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for support of Open Heroines, a feminist community of women in the governance spaces This grant to Development Gateway is to support Open Heroines (OH), an online global community of hundreds of women who work in open government, open data, and/or civic technology (known as open+sectors). OH will hire a community coordinator to manage the network, facilitate skill-share sessions, and organize local events. It will also hire a program manager to create a support group for women to share their stories, bring to the fore common issues and challenges, and become ambassadors to advocate for healthy work environments for women to work and thrive in the open+sectors. Through products like blogs, social media, and guides, OH seeks to elevate feminist views in thought leadership and policy development in the open+sectors. (Substrategy: Governance Channels)
for support of a quality assurance review This Organizational Effectiveness grant would support the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to conduct an internal quality review of research and evaluation projects completed by its Asia Regional Office during the past two years.  ICRW has embarked on an institution-wide 360-degree quality review in order to inform the design of a quality assurance system that will be implemented across all of its research operations.  The first phase, completed in March 2016, focused on outputs from the Washington, D.C. office.  The second phase will focus on outputs from the Asia Regional Office, and is anticipated to start in October 2016.
for diversity, equity, and inclusion resources and training Global Witness investigates, exposes, and challenges corruption in natural resource-rich countries. Global Witness seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s resource-rich but development-poor countries. This grant will enable Global Witness to deepen ongoing efforts to increase diversity in their workforce in all locations and improve equity and inclusion across the organization.
for activities related to Mexico's Presidency of the Open Government Partnership This grant would allow the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, Asociación Civil, as a member and fiscal sponsor of the members of civil society in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Mexico, to implement a strategic communication plan, strengthening the voice of civil society within the Partnership; develop methodologies for expanding participation of civil organizations in OGP at the state and municipal level; and promote open parliament as a priority.
for support of human-centered design in rural Kenya With this supplemental grant, MSI-US will use human-centered design to improve adolescent reproductive health services in Kenya. A prior grant resulted in the design and creation of the Future Fab program, which has significantly increased the number of 15- to 19-year-olds using Marie Stopes Kenya’s services in urban and periurban areas. This project will create an approach for the large number of 15- to 19-year-olds in rural areas through Marie Stopes Kenya’s mobile outreach teams using human-centered design.
for education data-driven decision mapping research in East and West Africa Development Gateway: an IREX Venture (DG) is an international nonprofit organization with team members in more than 10 countries worldwide. DG conducts research on data ecosystems, builds digital tools to support those ecosystems, improves data interoperability and analytics, and advises on data strategy and digital transformation to strengthen decision making, transparency, and service delivery. IREX is a global development and education organization dedicated to building a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world by empowering youth, cultivating leaders, strengthening institutions, and extending access to quality education and information. Through this grant, DG, together with education sector experts from IREX, will map the education data and decision ecosystems in Kenya and Senegal, focusing on primary and secondary education, to more holistically understand the barriers to more effective data sharing, interoperability, and ultimate use. By understanding the barriers to data use, this program will allow for more targeted interventions for creating robust education data ecosystems for better learning outcomes. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for strategic planning As the only NGO providing research-based population information to the media, political leaders, and the general public in Germany, the Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (Hannover, Germany) promotes development aid from Germany and the European Commission in population, reproductive health, and family planning, and works to strengthen the corresponding public support and research needed. Funds would support a five-year strategic planning process. (New, $30,000/1; $30,000 from Philanthropy, $0 from Population; 100% of project budget)

This grant is aligned with Guideline 2 of the Population Program strategy with a focus on policy dialogue. DSW is one of the strongest population NGOs in Europe and one of the few organizations that has been successful at enhancing governmental commitment to population issues despite a declining economy and political challenges.
for support of resource mobilization planning This grant will enable Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) to engage more deeply with the reproductive health community to support the replication and adaptation of its behavioral economics interventions and pursue new partnerships and funding opportunities. During the grant period, its priorities include stakeholder consultation, developing a solution adaptation framework, producing a paper on the links between social norms and behavioral science interventions, and disseminating findings and learning from these areas of work. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for general operating support This core grant to Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) would support the organization to ensure that the most vulnerable populations in developing countries have access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health information and services. DSW’s advocacy strategies include strengthening the evidence base for prioritizing sexual and reproductive health and rights, influencing political and social leaders, and building capacity of partner organizations. DSW has traditionally targeted the German government and the European Union with its advocacy, but intends to strengthen the advocacy capacity of its country offices in East Africa. A separate grant on this docket recommends direct support to these country offices.
for strategic planning For an organizational effectiveness grant to support a strategic planning process to inform Sonora Ciudadana's next three-year strategy.
for support of safe abortion care in Tanzania and globally The grant to EngenderHealth will support access to high-quality, gender-equitable, and age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including comprehensive abortion care and postabortion care. The majority of the funding requested will be used for programmatic work in Zanzibar and mainland Tanzania. The remaining funding will support global and country staff time for abortion-related content and advocacy that cannot be covered by other unrestricted funds due to U.S. government funding restrictions. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the Forum on Sandboxes for Data This grant will support Datasphere Initiative’s Africa Forum on Sandboxes for Data project. Specifically, the project will help equip African policymakers with the necessary skills to address data governance challenges in Africa and engage community leaders and diverse networks across the region in an exchange on how to responsibly leverage data to reach Africa’s diverse development needs and economic objectives. By taking a “sandboxes” approach, the forum will spur the development and implementation of innovative data governance frameworks across borders in Africa, through a multistakeholder process, to which local, regional, and global experts will be invited to contribute and learn from each other. In addition, to share widely the knowledge generated by the forum’s activities, all interactions will be documented to develop learning modules to onboard and inform relevant communities such as parliamentarians and civil servants who are often not engaged in global digital policy debates. This grant sits within a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. While Datasphere itself is not an African institution, it will be closely engaging many African institutions (including other grantees in this cluster). The goal of this cluster is to help governments in Africa develop policy frameworks that balance good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for documenting and analyzing changes in Mexico's rural poverty during the global economic crisis None
for creation of a training module on NewsU to help media organizations better cover global issues None
for support of a public expenditure program This grant will continue to support Mexico Evalua’s public expenditure and accountability program to improve the governance of budgetary processes by promoting citizen participation in the budgetary process, advocating for more efficient and transparent spending in health and education services at the federal and state level, and improving the transparency and efficiency of public procurement process.
for general operating support As a pan-African feminist funder, the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) plays a critical and unique role within African feminist movements: to fund, strengthen, and elevate groups led by African feminists, women, girls, and gender-diverse people working toward gender justice and social transformation. Through a deepened movement-building and intersectional approach, AWDF is evolving who and how it resources, supports, and nurtures African feminist movements with an expansion of core funding and responsive accompaniment. AWDF will work to successfully implement priorities under its new strategic framework and strengthen the learning partnership between AWDF and the foundation’s Gender Equity and Governance Program. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for general operating support The International Women’s Health Coalition and its partners from developing countries support and lead initiatives to influence policies and funding in countries and global agencies to secure the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls. The Coalition’s advocacy strategy has five components: mentor and support younger, emerging leaders and activists from the South; collaborate with other organizations and alliances; build capacity of organizations and leaders in selected countries; engage with staff of U.N. agencies, especially UNAIDS and UNFPA; and provide strategic communications components such as publications, speeches, and online activities to inform policy and program design.
for the public outreach phase of the Princeton Project on National Security None
for support to the Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) through the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) is a nonprofit initiative of the United Nations Foundation dedicated to ensuring all people benefit from the potential of digital technologies to improve access to critical public and private services and to fuel innovation economies while mitigating the downside risk of data abuses such as enabling surveillance and repression, exacerbating the exclusion of vulnerable individuals and communities, and undermining competitive markets. The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a peer engagement and learning network for senior Africa-based practitioners tackling the thorniest data policy and governance issues. It works to build the capacity of decision makers across the continent through exchange of knowledge and experiences within a values-oriented framework designed to expand the value of data for governments, markets, and people while safeguarding key civil liberties. In this growth stage, ADLI will expand participation in the network from five to 16 countries, and create new cohorts of parliamentarians and government digital technology coordinators — leaders of agencies charged with executing national digital policies. The grant will also broaden the types of engagement offered, and invest in durable infrastructure for peer exchange and knowledge discovery, creating cross-border collaboration to support data governance approaches designed by and for Africans, and support the development of a sustainable revenue model to support the network in the long term. This grant sits within a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for support of research on reproductive health and women's economic empowerment This grant will support the Global Health, Youth and Development and the Gender, Economic Empowerment, and Livelihoods portfolios at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to strengthen the evidence base on the intersections between sexual and reproductive health and rights and the livelihood challenges of women and girls in Africa. During the grant period, ICRW will (a) conduct high-quality, innovative research on the connections between these two fields; (b) strengthen the capacity of its Africa regional office to conduct policy-oriented research and engage stakeholders to understand and use findings; and (c) cultivate partnerships with researchers and policy advocacy groups in Africa and globally.
for general operating support Sonora Ciudadana is a government watchdog group based in Northern Mexico that advocates for improved access to government services, especially for marginalized populations. This grant will support Sonora Ciudadana to continue to work on improving transparency and accountability at the state and municipal level in Mexico.
for general operating support This grant will enable the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) to inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empower them to use information to advance the well-being of current and future generations. PRB plans to pursue four intermediate outcomes in the near term: upgrading its digital presence, including the website and social media channels to deliver content in a timely and effective way; strengthening its visibility and thought leadership on key issues such as the demographic dividend; implementing a knowledge management system to better reflect on and share lessons; and investing in human capital and leadership development among staff.
for the planning phase of a civil-society assessment of learning in Senegal The Quality Education in Developing Countries (QEDC) initiative has funded civil society assessments of children’s learning in India, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Mali.  This has proven a powerful approach to raising awareness of the learning crisis in these countries.  This planning grant would lay the groundwork for a similar exercise in Senegal, a country with a proud history of education that now is failing its children in schools.  We recommend a grant to the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, with the work to be carried out by the Research Laboratory on Economic and Social Transformations (Laboratoire de Recherche sur Les Transformations Economiques et Sociales de l’IFAN (LARTES/IFAN)).  It is the government’s research partner of choice in the social sectors, yet prides itself on sound research practice and speaking truth to power.  Civil society groups would partner in directing and implementing the project.
for policy research to help shift mindsets toward country ownership of Uganda’s development agenda The Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) is an association of scholars focused on the synthesis and uptake of contextually relevant evidence in Uganda. With this grant, UNAS will use its consensus study process to involve policymakers in knowledge co-creation and use. It also will cultivate Ugandan evidence champions, share the consensus study model, and convene Ugandan evidence organizations to exchange learnings and consider collective action.
for support of a technical expert aimed at strengthening linkages between HIV/AIDS prevention and family planning and reproductive health polices and services None
for building civil society capacity on budget work in Francophone West Africa The International Budget Partnership collaborates with civil society around the world to use budget analysis and advocacy to improve governance and reduce poverty. This grant will strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in Francophone West Africa to carry out this work, and establish a regional learning network so that participants can exchange experiences about effective advocacy strategies. As a result, civil society organizations will deepen their expertise and effectiveness in making budget information available, understandable, and useable for policy advocacy and accountability efforts.
for support of self-care for sexual and reproductive health This grant to Population Services International will support the Self-Care Trailblazer Group to expand its field-building activities to promote user-controlled sexual and reproductive health. Co-funded with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, this project aims to bringtogether self-care stakeholders and advocates in a community of practice to consolidate concepts and communicate around key events in 2020, build the evidence on self-care, and advocate for the adoption of recent World Health Organization guidelines on user-controlled health care. This second grant will focus on deeper country-level engagement in promising countries as well as an intention to shift the leadership of the secretariat to a focus country by the end of this grant cycle.
for general operating support The Water Integrity Network (WIN) is an international nongovernmental organization that works to improve transparency, citizen participation, and accountability in the water sector within select countries and globally. WIN will build the capacity of civil society organizations, water user associations, and water activists to use tools and strategies that enable citizen oversight of water services; build coalitions to advocate for more responsive government provision and regulation of water services; and organize global advocacy campaigns to promote better water governance. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for a bilingual instructional approach and capacity building in schools and communities in Mali In the past four years, with support from the Hewlett Foundation, thousands of children in Mali have learned to read thanks to the Institut pour l’Education Populaire’s (IEP) Read, Learn, Lead program. With this grant, IEP will implement a second, three-year phase of Read, Learn, Lead. In 150 demonstration schools, IEP will deepen and extend the success of Read, Learn, Lead to cover additional subjects and later primary grades when children transition to learning in French. In an additional 2,464 sites, IEP will partner with the Malian government to guide the uptake of Read, Learn, Lead materials and approaches in government schools. The Malian and Dutch governments and the U.S. Agency for International Development will support the operational costs of piloting Read, Learn, Lead in the Malian school system.
for the United Nations Global Pulse Lab Kampala program Pulse Lab Kampala uses big data (as collected from cellphones, satellites, and social media) and data analytics to better understand and address development challenges. Pulse Lab partners scholars from African and Western universities, as well as private sector data providers in its work. Pulse Lab’s priority focus is to bring the data innovations that emerge from these technical partnerships into practical use by government officials. To this end, Pulse Lab invests in lasting relationships with African government actors to understand and address their priority policy, program, and capacity questions. Over time, Pulse Lab Kampala aims to help governments move beyond pilot data projects, to more systematic use of big data for decision making. To this end, it works to strengthen the responsible data privacy and protection frameworks in the African region, catalyze the adoption of big data for official statistics, and strengthen an emerging African community of practice around public-good applications of privately held data.
for engagement of civil society organizations and the Women, Business and the Law data and analyses Women, Business and the Law (WBL) systematically documents legal and regulatory barriers to women’s economic empowerment around the world. This project seeks to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa to understand and apply information from WBL to advocate for gender equality reforms.
for strategic and operational planning Advocates for Community Alternatives partners with communities in West Africa to explore development alternatives that are not dependent on mining and carbon extraction. Organizational priorities of Advocates for Community Alternatives include work in the Donkro Nkwanta region of Ghana to refine their methodology for future community engagement throughout Ghana and West Africa. This grant will support  Advocates for Community Alternatives to develop an institutional development strategy focused on revenue models, organizational growth, and leadership transition planning.
for continuation of diversity, equity, and inclusion work The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) promotes effective management of oil, gas, and mineral endowments to ensure that citizens of resource-rich countries benefit from these resources. At the country level, the institute works with local partners to provide training, technical assistance, and evidence to inform and improve policies and decisions about natural resource extraction and revenue allocation and use. The Institute also contributes to strengthening international governance and transparency norms, notably the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative and Open Government Partnership, and promotes uptake of those norms at the country level. Through this grant, NRGI’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Action Committee will assess the organization’s progress, collect and share out learning on what actions have been most effective in advancing DEI values. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for research on the economic impacts of population reproductive health in  Africa None
for research and advocacy on feminist and equitable economic policy in Africa This grant to Sustainable Markets Foundation will support Regions Refocus to continue a research and advocacy project to promote feminist and equitable economic policy in Africa. Regions Refocus will publish research developed in the first phase of the project, and will initiate a second cycle of research to explore specific policy gaps identified in the previous grant. Regions Refocus will convene workshops and policy dialogues to link policy findings to opportunities at the national, regional, and global levels, linking to other regions in the global South to amplify alternative economic paths. Regions Refocus will create a fellowship to connect new researchers to postindependence thought through an intergenerational dialogue.