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for staff and fund development The Northern Uganda Literacy Program seeks to help children learn how to read in their home language of Lango and then to transition their skills into reading in English. This grant would help Mango Tree to provide leadership training for key staff members of the Northern Uganda Literacy Program to increase the program's effectiveness and to groom staff in preparation for a leadership transition within the program.
for citizen-led assessments of education in Mexico Independent Monitoring of Learning is a program of the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology based in Xalapa, Mexico, which recruits volunteers to conduct household assessments that gauge how well students are learning in six states in Mexico. During this grant period, they will carry out a new round of assessments in at least six states and convene parents, teachers, and local officials to discuss the application of their findings.
for a program to support the development and implementation of sound data governance policies The Center for Global Development (CGD) is an independent, nonpartisan research institution 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. With this grant, CGD will develop a program of work to (a) conduct research on the opportunities and challenges that the world’s growing dependence on digital services poses for low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) and the costs and benefits of different regulatory approaches; (b) organize a working group that will make recommendations on how to implement sound data governance policies that meet the priorities, needs, and capacities of LMICs; and (c) work with a research organization in sub-Saharan Africa to design a thematic workstream aimed at providing local policymakers with the expertise needed to implement good data governance.
for support to the Governance Lab The MIT Governance Lab is a research group of political scientists focused on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness. This grant will enable the Governance Lab to collaborate with civil society organizations, funders, and governments on research that builds and tests theories about how innovative programs and technologies can improve civic participation and make governments more accountable to citizens. In addition to contributing rigorous evidence to inform current debates over participation, accountability, and governmental performance, the Governance Lab will also help organizations integrate this learning into their daily operations.
for grants to innovative programs that improve children’s learning in Africa (Phase II) This grant will support Phase II of TrustAfrica’s Early Learning Innovations Fund, which sought to identify local organizations with effective approaches for improving learning and provide them financial and technical support to demonstrate and document their impact. Under Phase II, TrustAfrica will continue its support for the most promising innovations from Phase I. TrustAfrica will assist these organizations in telling their story and will connect them to existing regional and country-level education networks and local decision makers to facilitate uptake and support from government and from other donors.
for a strategic plan related to Musequality's charitable purposes Founded and led by professional violinist David Juritz, Musequality (London, UK) aims to bring skills to youth in the developing world through music. By providing musical instruments and training materials, reburbishing practice and performance spaces, and covering other expenses, the organization supports existing music projects and establishes new projects by partnering with established organizations in developing countries. Current projects include a Ugandan school that provides AIDS orphans with music lessons and choral training. A capacity-building grant to Musequality will allow the nascent organization to clarify its goals and develop a strategic plan that will guide its efforts to support projects on a larger scale. (New, $45,000, $15,000 from Special Projects, $15,000 from Global Development, $15,000 from Performing Arts, 40% of project budget)
for organizational assessment, staff development, and wellness support The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a pan-African feminist network at the forefront of informing and mobilizing African women to participate in and influence policies and processes affecting their lives. FEMNET works to mobilize, inform, influence, and amplify the voices of African women and girls for gender equality across five interlinking domains of change: economic justice, climate justice, transformative leadership, sexual reproductive health and rights, and ending of violence against women and girls. This organizational effectiveness grant will support an organizational capacity assessment and leadership coaching for FEMNET’s senior management team. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of the 2018 International Conference on Family Planning The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is organizing the fifth International Conference on Family Planning to take place in Kigali, Rwanda, in November 2018. This grant supports the active engagement of youth delegates and attendees from Francophone countries in conference sessions and presentations to promote the meaningful exchange of ideas and best practices across contexts. This funding also contributes to a preconference session on the Demographic Dividend and the Family Planning Voices interactive exhibit, which allows conference attendees to share their stories of championing family planning through photos, video, and social media.
for a program to train emerging market investors to support and advocate for good governance The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance brings together investors to raise awareness about governance issues in developing countries and to build their capacity to engage and advocate for more open, transparent, and responsive governance. Beginning in the fall of 2016, the Alliance has successfully recruited and trained a group of investors, established thematic working groups involving governance experts and investors, and facilitated direct engagement between investors and government officials from emerging markets. This grant will enable the Alliance to engage more investors and deepen the work on awareness creation, capacity building, and strategic advocacy.
for support of the Accountability Research Center The Accountability Research Center is part of American University’s School of International Service. The center bridges research and frontline perspectives in the Global South to learn from ideas, institutions, and actors that advance strategies to improve public accountability. During this grant period, they will work with partners to contribute to global thinking that informs strategies to bolster transparency, participation, and accountability. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of feminist-led abortion rights movements and organizations in Francophone West Africa This grant to Global Fund for Women (GFW) will support feminist-led abortion rights movements in Francophone West Africa. GFW will partner with Le Centre ODAS and other abortion rights initiatives in Francophone West Africa and foster cross-regional learning between movements in West and East Africa. With feminist movements, GFW will build a participatory decision-making process to provide multiyear core support grants to activists working on expanding self-managed safe abortion care. During the grant period, GFW and its partners seek to influence philanthropic practice in feminist, movement-led grantmaking and governance. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for finalizing and disseminating an access to information legislation implementation assessment tool The Carter Center has been working in the field of access to public information since 1999, becoming a recognized leader on the issue of transparency and right to public access to information around the world. The Center’s model of working with all stakeholders, particularly governments and civil society, remains unique, and draws upon the Center’s access to high levels of leadership and its reputation as a trusted international actor in this field.

The goals of this grant are to finalize work on, and dissemination of, an access to information legislation implementation assessment tool (IAT). The tool is the first diagnostic tool of its kind that identifies the extent to which a government has implemented its law and provides a road map for improvements.
for support of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program This grant will support the Population Council’s Poverty, Gender, and Youth (PGY) Program to conduct multisectoral intervention research that examines links between adolescent girls’ and young women’s productive and reproductive lives in low- and middle-income countries. PGY researchers in New York and the council’s country offices will apply a gender lens to investigate the enablers and barriers to adolescent girls’ and young women’s well-being; develop tools and processes to facilitate evidence user engagement, including country-level policymakers; and explore the gendered implications of COVID-19 for adolescent girls and young women in the areas of reproductive health and rights, the care economy, and sustainable livelihoods. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for general operating support The Rencontre Africaine pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO) is a Senegalese NGO working for the protection and promotion of human rights at the national, regional, and international level. RADDHO works in the defense of civil and political rights, the consolidation of the rule of law and democracy, as well as the protection of vulnerable groups. RADDHO works to scale up its human rights and governance work benefitting groups in need of protection such as women, children, people living with disabilities, and other disadvantaged populations in Senegal. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for organizational support to Translators Without Borders The mission of Translators Without Borders is to ensure that people affected by natural disasters, human rights abuses, disease outbreaks, or other emergencies have access to life-saving and educational information in their own languages. This grant will help strengthen its core operations and support systems for its network of volunteer translators. Translators Without Borders will also expand its work in raising awareness among donor agencies about the critical role that communications and the provision of information in local languages plays in effective humanitarian response and development.
for general operating support The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative is a professional network of senior budget officials that promotes efficient and effective management of public finances in Africa. Through commissioned research, in-country case studies, peer-learning, and peer-exchange opportunities, the Initiative helps ensure that public financial management systems are accountable and contribute toward more effective service delivery, sustainable economic growth, and development. At an international level, the Initiative also plays a unique role in consolidating and representing African positions on behalf of its members to ensure that African perspectives are reflected in global norms and standard-setting processes.
for the Regional Institute for Population Studies program For the Regional Institute for Population Studies program 
Although brain drain and a poor funding environment for demographic training in Africa has caused many of its peer institutions to fall into decay, the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) at the University of Ghana has instead quickly transformed into a rising center of excellence for interdisciplinary research and training in population sciences on the continent. Through its partnership with the Hewlett Foundation, RIPS has created an environment in which the right incentives and opportunities intensify revenue-generating research activity and retain elite talent. RIPS encourages talented graduate candidates to move beyond technical training into professional research opportunities early in their studies that will provide them with the skills to pursue viable professional careers and funding opportunities in Africa. Recommended general support for the RIPS program would enable RIPS to fund the mentorship and research apprenticeship of its top students, to continue to expand its funded research portfolio, and to begin to regionalize the program beyond Ghana.

The proposed grant is aligned with Guideline 2 of the Population Program strategy with a focus on training of population studies scholars.
for a project to develop policy-relevant population sciences The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is a professional association of population scientists with over 2,200 members from 140 countries. IUSSP fosters international interdisciplinary networks of social scientists and policymakers to conduct research and debate critical population issues. The recommended grant supports the IUSSP’s core scientific activities, which includes programs to provide demographic training opportunities for developing country scientists. IUSSP recently pioneered open educational resources for demographic training via the internet.  IUSSP also coordinates the Foundation’s demographic training initiative in Francophone West Africa.
for general operating support The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) advances the generation and use of evidence so that development programs are better designed and implemented effectively. 3ie's early work focused on filling the large evidence gaps in international development by funding impact evaluations. As more evidence and evaluations have become available, 3ie has changed to focus on filling thematic gaps, improving the quality and relevance of research, ensuring improved access to and use of evidence, and expanding the frontiers of evidence research in low- and middle-income countries. It partners institutions and countries working to promote evidence-informed decision making. 3ie is evolving from being mainly a funder and quality assurer of large evidence programs to a funded partner to development organizations and governments that can help address the needs where they are most acute and strengthen institutional evidence systems and cultures. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a study on quality child care, women's economic empowerment, and social protection Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. In a recent strategic planning process, WIEGO’s members from low- and middle-income countries insisted that child care is a significant obstacle to their progress. They advocated that child care be the focus of WIEGO’s social protection program for the next five years. This grant would support the first two years of a five-year WIEGO initiative aimed at gaining global acceptance of the understanding that adequate child care is a core component of the economic empowerment of poor working women. Within this initiative, this grant would support a study of the types, sources, and quality of child care available to working poor women in the informal economy. It will also include an assessment of the feasibility of, and options for, promoting child care for women’s economic empowerment and social protection.
for general operating support amandla.mobi is an advocacy network of black South African women who use mobile phones and organizing tactics to advance relevant issues, holding decision makers accountable to their commitments. amandla.mobi’s priorities over the next three years include cultivating the next generation of organizers while deepening solidarity across its more than 900,000 active members to support campaigns on issues of health care, education, sanitation, and gender-based violence. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for assessing federal evaluation policies affecting performance-based public spending in Mexico None
for activities of the EuroNGOs secretariat The European NGOs for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (EuroNGOs) is a leading network of NGOs working to promote SRHR in the development cooperation of European bilateral donors and the European Commission. The EuroNGOs network is based in Brussels, and is overseen by the International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network. Following an external evaluation in spring 2012, the EuroNGOs network is currently developing a strategy for 2013-2105 through an extensive membership consultation. A revised strategy is anticipated to be approved at the EuroNGOs Annual General Meeting in October 2012. This grant will support the EuroNGOs network to work towards the goals articulated in the new strategy, which will have two interlinked pillars. One strand will focus on strengthening the EuroNGOs as a group by improving transparency and enhancing the member organizations' sense of ownership, ensuring timely information sharing, and providing capacity and skills building opportunities. A more externally oriented strand will be aimed at coordinating a coherent European voice for sexual reproductive health rights in the global arena, in cooperation with other regional and global networks. One of the key opportunities for collective European action will be the post-2015 development framework setting process.
for sponsorship of the What Works Global Summit 2021: Evidence for Development The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network supporting the production and use of evidence syntheses. This grant will support the 2021 What Works Global Summit, co-hosted with the Global Development Network. The conference brings together policymakers,practitioners, and researchers interested in evidence-based policy and practice. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for general operating support This grant to the African Women’s Development Fund will support the fund’s activities, including grantmaking to African women’s grassroots organizations, especially in the economic security and justice area of their work. During the grant term, the fund will also support a convening of feminist thinkers, feminist economists, grassroots activists, and women’s rights organizations. Anticipated outcomes of the meeting include advocacy tools and documentation to be shared with economic rights activists in Africa. The fund also provides capacity-building training workshops to activists on topics such as financial management, feminist leadership and governance, and results-based programming.
for general operating support Global Glimpse works with low income high schools in the Bay Area to identify and prepare high school juniors to participate in a three week educational summer program in Nicaragua. This grant would allow Global Glimpse to expand the number of students it reaches with its program, which aims to increase students' global awareness and help them build critical thinking and leadership skills.
for the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization The Yale Center for the Study of Globalization is a focal point for raising questions, triggering analysis and debate, and connecting policy actors concerned with issues such as global development, international trade, financial globalization, global public goods, and global governance. One of the Center’s international collaborations, for example, involves providing ongoing advisory support for the Natural Resource Charter, a set of principles on how best to harness the opportunities for development generated by extractive resource revenues. During this final phase of program support from the Foundation, the Center will seek to diversify funding so that it may continue its public programs—including lectures, workshops, and conferences—and expand the readership of its online magazine YaleGlobal.
for general operating support The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI) is a professional network of senior budget officials that aims to promote efficient and effective management of public finances in Africa. A grant to the CABRI secretariat would support the network’s programs, including research and case studies of public financial management reform processes, sector-specific dialogues that engage government counterparts from education and health ministries to promote greater value for money in sector expenditures, the creation of a budget resources center, plus advisory services and peer-to-peer exchanges to reinforce reform efforts across Africa. At an international level, CABRI also plays a unique role in consolidating and representing African positions on behalf of its members to ensure that African perspectives are reflected in global norms and standard-setting processes.
for engagement of civil society organizations and the Women, Business and the Law data and analyses Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a program of the World Bank that systematically documents and measures legal and regulatory barriers to women’s economic empowerment around the world. The grant will continue to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa to understand and use information from WBL to advocate for gender equality reforms, support engagement at the local level, and, organize peer-to-peer knowledge events among policymakers and civil society organizations. The WBL team will develop case studies of successful reforms and targeted country summaries to understand what motivates reform, map challenges to implementation, and prioritize reform efforts in the region.
for the development of Mexico's Open Government Partnership action plan This grant will allow the chair of the Mexican civil society group of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Mexico, Article 19, to guarantee a more inclusive, effective, independent, and innovative participation of civil society groups in OGP. As chair of the civil society group, Article 19 seeks to develop an action plan and monitoring mechanism for higher impact commitments and for a gender perspective, monitor the creation of local action plans, and build an effective communications strategy for the civil society group.
for general operating support The Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo is a nonpartisan think tank working to inform Mexico’s public debate with policy analysis and evidence to improve governance, economic development, and rule of law. This general operating support grant will help the organization revise its lines of work to ensure its substantive focus addresses relevant issues in Mexico.
for the Global Economy and Development program The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings Institution undertakes research and dialogue activities to shape the policy debate on how to manage globalization and fight global poverty. This grant will support the program’s work in four areas: (1) utilizing informed African voices to improve the impact of global policy decisions targeting Africa’s development challenges; (2) influencing the global development agenda, with a particular focus on the next round of international development goals; (3) improving analysis and governance of development efforts, including monitoring the progress of the Open Government Partnership; and (4) in the face of increasing inequity in some of the world’s fastest growing economies, examining how global economic trends and institutions can help promote broad, shared, and inclusive growth.