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for support of the Ebola Epidemic Relief Fund GlobalGiving is a charity fundraising website that gives social entrepreneurs and nonprofits from anywhere in the world a chance to raise the money that they need to improve their communities. This grant provides resources for regranting to community-based organizations for medical supplies to care for those already infected, protective equipment to keep health workers safe, and educational campaigns to inform the public about Ebola and how it spreads.
for a planning commission for development and security policy in West Africa The Center for Strategic and International  Studies' Global Health Policy Center, in partnership with the CSIS Africa program and the International Security program, proposes to establish a CSIS Commission on the reconstruction of post-Ebola West Africa. This grant will support CSIS in the planning phase of this work, to assess the appropriate focus, scope, and participation for a larger effort to develop a strategic U.S. approach to the reconstruction challenges of global health, development, and security in the West African countries most impacted by Ebola.
for designing a program on education accountability in Uganda and for learning exchanges in Africa Link Community Development International is a U.K.-based nonprofit organization that works with local civil society organizations in Africa to improve the quality of education. Through its local partners, Link develops educational standards, improves information about school performance gaps, and strengthens the capacity of school management committees and school inspectors to exercise oversight and jointly resolve problems. This grant will support analysis and peer learning about social accountability in education among Link’s partners and with other practitioners in Africa to inform future program interventions in Transparency, Participation, and Accountability in the education field.
for support of the Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative The Center for American Progress’s Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative promotes investments in global prosperity and stability to secure long-term U.S. national security. This grant will permit the Initiative to engage in important emerging issues dealing with global poverty reduction over the next few decades. Funding will focus on four primary activities: (1) support the work of John Podesta in his position on the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda; (2) establish a group of thought leaders from organizations in Washington that are oriented toward aid reform; (3) generate analysis and undertake advocacy on how best to manage U.S. development assistance resources in a time of extreme austerity; and (4) identify opportunities related to development reform and launch special projects as they arise.
for support of human-centered design collaboration in Zambia This grant to Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) will support the next phase of a partnership between MSI and IDEO.org to use human-centered design to develop a set of contraceptive services for teens within MSI’s existing service delivery platform in Zambia. The first phase of this work showed promising increases in teen contraceptive use. During this next phase MSI and IDEO.org will use the human-centered design process to plan and prototype services for rural teens through the mobile outreach teams, a key service channel for the MSI Zambia program.
for general operating support A regional think tank based in Ghana, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) provides African policymakers with independent research and analysis to inform the design and implementation of sound policies that promote broad-based economic growth. ACET was established in 2007 with initial seed funding from the Hewlett and Rockefeller foundations; we subsequently provided a three-year core support grant to ACET in 2008. Since then, the Foundation’s core support has helped the institution raise approximately $16 million in additional project and core funding. The organization now has a staff of twenty-five at its Accra headquarters, hailing from eight African countries. This renewal grant will enable ACET to continue to expand its two main areas of work: (1) providing direct policy advisory services to senior government officials of African countries (current clients include the governments of Rwanda, Liberia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone); and (2) conducting original policy research on economic transformation issues in partnership with national think tanks in fourteen African countries, including producing the first edition of the Africa Transformation Report.
for the Shujaaz youth communications and social change initiative Shujaaz is a mass communications initiative to reach millions of youth across Kenya and Tanzania by linking story lines, characters, and social change messages across media platforms that include comic books, radio shows, text messages, and social media. Building on their 2015 research on youth attitudes toward Kenya’s governance and political decentralization process, this grant will support Shujaaz’s effort to deliver targeted content among segmented audiences to influence youth perceptions, conversations and engagement about government, active citizenship, and potential roles for youth.
for strengthening of religious groups to promote family planning in Francophone West Africa This grant to World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) will support its work with religious groups in Guinea and Niger to strengthen their capacity to work as development actors in the field of family planning. Through engagement, training, and technical assistance, WFDD partners deeply with religious leaders to empower them to share information about family planning with communities, schools, and health care providers. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for development of a strategy to expand and diversify the Basic Education Coalition's funding base None
for an effort to reform U.S. foreign aid to ensure the foreign policy goal of sustainable security This renewal grant would support CAP’s Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative,  which emphasizes the need for smart, forward-looking investments in global prosperity and stability to secure U.S. national security over the long term. Under a previous grant from the Hewlett Foundation, CAP played a lead role in creating and advancing the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. It will continue to work closely with the Network members as they seek to shape the policy debate on critical reforms to the U.S. aid system, including a long overdue push for reform, as well as the creation of a U.S. National Strategy for Global Development.  

The Center for American Progress (CAP) (Washington, DC) – Project; Renewal; $300,000 over 1 year, 3 months; 100% of project budget
for policy dialogue to integrate population issues into the Rio+20 outcome documents Foreningen Sex and Samfund, is a longstanding proponent of quality sex education for all in Denmark and globally with a focus on 1) promotion of family planning; 2) sexual well-being; 3) reproductive health; and 4) sexual knowledge as an integral part of personal and social life and as a human right.  Sex and Samfund is recognized by the Danish government as a partner in issues related to sexual and reproductive rights, nationally and internationally.  These funds will enable Sex and Samfund to integrate population issues into the outcome documents at the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012 which will offer a crucial opportunity to advance population and sexual and reproductive health issues.  Denmark is uniquely positioned for participation in the Rio +20 policy dialogue because Denmark holds the Presidency of the European Union through June 2012.  Sex and Samfund is the International Planned Parenthood Member Association in Denmark.
for support of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network This grant would support the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), a coalition of think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and individuals focused on reforming U.S. foreign assistance policies. The Hewlett Foundation has supported MFAN since 2007 during which time the coalition has become recognized as a steadfast voice for foreign aid reform among policy makers, thinkers, journalists, and the broad U.S. development community. MFAN is entering a new phase in the next two years with fresh leadership and a more focused agenda. The coalition would undertake a program of convening, policy development, and advocacy aimed at increasing transparency, accountability, and learning in U.S. foreign assistance, and broadening country ownership of foreign aid, including making U.S. assistance more responsive to the people and governments of developing countries.
for support of global integration of human-centered design practices This grant to MSI-US will support an internal effort to incorporate principles and practices of human-centered design (HCD) into several aspects of their programming and reproductive health services. This grant represents a new phase of our support for HCD with MSI, following multiple grants for HCD projects in various countries. MSI would like to institute HCD practices across its entire organization to promote a staff culture of client-centered adaptation, including efforts to produce standard HCD tools and guidelines and to apply HCD to a new strategic focus on client feedback. This grant is aligned with the International Reproductive Health strategy’s aim to increase access to sexual and reproductive health services through innovation in service delivery.
for support of Population Services International's Francophone West Africa program This project seeks to reduce maternal mortality due to unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa. Population Services International will use insights about women’s preferences to increase reproductive health options and use commercial marketing techniques to promote new products in several countries in West Africa. It will also test innovative models that require less infrastructure to distribute reproductive health products and look for opportunities to provide alternatives for women who otherwise would seek a clandestine abortion.
for development of HR policies and procedures and communications work EQUIS: Justicia para las Mujeres A.C. is a feminist organization based in Mexico City that works to transform institutions, public policies and women’s leadership to improve access to justice for all women. This organizational effectiveness grant will support EQUIS in the construction of a new governance model, the development of related policies and internal processes, the launch of a new image, the adoption of measures for organizational resilience and financial and material sustainability.
for support of regional African gender and tax justice work The African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) serves as an African network that aims at improving tax systems in Africa through exchanges, knowledge dissemination, capacity development, and active contribution to the regional and global tax agenda. ATAF strives to build efficient and effective tax administrations in Africa, to become the leader on African tax matters, to enhance economic development, and improve the living standards of the people of Africa. This grant will support the ATAF Women in Tax Network to build women’s leadership in the African tax space and promote the development of African tax policies that can contribute to greater gender equality. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity) conducts research on the governance and impact of voluntary initiatives that bring together government, civil society, and the private sector to address complex governance and development problems. MSI Integrity aims to strengthen existing multi-stakeholder initiatives by investigating and documenting whether, when, and how these efforts are effective. In the last two years, MSI-Integrity successfully completed and published a report on the governance and effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives, concluding that MSIs are not fit for purpose, especially in relation to their human rights record. The results are being used by several MSIs, including those funded by the Hewlett Foundation, to inform adaptations to the structural limitations identified in the report. MSI Integrity plans to focus on the private sector to advance and promote corporate models that put workers and communities at the center of corporations’ ownership and governance. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for impact evaluations of programs to improve governance in developing countries A grant to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would support the rollout of J-PAL's Governance Initiative to sponsor randomized impact evaluations of governance programs, including those designed to reduce the leakage of public funds in service delivery. A core grantee for the Global Development Program, J-PAL teaches researchers and policymakers how to conduct rigorous evaluations of the effectiveness of specific development interventions and how to use the findings to set the direction of program design and funding. The Initiative will complement J-PAL's broader research agenda, which produces evidence to improve the delivery of public services such as education and health. By addressing the governance challenges that can undermine the achievement of any development goals, the Initiative will help ensure that resources are used more effectively and sustainably. J-PAL anticipates generating initial findings from approximately ten new studies during this three-year start-up phase. By reporting its findings to policymakers and providing support for the expansion and replication of successful governance programs, the Initiative will help translate this evidence into changes in policy.
for web television and radio platforms for citizen engagement Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) conducts research and analysis of public spending in Uganda, advocates for evidence-based public policies, and builds citizens’ capacity to demand accountability and improved services from government. The outbreak of COVID-19 disrupted ACODE’s outreach to communities and engagements with policymakers. To sustain these engagements and develop new mechanisms for ongoing outreach and advocacy, ACODE has decided to set up their own web-based radio station and television network. Radio is the most popular source of information for a vast majority of Ugandans while television facilitates direct engagement with policymakers. This grant will cover part of the cost of the two platforms. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for general operating support As a leading African feminist organization, Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) works to ensure women and girls have access to high-quality, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services, including contraception and safe abortion. Through its Our Bodies, Our Choices program, TICAH builds the agency and ownership of communities to identify and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) needs, and works with marginalized populations as equal partners in achieving SRHR and social inclusion. TICAH will implement a new strategic plan, capitalizing on its Culture-Art-Health framework to bring attention to gender justice and how “choice” is understood, acted upon, and reflected in SRHR services and policies throughout Kenya. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda New York University through its Center on International Cooperation will support the work of the United Nations's Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda. This grant will enable the Center's staff to provide logistical support for consultative meetings and research that will inform the high-level panel recommendations. These recommendations will serve as the framework for goals to be agreed by UN member states by 2015.
for general operating support People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy. In collaboration with national and regional networks, the hub provides mentorship, training, and funding to implementers and scholars of participatory democracy programs so that residents participate more meaningfully and directly in their local governance. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of the 2018 "Progress of the World's Women" report This grant to UN Women will support the research, production, and outreach of their flagship report, "Progress of the World’s Women 2018–2019." The report will focus on the topic of "families in a changing world."
for a project on the distribution of public transfers and their impact on rural household welfare None
for general operating support The Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) is a Mexican feminist organization for the strengthening of social leadership as a strategy to reduce gender inequality that places women and young people in situations that violate the guarantee of their rights, especially when they intersect with other systems of structural exclusion such as racism and socioeconomic or age inequality. ILSB’s institutional mission is the development of a critical mass of leaders with a gender, human rights, and intercultural perspective so that they can have an impact in the transformation of their realities and the dismantling of exclusion systems. ILSB aims to sustain in the long term its work of accompanying and supporting activists, organizations, and collectives that champion human rights and social justice agendas through their own voices. ILSB is also working to achieve financial strength it can apply to some of its underfunded programs and emerging work. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a project to improve and embed evidence use in the food security sector in Benin Actions pour l’Environnement et le Développement Durable (ACED) is a policy research organization in Benin that connects evidence to policy and local action in the food security and nutrition sector, with the ultimate aim of improving the livelihoods of vulnerable populations. This grant will support ACED in enhancing production and access to policy-relevant evidence; increasing the capacities of stakeholders in demanding, accessing, and brokering evidence; and improving evidence use by policymakers and practitioners. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a collaborative project to build, strengthen, and improve use of county data systems in Kenya The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is committed to generating an Africa-led and Africa-owned body of evidence to inform decision making for an effective and sustainable response to the most critical challenges facing the continent. The center’s mandate is to generate and support the use of evidence for meaningful action to improve the lives of all Africans. This grant supports a project in which APHRC will collaborate with the African Institute for Development Policy Research and Dialogue to strengthen capacity and use of integrated national and subnational data systems to promote evidence-informed decision making in two districts in Kenya.
for support of research on social norms and demand for reproductive health services in Senegal This grant will support the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to design and implement an innovative and inclusive project that generates new knowledge to inform sexual and reproductive health (SRH) interventions in Francophone West Africa. The project will bring together African-based SRH researchers, program implementers, activists, and the targets of SRH interventions to examine the challenges to and solutions for ethical and effective demand generation of SRH services. The project includes qualitative fieldwork in Senegal to investigate how systems of gender norms both limit and expand women’s individual agency, and collective agency with family members, to act on their SRH desires.
for the budget and spending transparency indices 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. It also seeks to advance government transparency and accountability. With this grant, IMCO will continue to produce competitiveness and budgetary information indices at the national and subnational levels, including a new index on public spending.
for the Shujaaz interactive media platform and social change initiative Shujaaz is a mass communications initiative to reach millions of youth in Kenya and Tanzania, linking story lines, characters, and social change messages across media platforms that include comic books, radio shows, text messages, and social media. Over the next 18 months, Shujaaz will sustain a national media campaign to connect young people with community-based organizations so that youth have more opportunities to engage with governance processes. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for phase one of the Action for Voice, Influence, and Inclusive Development (AVID) project The STAR-Ghana Foundation is a Ghanaian grantmaking organization that has supported more than 230 civil society organizations since it was founded in 2010. Its vision is a well-informed and active Ghanaian citizenry able to contribute to transformational change that advances democracy, accountability, and social inclusion. Its mission is to increase the effectiveness of citizens and civil society to achieve an equitable, inclusive society. This grant will support the AVID program to address systemic constraints to underserved communities' access to quality public goods and services. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support IDinsight seeks to maximize the use of rigorous analysis in support of policymakers’ decision making within their budgetary, time, and operational constraints. With this grant, IDinsight will build its team and operational infrastructure, develop new data and evidence services, share its approach and learnings with relevant development actors, and create teams focused on scale-up.
for financial management Innovations for Poverty Action is a research and policy non-profit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems, primarily through conducting impact evaluations and engaging with policy actors to learn from their findings. This organizational effectiveness grant will support IPA to strengthen its financial management and accounting practices.
for support of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency is a global network that promotes transparency and public participation in fiscal governance. The Initiative brings together governments, civil society organizations, private sector actors, and development partners to dialogue and build consensus and support for transparency and public participation in fiscal matters, discuss and strengthen existing fiscal norms and standards, and promote country-level implementation of these norms and standards. This grant will enable the Initiative to expand its work in East and West Africa and increase its technical assistance and peer learning among network members.