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for support to the Transparency, Accountability, and Citizen Engagement in West Africa Initiative The Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research carries out research that governments, civil society, and businesses around the world can use to solve problems. Through this initiative, which supports postdoctoral scholarship, the institute will contribute knowledge about what works and does not work related to strengthening citizens’ abilities to demand and obtain high-quality services from public agencies and providers, with a focus on Francophone West Africa. The institute will share this knowledge among academics, government officials, civil society organizations, and funders who may use it to design or improve government transparency, citizen participation, and accountability interventions in the region.
for developing data and evidence for women’s economic empowerment The WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health provides access to global research, data, and maps for sharing ideas and resources on social policies. It uses data to identify effective policies and laws, publish original research, and offer evidence-based policy recommendations. It also works with organizations to translate its global policy data into community and country-level improvements. This grant will support the development of data and evidence for women’s economic empowerment. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for board, fundraising, communications, and organizational structure planning This grant will enable Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) to carry out four activities: 1. convene and facilitate a board retreat to discuss programming, expansion of activities and membership, and a leadership transition; 2. create and implement a three to five years fundraising strategy; 3. create a strategic communications plan; and, 4. review and propose reforms to EGAP's current organizational structure.
for AFIDEP’s strategic plan refresher workshop The African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) is a pan-African non-profit research and policy institute that seeks to contribute to sustained and equitable development in Africa by bridging the gaps between research, policy, and practice. AFIDEP promotes and supports the use of credible evidence (including research, Monitoring and Evaluation, budget, and other routine data from government systems) in policy and program decisions and in service provision to track performance to accelerate the realization of Agenda 2063 and the SDGs. Over the last two years, the organization has experienced significant growth in the size of programs, impact, and staff (80% of the current staff joined the organization between 2020 and 2022). In the context of this significant institutional growth, this Organizational Effectiveness grant will support the organization to hold an institutional-wide strategy refresher and a team-building and leadership retreat in Malawi.
for general support to the National Network for Oral Trials in Mexico program None
for a project to develop policy-relevant population sciences This grant will support the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) to continue to ensure that the latest research on population issues are discussed, debated, and disseminated. IUSSP organizes seminars and conferences to foster scientific exchange, and assists in sharing key research results with policymakers to inform policies and programs. To help strengthen the analytical and communications capacity of junior scientists, IUSSP holds training workshops, provides open access to distance learning materials on advanced methodology, and supports participation in conferences.
for support of the Centre of Actuarial Research's (CARe) population science training program A grant to the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe) at the University of Cape Town would support the continued training of African demographers on estimation techniques. Many sub-Saharan African countries lack reliable and accurate basic demographic data that can be used to develop and implement public policies. Alternate data sources such as the census or survey data often have limitations due to sampling or quality issues. CARe is the only African institution training population scientists to use demographic estimation techniques to overcome these poor data systems in order to inform more effective policies and 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. This grant permits Finance Uncovered to build the capacity of researchers, activists, and financial journalists to investigate, expose, and deter illicit and exploitative financial practices. In this grant period, Finance Uncovered will prioritize exploitative financial practices in their trainings and reporting, notably human trafficking, labor abuse, and environmental degradation.
for general operating support Publish What You Pay is a global coalition of more than 700 civil society organizations advocating for greater transparency and accountability in the extractives sector. The coalition aims to ensure that payment and other disclosures made by extractive companies and governments through channels such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative lead to better and more accountable use of natural resource wealth. The coalition works to consolidate global disclosure norms and advocate for greater compliance at the country level, develop members’ capacity to use data in advocacy campaigns, and foster citizen participation in decisions about the allocation and use of extractive revenues.
for general operating support The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a research and advisory firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, that advises government and civil society partners to apply behavioral science in the pursuit of poverty alleviation. In partnership with MIT Governance Lab, the center trains graduate students from local universities in East Africa in behavioral science research. The center will support organizations working in the Global South by helping them apply behavioral science specifically for the people and contexts they serve. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for an executive search to recruit a new Director of Development With funds from an Organizational Effectiveness grant, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership will hire a search firm to help secure a Director of Development.  After failing to identify a strong candidate on their own, the Center for U.S. Global Leadership determined it would be more efficient and effective to work with a search firm with proven experience and a strong track record.  The Center has selected Development Resources, inc (DRi), an executive search firm that focuses on senior level fundraising positions in the non-profit sector.
for support of a regional strategy review and planning process for Oxfam West Africa Through this grant, Oxfam America will provide financial support to Oxfam West Africa to undertake a review of its 2015-2019 strategy and to develop a new regional strategy for 2020 and beyond. The strategy review and refresh process will include a series of workshops convening people from within Oxfam affiliates, as well as a wide range of civil society organizations and other external stakeholders from across the West Africa region whose perspectives will help ensure that Oxfam's work remains relevant to the changing environment and responsive to their needs.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights With support from the Hewlett Foundation, Sex og Politikk would continue to advocate for equal rights and equal access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, including safe abortions and comprehensive and evidence-based sexuality education globally with a particular focus on the global South.
for support of risk and crisis management This grant will support Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) to strengthen its organizational health, safety, and security infrastructure as an essential investment given the contextual risks and challenges to gender justice and feminist groups in the African region. Specifically, the funding will allow AMwA to establish urgent mitigation measures to protect staff’s and partners' safety and security and the organization’s operations and programming.  
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a project to evaluate the impact of the Center for Social Audit The Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, a Mexican public university, hosts the Center for Social Audit, an research center focused on generating evidence about how citizen participation in the policy process can be improved. Providing technical assistance, funding, and academic research, the Center works throughout Mexico supporting small, local organizations working to improve citizen oversight of public service delivery and government spending. This project will allow the Center to document and review the impact of five years of funding and technical assistance activities. Additionally, the project will permit the Center to undergo an external evaluation to focus their future work on improving citizen oversight in Mexico.
for continuation of the citizen-led assessments of learning in Senegal The Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar’s Jangandoo program supports a citizen-led, household-based assessment of children’s learning in Senegal. This grant would allow Jangandoo to communicate assessment results, analytical reports, and policy briefs through an action research and advocacy campaign that will inform citizens and policymakers about children’s learning status and promote action for improved learning.
for support of the Advocacy Accelerator This grant will provide flexible support for the continued growth of the Advocacy Accelerator, an African-led sharing and learning platform that offers innovative capacity strengthening approaches to increase the impact of local advocacy in Africa. The Advocacy Accelerator aims to respond to the needs of advocacy communities with platforms that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and evidence. During the grant period, the Advocacy Accelerator will provide interactive and accessible training content and workshops to reproductive health advocates; deepen its knowledge management practice; and design evaluation and learning systems to document its impact and value add in the African health and development advocacy ecosystem.
for a project to build monitoring and evaluation capacity Integrity Action is a U.K.-based NGO working to empower citizens to demand openness and accountability from governments, service providers, and contractors. Through this grant, Integrity Action will strengthen its monitoring, evaluation, and learning capacity.
for a project on access to Mexico's largest federal social programs in highly marginal regions None
for support of the Governance Lab The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Governance Lab (MIT GOV/LAB) partners with civil society, funders, and governments on research that builds and tests theories about how innovative programs affect political behavior and make governments more accountable to citizens. Over the next two years, they will continue to support practitioner learning by producing scholarship and disseminating tools that build evidence and policy uptake to promote improved citizen engagement and government accountability. Building on collaborations that emerged with partner governments in West and East Africa to respond to COVID-19, MIT GOV/LAB will further develop research on innovative approaches to pandemic response and preparedness, such as protecting against food insecurity in Sierra Leone. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the global campaign for aid transparency Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid transparency. Founded just two years ago, the campaign has emerged as an effective champion for increasing the availability and accessibility of aid information in a comprehensive, timely, and comparable manner. The campaign promotes implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative data standard through a combination of advocacy and communications outreach, while also monitoring donors’ compliance with the standard. The Foundation has been one of the organization’s core contributors over the past two years as it was incubated by a partner organization. With this grant to the newly independent organization, the campaign would concentrate on ensuring not only that foreign aid resources are transparent but also that data standards are interoperable so other development funding, including domestic resources, can be aligned and used most effectively.
for a project to use evidence to improve local governance processes in Kenya The Institute for Economic Affairs Kenya (IEA Kenya) informs government decision making in Kenya through policy innovation, research, analysis, and dialogues. Under this grant renewal, IEA will continue its work on improving the use of data and evidence in national revenue forecasting and budget allocation decisions to county governments. The goals of this project are to increase capacity, transparency, and evidence-based discourse in the revenue allocation process, and thereby improve budget allocation and budget execution at the county level. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of MSI's Sahel program Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) provides reproductive health services to women and men in four countries in the Sahel region of Africa: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. Due to the reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy, MSI will lose approximately 30 percent of its annual U.S. government funding for Sahel program activities. This flexible funding will smooth the transition while MSI secures funding from other sources.
for general operating support Africa’s Voices Foundation partners with community media organizations in Africa to amplify citizen voice, inform the design of public policies, and monitor the implementation of public services and social programs. Africa’s Voices implements a nationwide governance and accountability campaign in Somalia while entering new partnerships in other sectors and countries.
for research on women's economic empowerment issues With this project grant, Women Thrive will conduct an overview of existing research and data on the following themes: 1) Women's participation in the informal and formal sector; 2) women's access to and ownership of land, property, and financial assets; and 3) women's access to local, regional, and global markets. Women Thrive will meeting with regional and national networks and collectives within the global south to assess priorities around the themes mentioned and identify any alternative themes for policy mapping and advocacy interventions. Building on this work, Women Thrive will map out any potential policy interventions and potential for future advocacy. Finally, Women Thrive will propose a policy agenda for future work on a focused area of economic opportunities for women.
for support of integrating Global Health Corps community portal with Salesforce This organizational effectiveness grant will support Global Health Corps to make final improvements to its new online portal for current fellows and alumni. One of Global Health Corps' biggest assets is its growing network of former fellows. This project will connect Global Health Corps alumni to staff, but more importantly, with current fellows and directly to one another.
for general operating support The Natural Resource Governance Institute promotes effective management of oil, gas, and mineral endowments to ensure that citizens of resource-rich countries benefit from the extraction of these resources. At the country level, the institute provides training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to local partners including civil society groups, the media, government ministries, and legislatures and promotes the uptake of global transparency and governance norms and practices. Over the next two years, the institute will focus on government and company disclosure of extractive sector information in a set of priority countries and promote the use of this information by civil society and citizen groups for advocacy.
for a collaborative project to build, strengthen, and improve use of county data systems in Kenya The African Institute for Development Policy Research and Dialogue (AFIDEP) is a regional policy institute that seeks to ensure that government decision makers consider the most relevant and comprehensive evidence when they make policy decisions to improve the well-being of Africans and the environment in which they live. This grant supports a project in which AFIDEP will collaborate with the African Population and Health Research Center to strengthen capacity and use of integrated national and subnational data systems to promote evidence-informed decision making in two districts in Kenya.
for the production of a public radio program on revitalizing US foreign assistance A Presidential Discretionary grant to America Abroad Media (AAM) (Washington, DC) will support the production of America's Development Deficit, a one hour public radio program as part of AAM's monthly America Abroad series.  AAM's goals in producing America's Development Deficit will be to shape the policy debate in Washington, DC on revitalizing US foreign assistance and to educate an influential public radio audience on: 1) the history of US foreign assistance, 2) contemporary challenges facing US global development efforts, 3) the increased militarization of aid, and 4) the organizational and leadership deficit at USAID.   In addition, to amplify the findings of the program and help shape the policy debate currently underway in Washington, AAM will convene an off-the-record policy briefing bringing together government officials and the policy community.  AAM will also develop a podcast and program page for America's Development Deficit.  Along with the efforts of several current Hewlett grantees and their work with the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, this one hour public radio program will serve as an additional tool to make clear the need to modernize U.S. foreign assistance. (New, $100,000/1; 100% of project budget)
for a project to test post-2015 indicator feasibility and inform post-2015 framework development This project will determine the extent to which candidate post-2015 goals, targets and indicators can be measured in six countries representing low, middle and high income categories. The country case studies will identify key data gaps and feasibility for measuring development progress in the post-2015 framework. The project will identify opportunities and challenges to improve the quality, accessibility and transparency of data. which will inform the post-2015 deliberations. The case studies will be conducted by members of the Think Tank Initiative. The results from the project will be used to inform the post-2015 framework. A separate grant is being made to support the Centre for Policy Dialogue's participation in the project.
for the Global Subsidies Initiative to conduct research on the effects of biofuels and irrigation subsidies on global poverty and agricultural markets None
for the FACT Coalition’s research, outreach, and engagement to support tax transparency standards The Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 state, national, and international organizations working to advance corporate and financial transparency reforms and promote a fair and accountable international tax system. With this grant, the coalition will advance the achievement of FACT’s strategic priorities and will allow FACT to continue its advocacy work; conduct research; engage legal advice in regulatory processes; conduct outreach to corporate and investor allies; and engage the media to highlight these anti-corruption and tax justice issues. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support of the African Partnership Travel and Learning Fund None
for a program to strengthen data governance in Kenya Amnesty International Kenya is part of the Amnesty International global human rights  movement, which consists of 70 national entities. With this grant — and together with partner organization Open Institute — Amnesty International Kenya will continue work supporting the effective operationalization of Kenya’s Data Protection Act, scaling up awareness campaigns on data governance and rights to privacy, and bolstering regional cooperation therein. This renewal is part of a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for support of the Center for Reproductive Rights Africa Program This grant to the Center for Reproductive Rights will support its Africa Program, which seeks to protect, respect, and fulfill the full spectrum of reproductive rights in the region. The center’s new five-year strategic plan focuses on roles that build on its comparative advantage in the field as legal and policy leader and effective partner. The center’s Nairobi-based regional office plans to lead and support impact litigation, shape norms and public policies, and conduct strategic advocacy to advance reproductive rights. The center will support locally driven change and build capacity for more effective, sustained local advocacy and legal work.
for a communications plan An Organizational Effectiveness grant to Development Initiatives (DI) will support the refinement of a communications and engagement plan. In 2011, DI articulated a new five-year strategy, including the bold long-term goal "to end absolute poverty by 2025".  To achieve this vision, DI recognizes the importance of understanding better their target audiences and the communications and engagement tactics that will best enable DI to realize the goal of eradicating poverty.
for the East Africa Social Science Translation Collaborative The East Africa Social Science Translation Collaborative (EASST) enables East African researchers to conduct impact evaluations of social and economic programs, generating evidence for public policymaking. Researchers receive fellowships and grants at the University of California at Berkeley to carry out field studies, build capacity in African universities, and engage with governments. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a project to support the NSA’s international access to information work Since 1985, as an independent, nonprofit institute based at George Washington University, the National Security Archive (NSA) has worked to promote transparency, openness, and the right to know in the United States and around the world. Project support from the Hewlett Foundation will enable the NSA to continue its role as the leading civil society advocate of access to information and government openness. The proposed grant will support the NSA’s leadership role in a new government-civil society initiative on global open government, implementation of a global metric for access to information, expansion of the freedominfo.org virtual network, and expert assistance on challenges to freedom of information in key countries that include India, Brazil, and Russia. Much of this proposed project would focus on implementing existing laws, principally by promoting civil society use of access to information laws, greater professionalism (through training) among government officials who administer openness laws, and sustained media attention to the cause of transparency.