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for support of Ibis's international program Ibis Reproductive Health conducts policy-relevant clinical, operations, and social science research to answer critical questions about how to improve women’s reproductive health, including access to safe abortion services and contraceptive choice and use. This grant will help grow Ibis’s portfolio of reproductive health research in sub-Saharan Africa and explore new research opportunities in East and West Africa.
for Pan-African and Feminist Philanthropies Initiative TrustAfrica is a pan-African philanthropic organization that seeks to strengthen initiatives that address the most difficult challenges confronting the continent and is focused on Democratic Governance, Equitable Development, and African Philanthropy. In partnership with Urgent Action Fund Africa, TrustAfrica will use this grant to facilitate the building of an ecosystem of pan-African and feminist philanthropies grounded in the principles of mutuality, self-determination, solidarity, and African agency. This grant will allow the partners to co-create and support shared infrastructure and mechanisms that serve, connect, and strengthen underrepresented constituencies and movements — by moving money and other resources — in their goal of advancing justice. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for collaborative work with the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) in Ghana None
for a project to inform citizens about the quality of public service delivery The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) promotes an active citizenry and more responsive government through better use of evidence to improve public policies and service delivery. This grant will fund CDD-Ghana’s I Am Aware program, which compiles and shares data on how district governments are performing in delivering key services including health, education, and water and sanitation. CDD-Ghana will work with other civil society organizations, government officials, national and local media, and citizen volunteers to raise awareness and take appropriate action to improve services. CDD-Ghana will strengthen its monitoring and evaluation capacity and share lessons with others in the transparency, participation, and accountability field.
for support of youth travel and interpretation services during the 2021 ICFP The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is organizing the sixth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) to take place in Pattaya City, Thailand, in November 2021. This grant supports the active engagement of youth by providing travel stipends for those whose abstracts are accepted for presentation. In addition, the grant will support interpretation services for plenary sessions and presentations to promote the meaningful exchange of ideas and best practices during the main conference and youth pre-conference.
for support of resource mobilization planning This organizational effectiveness grant to Amref Health Africa will support the Advocacy Accelerator in developing and implementing a business development and resource mobilization plan. Specifically, the funding will allow the Advocacy Accelerator to work with a team of consultants to conduct a sustainability market check and receive resource mobilization and strategic communications capacity support. These efforts aim to attract new core funding as the team seeks to diversify its donor portfolio. 
Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity
For the second phase of the West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation program The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) seeks to improve policies and programs by building researcher capacity to produce evidence and government capacity use by conducting policy-relevant evaluations, synthesizing evidence, and building a culture of evidence-based policymaking. This grant supports 3ie's West Africa Capacity-building and Impact Evaluation initiative. Eight Francophone West African governments, the West African Development Bank, and the West African Economic Monetary Union are partnering with 3ie to increase their use of evidence in decision making. During this grant period, 3ie expects to contribute to the use of evidence in at least three major government decisions, to enable nongovernmental organizations to partner with each other and with Francophone governments to better achieve their goals, and to support regional capacity for evidence use. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking.)
for general operating support The Union of Associative and Community Radios — in French, Union des Radios Associatives et Communautaires (URAC) — is a coalition of 100-plus community radio stations. URAC is present in the 14 regions of Senegal and its member radios broadcast in all the various languages of the country. The member radios were created by grassroots community associations and are dedicated to the progress, education, and empowerment of populations by promoting good governance and the consolidation of local democracy. URAC is made up of free, independent, and secular radio stations that are committed to the observance of human rights, the promotion of women and vulnerable groups, and the preservation of the environment. They are independent, pluralistic, and refuse commercial communication. URAC will continue to work on its overall goal of strengthening legal, economic, and governance frameworks favorable to the development of community media and citizen participation. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support The Lugar Center’s mission is to educate and motivate the public, global policymakers, and future leaders on critical issues such as global food security, foreign aid effectiveness, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and bipartisan governance. Through leadership and engagement in the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, the Lugar Center will promote aid effectiveness principles such as accountability, transparency, and learning; educate policy makers; and hold government agencies accountable for their commitments.
for the Ebola Response Fund The United Nations Foundation links the work of United Nations agencies with others around the world. This grant would facilitate support to the World Health Organization and possibly other U.N. agencies for technical assistance to governments, field coordinators, health workers, infection prevention and control experts, data managers, and logisticians. The United Nations Foundation is able to respond quickly to needs as they arise among U.N. agencies that are unable to raise funds individually.
for general operating support Advocates for Community Alternatives partners with communities in West Africa to explore community development alternatives that are not dependent on mining and carbon extraction. They will expand their community oversight initiative in the Donkro Nkwanta region of Ghana from the municipal to district level while deepening their West African regional partnerships for coordinated public interest litigation. (Substrategy: Governance Channels)
for support of a public expenditure program Mexico Evalua is a think tank based in Mexico that focuses on advocating for evidence-based policymaking. This grant will support their public expenditure program, aligning with the Fiscal Transparency substrategy of the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability strategy. Mexico Evalua will seek to ensure that public spending is efficient and responsible by undertaking the following activities: monthly monitoring and public disclosure of public finance; strengthening journalists and citizens’ budget literacy through workshops and a public platform; evaluating intragovernmental transfers as a means to improve public services; and monitoring of public health infrastructure contracting.
for a project to add gender to National Transfer Accounts This project proposes to bring women’s economic lives into clearer view by adding gender and unpaid work to life cycle analyses of production and consumption in National Transfer Accounts. It would create the first cross-national comparative database to measure all economic flows by age and gender.
for support of a strategic plan and diversification of fundraising This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant would enable ideas42 to develop a strategy to raise funds from individual donors.  Over 80 percent of ideas42's funding currently comes from foundations, and only 0.25 percent from individuals.  Ideas42 believes cultivating individual donors will help diversify their funding, which in turn could increase their ability to undertake high impact projects more effectively.  A larger base of individual donors could give ideas42 greater stability and flexibility to explore and pursue innovations to address social problems that do not fit within short-term project-based funding model.
for general operating support Open Data Watch supports countries to realize the full potential of their national statistical systems by providing open access to high-quality statistics. The organization measures the openness of statistics, monitors progress, and offers ways to achieve open data, including for low capacity countries. It is a key contributor to the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. During this period, Open Data Watch plans to develop guidelines and an interactive toolkit for governments to incorporate open data in their national statistical development strategies. It will also develop the Open Data Inventory, a publicly available assessment of the coverage and openness of official statistical systems.
for developing a plan to support national chapters is using global and regional norms and standards Transparency International (TI) is a global civil society network with over 100 national chapters that champion transparency and accountability. This planning grant to the TI Secretariat would support the design of a global advocacy and capacity building plan to enhance national chapters’ ability to promote compliance with global norms and standards in their countries.
for general support of the Twaweza program to increase citizen engagement in East Africa None
for Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition to build a consortium on safe abortion This grant to PATH’s Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition project will support a Regional Safe Abortion Dialogue for Francophone Africa. The two-day meeting will utilize the global Common Agenda for Safe Abortion framework to establish better coordination and priorities for advocates, researchers, donors, and practitioners in the region across six elements critical to safe abortion access. This grant will also support a pre-meeting landscaping of current stakeholders and activities as well as post-meeting planning for collective action, including the potential for the formation of a regional secretariat to support future collaboration.
for support to the Afrobarometer The Afrobarometer is a pan-African network that has been collecting data on citizens’ opinions about democracy, governance, public service quality, and related issues since 1999. The grant will support the next two rounds of the Afrobarometer opinion survey; continue to build the network’s capabilities to communicate findings to domestic and international users in media, government, civil society, and academia; and track how those findings are being used for policy planning and implementation at the country and global levels.
for general operating support of the National Audubon Society's Population and Habitat program None
for support to strengthen civil society capacity building in West Africa IntraHealth International, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC) – Project; New; $400,000 over 2 years; 100% of project budget
For support to strengthen civil society capacity for family planning advocacy in West Africa.
The purpose of this grant is to support an initiative to strengthen civil society capacity for advocacy regarding government commitment to family planning in three countries in Francophone West Africa — Benin, Mali, and Senegal.
for general operating support This grant to World Pulse will allow them to expand their work and evidence through digital mobilization to strengthen the voice, agency, and impact of grassroots women leaders worldwide. World Pulse will achieve this long-term goal through digital empowerment training programs. They also will carry out a global outreach campaign to increase the size of their network and improve monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to track membership reporting on impact, data collection, and analysis.
for support of Ideo.org's Health XO program IDEO.org applies principles of human-centered design to alleviate poverty. Over the past four years, IDEO.org has developed the Health XO program, targeting improvements in adolescent girls’ reproductive health. This grant will allow the program to explore new ways of collaborating with partners, experiment with new approaches to bring outside perspectives to the design process, and make the resulting solutions more accessible to the reproductive health field.
for assessing Mexico’s federal evaluation policies linked to performance-based public spending Gesoc aims to improve the design, performance, transparency, and quality of public spending in Mexico for social programs targeted at vulnerable and poor populations. This grant will allow Gesoc to consolidate its efforts to strengthen the use of evidence to improve transparency, effectiveness, and quality of public spending. Gesoc will develop the next two editions of the Federal Social Programs Performance Index, the second and third editions of the State Index of Social Development Capacities, identify a reform and advocacy agenda on initiatives to modify the current social policy paradigm, and work collectively toward sustainable fiscal policy.
for Gender Equality and Social Inclusivity in Senegal The Inter African Network for Women, Media, Gender and Development (FAMEDEV) is a regional women’s organization focused on media and communication based in Dakar, Senegal, but essentially covering the west and central African regions. FAMEDEV aims at building a democratic communication space that facilitates the promotion of human rights, democratic governance, and the strengthening of gender and social justice in Africa. It works to promote the rights of African women by using the media, networking, training, capacity building, access to resources and — on an equal basis with men — defining and shaping the policies, structures, and decisions that affect their lives and society as a whole. This grant will allow FAMEDEV, working closely with community radios, theater groups, and traditional communicators, to disseminate and popularize existing gender equity and inclusion frameworks within grassroots populations and develop strategies for their effective implementation in Senegal. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of Ipas' regional strategy in Francophone West Africa This program grant will support Ipas’ Francophone Africa regional program to improve access to quality abortion services. Since the office was established in 2015, Ipas has become a leading and established presence in the region, working closely with governments, advocates, and clinicians to advance abortion access and reproductive rights. Their approach is holistic, adapting their programming to the abortion ecosystem in each country. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy outcomes to strengthen the sexual and reproductive health ecosystem and to support legalization and access to safe abortion in Francophone West Africa.
for strengthening coverage of women’s economic empowerment in the Hunger Report This grant to Bread for the World Institute will support its twenty-fifth Hunger Report, which will focus on women’s important role in eliminating hunger. The purpose of the grant would be to elevate the faith community’s engagement and voice to promote women’s economic empowerment and to raise the profile of this issue in Bread for the World’s advocacy directed at the U.S. government and the post-2015 development goals.
for an initiative to educate state, local, and federal leaders about trade and development issues None
for the promotion of feminist open government and open data This grant to Development Gateway is to support Open Heroines, an online global community of women who work on open government, open data, and civic technology. Open Heroines will provide support for women, especially from countries that are historically underrepresented in global fora, to attend different "open"-related conferences. During these events, Open Heroines will organize various "do-a-thons" during which people with different skill sets collaborate on open data projects to apply a gender lens. Open Heroines will gather information and carry out a mapping exercise to identify and better understand the barriers and challenges that women face in their career path in open government, open data, and/or civic technology.
for general operating support With this renewal grant Sonora Ciudadana (SC)  will continue its subnational advocacy campaign to gain effective access to health services for low-level state workers in thirteen Mexican states.  To that end, SC will continue working to access relevant public information, track local budgets and analyze service delivery especially for basic health services. Given the persistent heterogeneity of access to information guarantees and budget information that prevails at the subnational level, SC is recruiting local partners to implement its strategy.  The organization recognizes that the task is highly technical, and it plans to work in partnership with the International Budget Project (IBP, also a grantee of our program) to strengthen the technical capacity local NGOs to carry out this work.  Sonora Ciudadana is a power-user of social networks and will be using them to foster communities of people who has been denied medical care. While doing this work, SC is actively supporting and testing the implementation of the access to information constitutional reform in Sonora and the states covered by its strategy.
for the program activities and institutional growth of the Center for Global Development in Europe The Center for Global Development (CGD) is an independent, nonpartisan, non-profit "think-and-do tank" that works to reduce global poverty and inequality through research and active engagement with the development policy community. Flexible support to CGD’s Europe operations would help the Center expand its global influence to a broader range of decision makers, including key institutions in Europe whose trade, fiscal, and other policies impact the lives of the poor in developing countries.
for general operating support The African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) is among the premier social science research centers in sub-Saharan Africa addressing key population and health challenges in the region. Since becoming an independent entity in 1995, APHRC has built a reputation for producing high-quality, policy-relevant research and engaging policymakers to increase the use of research and evidence in policy processes. APHRC recently launched a new five-year strategic plan (2012–2016). Over this next period, APHRC will continue to strive toward being a center of excellence in generating and delivering relevant scientific evidence for policy and action, and strengthening the individual and institutional research capacity. APHRC plans to place stronger emphasis on interdisciplinary work among the four thematic research areas of education, health systems, population dynamics, and urbanization, and explore critical emerging issues such as climate change. By addressing topics of pan-African relevance and leveraging networks and partnerships with regional institutions such as the African Union, APHRC also intends to maximize regional reach and impact.
for support of Into Women’s Hands: Misoprostol and the Politics of Reproduction in Burkina Faso and Senegal This grant will support the Into Women's Hands project to generate and foster the use of qualitative evidence to reduce unsafe abortion and maternal mortality in Burkina Faso and Senegal. Applying a feminist reproductive justice lens, Brandeis University, in partnership with Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, will assess the availability, distribution, and use of misoprostol for approved and off-label obstetric indications in formal and informal health sectors in the two countries. The team will strengthen the capacity and build a pipeline of African scholars to conduct qualitative research to influence policy and practice. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for research and outreach on water sector accountability to improve governance and service delivery The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is an independent, pan-African nonprofit organization that works to build a vibrant social sciences community and enhance excellence and use of public policy research in Africa. Through this grant, PASGR will support a new consortium of practitioners, universities, and research institutions to better understand and promote policies, practices, and mechanisms for improving transparency and accountability of water services that are responsive to people’s needs in up to four countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. The partnership will work with water sector policymakers and regulators in these four countries to identify priorities, recruit and support research fellows, and facilitate uptake of results.
for strategic planning Global Aids Alliance mobilizes the will and financial resources needed to stop the global AIDS crisis and ease its impact on the hardest-hit poor countries. With these funds, the advocacy organization will undertake a review and planning process to devise a strategic plan for 2011-15.
for general operating support Reproductive Health Network Kenya (RHNK) is a network of over 500 trained health care providers across Kenya who are committed to the provision of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights to all. The providers — who include doctors, nurses, and midwives working in the private sector — work together through this network to collaborate, build capacity, and advocate together for reproductive rights. RHNK has received support from Hewlett as a subgrantee under the Center for Reproductive Rights and also as the Self-Care Trailblazer Group led by Population Services International. This will be the first direct grant to RHNK and is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a project to monitor national budget expenditures for reproductive health supplies Population Action International (PAI) (Washington, DC) - Project; New; $400,000 over 2 years; 94% of project budget
For a project to monitor national budget expenditures for reproductive health supplies
for support of the Partners for Evidence-driven Rapid Learning in Social Systems (PERLSS) project McMaster University will support 11 low- and middle-income country research centers as they test evidence tools that have shown promise in health and may help improve programs and policies in other sectors. The centers will respond to inquiries from policymakers on the policymakers’ timeline, helping clarify problems and causes, options to address them, and implementation considerations. These institutions will also experiment with new ways of incorporating citizen feedback into policy discussions and connecting in-country evidence-oriented groups. McMaster will regrant funds, provide technical support, and facilitate peer learning.