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for leadership and staff development related to a new equitable operational model This organizational effectiveness grant to Ipas will support a staff development program focused on developing psychological safety and inclusion within their new equitable operational model. Ipas is undergoing a major reorganization to decentralize their operations and promote equity and inclusion among all members of the team. This grant will support a partnership with the NeuroLeadership Institute (NLI), a firm that implements science-based approaches to organizational change and professional development, to conduct an inclusion training aimed at creating an environment where staff can more easily voice concerns. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy which intends to support global grantees as they shift power and promote equity within their organizations.
for a planning grant to design a program to link family planning/reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa None
for general operating support of PATH's Reproductive Health Strategic Program None
for support of data management and data sharing initiatives of the INDEPTH Network None
for general operating support of the National Wildlife Federation's Population and Environment Program None
for general operating support Twaweza works with citizens to exercise agency and with governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. Through policy research and engagement in multilateral initiatives like the Open Government Partnership, Twaweza convenes citizens and policymakers to co-create solutions to specific issues such as violence against women, student absenteeism, and access to drinking water. Twaweza works to deepen its media partnerships, produce gender-disaggregated data to reveal the differential impacts of policies between men and women, and facilitate policy dialogue between citizens and public officials about civil rights. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for planning a study to evaluate the impact of Prajayatna's schooling program in India None
for the promotion of social accountability and advocacy for universal health coverage in East Africa White Ribbon Alliance is a global alliance of civil society organizations and activists working together to improve policies, programs, and the resources that are available for reproductive, maternal, and newborn health and rights. Its global secretariat in Washington, D.C., connects the organization with social movements and supports capacity building of member national alliances, which are independently governed and led. This grant will support the White Ribbon Alliance and members in Kenya and Uganda to educate communities, create citizen oversight mechanisms, and conduct advocacy campaigns to ensure that universal health coverage and other government health policies for vulnerable people are implemented well. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for Round 9 and Round 10 surveys and related dissemination activities Afrobarometer (AB) is a pan-African network that has been collecting data on citizens’ opinions about democracy, governance, and public service quality since 1999. Previously a project of CDD-Ghana, Afrobarometer registered as an independent charitable organization in Ghana in 2019. Its recent strategic planning process has crystallized AB’s overall goal to make citizen voices a key pillar of Africa policy and decision making. In addition, it has identified three impact goals: (a) produce high-quality survey data and analysis on African attitudes, experiences, and aspirations; (b) widely disseminate findings to Africa-related policy and development actors; and (c) build capacity for survey research, analysis, and communication, especially among the youth on the continent. This grant will contribute to enable AB to complete its Round 9 (R9) surveys; plan and start R10 surveys; analyze and disseminate survey results; and strengthen the capacity of young African scholars in research, quantitative analysis, and communication. During this grant period, AB will continue and expand its surveys and analysis to inform policy and development decisions at national, regional, and global levels. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for improved data related to women’s economic empowerment With this project grant, the United Nations Foundation (UNF) will analyze and compile existing data and identify data gaps related to key areas of women’s empowerment, as a core technical contribution to the Data 2X initiative announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012. Leading a group of technical experts, UNF will identify data gaps that hinder gender-inclusive policy development. A near-term policy focus will be on establishing data requirements for the post-2015 international goal framework. With ongoing input from the advisory group, UNF will develop a plan of action that defines options for collecting and analyzing new and existing data for policy formulation and will identify opportunities for private-public sector engagement and collaboration. UNF will collaborate with the Post-2015 High-Level Panel process to provide recommendations from the draft plan to action.
for implementation of the Education Watch project in seven African countries None
for general operating support BarefootLaw provides legal aid to underserved communities in Uganda and Kenya through mobile phones, the internet, and partnerships with community-based groups. Its full-time team of trained attorneys work with clients who have legal needs that require more assistance than basic legal advice. Over the next two years, BarefootLaw will expand its network of community-based legal advisors while adding new functionality to its digital platform to automate contextualized responses about common legal issues. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for general operating support amandla.mobi is an advocacy network of black South African women who use mobile phones and organizing tactics to advance relevant issues, holding decision makers accountable to their commitments. amandla.mobi’s programmatic priorities include cultivating the next generation of organizers while deepening solidarity across its more than 100,000 active members.
for a project to strengthen transparency and accountability related to reproductive rights Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida is a feminist organization in Mexico that seeks reproductive justice. This grant will enable them to monitor the recommendations of the National Commission on Human Rights to search redress for reproductive rights violations within public health services; continue their work on legal accompaniment and empowerment of victims of reproductive rights violations; and carry out a sophisticated communications strategy to translate findings from their research into advocacy tools to demand improved access to public reproductive health services. This grant is aligned with the Service Delivery Monitoring substrategy in the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability strategy.
for general operating support The Project on Organizing, Development, Education and Research (PODER) is an organization that seeks to increase corporate accountability in Mexico and throughout Latin America. Transparency in the extractives sector is a primary focus. This grant would bolster PODER’s work to increase public awareness of government concessions for mining and renewable resource initiatives, improve the evidence about the public revenue generated or lost in extractive industry contracts, and increase the capacity of citizens and community organizations to use publicly available information to advocate for more transparent government processes to authorize mining concessions.
for 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 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 continue to contribute to the use of evidence across the region through informing major government decisions, enabling nongovernmental organizations to partner with each other and with Francophone governments to better achieve their goals, and supporting regional capacity for evidence use. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking.)
for support to manage the Civil Society Fund for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights With this grant, the Hewlett Foundation proposes to contribute funds for operational costs of Fund Afya, a fund dedicated to supporting civil society organizations in developing countries to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and young people. MannionDaniels will lead a consortium of three organizations to manage the Fund. The Fund, set to launch in September 2014 at the United Nations General Assembly, has commitments from several European bilateral donors and private foundations to support an initial budget of 17 million Euros over two years. The Fund will pay particular attention to neglected but pressing issues such as safe abortion, adolescent reproductive health, and gender-based violence.
to design an information management system to facilitate management across country offices An Organizational Effectiveness grant to Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) will support an integrated database to streamline the flow of information across the organization, its projects, and its country offices.  The system will allow IPA to store, manage, and analyze data efficiently and securely across a global team.
for implementing and evaluating the impact of a peer-to-peer teaching model in Kenya Many first, second, and third graders in Kenya are struggling to learn to read. This grant to Innovations for Poverty Action would continue to support the evaluation of a simple, low-cost method to improve reading achievement in which sixth graders tutor second and third graders to help them become more fluent readers.
for support of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) is a network working to improve fiscal transparency, citizen engagement, and accountability for the use of public funds. Led by the International Budget Partnership in collaboration with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the governments of Brazil and the Philippines, GIFT develops norms and standards, identifies incentives to ensure compliance with these standards, and provides advice and technical assistance to governments that are applying the standards. In collaboration with the Open Government Partnership, GIFT is also co-leading a new working group focused on promoting greater fiscal openness in developing countries.
for Results for All Results for America helps policymakers at all levels of government use evidence and data to make and improve policies and outcomes for citizens. This grant will support the Results for All program of Results for America to assess, develop, and test a strategy for a global evidence network for government officials. Through consultation with government representatives and other partners, Results for All will assess the demand and need for a global evidence network; identify the countries and relevant organizations to help launch the network; test potential network activities; and prepare a strategy for a potential future global evidence network.
For a project to strengthen the use of impact evaluation evidence to guide policy decisions Makerere University is a public Ugandan university engaged in teaching, research, and community outreach. With this grant, scholars from the School of Public Health and the School of Statistics and Planning will launch an initiative called Impact Evaluation for Evidence-Based Decisions. Their goal is to work with policymakers in the sectors of health, education, and agriculture to strengthen the use of impact evaluation in policy decisions and program implementation. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for building and testing a grassroots women leaders' digital advocacy platform This grant will allow World Pulse to boost their most effective strategies such as digital empowerment trainings and digital storytelling as a means to increase grassroots women leaders’ economic agency, participation, and benefits. World Pulse also will develop and test new strategies for tracking economic impact through their technology platform to document and share relevant knowledge with the field.
for establishing an action research and learning exchange on transparency and accountability This planning grant would explore the establishment of a transparency and accountability action research and learning exchange at the School of International Service. The exchange is envisioned to bring practitioners together with researchers to deepen understanding about what works, where, and how, in the application of tools designed to make governments more responsive to citizens. Research often lags behind practice in this field, and the exchange seeks to ensure that the research agenda is driven by practitioners’ needs, while encouraging dialogue among experts across sectors.
for a project to improve public accountability and service delivery in public primary schools Most, if not all, national policies state that parents should be involved in the management and oversight of schools, but the reality is that in Kenya, like much of sub-Saharan Africa, they are not. In addition to making the connection for parents between their tax dollars and the quality of their public schools, the Centre’s National Taxpayers Association project has developed a method—the school report card—for getting parents involved in monitoring schools and teachers to improve the quality of education. This grant would allow the Association to involve parents in all 19,000 primary schools in Kenya in monitoring school quality, using the report card to support the efforts of parents, teachers, and education officials to improve school management. By conducting this exercise across the country and releasing district and national school report cards, the Centre hopes to show the importance of parental oversight in making schools more accountable for delivering quality education and providing a model for how to do this across the country.
for a project to identify donors and countries to try a "Cash on Delivery" approach to education aid None
for general operating support This grant would supplement the current grant to Fundar, Center for Analysis and Research, a Mexican organization focused on improving government transparency and accountability through budget analysis. The supplement will provide an additional two years of general operating support, for a total of four years at the current level of funding. This grant will contribute to maintaining and deepening Fundar’s transparency and accountability work in Mexico.
for a fellowship within the Office of Science and Technology Policy This grant will support a fellowship position within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The purpose of the fellowship position is to support steps to incorporate the use of feedback loops and citizen participation mechanisms in global development, global health, and international philanthropy.
for support to Data Must Speak This grant will support UNICEF’s Data Must Speak program that will improve global knowledge about what works and where (or not) in the development and use of data-driven school profiles by local education officials, school personnel, and parents to make performance gaps more visible and identify specific local actions for better learning. UNICEF will support data improvement, development of user-friendly school monitoring tools and related training modules for school personnel and community members, and evaluation of the effectiveness of these social accountability tools in expanding parent participation and accountability in education service delivery in up to 10 countries.
for building and supporting the Africa Evidence Network This grant will support the secretariat of the Africa Evidence Network, which works to increase the use of evidence in decision making. The network brings together evidence producers, users, and intermediaries to share information, collaborate, build African interest in and capacity for evidence-informed decision making, and advocate for African voices and participation in the evidence-informed decision making movement. During this grant period, Africa Evidence Network will also increase member participation in governance of the network.
for building the capacity of African policy makers for reproductive health issues The grant would allow Partners in Population and Development’s Africa Regional Office (PPD ARO) to advocate for increased funding and improved policies for family planning and reproductive health and to hold African governments accountable for progress against commitments made through such international agreements as the Family Planning Summit (FP2020) and the Maputo Plan of Action. Since its inception in 2007, PPD ARO has used its relationships with African policy makers to develop high-level leadership for family planning and reproductive health in the fourteen member countries, and contributed to several policy wins such as securing approval for community health workers to provide injectable contraceptives in Uganda. During the grant period, PPD ARO plans to increase its regional impact by focusing on specific funding and policy targets and engaging with key decision makers and influential leaders.
for general operating support Pathfinder International works through the public sector to provide women, men, and young people all over the world with a range of quality health services—from reproductive and maternal health services to safe abortion provision and HIV prevention. This flexible support will sustain Pathfinder International’s commitment to strengthening health systems, community-based interventions, and advocacy for increased financial and political support for family planning and reproductive health services.
for support of the Removing the Barriers program As part of a responsible exit from our work in Agricultural Markets, we are supporting TransFarm Africa, a public-private partnership to promote agricultural development and food security in sub-Saharan Africa in ways that will measurably improve the income of smallholder farmers, most of whom are women. TransFarm Africa is made up of two components designed to work together-one is this recommendated grant, and the second will be on the November docket. With this grant, the Removing the Barriers program, run by the NEPAD Business Foundation, would develop the strategies and partnerships necessary to address policy obstacles and the lack of capacity and resources that inhibit agricultural development along Africa's infrastructure corridors. The program has been designed specifically to complement existing efforts in Africa, the United States, and Europe by bringing the voice, resources, and know-how of the business community to the promotion of agricultural development and food security. The geographic focus will be first on the Beira, Nacala, and Central Corridors in Mozambique, Rwanda, and Tanzania, and then throughout sub-Saharan Africa. This grant follows on a planning grant that was given last year and would enable the NEPAD Business Foundation to implement the program and receive matching funds from USAID.

We also recommend the following grants to organizations that have been key partners for our AgM component over the past several years. Because this work is concluding, these recommendations are tie-off grants.
for support of Tiny Spark to report on philanthropy, non-profits, international aid, and development Founded in 2011, Tiny Spark is a news program and podcast that reports deeply and constructively on philanthropy, nonprofits, international aid and for-profit "social good" initiatives. A project of 52 Sparks, Inc., its stories aim to promote greater accountability and transparency among nonprofits, while also bringing attention to emergent programs and practices that are succeeding. Over the next two years, Tiny Spark intends to expand its investigative reportage, in-depth interviews, and comprehensive coverage of complex issues. To do so, it will partner with leading news organizations and work with seasoned freelance journalists across the globe. The reporting will strive to educate philanthropists and the general public about how to "do good" better.
for support to develop gender-sensitive macroeconomic models for policy analysis This supplement grant will support American University to undertake qualitative and quantitative fieldwork in South Korea as part of the Care Work and the Economy project. Overall, the project seeks to incorporate the care economy and gender-disaggregated activities explicitly into macroeconomic models. This additional funding will allow an interdisciplinary research team to more accurately measure the aggregate care economy and examine the nature of care provision using a mixed methods approach.
for general operating support This grant to the Lugar Center will support the relatively new organization’s work on finding solutions to global problems that will define the 21st century.  Over the next two years, the Lugar Center will focus in four main areas: 1) global food and energy security; 2) control of weapons of mass destruction; 3) foreign aid effectiveness; and 4) improving the quality of policy debate in Washington.
for a project to promote more effective U.S. development assistance This renewal grant would support Women Thrive's advocacy for more effective and accountable development assistance. Women Thrive is an active leader within the Hewlett Foundation-supported Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. Over the next eighteen months, Women Thrive will continue working closely with the Network to build the case for comprehensive reform among policymakers and the public. Women Thrive also leads outreach efforts to the community of women's organizations working on development issues and promotes gender integration-which ensures that both men and women participate in and benefit from U.S. assistance-as a key principle of reform.
for promoting trade, aid, and development policy reform in the United States and European Union With this project grant, GMF would promote three interconnected policy initiatives and opportunities: (1) global food security, (2) an innovative trade and development policy framework in Europe and the United States, and (3) modernizing foreign aid in the United States. In addition, it would responsibly conclude its work to promote reform of the European Union's agricultural policies.
for communications planning The International Budget Partnership (IBP) leads a global movement of civil society organizations to use budget analysis and advocacy to improve governance and reduce poverty. IBP invests in the capacity of citizens to understand and analyze public budgets, participate in budget processes, and demand policies and reforms that make government more transparent, accountable, and responsive to their needs and priorities. This OE support will enable IBP to strengthen their external communications capacity as part of a broader effort to increase their visibility and reach, and enhance the uptake and impact of their budget advocacy work.
for an evaluation of the Data Must Speak project Data Must Speak is a multicountry program for testing new approaches to school-level performance monitoring, equity, and citizen engagement. This grant provides support to UNICEF to evaluate Data Must Speak, focusing on whether and how the process of co-designing school report cards has led to more community engagement and joint problem-solving to improve the quality of education and learning in five countries.