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for support of a market assessment of the current landscape of sexual reproductive health and rights This organizational effectiveness grant to Ipas will support an assessment of the global sexual and reproductive health and rights market. Ipas has to make significant changes to its staffing, structure and approaches due to a sudden shift in the funding landscape. This assessment will focus on the needs for the kinds of abortion-related services that Ipas can provide to assure that their decisions are made with a clear understanding of the market.
for support of the Advance Family Planning project The proposed supplemental grant to the Advance Family Planning project of the Gates Institute will support the continuation of advocacy for family planning funding and policies in nine developing countries as well as an expansion into a new country and new subnational geographies.
for an Oxfam South Africa program to advance transparency and participation in extractive industries Oxfam America will provide funding to Oxfam South Africa (OZA), the first African affiliate in the global Oxfam confederation, to address governance challenges in the extractives sector in southern Africa. With this support, OZA will strengthen citizens’ capacity to hold governments and companies in the region accountable for just, transparent, and responsive policies on natural resource extraction. OZA will also advance the principle of free, prior, and informed consent by mobilizing civil society groups and communities to actively participate in setting the terms of engagement in extractive processes including environmental impact assessments, social labor planning, and corporate social responsibility.
for the International Aid Transparency Initiative [Note: grants for annual membership dues typically do not have Appsums. Similarly, future annual dues payments for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) will not require Appsums. However, since this is Hewlett's first dues payment, and since the IATI Secretariat has just recently shifted to UNOPS as its institutional host, we are providing additional detail to explain and document our support.]

IATI was launched at the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008 with the aim of increasing the transparency of aid in order to maximize its effectiveness in reducing poverty. Established with a global norm-setting agenda, IATI has developed and now maintains the data standard for publishing aid information in a complete, consistent, and comparable format.

The Hewlett Foundation joined IATI when it was founded in 2008. Until now, the UK government has hosted IATI on a largely pro bono basis. As of August, 2013, a consortium led by UNOPS assumed the secretariat role. The Secretariat will operate with funding provided by members: annual dues for Hewlett's class of membership ("provider of development assistance") is currently set at approximately $50,000. In light of the recent shift in hosting arrangements, and since many of the other IATI members will not be able to make their first dues payments until 2014, Hewlett is providing a one-time voluntary dues supplement of $100,000 to help offset IAIT's initial operating costs, for a total 2013 contribution of $150,000.
for support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work This OE-DEI grant to Pathfinder International will support a gender equity effort, including an external gender audit, the creation of an organizational Gender Equity and Inclusivity (GEI) strategy and a series of gender equity trainings to support implementation of the new strategy.
for support to host the Human-Centered Design Exchange This grant to JSI Research & Training Institute will support the HCD Exchange, an effort to promote the use of human-centered design (HCD) in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the HCD Exchange aims to improve ASRH outcomes through increased use of HCD methods and principles that center on the aspirations of youth, as well as to expand the field of HCD in ASRH to more organizations, funders, designers, and evaluators. During this grant, JSI will establish a secretariat, expand the existing community of practice, and fund key learning and evidence to fill high-priority gaps in the field.
for a program to support citizen engagement in the Addis Tax Initiative in Kenya During the grant period Save the Children will deepen its advocacy for donor and recipient country governments to fulfill their commitments to increase domestic revenues under the Addis Tax Initiative and promote greater civic awareness and engagement to ensure effective use of tax revenues. Save the Children will implement this project in two counties in Kenya to learn about whether and how the initiative can be leveraged to improve donor coordination, increase domestic revenues, and enhance civic engagement in tax issues.
for geospatial impact evaluations and engagement with key evidence stakeholders in Africa Housed at the College of William & Mary's Global Research Institute, AidData connects decision makers and researchers who have a shared interest in working together using granular data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts — intended and unintended — of policies and investments. Building on previous support to AidData in both geospatial research and African institutional engagement, this grant aims to dramatically expand AidData's partnerships with African organizations, especially around two key themes: advancing gender-transformative policy research and strengthening the use of geospatial evaluation tools for climate-sensitive agricultural programming. By partnering with a set of four Africa-based groups with distinct areas of engagement, AidData’s goal is to help inject critical evidence into major policy debates around gender-transformative initiatives in both East and West Africa (targeting both rural and urban settings), and to empower agriculture researchers across the continent to apply geospatial and remote sensing approaches to overcome limitations in surveys and other types of traditional data. In addition, this work has strong relevance to other parts of the Gender Equity & Governance and the Environment programs, and thus offers a chance for Evidence-Informed Policymaking to bolster complementarity across programs. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for general operating support IDinsight designs, deploys, and promotes evidence-generating tools designed to help organizations to combat poverty worldwide. The organization’s guiding principle is to inform decision makers' priorities, maximizing rigor with decision makers' budgetary, time, and operational constraints. IDinsight's goals include building long partnerships that help governments improve specific policies and programs while simultaneously building their capacity to use evidence; expanding its data innovation work (including survey infrastructure that allows for data collection faster and at 10-50 percent of the cost of traditional surveys); and sharing its tools and learnings with others.
for general operating support The Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) is a nonpartisan think tank specializing in policy analysis and evidence-based advocacy to improve Mexico’s institutional framework for economic growth and accountable governance. IMCO will continue to monitor government effectiveness through policy research and monitoring with an increased focus on state and municipal governments.
for the development of an impact framework and performance evaluation system Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is a global coalition of civil society organizations that seeks to enhance transparency and accountability in natural resource extraction. Coalition members conduct research and carryout advocacy in resource rich countries to ensure that resource extraction is done responsibly and that citizens of these countries get maximum benefit from the extraction of their natural resources. PWYP has been very successful in promoting transparency and accountability in the extractives sector. However, the coalition does not have a systematic framework for monitoring, evaluation, and learning. This Organizational Effectiveness grant is to enable them develop one as part of their ongoing strategic review.
for the development of an advocacy hub on feminist approaches to macro level economics The Gender and Development Network (GADN) is a U.K.-based network of more than 150 organizations working on women’s rights. This grant will support a pilot to establish a global hub of feminist economics and has three main goals: to create a global coalition of organizations and activists working on macroeconomic policies; to establish a Pan-African regional hub to promote a feminist analysis to economic justice work; and to promote strategic collaboration and capacity on macroeconomic themes. GADN will achieve these goals by identifying and coalescing organizations and leaders, developing research on political economy, carrying out convenings around key decision-making meetings, and providing time and resources for strategic advocacy.
for support of 3ie's West Africa Capacity Building and Impact Evaluation Initiative The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) seeks to improve development programs by building researcher capacity to produce evidence and government capacity to use it, funding policy-relevant evaluations, and building a culture of evidence-based policymaking. With this grant, 3ie will fund evaluations that respond to Francophone African governments’ priorities, and build government capacity to use impact evaluations and act on the results. Seven West African governments, the West African Development Bank, and the West African Economic Monetary Union are partnering with 3ie on this initiative.
for a project to improve access to high quality, timely information on aid flows None
for the International Aid Transparency Initiative The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is a voluntary, multistakeholder effort to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian assistance. With support from a technical advisory group, the secretariat of the initiative maintains and updates the data standard for sharing aid information, assists funding organizations in publishing to the IATI data standard, and promotes the use of the data. This grant will cover the Hewlett Foundation’s annual membership dues through 2026. For this period, the initiative has set out three mutually reinforcing objectives. These are improving the quality of IATI data that is published; promoting the use of data by development and humanitarian actors; and strengthening IATI’s data standard and reinvigorating its community of publishers and members. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance).
for support to the Network for Accountability in Mexico Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) is a Mexican public university that specializes in economic, legal, and policy research to improve public policy in Mexico. CIDE hosts the Network for Accountability, which brings together civil society organizations, academics, media, opinion leaders, and public officials to produce new research and diversify policy dialogue around Mexico’s public sector performance. This renewal will permit the network to continue monitoring the implementation of Mexico’s National Anticorruption System and study its effects on public administration.
for the CCiudadano program CCiudadano is a program of the Center for Research and Higher Studies on Social Anthropology that partners with local citizen groups to improve oversight of government spending at the municipal level in Mexico. With this grant, CCiudadano will continue to provide technical assistance to partner organizations while integrating its training programs as part of the graduate studies of the seven campuses of the Center for Research and Higher Studies on Social Anthropology. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for improving citizen access to fiscal information and participation in Senegal's budgeting process ONG-3D promotes democracy through government transparency and people’s participation in local governance in Senegal to ensure their rights to basic public services are met. This grant will support a program to improve citizens’ access to Senegal’s national budget information by creating and publishing a version of the budget that is easily understandable by citizens and that meets the standards of the International Budget Partnership for "citizen budgets." This grant will also support experimentation and mechanisms for citizen engagement in local government budget processes as Senegal decentralizes public services.
for analyzing and promoting efforts to strengthen judicial institutions in Mexico We recommend a tie-off grant to the Trans-Border Institute (TBI) at the University of San Diego for its influential work on justice reform in Mexico. TBI's Justice Project in Mexico analyzes and promotes efforts to strengthen judicial institutions, improve transparency, and increase access to justice in Mexico. In recent years, the project has become the leading U.S. effort to analyze the rule of law in Mexico. As a result, it has attained substantial influence as a source of objective information and analysis to inform U.S. and Mexican policymakers. Tie-off funding would ensure continuation of the project as it transitions to support from other donors.
for general operating support Development Initiatives seeks to advance the global poverty reduction agenda through the provision of high-quality data on poverty and public resource allocation. The organization works with local partners in Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal to ensure that decisions about the allocation of public resources are informed by data on poverty incidence. In addition to direct advocacy through local partners, it helps watchdog groups to access and understand this data so they can advocate for better resource allocation. Development Initiatives also strengthens feedback loops between national development priorities and international commitments, notably the "leave no one behind" campaign under the Sustainable Development Goals.
for writing a paper on future directions for impact evaluations This grant will support one of three papers that the Global Development and Population Program is commissioning about the role of impact evaluations in informing development policy and programming. IDinsight has coordinated impact evaluations across Africa and Asia, and this paper will draw on the organization’s experience tailoring impact evaluation approaches to decision-making needs and constraints of program planners, in governments, non-governmental organizations and donor agencies. Together, the three papers will both inform the field of impact evaluation, as well as the strategy development for the Program's Evidence-Informed Policymaking sub-component.
for a project to provide training on the use of technology for transparency advocacy The Engine Room supports civil society advocacy campaigns in the use of technology. This grant would pilot a training program focused on building partnerships with local technicians. The pilot would support two projects, one in Africa and one in Latin America, as well as a monitoring and evaluation component.
for support of a leadership search and succession planning This organizational effectiveness grant will support Africans Rising to sustain institutional stability in light of its upcoming movement leadership transition. Specifically, the funding will allow Africans Rising to invest in a participatory context analysis to inform its talent acquisition process and succession planning. Additionally, the outgoing Movement Coordinators and Coordinating Collective will receive leadership coaching. Combined, these institutional strengthening efforts will contribute to Africans Rising's sustainability in the near term.
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) Conference Sponsorship The Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) is a network of funders resourcing human rights action around the world. This grant will support diversity, equity, and inclusion at the upcoming Global Conference of HRFN by hosting the participation of HRFN’s Global Racial Justice Advisory Council and sponsoring the global feminist shared strategizing session with Prospera - International Network of Women's Funds.
for strategic planning The Campaña Global por la Libertad de Expresión A19, A.C. is a Mexican non-profit that promotes freedom of expression and access to public information. This grant will provide support for a strategic planning process, following the recommendations of an organizational assessment performed in mid-2012.
for the implementation of a civil society initiative to assess student learning in Mali We recommend a grant to Oeuvre Malienne d’Aide à l’Enfance du Sahel (OMAES) to implement a civil society-led approach to evaluate children’s learning in Mali and communicate the results to parents, policymakers, and civil society throughout the country. Drawing on successful QEDC-supported experiences in India (ASER) and Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania (Uwezo), OMAES will develop sampling and simple tests of reading and math skills, train volunteers, and launch the assessment during the time frame of the grant. The proposed grant is expected to greatly enhance the general population’s understanding of learning levels in Mali and accelerate improvements in the education system.
for web-based ESG certification program The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA) brings together institutional investors to raise awareness about governance issues, and to build their capacity to engage and advocate for more transparent, accountable, and responsive governance. In the last two years, the alliance has successfully mobilized and trained several investors in the U.S., Europe, and the U.K., established thematic working groups involving governance experts and investors, and facilitated direct educational engagement between investors and government officials from emerging markets. This grant will enable the alliance to to develop critical enhancements to its ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Certification Program.
for starting its public finance program, defining its niche and long term agenda None
for support to "A World at School and Learning," a campaign to put learning on the global agenda This grant would support Theirworld’s "A World at School and Learning" campaign, which aims to generate the needed public interest and political will to significantly decrease the number of children out of school in target countries and ensure that equitable learning is a priority. Theirworld would engage in high-level dialogue within target countries to increase financial commitments for learning from both the public and private sectors. Theirworld also would seek to create public pressure for action through the use of social media, partnerships with local civil society and youth organizations, and mass mobilization campaigns.
for the mySociety research project UK Citizens Online Democracy, or mySociety, is an organization that develops technological solutions to improve how governments respond to citizens. The organization has been operative for more than ten years and their tools are being used throughout Europe, Africa, and Latin America. This grant would contribute to developing increased in-house capacity for research, evaluation, and learning. The research would help refine how mySociety operates and would also be shared with the field to inform similar initiatives that seek to use technology as a tool to improve how citizens engage with governments.
for improving the enabling environment for philanthropy and civil society in Mexico None
for a project to support the Global Open Data Index The Open Knowledge Foundation promotes open-source technologies and government open-data portals, and encourages stakeholders to use government data to increase the ability of citizens to make informed demands on government. This grant will support the Global Open Data Index to enable civil society organizations that use open data to improve community monitoring, advocacy, and journalism. Support will also be provided to strengthen the global network of Open Knowledge Communities.
for enhancing CEGA’s Impact Through Strengthened Internal Systems The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is a hub for global development research headquartered at UC Berkeley. This grant will support CEGA in bolstering its governance and talent management.
for learning advocacy within the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals With this grant, Women Thrive Worldwide (formerly Women's Edge Coalition) would mobilize donors, governments, and citizen groups in and outside the education sector to strengthen learning in the global policy framework that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015. Women Thrive would also track and influence other policy debates on education and learning that intersect with the U.N.’s MDG process. These include UNESCO’s new set of Education for All goals, the Global Partnership for Education’s increased focus on learning, and other bilateral education programs.
for general operating support Finance Uncovered is a global reporting and training organization based in the U.K. The organization trains journalists and researchers to investigate tax abuse, money laundering, and related illicit financial practices, especially by multinational corporations operating in developing countries. Finance Uncovered works to build the capacity of researchers, activists, and financial journalists to investigate, expose, and deter illicit and exploitative financial practices. Finance Uncovered will also work to expand the reach of its journalistic training through a new digital curriculum. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for the AidData program AidData is a research lab at the College of William and Mary that equips policymakers and practitioners with better evidence. AidData’s strategic initiatives include (a) developing geospatial impact evaluation methods and other analysis tools and helping other organizations adopt them; (b) researching the priorities and perspectives of leaders in low- and middle-income countries and measuring donor influence; and (c) tracking of all types of financial flows and assessing to what extent resources reach the most vulnerable. During this grant period, AidData will support a cohort of leading development organizations in making better-informed decisions at multiple stages of their programming cycles.
for a program to promote transparency and accountability in the extractive and financial sectors Global Witness investigates, exposes, and challenges corruption in natural resource governance. It seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s resource-rich countries. With this grant, Global Witness will advocate for effective implementation of the newly adopted norms and standards by the board of the Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative. Global Witness will also mount campaigns to expose corrupt practices by extractive companies and promote public disclosure of company ownership information.
for general operating support Namati is a global network of grassroots legal advocates working with local communities to understand, use, and shape the law in order to gain access to basic services and rights. Since its founding in 2012, Namati has built a global movement of community paralegals to advance justice in multiple sectors. During its second phase from 2018 through 2022, Namati seeks systemic change in six countries while growing the Global Legal Empowerment Network into an influential global advocacy movement.
for a project to develop a global unique identifier system for nonprofits This collaborative grant is described in the Effective Philanthropy Group Docket Memo.