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for travel support for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The partnership brings together government, private-sector, civil society, and international institutions to harness new and traditional sources of data to better understand and address development challenges. During this grant period, the partnership will advance its three goals to (a) drive political change, elevating the importance of data production, access, and use for decision making; (b) address data challenges at the country level through multisectoral collaboration; and (c) foster trust across its diverse constituencies to help overcome barriers to data access and use. This grant is to support travel costs of partnership members from the Global South and civil society organizations to attend global and regional events of importance to the partnership.
for Phase I implementation of the Foundation Working Group on Food and Agriculture Policy initiative A group of large U.S. foundations (including Gates, Rockefeller, Packard, Ford, and McKnight) with an interest in U.S. farm policy from a variety of perspectives, the Foundation Working Group on Food and Agriculture Policy (FWGFAP) agreed in June 2010 to launch an eight-year initiative, the Initiative on Food and Agriculture Policy, targeted at the U.S. food and agriculture system as a whole, to be managed by the Meridian Institute. Hewlett has been active in shaping the group’s thinking over two years of deliberations and is ready to pass on what it has learned about U.S. farm policy to other funders. The Foundation’s contribution will support the initial research phase that will help set the terms of the overall initiative. This grant will allow the Foundation to exit responsibly from this area of work while at the same time enabling other foundations to pick up where Hewlett left off.
for radio PSAs and other rapid media response to Ebola outbreak in western Uganda The Uganda Radio Network (URN) produces content and programming for local radio stations in Uganda, reaching over 80 percent of the population. Radio is the social media for a majority of Ugandans, especially those in remote locations of the country. URN creates content and programming for these radio stations, including creating opportunities for ordinary Ugandans to hear from and engage their local and national leaders as well as service providers in conversations about service delivery challenges. This grant will enable URN to mount a public information and awareness campaign on radio stations about the Ebola virus in boundary districts. URN will draw from previous campaigns in Uganda to reinforce awareness of the dangers of the Ebola virus; encourage well established sanitation and social practices that curtail the spread of the disease; and advance the use of religious, cultural, and local administration leaders to reinvigorate surveillance mechanisms.
for strategic planning The B Team was launched in 2013 by a group of business leaders with a commitment to promote corporate transparency and responsible business practices toward a goal of enhancing the well-being of people and the environment. Following the successful recruitment of a new CEO in August 2018, the B Team has developed a plan to clarify their vision and mission, reassess their theory of change, and strengthen internal alignment of the organization's principles and practices. This grant will enable the B Team to execute this strategy review plan.
for legal assistance This grant will allow the Open Knowledge Foundation to contract legal assistance to establish public charity status.
for support of a project to develop an executive-level big data for development course This grant to the MIT Media Lab and its Data-Pop Alliance initiative will support the development and delivery of a knowledge and capacity building program on big data and development for professionals involved in development work and policymaking in the Global South. A series of training and training of trainer workshops will be co-developed and co-delivered with partners in Colombia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Senegal. The grant will also support the development of an online library of key resources and materials on big data, including a toolkit to support the training.
for the Utafiti Sera program to connect researchers and policy actors in East Africa The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) supports the production and dissemination of policy-relevant research, designs and delivers professional development courses for researchers and policy actors, and facilitates a collaborative higher education program across African countries. Under this grant, PASGR will foster ongoing communities of research and policy actors in three thematic areas in Kenya and Rwanda. These Utafiti Sera communities will prioritize policy questions, identify and fill research gaps to respond to these questions, and draw on research findings to inform policymaking.
for staff development With this organizational effectiveness support, Global Integrity (GI) would seek consulting assistance to develop an organization-wide set of in-house consulting skills and techniques.  GI presently supports the work of several other organizations in the transparency and accountability community, providing professional-level technology and methodology support services to groups that conduct fieldwork and collect data in multiple locations globally.  In order to provide these services more effectively, GI intends to build the skill set of select staff in best practices for designing, executing, and monitoring those support-type relationships.  By professionalizing their own consulting-type assistance, GI may better support partner organizations to increase their impact and effectiveness, while at the same time the practice will open the door to potential sources of earned revenue for GI, helping to further their goal of becoming more self-sustainable in the future.
for the development of a website for the Ouagadougou Partnership IntraHealth International hosts the Coordination Unit for the Ouagadougou Partnership that focuses on increasing family planning use in nine Francophone countries in West Africa. This organizational effectiveness grant will allow IntraHealth's Senegal office to create and support a website for the Ouagadougou Partnership, providing transparency about and better information regarding the donor and countries activities of the Partnership to increase family planning use. The Hewlett Foundation is a core member of the Ouagadougou Partnership and will also benefit from information relevant to grantmaking and monitoring on the Partnership's website.
for a feasibility study for infrastructure development The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) recently acquired three additional acres of land adjacent to their offices in Nairobi, and plans to develop a training center complete with residential facilities on the site.  This Organizational Effectiveness grant will enable APHRC to commission a feasibility study to assess potential market demand for such facilities, consider optimal building plans, and propose financing and management options.  APHRC anticipates that the training and residential facilities will serve their training programs as well as provide additional unrestricted income for the organization.
for general operating support These grant funds would enable the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), which seeks to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and young people in the Global South, to strengthen the capacity of partner advocacy groups in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. IWHC will lead the ad hoc post-2015 Women’s Coalition to try and ensure that the post-2015 development goals prominently feature sexual and reproductive health and rights and women’s equality.
for assessing federal evaluation policies that are linked to performance-based public spending This grant will enable Gesoc to continue tracking the efficiency of subsidy programs by updating its rankings on the design and performance of subsidy programs. Gesoc’s ultimate goal is for performance information to be incorporated into budget efficiency analysis and decision making. The organization will also develop, with support from partners such as the Mexican technology group CitiVox, IT applications to disseminate the data they produce in low-cost, user-friendly formats appealing to a wide array of audiences.
for general operating support The Open Government Partnership is a multistakeholder initiative with more than 75 national and 100 local government members that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, and fight corruption. Over the past three years, the partnership expanded its subnational program from a pilot cohort of 15 local governments to over 100, which will result in more than 500 concrete policy reforms. It continued its Break the Roles campaign to center gender in the governance commitments of member governments, and launched a new campaign advocating for Open Response + Open Recovery as member governments respond to COVID-19. The partnership will begin implementing its 2023-28 strategy while increasing revenue from member country contributions. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support ONG-3D is one of Senegal’s leading civil society organizations supporting people’s participation in democratic governance and is implementing a new strategy for strengthening its capacity, geographic reach, and impact. ONG-3D works in rural and urban areas to raise awareness and opportunity for citizen groups (women’s associations, youth groups, health and education management committees, etc.) to access and use information about government budgets, policies, plans, and performance. ONG-3D builds the confidence and capacity of citizen groups to navigate how to engage with government bodies responsible for managing resources and key services. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for citizen participation and accountability in public financial management in Burkina Faso Through this grant, Oxfam America and Oxfam Spain will support Oxfam Burkina Faso to strengthen the participation of women, men, youth, and local civil society and civic groups in the management of public finances. Oxfam Burkina Faso and its local partners will provide relevant information, technical support, and mechanisms for citizens to provide input and track the use of local development mining funds in several municipalities. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general support of the "Advancing Health, Sexual & Reproductive Rights" program None
for impact evaluations of programs to improve governance in developing countries This grant would support the second phase of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab’s Governance Initiative. The Initiative sponsors randomized impact evaluations of governance programs, including those designed to reduce the leakage of public funds in service delivery. This grant would fund evaluations, as well as begin disseminating the results and findings to policymakers.
for support of PSI's program in Niger Population Services International (PSI) is one of the largest social marketing organizations, using commercial marketing techniques to introduce and promote critical reproductive health products in countries around the world. This grant will support PSI’s new program in Niger, where the organization is working with the Ministry of Health to support a national mass media campaign promoting family planning and expand reproductive health options in the government’s health care system.
for the Levy Economics Institute's Gender Equality and the Economy program Levy Economics Institute of Bard College’s Gender Equality and the Economy program generates rigorous evidence on how economic processes and policies affect gender equality and examines the influence of gender inequalities on economic outcomes. Over the next few years, the program aims to conduct economic analyses on gender disparities in employment security and welfare outcomes in Ghana and South Africa, host regional policy dialogues, and organize its annual gender and macroeconomics workshop. This grant will enable the Gender Equality and the Economy program to deepen these focal areas. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)
for a project to advocate for a new learning goal for the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals The revision of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) framework in 2015 provides a unique opportunity to institutionalize learning as the metric of success for basic education by re-orienting the education goals to measure more than school enrollment and completion. Regional advocates could have a strong influence on the MDG revision process, but to date few have been resourced and mobilized. This grant would allow the Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) to influence the process of global agenda setting from the perspective of the Asia-Pacific region by advocating for the new MDG framework to include a developmentally appropriate learning goal and indicator. ARNEC has strong organizational ties to UNESCO and UNICEF, which are the driving forces for education in the post 2015  MDG agenda, and would bring to the MDG review and revision process the thinking and evidence of a regional development network that covers 47 countries.
for general operating support The Population Association of America will continue to promote and foster high-quality population science that constructively informs policies and programs that can enhance human welfare. During the grant period, the association will focus on maintaining its core activities such as the annual meeting, programming to address the training needs of students and early-career professionals, and a communications campaign to educate policymakers and the media about population research.
for support of High Level Task Force meetings The International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) is a network of forty sexual and reproductive health organizations across North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. It works to ensure that governments in the region recognize, protect, and fulfill the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of all women, men, and young people. The grant will support IPPF/WHR to coordinate the High Level Task Force (HLTF), which will prepare for the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) +20 and the post-Millennium Development Goals (MDG) process by generating consensus and focus among priority issues on SRHR and engaging key players to promote the inclusion of these issues in the post-2015 development agenda.
for the development and implementation of an advocacy strategy on unpaid care and domestic work This grant will allow Oxfam to build on its Women’s Economic Empowerment and CARE work to develop and implement a global, regional (pan-African) and national (Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania) advocacy strategy. The work will ensure policy commitments on unpaid care and domestic work; promote the use of research and evidence with policymakers and international financial institutions to increase access to infrastructure and services; build the capacity of women’s rights organizations to increase advocacy effectiveness and representation in decision-making spaces; and generate and share learning on unpaid care work and domestic work advocacy within Oxfam, women’s rights organizations, and international development organization partners.
for increasing access to family planning for young people in Francophone West Africa Young women in Francophone West Africa have a higher risk of dying in childbirth and are less likely to use contraceptives than older women. Many young women in this region are also married—the median age of marriage in Guinea, for example, is sixteen. Because of cultural factors and gender roles, young married women face a number of barriers that prevent them from accessing family planning services, including restrictions on leaving the house or community. A grant to Pathfinder International would support a project in Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger to make these services available for young married women directly in the community. This project grant reflects the Global Development and Population Program’s new emphasis on increasing the use of family planning services in countries where the current rate of use is very low, such as the countries in Francophone West Africa.
for support of EngenderHealth's programs and strategy in West Africa This grant will support EngenderHealth to continue to build its program for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Francophone West Africa. During this second phase of the Comprehensive Abortion Care project, EngenderHealth will build on its work in Côte d’Ivoire to expand into Benin and Burkina Faso with the aim of improving policy and service environments for abortion care. The project will work with governments to ensure youth-friendly services and build the capacity of civil society organizations to advocate for expanded access to safe abortion services.
for the development of a knowledge management strategy The grant will support the Population Council to strengthen research impact through the implementation of a knowledge management strategy.  The Council will expand existing investments in knowledge management by devising processes for improved consolidation and synthesis of research products and scaling up new technology systems. These investments in a well-crafted knowledge management strategy should improve its ability to foster a culture of learning and sharing internally and research uptake among evidence users.
for executive transition In 2015 Liz Maguire retired as the chief executive of Ipas after leading the organization for more than 12 years. This organizational effectiveness grant will be used to pay for executive coaching for Ipas's new Chief Executive Officer and President, John Hetherington. Around the same time as Ms. Maguire's retirement, a few key, longtime leaders within Ipas also retired. Tthese funds will provide Mr. Hetherington with executive coaching from a well-established consultant to manage these transitions and navigate potentially substantial organizational change.
for support of administrative data work in Africa Development Gateway helps governments and donors use data management tools to improve development results. This program will support the government of Senegal in using data generated through program implementation, referred to as administrative data, to improve the design and implementation of agriculture programs. Development Gateway will also document and share evidence on administrative data use in Africa and provide technical assistance to select multilateral agencies’ efforts to help governments improve data use. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for Philanthropy Advancing Women's Human Rights This grant to Panorama Global will support Philanthropy Advancing Women’s Human Rights (PAWHR), an independent women’s rights funder collaborative. This grant will allow PAWHR to support its members to learn, collaborate, and leverage more and better resources for the women’s rights field. PAWHR will pursue these objectives through diverse activities like member meetings, data and evidence gathering, member-led working groups, aligned funding, strategic partnerships, and leveraging resources like the pooled fund and other funds. (Strategy: Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and the related activities of the ASER Centre Pratham’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has drawn attention to a learning crisis in India and motivated policy change by mobilizing volunteers to visit households and assess the basic reading and math skills of over half a million children every year. This grant will help the ASER Centre adapt its annual survey of learning to also measure skills at early childhood, middle school, and secondary school levels. The ASER Centre will ensure that the findings help expand the conversation about learning to a broader set of skills and reach audiences who can do something about the results. The ASER Centre will also help government teacher-training centers and other institutions build capacity for generating and using evidence.
for support to African scholars of the blended Master's in Data, Economics, and Development Policy This grant will provide scholarships for African students to participate in a new master’s program designed to reach a large number of developing country learners with online content. Participants earn a "MicroMasters" certificate for passing exams based on online coursework, and a full master’s degree if they also complete a semester in residence at MIT and an internship. The goal is to build African capacity to consume and produce rigorous quantitative evidence.
for the charitable purposes of the Reproductive Health Matters Journal Reproductive Health Matters is a peer-reviewed journal that makes special efforts to include work from developing country researchers.  Supporting its production and distribution will contribute to informing the field about research relevant to overcoming barriers to contraceptive uptake and on the integration of HIV/AIDS and family planning/reproductive health programs.
for support to improve external communications and activities related to leadership transition With this grant, Women Thrive would develop a new strategy for more cohesive and consistent communications to inform and influence its key audiences. This communications strategy will highlight the full range of Women Thrive's  areas of expertise, advocacy agenda, partnerships and results, enabling Women Thrive to more effectively engage donors, policy makers, coalitions, Global South partners and other activists for social change.
for capacity building of the PAL Network The People's Action for Learning (PAL) Network is a community of practice comprised of civil society organizations that conduct citizen-led assessments of children's learning and use the results to organize awareness-raising campaigns and mobilize citizen action to improve the quality of education in their countries and globally. The PAL Network has members in 13 countries and is growing. This organizational effectiveness grant will allow the PAL Network secretariat and its Steering Committee to: i) understand and makes decisions about registration options for the network; ii) develop a three-year strategy; and iii) develop a fundraising plan.
for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Partnership brings together government, private-sector, civil society, and international institutions to harness new and traditional sources of data to better understand and address development challenges. This grant will support the implementation of the Partnership’s strategic plan, which has four goals: (a) drive political change, elevating the importance of data production, access, and use for decision making; (b) promote the use of new technologies and data sources to improve government decision making; (c) embed standards of interoperability into global frameworks so that multiple data types can be used together to address common development challenges; and (d) scale up the use of timely and robust data for Sustainable Development Goal monitoring.