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for general operating support Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale (IPAR) is a policy research institution that strives to contribute to the economic and social development of Senegal and the West Africa region through research, capacity building, and policy dialogue. IPAR contributes to strengthening government decision making and the field of evidence-informed policymaking in Senegal and West Africa by (a) developing quality research on major research issues related to its vision and missions; (b) building the capacities of actors (representatives of the State, Parliament, the private sector, civil society organizations, and journalists) by taking full advantage of the findings of research developed by the institution to foster change; and (c) promoting research findings and stimulating political dialogue around development issues for better outcomes. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for an effort to improve U.S. development assistance policies in order to ensure the foreign policy goal of "sustainable security" None
for a project in East Africa to amplify citizen voice in public service delivery decision making Incubated at Cambridge University, Africa’s Voices is establishing itself in East Africa to apply experience with citizen engagement and data analysis to help service delivery organizations better understand and respond to the needs of their clients. Partnering with media companies and short message service (SMS) platform providers, Africa’s Voices engages marginalized and hard-to-reach communities to gather, analyze, and channel citizen feedback on the public services that they are—or are not—receiving. As a learning organization, Africa’s Voices also investigates the conditions under which increased citizen voice informs service delivery decisions.
for communications and advocacy capacity building for the Open Contracting Partnership 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. This grant will enable the partnership to improve their website and make resources easier for partners to access, build team members' storytelling capacity, enabling them to tell more diverse stories about their open contracting journeys, and enhance their internal advocacy capacity. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability).
for a program to improve transparency in revenues from oil, gas, and mineral resources Global Witness, a non-governmental advocacy organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, exposes and challenges corruption in countries that are rich in natural resources like oil, gas, and minerals. Global Witness seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s poorest countries. Engaging the media and civil society networks like Publish What You Pay, Global Witness carries out investigations to expose corruption and mounts campaigns against secrecy in the international financial system. Global Witness also advocates for systemic change by promoting stronger international standards and regulations that can tackle problems of hidden company ownership, tax evasion, and money laundering.
for support of building new capacity in supporting partners IDEO.org applies principles of human-centered design to alleviate poverty. This organizational effectiveness grant will support IDEO.org to work with Incandescent, a strategy consulting firm, to build IDEO.org’s capacity to better steward the solutions they create with their partners after the initial design phase. At five years old, IDEO.org is realizing that in order to make sure the solutions they design function well beyond the moment their engagement ends, they need to possibly structure programs differently and hire staff with different skills and capacities.
for support to host the Human-Centered Design Exchange This grant to JSI Research & Training Institute will support the transition phase of the Human-Centered Design (HCD) Exchange into a new phase with an evolved mission to increase access to and use of human-centered design in global health. Co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the HCDExchange will work through country-based workforce development, knowledge generation and exchange, and locally led technical assistance as it launches itself into a more sustainable structure. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for general operating support For nearly fifteen years, Calvert has been a leader in the field of social investment, pioneering the development of community investments that make a positive impact. Operating as a nonprofit, it focuses on using investment capital rather than conventional philanthropy to create sustainable and scalable models for nonprofit and social enterprises to address critical social problems. More than 40 percent of its portfolio is already invested overseas, funding institutions that increase incomes for poor people and improve their well-being.  Over the next few years, Calvert is looking to strengthen its support for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and mobilize social investment from a broad spectrum of social and commercial investors for efforts including TransFarm Africa. Calvert is also developing metrics on the social impact of such investments in order to perform monitoring and evaluation, particularly regarding increased smallholder farmer income and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. This grant will allow the Foundation to exit responsibly from this area of work.
for general operating support The Center for Values in International Development is a newly founded nonprofit organization comprised of international development ethicists and practitioners with the aim to help international development and relief institutions to embrace moral values and ethical guidance in their policies and practices. The application of development ethics aims to foster greater awareness about the ethical foundations and dimensions of relief and development, grounded in frameworks such as social justice, gender equality, addressing systemic racism, human dignity and human rights, basic needs, and feminist concepts of human interdependencies. The Center will work with USAID senior leadership on diversity, equity, and inclusion and the application of ethics to USAID policies and practices.
for a funding landscape review and increased fundraising capacity at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center The WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health provides access to global research, data, and maps for sharing ideas and resources on social policies. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the WORLD Policy Analysis Center to landscape fundraising options and train staff on fundraising skills. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).
for support of the 2016 International Conference on Family Planning Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is organizing the fourth International Conference on Family Planning, recently rescheduled to take place in Bali, Indonesia in January 2016. This grant will support creation of an exhibit that will be featured in the main hall of the conference venue in Bali. The interactive exhibit will allow conference attendees to share their personal stories about the field of family planning through photographs, video and social media. This installation will also feature stores and photos collected by other Foundation grantees ahead of the conference, all of which will be shared in various formats during the closing ceremony.
for support to a project on open finance data with Smart Africa The Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion (CENFRI) is a leading Africa-based think-tank seeking to spark financial market change for digital and financial inclusion, and inform policymakers and regulators on evidence-informed decision making for responsible innovation. This grant will support a partnership between CENFRI and Smart Africa to look at the concept of open finance in the African context — that is, the sharing of consumer data between financial service providers and/or third-party providers on the basis of consumer consent. The project will conduct open finance market assessments and feasibility studies in two African countries, develop a tailored multiyear implementation plan for those countries (where appropriate) and build on the lessons from these to inform pan-African guidance on open finance. The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility, and design for the inclusive implementation of, open finance in African markets. This grant sits 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 Africa develop policy frameworks that balance good uses of data with data privacy and protection; this will be the first grant in this cluster looking specifically at the financial data space.
for a project to inform citizens about the quality of public service delivery The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is a nonpartisan, nongovernmental, not-for-profit research and policy advocacy think tank working to promote democracy, good governance, and inclusive development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant, CDD-Ghana will continue the I Am Aware initiative, which aims to improve the provision of quality public goods and services through an informed, citizen collective action and engagement with local government authorities in Ghana. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support The International Senior Lawyers Project mobilizes a worldwide network of highly experienced lawyers and law firms to provide pro bono services to developing countries to strengthen their legal, regulatory, and enforcement frameworks. The project also assists local civil society organizations to navigate the legal terrain so that they may participate effectively in decisions affecting their communities, especially decisions involving natural resource management and associated investment, trade, and tax policies.
for support to develop gender-sensitive macroeconomic models for policy analysis This grant will support American University to lead a working group composed of scholars from multiple disciplines to help produce new research that incorporates the care economy and gender-disaggregated activities into macroeconomic models. The project will include three work streams: (a) production of macroeconomic models that incorporate paid and unpaid care of children, the sick, and the elderly; (b) measurement of the aggregate care economy; and (c) production of empirical research that integrates an understanding of care as an element of the economy.
for general operating support The International Senior Lawyers Project 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. The project also assists local activists and civil society organizations to navigate the legal terrain so that they may participate effectively in decisions affecting their communities, especially decisions involving natural resource management and associated investments, trade, and tax policies. During this grant period, the project will deepen its engagement in three developing countries and develop new tools for advancing just, inclusive, and accountable development.
for support of the University of the Witwatersrand's Population Program The University of the Witwatersrand has built the first truly interdisciplinary population sciences program in sub-Saharan Africa. Its Department of Demography and Population Studies brings experts in statistical, economic, and physical sciences to collaborate with demographers on Africa's most pressing population issues. With the Foundation's partnership, this program has become the university's most prolific social science research institute and a leader in the INDEPTH network of population research sites on the continent. The research platform also anchors a promising graduate training program in population sciences, which attracts candidates from across Africa and gives them the demographic training needed to fill critical gaps in government agencies and NGOs. The program's high-performing graduates represent the continent's next generation of population scientists, taking up important research positions at the university and think tanks such as the African Population and Health Research Center.
for a project to provide psychosocial support for girls and women She is More Than provides psychosocial support to women and teen girls in Uganda who have survived the horrors of human trafficking and sexual violence, operating a live-in restoration facility in the Wakiso District-Mende. This grant supports She is More Than's economic empowerment program for female victims of sexual abuse and human trafficking in Uganda.
for planning a program of research & advocacy to promote improvements to U.S. development assistance None
for staff development This Organizational Effectiveness grant would support the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) to strengthen the leadership and managerial capacity of its Senior Management Team, as well as its team of project managers. With this support, AFIDEP aims to increase its professional rigor in driving strategic direction and operations of the institute.
for IRC's Women's Commission for Refugee Women & Children's Reproductive Health program None
for the Public Service Accountability Monitor program The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) strengthens public resource management through citizen oversight and engagement. With this grant PSAM will train and mentor civil society actors, deepen learning with partner civil society groups across Africa, evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions, and share lessons learned with the transparency and accountability field.
for a research project in collaboration with El Colegio de Mexico on economic change and migration in rural Mexico None
for the New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact project This grant will support a 12-month follow-on project that aims to advance key recommendations of the Center for Global Development (CGD) Working Group on New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact. The final report of CGD’s working group, launched in July 2022, envisions a renewed funding agenda for investments in impact evaluation (and the wider evidence ecosystem) as a means to enhance their value for public policymaking and to broaden bases of support and momentum for the evidence agenda. During this follow-on phase, CGD will focus on three interlinked areas of work: (a) advancing a new partnership between USAID and interested philanthropies to support locally based researchers in select countries to generate more policy-relevant research and evaluations; (b) informing the future agenda of USAID’s Office of the Chief Economist and Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning to further drive the localization of evidence and learning in routine agency processes; and (c) continuing cross-cutting outreach and dissemination to amplify the working group’s overall findings and policy recommendations. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of the University of North Carolina's Transfer Project The Transfer Project is a regional initiative led by the University of North Carolina, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, and the Food and Agricultural Organization to generate evidence on impacts of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and to translate that evidence into policy through partnerships with national governments. With this grant, the Transfer Project will help African researchers increase their capacity to conduct impact evaluations, and engage with African academics and policymakers to generate evidence that addresses policymakers’ needs.
for exercising information rights for accountability on rural development policy in Mexico None
for implementation of the open contracting data standard in Ghana The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition brings together public institutions and private sector organizations, including civil society, to promote accountable and responsive governance in Ghana through research, capacity building, and advocacy. This grant will enable the coalition to work closely with Ghana’s auditor general to enhance good public finance practices by tracking, reporting, and encouraging implementation of audit recommendations by local governments and other public institutions and promoting compliance with the requirements of the public officer asset declaration register. The coalition will also promote effective implementation of the provisions of Ghana’s National Anti-Corruption Action Plan, which was adopted in 2011 by the legislature. Through these two streams of work, the coalition seeks to enhance the integrity and public confidence in Ghana’s public finance management and reduce or eliminate public resource leakage. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the Feedback Labs program Hosted by the GlobalGiving Foundation and launched with seed funding from a previous grant, Feedback Labs is a network of more than 300 organizations active in civil society, international development, and philanthropy. The members seek to shorten the feedback loops between beneficiary populations, donors, and implementers to improve the way nonprofits, social enterprises, aid agencies, and private funders operate. In addition to staffing the collaboration, the grant will support pilot experiments on the use of monitoring platforms to improve public service delivery through citizen feedback.
for the budget and spending transparency indices 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. It also seeks to advance government transparency and accountability. With this grant, IMCO will continue to produce competitiveness and transparency indices at the national and subnational levels with a focus on budgetary and spending information.
for support to create a network of Open Data for Development practitioners in West Africa The International Development Research Centre will facilitate capacity building, training, and learning exchanges to an emerging network of civil society and government champions of open data in Francophone West Africa. As a result of this grant, a new learning hub for open data will be established in the region, and its members will be better connected — through other regional hubs and global convenings — with the global movement advancing open data for development.
for improving health services for indigenous women and youth via transparency and accountability The Simone de Beauvoir Leadership Institute is a nongovernmental organization that builds the capacity of feminist leaders to influence national and regional policy agendas to fulfill women’s human rights and demand accountability for gender equality. This grant will enable the Institute to strengthen citizen participation in Mexico by supporting two broad alliances made up of young people and indigenous women who, through local transparency and accountability mechanisms like access to information requests and budget analysis, will monitor the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in twelve states in Mexico.
for improving and coordinating trade preference programs in developed and emerging economies None
for a civil-society assessment of learning in Nigeria TEP LearNigeria is a Nigerian registered not-for-profit organization that designs and implements research and programs to improve education quality. This grant will support expansion of the citizen-led assessment known as LearNigeria from its pilot in two states to six states. TEP LearNigeria will measure children’s foundational literacy and numeracy competencies, and disseminate the results in communities and among state and national policymakers. The evidence generated will be used to engage an array of stakeholders — especially policymakers — with the aim of strengthening transparency and accountability in the education sector.
for a convening of advocates for gender equity in governance Instituto Update studies and fosters political innovation in Latin America. With this grant, it will convene researchers and advocates from African and Latin American countries to exchange lessons from its work advancing gender equity and women’s political participation. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for the Transparency, Accountability, and Participation Network to engage in the 2030 Agenda The World Federation of United Nations Associations hosts the Transparency, Accountability, and Participation Network, a global coalition of civil society organizations promoting the open, inclusive, and accountable implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Over the next year, the Network will advocate for a robust and participatory monitoring framework for realizing the goals, focusing especially on the development of indicators for effective governance as envisioned in Goal 16.
for strengthening of institutional capacity PAWA INITIATIVE Initiative (PAWA254) is a Non-Profit established in Kenya in 2010. It is an art and cultural collaborative hub that houses, fosters, and catalyzes creative and community-driven projects for social change. This grant will allow PAWA254 to strengthen its institutional capacity to deliver its mandate and strategic priorities and also widen its scope in the civic space to advocate for social justice and accountable governance.
for general operating support The Communications Consortium Media Center is a public interest media center dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations use media and new technologies as tools for policy change in the U.S and abroad. Global population and reproductive health issues have been a cornerstone of the Center’s work for more than two decades. Unrestricted funds would enable the Center to contribute to increased financial commitments by the U.S. and other donor countries for family planning and reproductive health services; broader understanding and support of reproductive health and rights by policymakers, development researchers, and emerging next-generation leaders; increased media coverage and awareness consistent with the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action and Millennium Development Goals; and increased capacity for outreach and advocacy among partner groups.
for general operating support Citoyens Actifs pour la Justice Sociale (CAJUST) is a network bringing together various youth organizations and movements from Senegalese civil society that work on civic issues and the promotion of human rights. CAJUST’s vision is based on the conviction that an active civic awareness of young people and women is one of the most appropriate ways to guarantee social justice for all. CAJUST aims to deepen its mission in building active citizenship to combat all forms of social injustice and inequity through promotion of effective and qualitative participation of young people and women in decision-making bodies; contribution to democratic and transparent governance of natural resources and public goods; and promotion of respect for human rights and protection of vulnerable groups. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)