKNESSES.

2)	 INCREASE MEDIA AND OTHER KEY STAKEHOLDERS' (GOVERNMENT, NGOS, PRIVATE SECTOR, ACADEMIA) AWARENESS OF SUB-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES IN THE COUNTRY. 

3)	 THROUGH KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER TO LOCAL STAKEHOLDERS, ENHANCE THE CAPACITY OF IN-COUNTRY GROUPS TO ADVOCATE FOR INCREASED GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY AT THE SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL.  

4)	 DISSEMINATE BEST PRACTICES AND PRAISE LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOR SUCCESSFULLY ADVANCING THE AGENDA OF GOOD GOVERNANCE, WHEN MERITED.

The immediate outcomes of this proposed planning grant are: 1) To formalize a relationship with one or more local partner groups in Mexico with the skills, reach, and relationships to effectively carry out the requisite state-level data gathering and follow-on outreach and advocacy; 2) Agree upon project scope and advocacy objectives with a local partner and a local steering committee, including a detailed full project budget covering all project stakeholders; and 3) Develop a set of specialized Integrity Indicators for the state level in Mexico that would then be applied and gathered by the local partner group during full project implementation. (New, $10,0000/1; 100% of project budget)
for support of IT and internal communications systems upgrades 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 has grown significantly in the last five years and the manual data management systems are no longer serving their needs efficiently. This grant will enable them to upgrade their data management systems to increase efficiency, reliability, and data security. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability).
for a project to promote Africa’s voice and positions in international tax dialogues The African Tax Administration Forum is a platform that promotes mutual cooperation among African tax authorities. The forum seeks to build efficient and effective tax administrations in the region toward a goal of ensuring that governments have adequate resources from domestic sources to provide basic public services to their citizens. In addition to boosting domestic revenues and strengthening policies that support inclusive development in the region, the forum’s global program provides a unified voice for African countries in international tax debates and norm-setting processes. This grant will support the forum’s regional training and peer learning activities and the global advocacy program.
for the videoconferencing project A videoconferencing grant to the Sunlight Foundation will improve communication among internal staff and with external partners, in particular with international groups.  Sunlight Foundation currently has staff in several locations across the US, including staff at its main DC office, a team in Boston as well as colleagues in New York and Colorado.  The need for videoconferencing equipment has also increased as Sunlight has expanded its international work and is increasingly communicating with international partners.

The communication needs of Sunlight staff aren’t met by conference calls as staff often want to incorporate websites and online presentations.  As a result, staff most often use Google Hangout or Skype to communicate.  Even then there are limitation as these types of tools aren’t meant to support presentations or website links.  Sunlight staff have found workarounds to address the needs of their meetings, but this drains staff time, and the videoconferences they have patched together run into technical problems and often suffer from poor audio quality.  Professionalizing Sunlight’s videoconferencing capabilities with greatly reduce the costs to staff and facilitate better communication and collaboration with partners.
for continuation of Data2X, including big data pilots This supplement supports big data pilots and partnership building activities of Data2X, a project to improve global gender data by connecting gender experts with large producers of data and organizations that establish data standards. With this grant, Data2X would expand its capacity as a coordinating body and platform for the execution of each of its six gender data partnerships, ranging from improved civil registration and vital statistics to better measurement of work and labor force participation. The Data2X secretariat, hosted at the United Nation Foundation, will technically guide and administer the work, which is intended to improve the availability, quality, and use of gender data for decision-making, as a part of the post-2015 framework and beyond.
for development of a human capital performance evaluation plan Mexico Evalua is a Mexican think tank that makes evidence-based policy recommendations. Its work is aligned with the fiscal transparency sub-strategy in the Transparency, Participation and Accountability strategy. This grant will enable Mexico Evalua to design and implement a personnel performance evaluation system. This system will allow them to create a career pathway strategy by implementing an institutional incentive program based on employee performance. This will increase México Evalúa’s operational efficacy by enabling an organizational culture characterized by continual learning, career development and job satisfaction.
for a pilot project to build capacity for evidence use in Ghana The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is an advocacy think tank that seeks to advance democracy, good governance, and inclusive economic growth and development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant, the center will pilot and test approaches to enhance the capacity and incentives of government policy actors to use data and evidence for policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation in three districts in Ghana. CDD-Ghana will strengthen connections and coordination across the emerging community of actors advancing evidence-informed policymaking in Ghana.
for building a grassroots women leaders' Internet platform This grant would improve and expand a digital communication platform that supports networks of grassroots women’s leaders and amplifies their voices locally, regionally, and around the world. World Pulse and linked sites offer news of program, policy, and strategies by and for women; tools to improve their local and national action and advocacy; and action networks that are functional for users with limited Internet capabilities.