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for a Regional African Feminist Conference in Senegal JGEN Sénégal is a Senegalese young women-led feminist organization created in 2016 to support the development of a Senegalese feminist movement anchored in the elimination of sexist and sexual violence and the promotion of women's leadership and sexual and reproductive health and rights. With this grant, JGEN will organize the first ever Feminist University for West and Central African activists to come together and co-construct strategies to build their identity and agenda. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
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 (GPSDD), which 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 new strategic plan, which seeks to solve three major problems: (a) how to harness up-to-date data to ensure decisions are informed by current and changing contexts; (b) how to safely include and represent all people in data and the data value chain; and (c) how to govern data fairly and safely. This grant supports the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy goal that governments in East and West Africa make better use of data to improve decision making and outcomes for people.
for support of a dissemination study on infanticide in Senegal The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier African research institution and policy-focused think tank whose mission is to generate evidence, strengthen research and related capacities, and engage policy actors to inform action on population health and well-being. In 2021, APHRC and Ibis Reproductive Health, another Hewlett grantee, undertook an ethnographic study to document the lived experiences of women and girls in Senegal who had been accused of infanticide, a highly prevalent practice in Senegal, where abortion is completely restricted. This grant will support APHRC and Ibis to conduct a robust dissemination of the findings, co-developing advocacy tools to support improved policies, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the circumstances that lead girls and women to commit infanticide, as well as improve their social and professional reintegration after incarceration. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the work of the Open Policy Network Creative Commons provides the foundation for Open Educational Resources through its free, machine-readable copyright licenses and has given tremendous strength to the "open" movement by advocating for greater use of such licenses. This grant would enable Creative Commons to continue to advance the cause of openness through the Open Policy Network, which seeks to encourage and support open policy opportunities with the information and resources needed to turn them into reality. The proposal will help further the creation, adoption, and implementation of open policies and practices in countries around the world.
for distribution of Foreign Policy magazine to journalists, editors and producers of news programs None
for a videoconferencing project This grant would support the installation of videoconferencing equipment for the organization's  Hannover and Brussels offices, enabling the grantee to reduce the need to travel between locations and improve communications between headquarters and country offices.
for support of the 2016 PopPov Conference This grant will support the Research Conference on Population, Reproductive Health and Economic Development hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. in September 2016.  This is a continuation of annual research conferences that began in 2006 with the Population Poverty Research Initiative (PopPov).  The PopPov Initiative is officially winding down, and this is the first conference being hosted by a different organization than the PopPov Secretariat.  In order to ensure a smooth transition from the fully-funded conferences in the past, Foundation support will enable African-based scholars and graduate students to travel and participate in this meeting.
for promotion of women’s human rights in Mexico through transparency in the justice system This grant will allow Equis Justicia para las Mujeres (Equis) to monitor and document the state of transparency in the judiciary of 32 state tribunals. The project will consolidate the alliance on state monitoring of the judiciary; strengthen the capacity of local organizations to carry out this monitoring; and provide technical assistance to state courts. Equis will consolidate and expand the national observatory of Women’s Justice Centers. It will also disseminate the transparency toolkit with feminist organizations in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, and translate this toolkit and pilot dissemination in Africa and Asia.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights Sex og Samfund is a longstanding proponent of quality sex education for all in Denmark and globally with a focus on promotion of family planning; sexual well-being; reproductive health; and sexual knowledge as an integral part of personal and social life and as a human right. Sex og Samfund is recognized by the Danish government as a partner in issues related to sexual and reproductive rights, nationally and internationally. With this support Sex og Samfund will continue to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights by working with Danish officials on keeping sexual and reproductive health and rights as a key priority in Danish official development assistance, both politically and financially; strengthening and sustaining Danish sexual and reproductive health and rights commitment; and strengthening advocacy partnerships with Sex og Samfund partners in Africa and Asia.
for creating a Global Report on Open Government and Access to Information This grant would allow the World Justice Project (WJP) to conduct research on the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law. Through the WJP Rule of Law Index and the Global Report on Open Government and Access to Information, the WJP would expand its general population poll and expert questionnaires in ninety-seven countries. Topics covered will include the rule of law, the extent to which existing legal frameworks provide effective mechanisms to access government information, and other aspects of transparency and accountability.
for support to expand access to medication abortion in East Africa This grant to Population Services International (PSI) will support the expansion of access to medication abortion (MA) in East Africa through the growth of their regional social enterprise model. PSI is developing a sustainable enterprise to market and distribute a selection of health products in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Under a previous grant, PSI was able to register and distribute new MA products and build a digital partnership for distribution in Kenya and Uganda. In this phase, funding will support the expansion of products into rural pharmacies and clinics, training of providers and doulas in postabortion harm reduction and accompaniment approaches and exploration of expansion to Tanzania. This grant is well aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy to increase access to safe abortion in East Africa.
for senior management transition The Natural Resource Governance Institute promotes transparent and accountable management of oil, gas, and mineral endowments to ensure that citizens of resource-rich countries benefit from the extraction of these resources. The President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) stepped down in February and the Chief Operating Officer assumed this role in an acting capacity. This grant is to help the institute with the management transition process, specifically to cover the cost of a management coach for the interim President and CEO and part of the cost of an executive search firm to recruit the new President and CEO.
for support to strengthen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa This grant will support Fòs Feminista, a global alliance working to ensure that all women, girls, and gender-diverse people in the Global South have the resources, power, and safety to exercise their sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) and to fulfill their life projects. Through flexible multiyear funding, co-created advocacy strategies, and South-South learning exchanges, Fòs Feminista and partners apply an intersectional feminist lens to strengthen African SRHRJ ecosystems. During the grant period, Fòs Feminista aims to deepen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of reproductive health fellowships Global Health Corps is a one-year fellowship program that serves as a launching pad for young people under 30 years of age to begin careers in global health. Global Health Corps currently operates in several countries in East and Southern Africa and the United States. To meet continued demand from applicants and recognize the health needs of their focus countries, Global Health Corps created partnerships with host organizations that focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights. This support will help Global Health Corps place fellows in positions focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights for the upcoming two fellowship years.
for the development of a regional interfaith platform for family planning This project builds on a previous grant to the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) at Georgetown University to engage high-level faith leaders in Senegal and Guinea in increasing family planning use. Working with the Senegalese and Guinean governments, WFDD has a partnership with a religious association in each country to support their capacity and strategy growth for faith advocacy for family planning. In the next grant phase, WFDD will focus on strengthening the relationships between faith communities and development stakeholders and will support the Senegalese association to expand the scope of its health advocacy to maternal and child health.
for general operating support This grant will enable Population Action International (PAI) to continue to promote the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls through research, advocacy, and innovative partnerships. In addition to advocating for U.S. leadership to support universal access to family planning and reproductive health services, PAI builds and maintains a network of civil society organizations in the Global South to advance national and community-level policy change.
for communication and dissemination of population-poverty research Population Reference Bureau (Washington, DC) - Project, New, $400,000 over 1 year; 100% of project budget
for support of communication and dissemination of population-poverty research
for support to strengthen youth advocacy leadership in East Africa This grant to Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) will enhance the Strengthening Local Advocacy Leadership in East Africa project, which supports youth-led civil society organizations in Kenya and Tanzania to implement coordinated advocacy on family planning and reproductive health. This funding allows DSW to extend the project, increase the amount of subgrant awards to youth-led organizations, and substantially expand its tailored capacity development and shared learning activities. Additionally, DSW will increase youth advocates’ visibility in global convenings, and ensure they receive professional mentoring to share insights and lessons from their locally driven advocacy strategies.
for building and supporting the Africa Evidence Network This grant will support the secretariat of the Africa Evidence Network, which brings together evidence producers, users, and intermediaries. The Network aims to share information, increase understanding, and raise awareness about the importance of evidence to improve decision making in Africa. This grant will also enable the Network to develop its strategic plan and refine its consultation, advisory, and governance structures.
for implementing and evaluating the impact of a peer-to-peer teaching model in Kenya Many first, second, and third graders in Kenya are struggling to learn to read. A supplement grant to Harvard University would continue to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of a simple, low-cost method to improve reading achievement in which sixth graders tutor second and third graders to help them become more fluent readers. This project is being implemented in 50 schools in Kenya as part of a larger reading program to improve learning, and would be evaluated through a randomized impact evaluation to examine its effectiveness.   This supplement grant would also extend the impact evaluation of the larger reading program for an additional year.
for designing an agribusiness program for business schools in African universities The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) strengthens commercial relations between the US and the countries of Africa and promotes long-term investment in Africa with the goal of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction.  One particular project undertaken by CCA linked South African black-owned businesses with American businesses to strengthen their capacity and competitiveness.  Finally, the CCA launched in 2007 the Agribusiness Initiatives Program to support private sector development in conjunction with the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP).  

This grant is a part of CCA’s Agribusiness Initiatives Program, and is a planning grant for a project that will address the lack of agribusiness programs at business schools in Africa; thus, African countries suffer from a lack of capacity to diversify their economies, and increase value-added by upgrading from exporting simple agricultural products to more value-added ones.  

The goal of this grant is to create a proposal and judge interest for agribusiness programs at African university business schools.

This grant, should the initial stages attract funding and interest, directly relates to the goals of the Global Development Program as it would strengthen developing country policies towards agriculture and promote agricultural technical capacity.
for facilitating the creation of a Global Partnership for Development Data Under this grant the International Program of the Institute for Sustainable Economic,
Educational and Environmental Design (iSEEED) will facilitate a process to explore the creation
of a Global Partnership on Sustainable Development Data. iSEEED will facilitate a process to
catalyze diverse stakeholders to design, launch and generate interest in a multi-stakeholder initiative that would help governments, private sector, civil society and international institutions
harness new and traditional sources of data to address development challenges.
for board development The Grupo de Informacion en Reproduccion Elegida (GIRE) is a long term grantee of the Foundation which is undergoing an important leadership transition since March 2020 and has used OE grants to strengthen its MEL capacities and to develop a new Strategic Plan. This OE grant will allow GIRE to conduct a thorough analysis of its Board to increase the diversity, equity and inclusion of its membership and evaluate its overall functioning.
for support of the Valuing Women's Work for a More Equal World project This supplemental grant to ActionAid USA will extend their ongoing work on valuing women’s work. Activities will include local assemblies with young women in South Africa to disseminate the findings of a study on unpaid care, access to decent work and livelihoods, gender-responsive public services, and gender-just taxation. In addition, the women will produce a 100-day plan to inform and track gender-related commitments made by governments. At the global level, ActionAid USA will publish the findings of a mapping research project on inequality; implement an advocacy strategy to influence international financial institutions; and integrate learning from this research to adapt and replicate this project in other contexts.
for a project to establish Urban Livelihood Learning Hubs in Mexico, Senegal, and Ghana This grant will renew support to three city hubs in Mexico City, Mexico; Dakar, Senegal; and Accra, Ghana, as part of the Focal Cities program of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The objective of this program is to increase the capacity of informal workers’ membership-based organizations so that they can more effectively interact with city governments to promote policy changes that directly benefit women’s livelihoods. WIEGO has established a platform that allows groups to successfully advocate for policies that affect their work in markets or public squares, modeling grassroots-driven policy change. This grant will include a specific communications campaign to change the misperceptions around informal workers.
for support to the Evidence in Governance and Politics network This grant will enable Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) to carry out activities in four areas: (a) managing a coordinated research model called the Metaketa Initiative, contributing to evidence in taxation, natural resource governance, and other topics; (b) making research more accessible to practitioners by seeking out and expanding academic-practitioner partnerships and EGAP’s own membership, especially in low- and middle-income countries; (c) increasing the capacity of developing country researchers through experimental methods workshops; and (d) improving experimental methods by communicating research findings to policymakers with methods guides and policy briefs.
for general operating support Global Integrity promotes evidence-based transparency reforms anchored in fieldwork with grassroots civil society partners, technology platforms to accelerate innovations across the community of practice, and the establishment of international norms for financing transparency among political parties. Among the organization’s products is their flagship assessment tool for understanding governance and anticorruption mechanisms at the national level. The Global Integrity Report now covers more than 100 countries and includes a scorecard that uses more than 300 indicators to assess the existence, effectiveness, and citizen access to key governance and anticorruption mechanisms. The organization plans to continue catalyzing innovation through a "tech for transparency" micro-grants fund and the creation of "transparency hub" collaborative workspace in Washington, DC. After several years of project support, a transition to general support signals the close alignment between Global Integrity’s activities and the Foundation’s objectives.
for leadership transition This grant will allow the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) to complete its first leadership transition which includes accompaniment for the transition committee, board of directors and interim director while they hire a new ED; a media positioning plan to strengthen the media skills of the interim and incoming director, as well as positioning ILSB's own media image; and containment sessions for ILSB's staff during the transition.
for strategic planning This grant to CIEP will support a strategic planning exercise which will: review of the organization's mission, vision and values; carry out an environmental and stakeholder analysis workshop; analysis of internal performance indicators; review of theory of change; workshop on organizational strategies and programs, and development of the final strategic plan. All activities will involve all of CIEP's staff and board.
for Results for All Results for America helps policymakers at all levels of government use evidence and data to make and improve policies and outcomes for citizens. This planning grant will support the Results for All initiative of Results for America to develop practical tools and guidance for strengthening evidence use in government, and to explore strategic partnerships for bringing these tools to decision makers in low- and middle-income countries.
for improving reading and math instruction in lower primary school in Uganda and Kenya Evidence from East Africa suggests that students are not acquiring essential reading and math skills, even by the end of their elementary school education. In 2008, we gave a planning grant to the Aga Khan Foundation USA (AKF) to develop a model for teaching reading and math in the first three grades of primary school. In 2009, a second grant went to applying this model in two districts of Uganda and two districts in Kenya. This supplemental grant would allow AKF to continue implementing the math and reading instruction for another five months. The additional time is essential to see whether and how the instructional approach improves learning outcomes over the course of two academic school years.
for support of rapid response grantmaking and activities related to SRHR As a feminist, Pan-African, rapid-response fund, Urgent Action Fund Africa (UAF-Africa) plays a critical role in resourcing African feminist movements to transform inequitable power structures that diminish women’s worth and undermine their rights. Through an activist-centered approach, UAF-Africa provides flexible funding and accompaniment to African human rights defenders, advocates for equitable philanthropic practice, and contributes to cultures of care and healing in the feminist ecosystem. This flexible program support grant enables UAF-Africa to support sexual and reproductive health and rights activism challenging laws, policies, and norms that restrict African women’s access to their full rights, resources, and services. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for general operating support The Center for Global Development (CGD) 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 six program areas: global health policy; sustainable development finance; migration, displacement, and humanitarian policy; European development policy and leadership; education; and technology and development. The center has also developed crosscutting initiatives focused on mitigating the impact of COVID-19, engaging with African policymakers, improving livelihoods for women and girls, responding to the climate crisis, and developing policy solutions for fragile regions and states. As a result, this grant serves many goals across GEG's entire portfolio, as the grantee both generates high-quality evidence and has outsized influence in policy in areas related to (among other GEG interest areas) women’s economic empowerment, enhancing localization and inclusion, and data governance. The center is influential across the evidence-informed policymaking field, serving as a reference point for evidence used by professionals globally, both in terms of content and tactics. Additionally, CGD is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and has recently completed a website redesign and rebranding effort as well as an external evaluation to understand the impact and influence that its work has had in improving the effectiveness of global development policies and institutions. As a result, this grant renewal will help CGD continue to build on its past successes, evolve in new directions based on its rigorous learning approach, and ensure continued support for responsive and high-impact research. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking.)