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for providing technical support for a project to publicly disclose agricultural subsidies in Mexico A renewal grant to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) would support the organization’s continuing promotion of transparent, accountable public budgets in Mexico by enabling public disclosure of agricultural subsidies specifically designed to reach the rural poor. EWG provides extensive technical assistance to Hewlett Foundation grantee Fundar for processing, managing, and disclosing large public datasets in a user-friendly way. This unique partnership has made Mexican agricultural subsidy beneficiaries public for the first time, and has generated sustained interest among media, policymakers, advocacy groups, and the public. The collaboration has so far led to changes in agricultural subsidy policy in Mexico and to new restraints on public officials who were found to be illegally receiving subsidies meant for the poor. An important goal of this grant is to transfer necessary technical support from EWG to Fundar over the course of the grant period.
for an organizational assessment and HR support Diakonia is a Swedish charitable organization that works to educate people living in poverty and other marginalized groups about their rights and supports community organizing to claim those rights. It has country offices in nine countries across East and West Africa through which it supports local civil society organizations, their commitment to gender equity and their belief that all women should have access to family planning services, including safe abortion. This organizational effectiveness grant will support Diakonia Burkina Faso Office in undertaking an organizational assessment and propose a roadmap for action to enhance its effectiveness, coherence and relevance.
for increasing access to reproductive health in Côte d'Ivoire This grant 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 funding builds on four previous rounds of funding from the foundation that helped Pathfinder build a program in Côte d’Ivoire as its hub for operations in Francophone West Africa. Through community and youth mobilization and technical support to national partners, Pathfinder aims to increase availability of contraceptive methods and improve access to safe abortion and postabortion care, particularly in rolling out the government’s new free contraception policy. This grant for Pathfinder’s program in Côte d’Ivoire is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy goal that women and girls in Francophone West Africa are increasingly able to seek, access, and use comprehensive reproductive health care to further their health, well-being, and life aspirations.
for support of the MAMA Network This grant will enable the Mobilizing Activists around Medical Abortion (MAMA) Network to support its national members to share and learn best practices in self-managed abortion advocacy through trainings, information hotlines, and community mobilization. The MAMA Network is a movement of African grassroots activists and feminist groups that work directly with women in communities to increase access to self-managed abortion and sexual and reproductive health and rights. During the grant period, the MAMA Network will democratize access to information and knowledge by ensuring that its materials and hotlines are accessible in over a dozen languages spoken across the region. (Substrategy: Local Advocacy)
for support of the Advocacy Accelerator This grant will support the continued development of the Advocacy Accelerator — a new sharing, learning, and exchange platform with a mission to deepen advocacy capacity, alignment, and impact in Africa. The Advocacy Accelerator aims to strengthen Africa’s advocacy ecosystem by building the capacity of advocates, increasing access to qualified country-based technical assistance providers, and improving the effectiveness of donor support in the region.
for the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey This grant will support the development of new modules designed to gather nationally representative, household-level data on children’s early learning and parental participation in their education under an established survey program called the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. The information gathered will permit policymakers and service providers in developing countries, donors, and civil society to better understand progress related to the equitable learning 2030 Sustainable Development Goal.
for the organization of the People's Action for Learning Network 2016 meeting The Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar manages a citizen-led assessment of learning in Senegal known as Jangandoo.  This Presidential Discretionary grant will support the next annual meeting of Hewlett Foundation grantees and other civil society organizations that are implementing citizen-led assessments across nine countries. The meeting will be held in March 2016 in Dakar, to be organized and hosted by the Jangandoo team.
for the Learning Metrics Task Force In July 2012, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings launched the Learning Metrics Task Force to shift global attention to learning by better measurement tools and data. With this grant, the Center for Universal Education would complete the technical work on global learning indicators and support a group of fifteen champion countries to adopt them. In addition, a new program, based on a model developed in Australia called "My School", would develop and test approaches to publicizing information about how much funding schools receive and how well they are performing in terms of children’s learning.
for evaluating a remedial primary school re-entry program in Mali The grant to Innovations for Poverty Action to evaluate Speed Schools, a particular instructional model in Mali, represents a convergence of QEDC investments and strategies: local capacity building and rigorous assessment. This grant will answer the questions whether and why Speed Schools work as well or better than government schools and, if so, why?
for the videoconferencing project This grant would provide videoconferencing equipment to Global Integrity to help equip the newly expanded Open Government Hub, a shared office space in DC for organizations working on similar issues around transparency and technology. As all of the organizations engaged in the space do considerable international work, ensuring quality videoconferencing systems can greatly reduce travel and improve connectivity with partners around the world.
for the FACT Coalition’s research, outreach, and public engagement to support tax transparency standards The Financial Accountability & Corporate Transparency Coalition is an alliance of more than 100 state, national, and international organizations working for a fair international tax system and against corrupt financial practices. With this grant, the coalition will promote stronger tax transparency rules through research on loopholes that facilitate financial malpractices, media outreach to disseminate results, and direct engagement with the Financial Accounting Standards Board and other parties engaged in rule making. The work will promote incorporation of country-by-country reporting and other tax-related transparency requirements into accounting rules.
for the Cal/Med Consortium to discuss the global Mediterranean produce market and the role that developing countries can and do play in that market None
for support of a Francophone conference on family planning and reproductive health in West Africa None
for general operating support Open Institute is a Kenyan civil society organization that works with government institutions, citizens, and grassroots groups to promote responsive, inclusive governments and active citizenship. Open Institute works to promote increased responsiveness by Kenyan county governments while expanding partnerships with subnational reformers across Africa.
for research and dissemination on the economic impacts of population and reproductive health None
for a project to develop and expand the School of Data The Open Knowledge Foundation is dedicated to promoting the creation of open-source technologies, government open-data portals, and encouraging stakeholders to make use of government data to improve citizen demands on government performance. This grant is for the School of Data, an online course to train non-experts in accessing, analyzing, and using data. This project will support a mentorship program to guide participants through the course, an assessment and accreditation program, and anchor the initiative with partner organizations in Mexico, Africa, and Latin America. The grant also will support the translation of course materials into Spanish and other languages.
for the Africa Data Governance knowledge hub This grant is for Pollicy, a feminist collective of technologists, data scientists, creatives, and academics to support the relaunch and long-term sustainability of the Africa Data Governance Hub — an online platform and community designed to foster and support collaboration among data governance actors and the sharing of data governance resources in Africa. The work will include developing a targeted strategy to grow and sustain the current community — with Pollicy leading the sustainable management of the hub in collaboration with Niyel to strengthen Francophone African participation. The goal will be to create a truly valuable community for data governance actors, scaling up efforts from the pilot, and establishing the Africa Data Governance Hub as the go-to space and premier resource that integrates online and offline engagements to enhance community involvement and participation. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for supporting local NGOs to grow and innovate on the TaRL approach in Africa Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) is a pedagogical approach that involves evaluating children using a simple assessment tool, and then grouping them according to learning level rather than age or grade. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its partner Pratham have extensively evaluated this approach, showing that it substantially raises reading and math learning outcomes. With this grant, J-PAL and Pratham will launch a competitive implementation funding window for local African NGOs. These NGOs will develop and expand locally grounded approaches to TaRL, share innovations with and learn from the TaRL Africa Community of Practice, and support governments considering implementing TaRL.
for the On Think Tanks Initiative OTT Consulting works with think tanks, foundations, governments, and other civil society organizations to promote better informed policies in countries around the world. OTT Consulting manages the On Think Tanks Initiative to support the knowledge, competencies, and networks that think tanks need to play a key role in delivering better informed policy debates and policymaking. The goals of the On Think Tanks Initiative are that think tanks, their funders, and other policy entrepreneurs use sound evidence that enables them to make better strategic operational decisions to effectively deliver their missions. OTT believes that communities of think tanks and, more broadly, institutions dedicated to evidence-informed policy, are stronger and more dynamic, sustainable, and influential in helping shape national and international policy processes – in addition to the fact that the global evidence-informed policymaking field is diverse and inclusive and reflects local contexts. The On Think Tanks initiative contributes to the field-building goals of the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy.
for general operating support EQUIS: Justicia para las Mujeres is a feminist organization that works for access to justice for women by transforming power structures that generate oppression and exclusion. EQUIS envisions a world where all women, in their diversity, live in justice and where feminism is a way of living that allows all people to inhabit spaces of joy and well-being. EQUIS works to strengthen its structure and guarantee its financial and institutional sustainability so that it can react more assertively to social change, continue innovating, and establish networks for the exchange of knowledge at the national and international levels. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for strategic planning The International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP) mobilizes a global network of experienced lawyers and law firms to provide pro bono services to developing countries to strengthen their legal, regulatory, and enforcement frameworks. ISLP also assists local activists and civil society organizations to navigate the legal terrain and participate effectively in decisions affecting their communities, especially decisions involving natural resource management and associated investments, trade, and tax policies. ISLP works primarily in the Global South, with current activities in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, and Asia. With this grant, ISLP will develop a more refined organizational focus that will maximize its mission-driven impact, in alignment with an effective operational model and sustainable business model. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance).
for support of work in South Africa for resource mobilization, regional partnerships, and wellness This grant will support Ibis Reproductive Health to work with a team of consultants to analyze the African funding landscape and develop a resource mobilization and fundraising plan for its Africa regional office. This investment will allow the Africa regional office to identify and target specific funders well-aligned with its strategic priorities. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose.     
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report has served as an independent platform to track progress against the Education for All framework. Going forward, the GEM Report is also expected to serve as an independent monitor of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal on equitable learning. This grant will support production and dissemination of GEM’s annual report tracking progress and gaps at the country and global level against agreed indicators. The GEM Report will serve as a credible and independent source of evidence for governments, donors, civil society, grassroots citizen groups, and the media.
for general operating support The Open Contracting Partnership is a collaboration among government and nongovernment actors aimed at promoting country-level implementation of norms and standards related to disclosure and citizen participation in public procurement and contracting. The partnership’s priorities over the next two years are to support reform champions to use procurement to foster effective and equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and, more broadly, to improve public goods, works, and services. The partnership will also invest in data quality improvement and capacity building for civil society partners to monitor and provide feedback to governments and the general public on contract execution. Through the work of the partnership, more than 50 governments have committed to implement open public contracting in the last three years; open contracting has also been endorsed by the G7, G20, and the OECD. Recent estimates show that open contracting reforms have resulted in annual savings of $2-3 billion. By preventing leakage and enabling the effective use of public resources, open contracting is central to the achievement of the goals of all strategies of the Gender Equity and Governance Program. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for fundraising planning Since 2008, Hewlett has provided funding to the International Network for the Continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH), a network of 41 member centers which run 48 Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) in 21 African, Asian, and Oceanian countries.  Important contributions HDSS have the potential to make include: (1) In the absence of adequate national civil registries and vital statistics, they can provide a high-quality longitudinal data that can be used to track population dynamics, health, and social change; (2) They can provide a platform for intervention studies, including impact evaluations of programs and policies to reduce disease burden and to improve health; (3) They can provide a source of data for understanding basic relationships among economic, social, and health variables; and (4) They can provide opportunities to strengthen and retain local research capacity.  With this organizational effectiveness grant, INDEPTH plans to hire Mishkin Associates to develop a fundraising plan and train the INDEPTH Secretariat’s staff on how to implement the plan. We expect that this will help INDEPTH to diversify its funding base for core support, as well as to secure additional funding to sustain and expand cross-site research projects in which it is involved.
for a project to measure and rank the quality of governance and service provision in urban Ghana The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is a nonpartisan, charitable organization that uses research and data to inform public awareness campaigns and partnerships that promote and support democracy, good governance, and inclusive development in Ghana. With this grant, CDD-Ghana will create the Ghana Cities League Table to assess and rank the performance of six city governments on their provision of public goods and services. CDD-Ghana will use the Cities League Table for public awareness campaigns that promote civic engagement and accountable governance. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for general operating support The International Planned Parenthood Federation’s Western Hemisphere Regional Office (IPPF/WHR) is the regional partner for the Federation in the Americas, with forty-one Member Associations in countries throughout the region. This grant would allow IPPF/WHR Member Associations to provide millions of sexual and reproductive health services each year—ranging from contraceptive services to HIV testing and post-abortion care—and to advocate for sexual and reproductive rights at national level. Because of its headquarters location in New York, IPPF/WHR is an active voice in United Nations processes and strategically important in promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights agenda in the post-2015 development dialogue.
for a strategic funder's initiative on transparency and accountability issues Funding on accountability and transparency appears to be increasing, but there have been few opportunities for the various actors to come together to share approaches, work more synergistically, and think further about how to build the field. In July 2008, a workshop convened by DFID and OSI brought together over twenty participants from civil society organizations, bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, and private foundations for the purposes of sharing knowledge and practical learning, identifying key factors and issues for success, and, developing a broader vision and strategies for building the field collaboratively. This grant to the Alliance for Open Society International, Inc. (part of the Soros foundations network) will support a strategic funders' initiative that is a follow-on process to the workshop convened in 2008. It will develop and design a set of activities to advance some of the priority issues initially identified by the Bellagio group and further refined by a smaller group of funders and global re-granters. It will deliver specific products and strategies that have the potential to expand the evidence base, impact, and scope of the transparency and accountability field. (New, $150,000/19 months; 22% of project budget)
for the development of Mexico's Open Government Partnership action plan This grant will support Gesoc, Agencia para el Desarrollo (Gesoc), as chair of a core group of civil society organizations that are part of the Open Government Partnership in Mexico, to reactivate the Open Government agenda in Mexico and develop the Fourth National Action Plan; support capacity-building of local groups working on the open government agenda at the state level; and establish transparency and accountability criteria and promote public policies to address the problem of unregulated digital government surveillance.
for general operating support Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) works to improve the status of the working poor 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.
for support of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit This grant to Speak Up Africa will support the Coordination Unit of the Ouagadougou Partnership in Senegal. The partnership is a collaboration among donors and the nine Francophone countries in West Africa to increase family planning use through convening, data sharing, civil society engagement, and global representation. Speak Up Africa is the new host of the Coordination Unit, after a successful transition from previous host IntraHealth International over the course of 2021. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy third outcome focused on mitigating inequity in access to and use of contraception and abortion care in East Africa and Francophone West Africa.
for support of Francophone West Africa inclusion in the 2020 International SBCC Summit This grant to Johns Hopkins University (JHU) will support Francophone participation and knowledge sharing in the 2020 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit to take place in Morocco in late March 2020. The summit is put on by JHU’s Center for Communication Programs and represents the leading global meeting for researchers and practitioners interested in using the study of behavior change to improve reproductive, maternal, and child health efforts. This grant will specifically support efforts to include French-speaking West African participants by including translation of meeting materials, French language interpretation, and scholarships for 10 social and behavior change specialists from Francophone West Africa.
for general operating support The Open Government Partnership is a multistakeholder initiative with more than 75 national and 100 local government members that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, and fight corruption. Over the past three years, the partnership expanded its subnational program from a pilot cohort of 15 local governments to over 100, which will result in more than 500 concrete policy reforms. The partnership continued its Break the Roles campaign to emphasize gender in the governance commitments of member governments and launched a new campaign advocating for Open Response + Open Recovery as member governments respond to COVID-19. The partnership will begin implementing its 2023-28 strategy with a stronger focus on protecting civic space and building the visibility and capabilities of governance reformers in the public sector. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of Fellowships in Population, Reproductive Health, and Economic Development None