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for improved data related to women’s economic empowerment With this project grant, the United Nations Foundation (UNF) will continue its work to 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.
for a project to defend and advance mandatory oil and mineral payment transparency Oxfam America provides legal, technical, and campaign leadership in the defense and implementation of Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the oil and mining payment disclosure law in the U.S. Following the recent voiding of the rules implementing this law, Oxfam America started a new initiative to ensure that the Securities and Exchange Commission implements rules in line with congressional intent and in harmony with similar rules in other jurisdictions, notably Canada, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. This grant will enable Oxfam America to conduct relevant research and employ legal and regulatory interventions to defend and advocate for strong and harmonized rules.
for a tool to improve family planning services EngenderHealth is requesting funds to develop a prototype tool kit, called Checkpoints for Choice, that will help policymakers, health care providers, and community members identify whether women's choices about contraception are respected when they receive family planning services. The goal of this project is to provide these constituencies with an evidence-based and concrete tool to promote and protect reproductive rights and contraceptive choice. This project grant reflects the Global Development and Population Program’s stronger emphasis on fostering specific improvements in access to and quality of family planning services, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
for implementing a study to evaluate the impact of Prajayatna's schooling program in India None
for full cost and budget strategies for Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Partnership The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Partnership brings together government, private-sector, civil society, and international institutions to harness new and traditional sources of data to better understand and address development challenges. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the Partnership to strengthen its capacity for full-cost strategic budgeting. The aim is to both improve the Partnership’s financial sustainability, and to strengthen its position in negotiations with funders due to better understanding and articulation of the full costs of achieving its goals.
for a project to promote more effective U.S. development assistance With this project grant, Women Thrive Worldwide would advance the following outcomes: (1) the U.S. government would take meaningful steps toward fundamental foreign aid reform with evidence of those reforms at the field level; (2) proposed and prospective budget reductions to global poverty-focused assistance and to the institutions that manage and deliver U.S. aid would be minimized; and (3) social and gender analysis would be incorporated into the design, implementation, and monitoring of U.S. development assistance programs to ensure that both men and women benefit. Women Thrive’s work in these areas would support and operate in tandem with the Hewlett Foundation-funded Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.
for developing a fundraising strategy This grant would help Global Citizen Year to develop a multi-year fundraising strategy and build the capacity of recent senior staff hires to execute this strategy in order to fuel the organization's ambitious plans for growth.
for Her Voice Fund in Africa Womankind Worldwide (WK) is an international women’s rights organization (WRO) and funder, working alongside other WROs, feminist movements, and activists in Eastern and Southern Africa and South Asia to end gender inequality. WK supports diverse WROs representing the most marginalized groups including LBTQI+, women living with disabilities, young women, indigenous women, and women in the criminal justice system. This grant will support the advocacy work of marginalized women across Africa, by contributing to Her Voice Fund, WK’s flexible funding stream for its partner WROs and informal groups. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of Counting Women’s Work As a regionally led consortium, the Counting Women’s Work (CWW) project seeks to expand the analysis of unpaid care work and deepen local engagement to support the effective use of evidence in economic policy formulation and implementation in Africa. The consortium includes the Population Reference Bureau, the Consortium Régional pour la Recherche en Économie Générationnelle, and the University of California at Berkeley. In this third phase of the project, the CWW team will accelerate progress toward macro-level gender-responsive policy reforms in Benin, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, building on its successes and applying lessons learned. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work This grant will support the Population Association of America (PAA) to evolve the organization’s and staff’s knowledge, practices, and policies related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). PAA will assess if, and if so, how existing DEI efforts are working and use these findings to further institutionalize DEI within the organization's foundational policies and procedures. Given its field-building role, PAA also aims to use these lessons and new ways of operating to establish a model for how peer scientific associations can explicitly integrate DEI into their work and mitigate inequitable dynamics of power and privilege.
for general operating support Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to secure their livelihoods. It promotes change by improving statistics and expanding knowledge on the informal economy, building networks and capacity among informal worker organizations and, jointly with those networks and organizations, influencing local, national, and international policies. WIEGO engages in a set of crosscutting activities such as developing training materials and carrying out workshops and training courses; supporting its networks and affiliates through convenings and exchanges; carrying out local, national, regional, and global advocacy campaigns; and undertaking and publishing research. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for promoting the use of impact evaluations of poverty reduction programs across Africa This grant to the University of Cape Town (UCT) would support the Africa Region branch of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). This network of researchers uses randomized evaluations of poverty reduction programs to show which interventions work and are cost-effective. The J-PAL Africa unit will (1) identify and seed opportunities for impact evaluations across the continent; (2) help design and raise funds for these evaluations; (3) train local researchers to run the studies; (4) deepen relationships with African policymakers; and (5) promote the use of evidence in policy decisions.
for research on barriers to women’s economic empowerment and economic growth in low-income countries This grant will support the second phase of the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) research program that aims to catalyze transformative change to advance women’s economic empowerment and gender equality at work, at home, and beyond. GrOW 2 is a five-year partnership with Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With a focus on East Africa, GroW 2 will deepen evidence to promote women’s work and remove constraints to work; produce research to drive programming and policymaking to improve women’s formal and informal employment; and mobilize African researchers and institutions to lead in generating credible policy-oriented evidence on women’s economic empowerment.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights Sex og Politikk, the Norwegian Member Association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, aims to improve rights and access to sexual and reproductive health services by encouraging Norway to maintain development assistance for these issues and advocating for a supportive post-2015 framework. This grant would allow Sex og Politikk to advocate for equal rights and equal access to high-quality sexual and reproductive health services, primarily through activities with Norway’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
for monitoring and evaluation Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) conducts research and analysis of public spending in Uganda, advocates for evidence-based public policies, and builds citizens’ capacity to use data to demand more and better services from government. ACODE currently undertakes project-based data gathering, monitoring and evaluation, with limited integration and cohesion across projects. This grant will enable ACODE to establish a consolidated, organization-wide monitoring, evaluation, and learning system.
for an analysis of multilateral agricultural trade rules and the creation of an international policy analysis network None
for enhancing the African Population and Health Research Center impact evaluation capacity The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is committed to generating Africa-led and African-owned evidence to inform decision making. The center’s mandate is to generate and support the use of evidence for meaningful action to improve the lives of all Africans. This grant will enable APHRC to strengthen its capacity to conduct impact evaluations across several sectors, such as education, nutrition, and health. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for improving the lives of citizens by ensuring policy is informed by evidence in sub-Saharan Africa This grant to the University of Cape Town will provide flexible support to the Africa Region branch of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). J-PAL Africa works to ensure that policy-relevant evidence is incorporated into policy at scale. During this grant period, it will facilitate research, help build the capacity of more African people to conduct and understand impact evaluations, and equip more local institutions, including governments, to own and increase the scale of evidence-informed interventions and policies.
for membership with the African Grantmakers' Affinity Group This grant supports the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group (AGAG), a project of the Tides Center, to promote robust, effective, and responsive philanthropy that benefits African communities. AGAG is a global membership network of funders with a shared interest in growing and strengthening the impact of private philanthropic investments in Africa. The network organizes annual donor conferences, curates and disseminates information on trends in funding that targets Africa, and connects funders on the continent and globally across thematic areas. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for general operating support The Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) promotes sustainable development and improved health in low- and middle-income countries by advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. Through its offices in Germany, Belgium, and East Africa, DSW provides research-based population information to political leaders and the media, facilitates collaboration among European NGOs working in population and reproductive health, and implements projects to empower youth in developing countries. Unrestricted funds would enable DSW to continue to strengthen the links between population dynamics, global health, economic development, and the environment. In 2010, the Foundation awarded DSW an organizational effectiveness grant for strategic planning. Its new strategic plan (2011–16) includes four integrated thematic areas: (1) making the case for family planning and reproductive health so donor and national governments prioritize and sufficiently fund these services; (2) engaging in global health by advocating for increased financial and political commitment for poverty-related health issues such as maternal and child health and HIV/AIDS; (3) ensuring an integrated approach to population, health, and the environment; and (4) empowering young people to actively participate in decision-making processes to improve policies and programs that address youth health and livelihood needs.
for general operating support Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) works to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. WIEGO is a global research and policy network comprised of more than 30 membership-based organizations of informal workers and about 150 development professionals. WIEGO seeks to increase the voice of the working poor by supporting and strengthening membership-based organizations to gain representation in policymaking bodies. It advances the visibility of informal employment and economy by conducting policy-relevant research and improving official statistics. It also promotes recognition of informal workers as legitimate economic agents.
to support the cultivation of individual donors This Organizational Effectiveness grant to PAI will support the development of a more robust individual donor campaign in order to help the organization be more financial sustainable and able to respond to new opportunities.  PAI had engaged Camber Collective in 2015 to better understand, target, and retain individual donors.  The proposed project would build on that work by deepening understanding of  PAI's current and potential individual donors' motivations and beliefs.  This knowledge is anticipated to help PAI refine its donor segments and better prioritize its development and communication efforts.
for grants to innovative programs that improve children’s learning in Africa The disturbingly low levels of learning reported by Uwezo in Tanzania present an opportunity to reexamine what is working in basic education, identify gaps in supporting children’s learning, and capture the collective and creative thinking of interested parties to identify innovative approaches for education. This grant would support the Firelight Foundation—which has a strong model for providing support to community-based organizations to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families—to implement a small grants program to improve learning in Tanzania. As part of this grants program, Firelight would support organizational development for its grantees, create peer learning networks, and work with district-level ministries.
for increasing access to reproductive health in Côte d'Ivoire This project supports Pathfinder International’s program in Côte d’Ivoire, where Pathfinder has identified several areas for collaboration with the Ministry of Health to improve family planning service availability. This project builds on initial funding from the foundation that helped Pathfinder build a program in Côte d’Ivoire as its hub for operations in Francophone West Africa. Through national and local advocacy and provider training, Pathfinder aims to increase availability of contraceptive methods and improve access to safe abortion and postabortion care.
for the Growth Commission to analyze what are the drivers of, and impediments to, equitable economic growth None
for support of testing behavioral interventions in family planning programs The grant will support JSI Research & Training Institute to test interventions aimed at improving the continuation rates of injectable contraception in Ethiopia. The Institute will collaborate with ideas42 (a Hewlett grantee) to draw on behavioral economics to design more effective services, and use a randomized-control trial to test whether these new designs help more women continue with their chosen method of contraception. The interventions will be piloted as part of the Last Ten Kilometers project, which provides reproductive, maternal, and child health services in four regions that are home to 80 percent of Ethiopia’s population, with support from the Gates Foundation, USAID, and UNICEF.
for Read India Phase II, a nationwide program to improve learning achievement in the primary grades None
for a project to support civil society groups promoting open governance standards With a global network of over 100 national chapters, Transparency International advocates for agreement on stronger good governance standards at the international level and promotes the adoption and implementation of those standards at the national level. Seizing upon the momentum generated by the Open Government Partnership, and taking advantage of their global presence, Transparency International will strengthen civil society participation in crafting robust Open Government Partnership country commitments and in monitoring the achievement of those commitments. With assistance from the its secretariat, Transparency International’s national chapters will develop score cards to assess progress toward open governance best practice.
for general operating support With this renewal grant, Fundar would continue its globally recognized work on transparency and access to information, with the specific purpose of tracking and analyzing Mexico’s social development budgets. In addition to providing budget analysis training to civil society organizations in Mexico and from around the world, Fundar would also continue its work to make public subsidies for the poor more transparent and accountable. Of major importance to Fundar’s subsidy transparency agenda is maintaining and promoting the agricultural subsidy transparency website, www.subsidiosalcampo.org.mx, in collaboration with Hewlett grantees, the Environmental Working Group and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
for general operating support of the Izaak Walton League of America's Sustainability Education program None
for joint strategic planning work on post-2015 The Hewlett Foundation has been supporting a handful of grantees who are engaged in one way or another in advocating for learning goals to be incorporated in the post-2015 global development framework, including the Women Educational Researchers of Kenya (WERK). This grant would enable WERK to convene all of these grantees to share information about global and country-level discussions on post-2015 and to develop strategies and tactics for their post-2015 advocacy.
for the implementation of a civil society assessment of student learning in East Africa This grant to Hivos would provide continued support to Uwezo, a nationwide, citizen-led assessment of student learning in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Uwezo is the largest annual assessment of children’s learning in Africa; in 2012 alone Uwezo tested nearly 350,000 children in about 11,000 communities. The results have sparked national, regional, and global debates about the magnitude of the learning crisis for schoolchildren. This renewal grant would support the ongoing efforts to collect, analyze, and communicate the results of the nationwide learning assessment to stimulate citizen action and oversight in education and policy reform.
for general operating support As an African research institution, Population Council-Kenya (PC-Kenya) generates locally produced knowledge and evidence to expand sexual and reproductive health and choice throughout East Africa. Over the next few years, PC-Kenya aims to strengthen its governance structures, expand impactful partnerships with young feminist organizations and other marginalized regional stakeholders, and improve its strategic communications and DEI policies and procedures. This core support grant will enable PC-Kenya to deepen these focal areas. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a program to engage business in advancing global standards to stop corrupt money flows With a global network of over 100 national chapters, Transparency International researches and advocates for good governance standards and practices at the international level and promotes the adoption and implementation of those standards at the national level. Seizing upon the momentum generated by the Panama Papers and recognizing the influential role of private-sector actors within the international financial system, Transparency International will work to increase the number of professionals and businesses in the real estate and accounting sectors effectively implementing standards and practices to detect, report, and prevent the laundering of illicit assets from developing countries.
for the Project on Resources and Governance The Project on Resources and Governance (PRG) brings together researchers and practitioners to promote transparent, accountable, and responsible management of natural resources in low- and middle-income countries. During this grant period, PRG will commission at least three new research projects, mentor researchers and practitioners in innovative social science research, and share research results with individuals and groups that influence extractive industries, affected communities, and governments in countries that are dependent on the exploitation of natural resources.
for consultations in support of the post-2015 development goals This project would continue support for the United Nation Foundation’s activities that are contributing to global agreement about a post-2015 development agenda. With this funding, the Foundation would continue to compile and share information about the topics under discussion at the U.N. related to the post-2015 agenda, which has proven to be a valued resource to civil society organizations and others who seek to be engaged in the post-2015 process. In addition, the Foundation would continue to facilitate a constructive dialogue among member states and experts from around the world about challenging topics, including but not limited to transparency and governance, improvements in data for monitoring progress, and policymaking.
for capacity building of a feminist activist African network This grant will allow Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) to build upon their past work to strengthen the capacity of young feminists, by planning for and implementing integral training workshops. DAWN will invite African feminists to their annual Training Institute workshop, provide mentoring and capacity-building between workshops, and carry out an inter-regional learning and sharing advocacy exercise in Africa under the Gender, Economic and Ecological Justice Initiative.
for translation, young scholars, and evidence-use promotion at the 8th African Population Conference This grant will support the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) in organizing the eighth African Population Conference to take place in Entebbe, Uganda, in November 2019. Specifically, the grant will fund interpretation and translation services, young scientists’ attendance and mentoring, and evidence user engagement, including activists. The conference is a platform for researchers, policymakers, program implementers, civil society, and donors to discuss African population issues with attention to investments in sexual and reproductive health, youth, and the demographic dividend. UAPS has intentionally linked the conference theme to ICPD25 by exploring Africa’s shifting population dynamics and sustainable development