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for a project to promote norms on open contracting, reduce tax loopholes, and track Sustainable Development Goals progress The B Team was launched in 2013 by a group of business leaders with a commitment to promote transparency and responsible business practices toward a goal of enhancing the well-being of people and the environment. B Team leaders have made the commitment to lead by example through their own business practices. This grant supports two streams of their work: first, galvanizing the private sector in support of country-level implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; and second, fostering transparent and responsive governance by promoting global norms and standards on open contracting, open governance, and fair international tax practices.
for research and dissemination of the economic impacts of population and reproductive health The Population Poverty Research Initiative—a collaboration between the Foundation, several European research councils, and other partners—enhances understanding of the relationships among reproductive health, population dynamics, and economic development. This recommended grant would support the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) to serve as a secretariat for the Initiative. PRB’s responsibilities would cover three core areas: research, communication, and administration. Representative activities would include coordinating and participating with the European research councils to call for work to fill gaps in currently funded research; organizing annual meetings to share ongoing research and methodology workshops to strengthen research capacity; maintaining the Initiative’s website; communicating research findings to policymakers and other key audiences; and keeping track of ongoing and new research. By supporting high-quality research and ensuring that policy-relevant findings are translated and disseminated, PRB will advance the Initiative’s goal of making reproductive health and population outcomes a priority in development strategies and policies.
for general operating support The African Institute for Development Policy Research and Dialogue is designed to bridge the gaps between research, policy, and practice in Africa The institute is growing its work in enabling African governments to consistently use evidence to inform policy formulation, resource allocation, and program implementation to accelerate achievement 0f the Sustainable Development Goals. The institute will help advance the Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIP) strategy goals through its work across multiple African countries to strengthen institutional systems that facilitate evidence-informed decision making, expand and strengthen the EIP field by sharing lessons from promoting evidence use, and generate and translate evidence to inform policy decisions.
for support of an evidence summit This supplemental grant will support the United States Agency for International Development’s Evidence & Innovation Day. The event will showcase ways in which United States foreign aid is used in high-impact, evidence-based ways, and will foster relationships between individuals and organizations that can help them use evidence in their work. A previous Hewlett Foundation grant provided core funding for the event. This funding will support videotaping speeches, panels, and training sessions.
for the advancement of gender equality on activities of the Center for Sustainable Development The Brookings Institution conducts in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national, and global level. The Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings generates leading research and insights for advancing the development and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals within and across countries. The center is committed to generating evidence, tools, and policy recommendations that support networked societal leadership for sustainable development. This grant will support the center in advancing a new program on gender and sustainable development. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).
for a project to strengthen transparency and accountability related to reproductive rights This grant will support Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE)’s third edition of the Report on Reproductive Rights in Mexico, a biannual report that promotes women’s access to and exercise of reproductive rights by strengthening transparency and accountability. The report will continue to analyze information regarding the Mexican government’s compliance with national and international human rights standards, focusing on six reproductive rights: safe and legal abortion, contraception, maternal mortality, obstetric violence, work and family life, and assisted reproduction. In addition, GIRE will develop a more specific and in-depth report on access to legal abortion in the case of rape of teenagers.
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.
for support of the SRHR advocacy of CSOs and feminist activists in Francophone West Africa This grant will support Equilibres & Populations, an advocacy organization that combines social and political mobilization and solid partnerships with actors of change to improve the rights and health of women and girls around the world. Through core funding, technical assistance, and strategic exchanges, Equilibres & Populations and partners will strengthen the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) ecosystem in Francophone West Africa to ensure that feminist activists and civil society organizations are well positioned to advance transformative and sustained policy and social change. During the grant period, Equipop and partners will work closely with donors to advocate for more and better funding for SRHR activism in Francophone West Africa. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for creation of a compensation policy For a project to develop a transparent and equitable compensation policy.
for the implementation and evaluation of Tostan's CEP + SDCE approach This grant will support Tostan to advance social norms that promote gender equality and community well-being through decentralized governance structures in Senegal. Building on its Community Empowerment Program (CEP) model, Tostan will integrate a Strengthening Democracy and Citizen Engagement (SDCE) component to institutionalize women’s enhanced voice, influence, and leadership in community life and ensure that communities can more effectively hold elected representatives accountable. Tostan will partner with an evaluation firm to rigorously assess if and how the intervention contributed to participatory development planning and good governance. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for executive transition Pathfinder International has recently experienced a significant change—Dan Pellegrom retired after twenty-six years as President, and Purnima Mane assumed leadership of the organization on February 1, 2012. As President and Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Mane oversees more than 850 staff around the world, an annual budget exceeding $100 million, and sexual and reproductive health programs in more than twenty developing countries. Funds would enable Pathfinder International to assess its internal organizational operations and structure as appropriate for the demands of the field and goals of the organization and provide executive coaching to Ms. Mane during her transition.
for strategic planning With this OE grant, the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria (CIEP) would undergo a strategic planning exercise (which it has never done so formally) based on the results of an institutional assessment carried out in August 2013. The strategic planning would include assessing CIEP's niche within a sector; a participatory definition of its mission, vision and values; the factors that enable/hinder its mission and vision; an assessment of its internal management, and a definition of medium term strategies to enable CIEP's positioning.
for coordination of the Women's Major Group's post-2015 advocacy This grant will support the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) to help coordinate the Women’s Major Group (WMG), a large collaborative of women’s civil society organizations interested in influencing the post-2015 development agenda. The grant funds will enable WEDO to facilitate civil society groups’ participation in key international and regional processes through travel support for experts; to lead advocacy efforts of the WMG, including by drafting and disseminating position papers and hosting events; and to conduct strategic analyses and planning for the WMG.
for a project to advance gender-just macroeconomic policymaking in the pandemic recovery context Christian Aid is an international development and humanitarian organization seeking to eradicate extreme poverty by tackling its root causes, and working in partnership with local communities, stakeholders, and organizations in 27 countries globally. Christian Aid bases its work on three pillars: Poverty (reaching those most in need in some of the hardest to reach places around the world); Power (challenging the systematic and structural causes of poverty by holding those in power to account); and Prophetic voice (speaking truth to power and building local and collective agency). Christian Aid’s work focuses on key thematic areas such as climate justice, gender justice, and economic justice. This grant will support Christian Aid to advance gender-just economic policymaking in the pandemic recovery context via influencing, convening, and learning. (Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance Program)
for writing a paper on future directions for impact evaluations This grant will support one of three papers that the Global Development and Population Program is commissioning about the role of impact evaluations in informing development policy and programming. The Group for Analysis of Development (GRADE) is a Peruvian think tank with fifteen years of experience conducting impact evaluations of public sector programs in the country and region. This paper will draw on lessons from the organization’s evaluation work, especially as it relates to informing national and regional policy and programming. Together, the three papers will both inform the field of impact evaluation, as well as the strategy development for the Program's Evidence-Informed Policymaking sub-component.
for assessing Mexico’s federal evaluation policies linked to performance-based public spending This grant would allow Gesoc to develop the next two editions of the Social Programs Performance Index, and replicate it at the state level, as well as in at least one other Latin American country. Gesoc aims to improve the design, performance, transparency, and quality of public spending in Mexico for social programs targeted at vulnerable and poor populations.
for general operating support EPIC-Africa is a research and mentoring organization based in Senegal that partners with African civil society organizations to increase their standards of performance, accountability, and transparency while inspiring greater local legitimacy and support. (Substrategy: Learning)
for AidData's Developing Pathways to Scaling Geospatial Impact Evaluations AidData is a research lab at William & Mary that equips decision makers in aid agencies and low- and middle-income country governments with evidence to more effectively design, monitor, and evaluate policies and investments that affect the well-being of people living in low-income and middle-income countries. This grant will enable AidData to develop a business plan that outlines optimal pathways for scaling geospatial impact evaluations (GIEs) and prepare the institutional partnerships and arrangements to support this plan. GIEs, which use existing satellite data, offer policymakers an exciting new tool to assess the impact of recent or long-past programs, often where few other approaches are feasible — and at a fraction of the cost. AidData will also generate an array of guidance documents, code repositories, and technical improvements designed to help analysts globally design and conduct GIEs. The goal is to enable the expansion of GIEs that are policy-relevant and likely to be used in decision making. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for the México Infórmate project México Infórmate is a network of journalists working at the state level, testing how Mexico’s transparency and access to information reforms can improve investigative journalism outside of Mexico City. This grant to Sonora Ciudadana would allow México Infórmate to consolidate a centralized coordination body, while continuing to work on training local journalists in the use of access to information systems in their states, culminating in a national convening for peer exchange and dissemination of the impact of the state level work.
for a book about global hunger and food aid that challenges policymakers to adopt hunger-reducing trade and aid policies None
for an evaluation of Nali Kali, a primary school activity-based learning program in Karnataka, India In response to ongoing concerns about the low-quality education most Indian students receive, the state government of Karnataka, India, introduced a new curriculum and pedagogy for first, second, and third graders that encourages teachers to use more activity-based teaching methods, regularly assess each student’s progress, and allow each child to learn at his or her own pace. Similar learning programs have been introduced in other Indian states, but so far there have been no rigorous evaluations of how these programs affect student achievement. This supplement would allow researchers to extend their evaluation of the Nali Kali curriculum to include another cohort of students. This extension would strengthen the evaluation results and make them more relevant for influencing government education policy and practice.
for general operating support Baraza Media Lab is a physical space and online platform for Kenyan media practitioners to support innovation, collaboration, and new business models that advance public interest journalism. The lab will expand its presence and engagement across Kenya and East Africa. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of equity in global sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations This grant to EngenderHealth will support a consortium of CEOs of global sexual and reproductive health organizations to work together towards a more equitable institutional vision of the field and their roles in it. Through an inclusive and consultative planning process, this grant will lay out a future set of engagements for the field to envision an evolved role for international non-governmental organizations in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for general operating support Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a nonprofit research and policy advocacy organization that conducts randomized evaluations of development interventions to help the world’s poor. In addition to sharing evidence with development practitioners, policymakers, and donors, IPA provides direct advice to decision makers on how to use the evidence. General operating support would help IPA strengthen their global research capacity, expand their policy and communications capabilities, and deepen their ability to translate evaluation findings into policy impact.
for “Volver al Corazón” incubator Accountability Lab is an international network of local reformers in 12 countries that partners with active citizens, responsible leaders, and accountable institutions to improve governance. This grant supports Accountability Lab's “Volver al Corazón” musical campaign to advance gender justice through legal support and cultural production. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support Founded in 2016, JGEN Senegal is led by young women Senegalese feminist association working on gender issues, sexual and reproductive rights, and feminist movement building in Francophone Africa. JGEN will scale up its advocacy for collective feminist actions to advance women’s rights at regional and country level. JGEN will also deepen and grow its institutional capacities to provide increased community awareness, networking, capacity strengthening, and assistance efforts in Francophone Africa, including Senegal. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support EarthRights International defends human rights and promotes environmental justice through litigation and legal advocacy, training and leadership development, and public policy and education campaigns. Complementing its grassroots legal defense and empowerment work with individuals and resource-rich communities, EarthRights also pioneers new international norms and standards that strengthen corporate and governmental responsibility for transparent and accountable natural resource extraction.
for creation and management of the Francophone Africa CSO Network for Open Government BEOG NEERE is a nonprofit association under Burkinabè law. Founded in 2012 by young people and led by young people, BEOG NEERE's mission is to help build a Burkina Faso where peace, human rights, democracy, and good governance reign. BEOG NEERE's vision is a democratic, free, and prosperous Burkina Faso where all parties, civil society, government, private sector, and citizens all work for a common interest. BEOG NEERE also works to entrench democracy and good governance in Francophone Africa. This grant will enable BEOG NEERE to create and manage the “Réseau des OSC d'Afrique Francophone pour le Gouvernement Ouvert” (RAFGO) — in English, the Francophone Africa CSO Network for Open Government. In a first phase, it will proceed with the legal constitution of the network and its promotion. In a second phase, it will support the member CSOs in activities related to the Open Government Partnership and will conduct advocacy toward governments and technical and financial partners in order to sustain the network. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for a project to inform policy through the use of remotely sensed data WeRobotics and its global network of Flying Labs enable local experts in low- and middle-income countries to use drone imagery and artificial intelligence to provide high-quality data and analysis to solve humanitarian, development, environmental, and health problems locally. This grant will allow WeRobotics and its Flying Labs partners in Africa to enable African government officials, nonprofit organizations, and communities to create their own geospatial data and analysis to inform decisions and policies relevant to solving local social challenges.
for a program to support the integration of mobile network data into national statistics in Ghana Flowminder Foundation works with governments, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations to aggregate and analyze anonymous mobile operator data, satellite data, and household survey data to help improve public health and welfare in low- and middle-income countries. With this supplemental grant, Flowminder, in collaboration with Vodafone Ghana, will continue to support the Ghana Statistical Service in building a sustainable framework for integrating mobile network data into their production and use of national statistics.
for a project to reinforce collaborative cross-border investigations into illicit financial flows Finance Uncovered is a global reporting and training organization based in the U.K. The organization trains journalists and researchers to investigate tax abuse, money laundering, and related illicit financial practices, especially by multinational corporations operating in developing countries. This grant permits Finance Uncovered to build the capacity of researchers and financial journalists to effectively investigate, expose, and deter illicit financial flows from developing countries. The grant also will allow Finance Uncovered to mobilize its network of about 200 journalists across 66 countries to coordinate on cross-border investigations into illicit financial flows.
for a project to study the effects of transparency interventions on the quality of health services This grant to Harvard University would advance a multi-donor effort to determine how transparency and accountability interventions can improve the quality of health services for the poor and, ultimately, health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The two-phase, five-year study would begin by partnering with civil society organizations in Africa and South Asia to design an intervention with a high probability of improving service delivery in community-level health facilities. The first phase of research involves evaluating the intervention effects on health care quality and outcomes, and on community power relations in two countries. The second phase seeks to determine if the intervention can be replicated. Harvard also plans extensive and targeted dissemination of findings and lessons to groups working to improve health, accountability, and citizen participation. Together with our peer funders, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the U.K. government’s Department for International Development, we believe that this collaborative research effort will contribute to the field and help build the body of evidence for applying transparency and accountability approaches to service delivery work.
for fundraising support In 2016 the Director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Regional office (IPPF WHR), Giesele Carino, conducted an internal, organization-wide assessment of IPPF WHR’s organizational capacity and identify key areas for improvement. In the past several years IPPF WHR has been operating primarily with restricted funds, and this has created a lean organization but with over-extended staff with very little margin for extra or unnecessary work. This organizational effectiveness grant will support external consultants to thoroughly analyze IPPF WHR’s organizational capacity in an effort to create a more efficient, more sustainable and better-performing organization.
for the promotion of an evidence-informed decision-making culture in Uganda This grant supports the Center for Rapid Evidence Synthesis, which provides rapid response services, synthesizing research quickly enough for policymakers to consider this information when making time-sensitive decisions. With this grant, the center’s team will deepen their partnership with select government agencies in Uganda, working to infuse evidence into specific decisions, and building government counterparts’ capacity and systems to use evidence. They will also train and mentor other research centers that produce rapid response work and build tools to better measure the impact of rapid evidence synthesis work. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for the inclusion of women's economic empowerment in the U.S. Foreign Policy agenda This grant to the Council on Foreign Relations seeks to elevate women’s economic empowerment and financial inclusion on the U.S. foreign policy agenda, as well as in the work of top international and financial institutions. The council will publish a report on the importance of including women’s work in measures of economic productivity, addressing gender constraints and barriers in macroeconomic policy, and supporting strategies to promote women’s financial inclusion and links to growth. This grant will lead to widely distributed policy recommendations to promote the inclusion of gender analysis in future economic policy development, accompanied by a solid communications and advocacy strategy to promote its uptake.