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for an evaluation system to assess access to health services and maternal mortality in Mexico The Observatory of Maternal Mortality has carried out monitoring exercises of public policies to improve access to maternal health services at the state level. This grant will allow the observatory to monitor the quality of health services for vulnerable populations in four states. The observatory will develop indicators of acceptability of public health services with the objective of them being used by the National Council of Evaluation to evaluate access and quality of public health services for vulnerable populations.
for support of a workshop on operational models for public-private data sharing 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. Several of the partnership’s member organizations are testing ways to enable government agencies to use private sector data such as cellphone or financial transaction data to help understand and address social and economic development challenges. With this grant, the partnership will convene its relevant members to jointly develop a plan to generate and share learning across these experiments.
for regranting HIV/AIDS and family planning/reproductive health programs and research None
for support of México Evalúa’s public expenditure program México Evalúa is a policy research center founded in early 2009 with the mission of evaluating public policy outcomes as they pertain to economic development priorities in Mexico. This grant would allow México Evalúa to consolidate work on improving government practices of evaluation and expenditure monitoring, as well as accountability to elevate the quality of public services. The objective of this program is to generate evidence and analysis to trigger institutional and operational changes so that public expenditure translates into the public’s well-being. In particular, this grant would allow México Evalúa to strengthen the independent evaluation and monitoring of public finances and to keep open channels with decision makers and other organizations that work on improving the efficiency of public expenditure and government accountability in Mexico. It would also allow the organization to strengthen its work on public expenditures in two areas: transparency and accountability in the judiciary, and monitoring and evaluation exercises of government performance.
for IT infrastructure strategic planning and development Global Glimpse provides a three-week educational summer program in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic to high school juniors that aims to increase their global awareness and help them build critical-thinking and leadership skills. This grant would allow Global Glimpse to plan for improvements in its IT infrastructure that will increase its management efficiency and ultimately enable the organization to better serve students.
for support of the Francophone Africa Safe Abortion Network This grant to Ipas will support the establishment of an action network for safe abortion in Francophone West Africa. Following the Hewlett Foundation-supported convening of safe abortion champions in December 2019, the foundation and other stakeholders decided to establish a regional movement for safe abortion with a small staff to support the work of national coalitions. The network will convene and coordinate efforts within and across countries and support cross-learning and advocacy for all aspects of safe abortion programming. This grant will be co-funded by the Packard Foundation and the Foundation for a Just Society International and is aligned with the International Reproductive Health substrategy to end unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa.
for a project to use evidence to improve local governance processes in Kenya The Institute for Economic Affairs – Kenya informs government decision making in Kenya through policy innovation, research, analysis, and dialogues. Under this grant the Institute for Economic Affairs, in collaboration with the U.S.-based Urban Institute, aims to improve use of data and evidence in national revenue forecasting and budget allocation to county governments. The goals of this project are to increase transparency and evidence-based discourse in the revenue allocation process and thereby improve budget allocation and budget execution at the county level.
for support of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network's thematic network on data This grant will support the Thematic Network on Data for Sustainable Development, hosted by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The thematic group brings together experts from academia, national governments, the private sector, and civil society to explore some of the most difficult and challenging aspects of the data revolution. This group produces methodological and strategic guidance to the community working on data for development, including for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. Additionally, the thematic group helps to identify data interventions that address specific data needs at country level, test those interventions, and synthesize and share the lessons learned.
for support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work This grant will support Population Action International (PAI) to evolve the organization’s and staff’s knowledge and practices related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). With this grant, PAI will continue an iterative process of solidifying its internal cultural character by involving staff and key stakeholders in routine DEI organizational assessments, and workshops that use social identity as a lens through which to examine the dynamics of power and privilege internally and with its partners. A sustainability and accountability plan, including the formation of a DEI Council within PAI, will contribute to institutionalizing progress and learning beyond the grant period.
for a data policy center at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Strathmore University hosts the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT). Its mission is to study, create, and share knowledge on the development of intellectual property and information technology, especially as it contributes to African law, policy, and human rights. Under this renewed grant, CIPIT will continue to consolidate and expand its work on data governance and data policy in Africa in its Data Governance Research Centre, with the goal of adding credible evidence and balanced analyses to the ongoing policy discussions throughout the region. This grant is a renewal within a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for support for research, training, and evaluation on accountability and governance in Mexico This grant would support an increase in the quantity and quality of research, training, evaluation, and public education campaigns aimed at improving the conditions for greater accountability in Mexico’s public sector. The training and research portions of the project would provide students with scholarships and greater analytical tools to apply the principles of accountability in governance. The evaluation and public education campaigns would produce more evidence about how accountability might improve in Mexico.
for research on the burden of child care on women’s economic empowerment in Kenya Strathmore University is a chartered university based in Nairobi, Kenya. Strathmore University Law School hosts the Strathmore Tax Research Center (STRC). The STRC researches tax laws, provides research and advisory services to various stakeholders, offers tax law training, organizes tax-related conferences, and actively participates in the policymaking process through legislative analysis and recommendations. This grant supports research on the burden of child care on women’s ability to participate in economic activities in Kenya. This grant aims to generate evidence on the linkage between access to early child care services and women's economic empowerment to support gender-responsive tax systems in African countries. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Maternal, Adolescent, and Child Health program (MatCH) This grant would allow the MatCH program to expand access to appropriate contraceptive methods and other sexual and reproductive health services in South Africa and the greater region through research, training, and technical assistance. In addition, MatCH would continue supporting the South African Department of Health in its implementation of the country’s new national family planning guidelines.
for support to a social accountability grantee convening in West Africa The West Africa Civil Society Institute is a nongovernmental organization located in Accra that acts as a resource center for the capacity building of civil society organizations throughout West Africa. Through this grant, the West Africa Civil Society Institute will plan and convene the second in a series of workshops to facilitate peer learning and exchange among civil society organizations that are social accountability practitioners in West Africa. As a result, workshop participants will co-create knowledge products that capture social accountability experiences and results from West Africa, a region that is less well documented in research and learning within the transparency, participation, and accountability field.
for support to the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit IntraHealth International hosts the Coordination Unit of The Ouagadougou Partnership in Senegal.  The Ouagadougou Partnership is a collaboration among eight donors and the nine Francophone countries in West Africa to increase family planning use. Its Coordination Unit convenes donors, organizes exchange visits among countries, represents the partnership at a global level, and facilitates an annual meeting. During the grant period, the Coordination Unit will intensify efforts to coordinate donor investments at the country level, identify new champions to advocate for family planning, and continue to raise funds for family planning in Francophone West Africa.
for support of dissemination about U.S. policies to local advocacy organizations This grant will enable Population Action International (PAI) to enhance locally led and owned advocacy efforts in East and West Africa with a focus on mitigating harm of the Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule. PAI will document the impact of funding cuts on global health efforts in Kenya, Uganda, and countries in Francophone West Africa; and strengthen local advocacy to call for government ownership of, and leadership and investment in, sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for research and analysis on how U.S. commodity programs for sugar, rice, dairy, and cotton affect the world's poorest producers None
for support to Data Must Speak This grant for UNICEF’s Data Must Speak program will support the use of data-driven school profiles by local education officials, school personnel, and parents to make performance gaps more visible and identify specific actions for better learning. UNICEF will support data improvement, development of user-friendly school monitoring tools and related training modules for school personnel and community members, and track resulting community and system-level changes. UNICEF will share lessons about parent participation in education service delivery with other UNICEF offices, ministries of education, civil society, and global education networks.
for evidence-informed policymaking work in Africa The Institute for State Effectiveness (ISE) works to advance more responsive, accountable, and inclusive governance as the bedrock of better outcomes for citizens. ISE believes the root cause of poor development outcomes is a governance gap between the ability of governments to respond through their core functions of the state, the expectation and needs of people in that territory, and the ability of development partners to respond in support in equitable and effective ways. As its ultimate outcome, ISE aims to close this governance gap. Over the coming 18 months, this grant will renew support to ISE’s Africa program in particular. Through policies and institutions that are responsive to citizens, it will seek to support the capacities of African countries to deliver — and development partners to support — results that will enhance the accountability of core systems of governance across all levels. Tools and approaches will include applying practical country-level diagnostic, design, and implementation support; convening networks to deepen insights; contributing to education and training; and consolidating and advancing new tools and approaches — including the use of ISE’s flagship reform sequencing tracker. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for development of a theory of change and MEL system This grant will enable GIRE to update its theory of change, develop a new five-year strategic plan, and develop and implement a new Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework. A consultant will support GIRE carrying out an institutional diagnostic, development of a new theory of change, and the design of a MEL system. This will be achieved through a combination of virtual and in person sessions with the team and leadership. This grant is aligned with the Service Delivery Monitoring substrategy in the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability strategy.
for support of applying behavioral insights to improve family planning reproductive health services This grant will enable MSI-US to incorporate behavioral science approaches to increase high-impact population’s access to quality sexual and reproductive health services in Uganda. Through collaboration with Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42), MSI-US will design, test, and evaluate new behavioral interventions that aim to reduce bottlenecks in contraceptive uptake and mitigate factors that influence discontinuation of modern methods. The partnership includes capacity building to equip MSI-US with behavioral science knowledge and skills that can increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of the organization’s services in Uganda and across the global network.
for strategic planning and governance audit With this organizational effectiveness grant, LINK Community Development will complete a governance and organizational review, develop a five-year business plan, prepare a public version of its new 10-year strategy and hold strategy launch events to share it with partners and other key stakeholders.
for gender equality and macroeconomics work of the Bretton Woods Project This grant to ActionAid UK will support the Bretton Woods Project (BWP) to ensure that macroeconomic policies promoted by international financial institutions contribute rather than undermine gender equality. BWP will monitor the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s policy advice, and influence the international agenda of macroeconomic policymaking fora. BWP will strengthen the capacity of gender equality and economic justice civil society organizations to promote coordinated advocacy strategies in partnership with Gender and Development Network, FEMNET, ActionAid, Latin American Network on Debt and Development, and the International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific.
for support of the use of demographic dividend observatories to influence gender-responsive policies Through demand-driven research, Consortium Régional pour la Recherche en Economie Générationnelle (CREG) informs the development of economic and social policies that integrate women's empowerment and harness a demographic dividend in east and central African countries. Over the next few years, CREG will build on its proven track record to sensitize and train policymakers, sectorial ministries, parliamentarians, and civil society on gendered economic analysis and establish national Demographic Dividend observatories with a focus on Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Togo. This grant will enable CREG to deepen these focal areas and its cross-country collaboration. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support Ibis Reproductive Health improves women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and health by conducting research in the United States, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa to inform advocacy for access to safe, affordable, high-quality reproductive health care. Ibis works to increase access to high-quality abortion services, transform access to abortion and contraception through technology and service innovations, and expand comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services.
for support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work This organizational effectiveness grant will support EngenderHealth to develop a gender equity, inclusion and diversity (GEDI) policy and to conduct a pay equity analysis. In their new strategic plan, EngenderHealth included an output focused on being an
effective and gender equitable organization. This grant will support their internal efforts towards gender equity, which have particularly importance to their work in sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as women and girls' equal participation in society.
for support to refine IPPF's strategic framework The International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide, Inc. is a global federation of family planning associations working in more than 170 countries. It is one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world that promotes reproductive rights, and is one of two international organizations most affected by the reinstatement of the Mexico City policy. IPPF has a new Director General, Alvaro Bermejo, who was named in spring of 2018 and is raising funds for a new Business Plan and cultural change strategy. This organizational effectiveness grant will support two key aspects of this effort: a survey of Member Associations to inform the Business Plan a consultant who will design and deliver the Change Strategy.
for the AidData project to make information about aid easier to access and use The AidData project is a long-term partnership of the College of William and Mary with Brigham Young University and Development Gateway. Together, the three institutions are making data on aid flows more accessible and usable. The AidData.org web portal contains detailed information on over 1 million projects from more than ninety donors tracking nearly $5.5 trillion in global development finance. Originally focused on collecting, cleaning, and analyzing data on aid flows, AidData is now shifting its focus to using the vast database for more applied research to inform development policymaking and programming.
for a program to expand subnational use of open contracting data and analytics tools Development Gateway promotes transparency and citizen participation in public resource management through the use of technology and capacity building. In each partner country, Development Gateway works closely with governments to build and use technology tools for open publication of data on government transactions, including contracting, procurement, and public service provision. Development Gateway also builds the capacity of civil society and watchdog groups to access and use this data for monitoring and oversight. This grant will enable Development Gateway to work with two county governments in Kenya to enhance public disclosure of contracting and procurement data, and promote use of this data by civil society and watchdog groups for monitoring and oversight.
for evaluation of phase two of the Think Tank Initiative This grant complements existing Hewlett support for the Think Tank Initiative. The Initiative provides flexible support to more than forty independent policy research organizations in Latin America, South Asia, and Africa, which were selected through a competitive process. The Initiative also provides opportunities for think tank leaders to collaborate, and to obtain technical assistance to develop institutional capacities in communication, policy engagement, research quality assurance, management, and other functions. This grant provides additional funding for the external evaluation of phase 2 of the Think Tank Initiative with the aim of expanding the evaluation’s coverage of in-depth analysis of think tanks.
for the sustainable security program The Center for American Progress’s Sustainable Security and Peacebuilding Initiative promotes investments in global prosperity and stability to foster long-term U.S. national security. This grant will permit the Initiative to provide leadership and content to the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and help shape consensus regarding the most important aid reforms to preserve and advance from the Bush and Obama administrations. During the grant period the Initiative will also inform the President’s Global Development Council, foster greater private sector support in assisting with the global refugee crisis, and advance understanding of the challenges to achieving women’s economic empowerment in the Global South.
for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, which 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 grant will support the implementation of the partnership’s strategic plan with the following goals: (a) the scaling of new technologies, data sources, and methods, building on existing systems to improve government decision making; (b) fostering a global movement of political, business, and civil society leaders to promote responsible data use by governments and public trust in this use; and (c) bringing to scale the use of timely and robust data for Sustainable Development Goals monitoring. This grant supports the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy goal that governments in East and West Africa make better use of data to improve decision making and outcomes for people. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for continuation of Data2X, including big data pilots Data2X’s work is intended to improve the availability, quality, and use of gender data for decision making, as a part of the Sustainable Development Goals framework and beyond. This grant supports Data2X’s continued work to advocate for greater attention to and investment in gender data, and to facilitate technical partnerships between gender experts and major producers of social and economic data. With this grant, Data2X will increase its advocacy capacity by creating a more robust communications and policy engagement function. In addition, it will expand its capacity as a coordinating body and platform for gender data partnerships, ranging from improved civil registration and vital statistics to better measurement of work and labor force participation.