devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
2019 Mgmt Project - Sector Strengthening Lessons Learned Conduct a desk review and develop a catalog of examples of research strengthening initiatives.
Conduct targeted interviews with members of organizations that have undertaken institutional strengthening, as well as organizations that were meant to benefit from such programs.
Conduct a workshop with the Foundation to discuss best approaches and options for the Foundation's future research support.
2019 Project - EleV Canadian Youth Reconciliation Barometer Aims to elevate the voices of Indigenous youth in Canada by surveying their aspirations for the future as well as establishing benchmark indicators for the state of reconciliation among the country's youth (age 16-29). This learning will inform the expansion of the Foundation's Indigenous education programming.
2020 Project - EleV Learning Facilitator 2020 Project - EleV Learning Facilitator
2020 CRRP Project To promote community prevention outreaches, improve access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene and strengthen the capacity of health facilities to respond to and offer treatment of COVID-19 in Kenya, Zambia and South Sudan.
2019 Mgmt Project - iWorker Research - Additional Travel Expenses 2019 Mgmt Project - iWorker Research - Additional Travel Expenses
2009 Program The program will document the value proposition of technology-enabled microfinance through the implementation of Mifos, an open source management information system for microfinance. This will be done through a demonstration project involving four MFIs to improve the scale of their operations and expand their products and outreach to poor clients over two years. The project will also create a consortium of seven MFIs deploying Mifos to enable learning and strengthen technical assistance for this open technology approach.
2016 Program - MF Scholars This program provides training and development of microfinance practitioners.  Scholarships are provided based on financial need.
2015 Management Project - Africa Transformation Forum Partial funder of the African Transformation Forum to develop and share best practices and insights on how to achieve sustainable and inclusive prosperity in Africa.
2015 Scholars Program - Phase II Support 240 undergraduate scholars and create a network of high-quarlity schools that will support the Scholars Program vision of education for social betterment.
2019 Project - Raising Mentors & Support Package for Start Ups in Addis Ababa •	Contribute 90 mentors for the Ethiopian Start up ecosystem by building capacities, training and equipping them with entrepreneurial support to become more successful. 
•	Recruit 20 promising start ups and provide a comprehensive support that will enable them to be independent and launch their business into the next phase.
2011 Program - MF Scholars This program provides training and development of microfinance practitioners.  Scholarships are provided, based on financial need.
2014 Management Program - Intergenerational Poverty Report To produce a report on the role of financial inclusion in addressing intergenerational poverty to inform the Foundation’s new initiative.
2020 Director's Project - Jennifer Fonstad 2020 Director's Project - Jennifer Fonstad
2012 Management Program - YouthActionNet West Africa Hub To develop and test the YouthActionNet® model in Francophone Africa.
2018 REEDI - Support beyond finance to Rwanda T&H SMEs As part of Hanga Ahazaza, GroFin will provide small businesses (with 50 employees or less) in the tourism and hospitality sector with access to business support services that allow the businesses to grow and generate new - and retain existing – job opportunities. Eighty percent of employees in the targeted firms are considered semi-skilled or unskilled, and new opportunities will therefore be filled by disadvantaged people in Rwanda as a means of relieving poverty.
2016 Management Project Technical, A/V, conference coordination etc. resource support for the Plenary Session on Education for Aboriginal Youth during Philanthropic Foundations of Canada's national conference taking place on November 1-3, 2016, in Vancouver.
2012 Program - Mobile Money for the Unbanked (MMU) "	Promote best practices to enable mobile money operators to meet needs of the unbanked in Sub-Saharan Africa.
"	Overcome specific barriers inhibiting client uptake and usage of mobile money services.
"	Disseminate knowledge to the industry on how to improve client experience, usage, product range, and quality.
2019 Child and Youth Safeguarding Africa Conference 2019 Child and Youth Safeguarding Africa Conference
2015 Scholars Program - Phase II Phase II of The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will support AUB’s efforts to contribute to the social and economic development of the African continent and Arab world with a focus on countries in conflict; and to the development and implementation of a framework for transformative leadership that guides the education of the youth.
2011 Program - MF Scholars This program provides training and development of microfinance practitioners from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Scholarships are provided based on financial need.
2016 Director's Project - Jendayi Frazer - Texas A&M University Center on Conflict & Development (ConDev) The development of a social entrepreneurship workshop to encourage entrepreneurship, independence, and economic prosperity in lieu of conflict for the youth of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2015 Management Project - Responsible Finance Forum VI Enable African financial inclusion experts to participate as speakers at the Responsible Finance Forum VI (RFF VI), to be held in Turkey on September 7-9, 2015. The Forum’s content will allow participants to further their expertise, which will be applied to developing and improving programs that provide financial services to the poor.
2017 Mgmt Project - SEAT STEM Report Complete a background paper on STEM and ICT teaching and learning within secondary education in Africa to serve as a background paper for the Foundation's Secondary Education in Africa (SEA) Report.
The report will help to improve secondary education outcomes.
2020 EleV - Indigenous Field Building & Capacity Development 2020 EleV - Indigenous Field Building & Capacity Development
2016 Mgmt Project - Young African Researchers 2016 Mgmt Project - Young African Researchers
2020 CRRP - Youth Think Tank Extension to respond to COVID-19 2020 CRRP - Youth Think Tank Extension to respond to COVID-19
2007 Director's Program - Paul M. Ostergard To provide scholarships for students who have financial needs and are enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences or the Case School of Engineering of the Case Western Reserve University.
2010 Program To support the industry's promotion and implementation of client protection principles among African microfinance networks.
2011 Program - Microlead II To increase access to microfinance, particularly savings services, to 450,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa.
2016 Mid-Term Evaluation - Berkeley, Duke, MSU, Stanford 2016 Mid-Term Evaluation - Berkeley, Duke, MSU, Stanford
2015 Project - Digitally Integrated Finance Frontier Research Consortium (DIFFR) Identify, develop and test new indirect financial inclusion models enabled by smartphones in Ghana and Tanzania.
2017 Project - Quality Secondary Education for Refugee Youth War Child Canada (WCC) with the support of Windle Trust Kenya will develop a lower secondary Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) curriculum in Uganda and provide certified blended teacher training for unqualified refugee secondary school teachers in Kenya. The project ensures access to quality secondary education for refugee youth in Kenya and Uganda to maximize the refugee youths’ likelihood of success within the host countries or upon repatriation.
2020 Innovation Fund Round 5 Project - RavenSPEAK 2020 Innovation Fund Round 5 Project - RavenSPEAK
2020 Project - Skilling young people for entrepreneurship and dignified employment Empower 70,000 young women and men, including refugee and physically disabled youth, to access dignified and fulfilling work through skills development and linkages to supportive networks and services. To achieve impact at scale, URDT-1 will partner with four other Vocational Training Institutions (VTIs) in the target region to skill youth in agriculture, construction and toursism over the 5-year project period.
2010 Management Program - Scholarships To provide support to international students to study at the University of Waterloo in accordance to the terms and conditions described in the David Johnston International Experience Awards.
2012 Management Program - Toronto International Microfinance Summit To provide financial assistance for students to attend the Toronto International Microfinance Summit.
2010 Program To increased financial and social performance reporting to the MIX, especially from Africa.
2020 Partner Research Fund Project (Entrepreneurship) 2020 Partner Research Fund Project (Entrepreneurship)
2010 Management Program To develop a five-year strategic plan to successfully manage and administer the expansion of the scholarship program and provide comprehensive scholarships to freshman university students in Haiti.
2013 Management Program - Facilitation Assistance for Collaboration for Impact Proposal for Facilitation Assistance to pursue Collaboration for Impact Partnerships 
EARTH turns to The MasterCard Foundation for $155,000 USD in funding which will be used for staff salaries to provide additional support to EARTH's leadership team in order to plan and begin to implement  several projects with Collaboration for Impact members.   
Specifically, we would like to explore or deepen partnerships with the following organizations that are part of Collaboration for Impact:
1)	Internships and exchange programs with other academic institutions including Ashesi University in Ghana and Legatum Center at MIT in Boston , MA, USA
2)	Work study and summer internship programs between EARTH University students and Collaboration for Impact members with a particular focus on BRAC, Camfed, Technoserve, and Equity Bank. 
3)	Training for Camfed alumni and mothers programs in Camfed's 5 countries of operation and at EARTH University 
4)	Identification and recruitment of EARTH applicants across Africa
5)	Training for EARTH University students in mobile communication technologies for development facilitated by GMSA
2012 Management Project - 600 CLM clients Support Fonkonze in training 600 CLM clients
2008 Program BRAC is one of the leading providers of microfinance services and the BRAC's approach, which it calls "microfinance multiplied," increases the ability of poor clients to productively use their loans to augment their incomes and build their assets, as well as stimulate economic and social development within their communities. This program uses the BRAC approach in Uganda to provide economically active women with loans, training and technical support to enable them to improve their livelihoods, particularly those in the agricultural poultry and livestock sectors. Additionally, the program will expand vocational and life-skills education for adolescent girls.
2016 TagDev Program This project aims to strengthen the capacity of African agricultural universities and their graduates to transform agriculture and accelerate growth and development of sustainable livelihoods in Africa.
2010 Director's Program - Lois Juliber To support microfinance internships through Wellesley's Center for Work and Services, with preference given to students in the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs.
2016 Mgmt Project - Thematic Initiative Research 2016 Mgmt Project - Thematic Initiative Research
2013 Program - Annual Membership Contribution Annual Membership to the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), which is a global partnership of organizations that seek to advance financial inclusion for the poor. CGAP develops innovative solutions to address barriers to financial inclusion through practical research and active engagement with financial service providers, policy makers, and funders.
2014 - YALI - Southern Africa Regional Leadership Centre The YALI partnership seeks to provide high-quality training in business and entrepreneurship, public management, and civic engagement to 12,000 young Africans aged between 18-35 years at four Regional Leadership Centers (RLCs) across Africa.  The RLCs are located in Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, and South Africa. The training will act as catalyst for transformational learning and leadership through interactive, experiential education, group projects and simulations, and mentored individual project development.
Amount approved by MCF Board in September 2014.
2009 Program - Scholars This program provides training and development of microfinance practitioners from Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America. Scholarships are provided, based on financial need.
2019 Mgmt Project - Let's Work •	Support youth with disabilities to become job-ready through soft skills and employability training, including mock-interviews, CV development, mentorship and offering linkages to market-relevant skills training providers. 
•	Link youth with disabilities to employability training and employment opportunities through the Riziki Source mobile application. 
•	Engage employers to use Riziki Source as an inclusive hiring platform and offer training on best practices related to inclusion to ensure that youth are appropriately supported for on-the-job learning in their transition into the labour market.
2020 Mgmt Project - Start Up Support for Marginalized Youth and Orphans 2020 Mgmt Project - Start Up Support for Marginalized Youth and Orphans
2011 Program To expand the existing secondary education and leadership development program to 5,000 students in Kenya.
2010 Membership Program Annual membership in the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).   Membership in CGAP aligns with MCF microfinance strategy to strengthen the microfinance sector. CGAP promotes financial inclusion, transparency and sound principles to achieve equity and efficiency in the microfinance industry. It also helps to improve the effectiveness of donor funding and best practices in the sector.
2016 Management Project To improve the quality of education and life skills for 900 Syrian refugee girls living in Jordan through non-formal education for out-of-school girls including academic tutoring in math, English and Arabic and psychosocial therapy through art, music, sports and theatre, remedial education programs for girls who are enrolled in Jordan's formal schools but are struggling to learn and are at a risk of dropping out, focused life skills programs.
2018 Innovation Fund Mgmt Project - Solar Mobile Kiosk Franchise Objectives
•	To test a new alternative delivery channel model (Solar Mobile Kiosk) that will bring financial services to rural populations in Senegal and provide skills training for youth to allow them to fulfill the role of solar mobile kiosk agents.
•	This project seeks to innovate as it aims to provide rural communities with access to fundamental financial services by using innovative technologies and optimizing operations via innovative technologies such as solar energy, a geolocation software platform, data science and a machine learning module, thereby creating new employment opportunities for youth.

Core Activities
•	Develop a partnership with the main payment providers and insurance providers in Senegal.
•	Train “Solar Mobile Kiosk Agents” on eMoney and franchise management.
•	Design and develop a software platform for the geolocation of youth agents; for data science and machine learning module which will optimize the operations and financial transactions of the franchisees.
2019 Director's Project - SOAS - Valerie Amos 2019 Director's Project - SOAS - Valerie Amos
2015 Program - MF Scholars This program provides training and development of microfinance practitioners.  Scholarships are provided based on financial need.
2017 Management Project - MSME Research This Management Project is to support the Foundation’s strategic development work by undertaking research on the MSME landscape and identifying barriers and opportunities to finance MSME growth and job creation.   

Activities include: (i) Review the MSME landscape in Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal. This will include a desk analysis, meetings with the Foundation team and stakeholder interviews; (ii) Assess the state of financing for micro, small, and medium business segments in each country, with a particular focus on priority sectors, such as agriculture, that can employ youth. Identify the barriers and opportunities to scale up support to the segment. Landscape the current efforts of key stakeholders in MSME finance in each market; (iii) Identify possible pathways, approaches and instruments that support the development and financing of the MSME segment; (iv) Synthesize and consolidate findings in a final report which presents recommendations for each of the 4 countries, along with a diagnostic tool for Foundation staff to develop targeted interventions for the poor. Produce a database of stakeholders and key contacts for each country.
2009 Scholarship Program To provide comprehensive scholarships and leadership development to 5,000 secondary school students in Kenya.
2018 Hanga Ahazaza - SCA Barista Training Centre Provide training to 200 students and 4 master trainers in coffee preparation, to work towards eliminating the skills gap that exists in this sub-sector within the hospitality and tourism industry.
2020 CRRP - Building Capacity of Frontline Health Workers During and Post COVID-19 Era 2020 CRRP - Building Capacity of Frontline Health Workers During and Post COVID-19 Era
2015 Project #2 - Paul M. Ostergard To provide scholarships for students who have financial need and are enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences or the Case School of Engineering of the Case Western Reserve University.
2018 Director's Project - Jendayi Frazer 2018 Director's Project - Jendayi Frazer
2016 PSIPSE Dissemination and Monitoring 2016 PSIPSE Dissemination and Monitoring
2016 Mgmt Project - 2015 Swisscontact Final Evaluation - Additional Funds (See Request #669) Travel expenses in relation to the final evaluation of the Swisscontact project.
2012 Program - Building Assets, Unlocking Access Project Expanding access to housing microfinance products and support services to low-income families in Sub-Saharan Africa by supporting MFIs through technical assistance to develop and deliver incremental housing microfinance product(s). 

Demonstrate the impact and scalability of housing microfinance and support services through rigorous monitoring, evaluation and learning.
2010 Director's Program - Nigel Wright To operate education programs for children and/or youth in the Regent Park area in Toronto, including mentorship programs and other activities to increase both the retention in high school and academic success, and to encourage them to pursue post-secondary education and develop their careers.
2009 Program This program provides funds for the design of a multi-year project to innovate and assess youth savings products at a minimum of four formal financial institutions and in collaboration with research teams in different developing countries.
2011 Management Program (David Johnston) To provide financial assistance to students via the Sharon and David Johnston Graduate Award. Specifically, the Award will provide assistance to full-time students in good standing enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Waterloo, focusing on microfinance, to be overseen by the Deans of Graduate Studies and Environmental Studies or their delegates of the University of Waterloo.
2020 Mgmt Project - Student Participaton in the Talloires Network Leaders Conference 2020 Mgmt Project - Student Participaton in the Talloires Network Leaders Conference
2013 Scholars Program Enable students to complete quality secondary or university education and become catalysts for social and economic transformation across Africa.
2010 Program To further scale and document the impact of BRAC's "microfinance multiplied" approach and serve four million people in Uganda.
2009 Program This program scales up comprehensive microfinance products and services to the rural poor in Malawi, Ghana and two other African countries. It includes the expansion of a successful approach to agriculture microfinance that has been piloted in Malawi. OI will deploy a range of delivery channels including satellite branches, kiosks, mobile vans, ATMs, and Point-of-Sale (POS) devices in rural areas.
2015 Management Project - Impacts of Early Savings on Youth Economic Opportunities: a Longitudinal Study 2015 Management Project - Impacts of Early Savings on Youth Economic Opportunities: a Longitudinal Study
2019 Connected Learning in Crisis Consortium Note: Completion date is approximately 1 year after commencement date, but expiry date was extended out to 18 months after completion date because of pandemic.
2020 Scholars Community Platform (Baobab) Phase 2 2020 Scholars Community Platform (Baobab) Phase 2
2010 Management Program - Book To support the collaborative writing and editing of The New Microfinance Handbook, an extensive revision of the bestselling 1998 volume The Microfinance Handbook that will be published and distributed worldwide by World Bank Publications.
2015 Management Project - Global Education Monitoring Report 2015 Management Project - Global Education Monitoring Report
2011 Scholars Program To provide scholarships to 60 financially disadvantaged students to complete university education.
2020 COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Program This partnership will build the resilience of Inema Art Center, a youth-led Art center that employs over 100 artisans and supports 80 children and youth through art, dance, and music programmes
2018 Mgmt Project - 2019 Conference - Travel Scholarships The Women Deliver 2019 Conference is viewed by stakeholders as a pivotal opportunity to make game changing progress for girls and women a reality. This project will address the Women Deliver 2019 Conference and specifically seek to provide travel support to the conference for young women; the majority from Africa. The target group for this project includes 75 young women from Africa. These attendees will engage in networking opportunities, learn from (or give) presentations and exhibits, and contribute to the diversity of the voices at Women Deliver, thereby increasing the richness of in program and attendee experience. Attendance at the conference should inspire youth to contribute to women’s equality upon return home as well .
2013 Management Program - EARTH University Process Evaluation A process evaluation of the MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program at EARTH University, to be conducted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.
2017 Management Project - African Microfinance Week 2017 Management Project - African Microfinance Week
2020 Scholars Partner Research Fund - Experiential Learning & Entrepreneurship 2020 Scholars Partner Research Fund - Experiential Learning & Entrepreneurship
2019 Hanga Ahazaza - Ecosystem Strengthening: Chamber of Tourism The program will deliver on the following three objectives: 

1.	Build the capacity of the Tourism Chamber Secretariat and association members through tailored training and technical assistance to comply with international standards and foster SME’s growth in the Tourism and Hospitality sector in Rwanda. 
2.	Support the effective advocacy to ensure enabling regulatory environment that promote the tourism and hospitality sector of Rwanda. 
3.	To strengthen financial self- reliance and operation autonomy for Tourism Chamber secretariat by ensuring effective and efficient membership mobilization within the Tourism & Hospitality sector in Rwanda.