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for general operating support Ipas is a global organization working in more than fifteen countries to strengthen the quality of abortion services within the legal framework and liberalize the policy environment that regulates these services. This grant will allow Ipas to: (a) increase access to quality reproductive health services by training local health providers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; (b) collaborate with ministries of health to interpret abortion policy in the broadest way possible; and (c) use research and evidence to advocate for policies to increase access to safe abortion services.
for fundraising planning and membership development This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant will enable the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) to examine and improve its membership model.  PRB currently has about 400 individual members, primarily drawn from academia, nonprofit organizations, and retirees, who each pay a fee of $50 per year.  Working with a consultant, PRB plans to re-ignite its membership strategy as a way to increase unrestricted revenue and to better engage key stakeholders in advancing its mission.
for support of research and training on social protection and women's empowerment This grant will support Women and Social Protection (WSP) Tanzania, which aims to generate evidence, build capacity, and influence policies related to social protection, gender equality, and women’s economic empowerment. WSP Tanzania conducts demand-driven research and engages policymakers to develop and fund gender-aware economic and social protection policies and systems. The organization will strengthen its collaboration with women’s rights organizations to ensure they have the evidence to advocate for women’s economic justice. In addition to research and evidence user engagement, WSP Tanzania will focus on institutional strengthening during the grant period. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support to the What Works Global Summit 2019 The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network supporting the production and use of evidence syntheses. This grant will support the 2019 What Works Global Summit, which brings together policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in evidence-based policy and practice.
for support of Southern Voice The Centre for Policy Dialogue is a policy research center based in Bangladesh that serves as the secretariat of the Southern Voice on Post-Millennium Development Goals International Development Goals. Southern Voice is a network of forty-nine think tanks from Asia, Africa, and Latin America that seeks to promote, through evidence-based policy inputs, the interests and concerns of developing countries in agenda-setting discussions about the Post-2015 global development goals. This grant would support the work of Southern Voice to understand the country-level data and implementation needs to both measure and achieve the new goals, as well as foster and assess continued collaboration among southern think tanks.
for strengthening two-generation perspectives on caregivers and young children The Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council proposes to address the empowerment of women and their roles as caregivers in and outside of their homes in a new Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally. The Forum will use a two-generation perspective to explore reproductive health, economic opportunity, and caregiving investments. Forum members are a community of stakeholders across northern and southern countries who are interested in exploring policy-relevant scientific findings from around the world.
for PATH's Reproductive Health Global Program PATH’s Reproductive Health Global Program works to support better reproductive health services and policies for women, men, and young people in more than 70 low-income countries. This support will fund several priority activities of the Reproductive Health Global Program, including (a) rapid testing of how behavioral economics-based approaches might address myths and misperceptions about contraceptive methods and (b) collaboration with the World Health Organization to update its reproductive health service delivery.
for a program to strengthen data governance in Kenya Open Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, whose mission is to collaborate with governments, citizens, civil society organizations, and other players to develop policies, tools, and knowledge that strengthen citizens’ voices in the governance and development of their societies. With this grant — and together with partner organization Amnesty International Kenya — Open Institute will continue work supporting the effective operationalization of Kenya’s Data Protection Act, scaling up awareness campaigns on data governance and rights to privacy, and bolstering regional cooperation therein. This renewal is part of 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 a program to train emerging market investors to support and advocate for good governance The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance educates institutional investors on key governance and sustainability issues, produces policy papers on these issues, and organizes dialogues between subject matter experts, investors in public markets, and government and company officials. In the past three to four years, the alliance has successfully mobilized and trained several investors in the U.S., Europe, and the U.K.; established thematic working groups involving governance experts and investors; and facilitated direct educational engagement between investors and government officials from emerging markets. This grant will enable the alliance to deepen its work on topics including fiscal transparency, extractive industry transparency, community consent, deforestation, open contracting, and corporate governance through a strong educational agenda and active engagement with governments and companies. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for support of an electronic Journal on Population and Reproductive Health Economics None
for support to the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordinating Unit This grant would allow IntraHealth to continue supporting the Coordinating Unit for the Ouagadougou Partnership, nine national governments and five donors working together to increase the number of women using modern contraception in Francophone West Africa.
for national data quality assurance framework in Ghana CARE International in Ghana plays a lead role in supporting and coordinating the civil society platform on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), working with government and civil society organizations to advance the SDGs. This grant will support CARE International in Ghana to partner with the Ghana Statistical Service to develop and implement a data quality assurance framework. The framework will guide the production of official statistics in Ghana, including by enabling the integration of data from private sector and NGO sources into official statistics.
for general operating support The Global Press Institute trains and employs women in developing countries to produce journalism that features local voices on underreported issues. These voices contribute to the strength of the international women’s movement. This grant will support training programs for women in developing countries to become local journalists. The institute will update and expand the curriculum program to scale training on reporting to new global locations, and offer new employment opportunities to 100 women as journalists. This grant will also allow the institute to support institutional strengthening by investing in operational, administrative, and governance infrastructure.
for strategy development for the post-2015 advocacy campaign Publish What You Fund (PWYF) is a global campaign for aid transparency that advocates for more comprehensive, timely, accessible, and comparable data on aid flows to maximize the impact and effectiveness of development resources. This organizational effectiveness grant would support PWYF to develop a revised theory of change and advocacy strategy that respond both to the emerging new set of global sustainable development goals and to an internal leadership transition.
for a project to develop a common data standard with the International Aid Transparency Initiative The Foundation Center will develop a common data standard with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) to address the critical need for an information system that bridges both international and sector boundaries to present a clear and comprehensive understanding of donor aid flows. To achieve this goal, the Foundation Center will compare its existing reporting standard to the IATI's reporting standard to map over 50 data fields and 300 subfields and to identify commonalities. A survey of 25 of the top international grantmaking foundations will yield insights to help navigate barriers to securing additional participation from US foundations. The Foundation Center’s standard will be revised to capture an expanded range of data fields and to foster greater alignment with the IATI standard, while an automated reporting channel to IATI users will be promoted though the Foundation Center’s existing eGrant reporting system. The common data standard will make it easier to determine where funds are going and how they are being spent. By increasing the transparency of aid flows from foundations, resources can be allocated and used more strategically to achieve the intended development outcomes.
for executive leadership transition EngenderHealth trains public sector health professionals to provide high-quality maternal and reproductive health services in more than 20 countries. In March 2016, Ulla Muller started as EngenderHealth’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Since March Ulla has made significant changes to the structure and composition of EngenderHealth’s Executive Leadership team to strengthen the organization’s programmatic work and strategic direction. This organizational effectiveness grant will provide leadership development and coaching services to EngenderHealth’s newly-formed Executive Leadership team, with an objective to developing an approach to management that is focused on creating a more effective organization.
for Oxfam Novib's Voice initiative Oxfam America will provide funding to Oxfam Novib to support the Voice initiative, which promotes inclusive governance across 10 countries in Africa and Asia. Under the Voice initiative, Oxfam Novib will partner with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative, to support efforts by community-based organizations that seek to increase access of people who are marginalized and discriminated against, notably persons with disabilities, to the decision-making processes on how government revenues are allocated and spent.
for support of EngenderHealth's programs and strategy in West Africa This supplemental grant will support EngenderHealth to expand its program for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Francophone West Africa particularly in Benin. In late 2021, Benin’s parliament voted to legalize abortion in most circumstances, the first country in the region to do so. EngenderHealth already had a small program focused on abortion advocacy in Benin and is well positioned to expand its work plan in Benin to prepare for and support the implementation of this new reproductive right. This work is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy outcome to make safe abortion legal and accessible in Francophone West Africa.
for the aidinfo program Development Initiatives implements the aidinfo program so that citizens in developing countries can use information about foreign aid to hold governments, donors, and service providers to account and thereby increase the effectiveness of aid. The program also supports the uptake and implementation of the International Aid Transparency Initiative data standard by piloting citizen efforts to access and analyze the data. Moving into its third phase, aidinfo plans to expand its direct engagement in East Africa, working with local groups, including other Hewlett Foundation grantees, to strengthen the analysis of aid information in relation to domestic budget information. The objective is to foster feedback loops connecting citizens—the ultimate beneficiaries of aid—to the decision makers who allocate aid so that it can be used most effectively and in alignment with the other resources available for poverty reduction and better service delivery.
for general operating support Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) conducts randomized evaluations of development interventions, testing whether programs and policies achieve the target impact. It shares the evidence it creates with development practitioners, policymakers, and donors, seeking to influence decision makers to spend public resources more effectively. During this grant period, IPA will increase its policy footprint, including (a) developing coordinated sector-based global research agendas; (b) increasing the number of policy staff; and (c) strengthening long-term partnerships with governments.
for conference support The Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir is a Mexican civil society organization and feminist training center. This grant will support its collaboration with MUAFRO, a collective of women of African descent from the Guerrero and Oaxaca states formed in 2015 to organize the first Mexico-wide National Encounter of Afro Mexican Women. This will represent an opportunity for these women to share, reflect, and agree on an intergenerational recognition and co-create a long-term action agenda to lower democratic and social inequalities that are the sources of structural racism.
for board development This grant would allow GESOC to follow up work on an institutional development plan, specifically strengthening of the board and development of a plan for leadership transition.
for a project to ensure that economies and public service systems work for women and girls globally ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which is a global federation working for a world free from poverty and injustice. ActionAid’s work aims to build local to global momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by women and young people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support ActionAid’s work on women’s economic justice and rights through the Young Urban Women and Valuing Women’s Work programs in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, and South Africa, as well as regionally and globally. These programs collaborate in challenging mainstream macroeconomic policies, narratives, and institutions that fail to recognize and value women’s paid and unpaid work and undermine their access to decent work and bodily autonomy and integrity. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for implementing an approach to teaching reading in two local languages in Senegal Associates in Research and Education for Development Inc. has been a provider of literacy training and citizen education in Senegal for nearly twenty years and in the past two years, with the Foundation’s support, has developed an instructional model and materials for learners in first and second grade in two languages: Wolof and Pulaar. To date, the government in Senegal has only allowed the organization and other nongovernmental programs to offer their services during after-school hours; however, this year Associates in Research and Education for Development will be one of two programs that the government will allow into Senegalese classrooms to pilot its mother-tongue education instructional model during normal school hours. This grant would support that pilot testing of the organization’s model in first and second grade during the 2011–12 academic year. If successful, in 2012–13, Hewlett Foundation support would be complemented by government support for the rollout of a model in up to 100 schools in conjunction with a French government initiative to improve mother-tongue instruction in Francophone Africa.
for general operating support Marie Stopes International US (MSI-US) is one of the largest reproductive health service delivery organizations in the world. MSI-US operates in forty countries through more than 600 clinics, 6,000 clinical outreach sites, 1,500 franchised providers, and 8,000 team members. This grant will enable MSI-US to implement a new, five-year organizational strategy. The new strategy prioritizes using behavioral and client insights to improve the quality of services and reach more women, drawing on the organization’s extensive service delivery expertise to inform important reproductive health policy debates, and continuing to be creative in diversifying sources of revenue to meet the large demand for MSI-US’s services.
for support of the Right to Information Program This grant will fund the Right to Information Program at Article 19’s Mexico office. The purpose of the grants is to (a) strengthen the capabilities of guarantor bodies of the right to information at the state level to promote and protect this right; (b) increase the openness of appointment processes to key positions for the protection of human rights in Mexico; and (c) strengthen the capacities of women and men in indigenous communities in two states in Mexico to exercise their right of access to information as a tool to demand social accountability.
for Phase II of the Learning Metrics Task Force to inform global policy discourse In July 2012, the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics launched the Learning Metrics Task Force. Through global and technical consultations, the Task Force has built consensus and put forward recommendations on the skills and competencies that are important for all children and youth to develop, as well as an initial set of indicators that are feasible and desirable to track progress on learning at a global level. The Task Force’s work has already created considerable momentum for an "access plus learning" goal in the post-2015 development agenda. This grant to the Center would continue to build the necessary political will in the post-2015 negotiations. In addition, the Task Force would both contribute to and coordinate the additional technical work and institutional capacity building needed to ensure that country governments and regional bodies are able to implement them. The Center would also coordinate with civil society organizations and other key constituencies that are working to hold governments, donors, and international organizations accountable for making progress on improving learning.
for a project to develop a qualitative evaluation system for Mexico The Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Occidente (CIESAS Occidente) plans to work in partnership with the National Council for Evaluation and Social Development to create a qualitative evaluation system, which currently does not exist in Mexico’s evaluation regulations. This grant would support CIESAS to carry out selected qualitative evaluations that will provide input to develop operating principles and to determine when such evaluations could offer relevant information for policy adjustment. Recommendations would include: (1) guidelines for public officials to prepare terms of reference for qualitative evaluations; (2) guidance on appropriate field materials needed to back up results; (3) methods to structure results in a robust, compelling way; and (4) definitions of the kinds of background information that the evaluation reports should include to underpin recommendations stemming from the evaluations. This work would also be funded by the Inter-American Development Bank.
for general operating support The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity) conducts research on the governance and impact of voluntary initiatives that bring together government, civil society, and the private sector to address complex governance and development problems. MSI Integrity’s research aims to strengthen existing multi-stakeholder initiatives by investigating and documenting whether, when, and how these efforts are effective. During this grant period, MSI Integrity plans to broaden its research to include whether and how these initiatives reflect and are responsive to the voices of citizens.
for general operating support The Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) is a nonpartisan think tank specializing in policy analysis and evidence-based advocacy to improve Mexico’s institutional framework for economic growth, as well increase government transparency and accountability. IMCO generates applied research to inform public debate and advocacy on how economic and social phenomena affect Mexico’s competitiveness. This supplement for general operating support would allow the think tank to keep producing competitiveness indices at the international, national, and subnational levels. It would also help IMCO better use new technologies to increase its impact and outreach, continue to produce research on public finance and government transparency, and deepen its engagement with education and public security policy in Mexico.
for the CCiudadano program Ciudadano—formerly the Center for Social Audits (CCS)—partners with local citizen groups to improve citizen oversight of public services and government spending at the subnational level. With this grant, CCS will continue to provide technical assistance to partner organizations and apply research to better understand the pathways through which citizen oversight improves public service delivery.
for continued support of Wide Angle, a PBS documentary series on international topics None
for strategic planning TrustAfrica is a Pan-African, intermediary grantmaker based in Dakar that specializes in building civil society movements for change around critical social development issues. This organizational effectiveness grant will support TrustAfrica's strategic review of their work the past ten years as Phase I of a new strategy development process. TrustAfrica will systematically assess their programmatic activities and impact, operational efficiency, and financial health and sustainability.
for general operating support The Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER) works to build a citizen-led movement for corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America. PODER influences the regulatory framework of key industries, develops the capacities of communities and workers, and strengthens a citizens’ movement for corporate accountability. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of a book on future prospects for poverty reduction and development With this grant, the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution would research, write, publish, and disseminate a book on the success of global development efforts over the last two decades and the implications of future trends. The book will seek to deepen understanding about the substantial progress in global development and poverty reduction,and stimulate discussion and debate among policymakers and development practitioners about some of the major challenges facing developing countries in the coming decades.
for the "Rethink" project This grant would support the work of the Center for Global Development to monitor and analyze U.S. foreign assistance programs and initiatives. This work would focus on monitoring U.S. government efforts to meet transparency commitments, provide ongoing analysis of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and inform new strategies to increase country ownership in U.S. foreign assistance programs.