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for research on the economic impacts of population/reproductive health Given competing demands for funds in developing countries, policymakers and advocates need strong evidence for the effectiveness of reproductive health and family planning services. This recommended grant to a team led by David Canning and David Bloom would support research to develop the evidence base on the effect of reproductive health and family planning services on fertility, child and maternal health, children’s education, female labor supply, and household poverty. Findings are expected to inform policy debates about the role of family planning and reproductive health in generating economic growth and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The research team will focus especially on sub-Saharan Africa, where economic development and fertility transition have lagged behind other developing regions.
for general operating support The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) based in Accra, Ghana, builds the capacity of and facilitates peer learning of civil society organizations across both Francophone and Anglophone West Africa. WACSI also advocates for government policies and donor practices that enable the growth of a robust civil society in the region. WACSI is led and staffed by Africans who have deep knowledge, experience, and networks across the civil society landscape in West Africa.. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for strategic planning and fundraising strategy This grant will allow the Maternal Mortality Observatory (MMO) to develop a strategic plan and explore new ideas for a fundraising.
for general operating support The Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative is an intergovernmental organization that promotes effective and efficient public finance management in Africa. Through research and peer-learning among decision makers in ministries of finance and budget, the initiative helps to ensure that public financial management systems are robust, accountable, and responsive to the priorities of citizens. At the international level, the initiative represents African positions in norms and standard-setting processes.
for the Poverty Action Lab to evaluate whether governance reforms in policing can reduce corruption and improve performance in Rajasthan, India None
for the Fostering Equity and Accountability in the Trading System (FEATS) project None
for a project to establish Urban Livelihood Learning Hubs in Mexico, Senegal, and Ghana This grant will renew support to three city hubs in Mexico City, Mexico; Dakar, Senegal; and Accra, Ghana, as part of the Focal Cities program of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). The objective of this program is to increase the capacity of informal workers’ membership-based organizations so that they can more effectively interact with city governments to promote policy changes that directly benefit women’s livelihoods. WIEGO has established a platform that allows groups to successfully advocate for policies that affect their work in markets or public squares, modeling grassroots-driven policy change. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for dissemination of research on population dynamics and development in sub-Saharan Africa The Africa Region at the World Bank is conducting research to support the needs of sub-Saharan African countries to capitalize on development opportunities created by changes in the population structure. The objectives of the analyses are to clarify concepts and provide analytical findings, demonstrate how findings can be translated into policies that can harness the impact of changes in population trends for economic development, and provide strategies for implementing policies. The Hewlett Foundation’s funds would support dissemination of the research at the country level to ensure that the findings guide country-level action. The World Bank will engage with government officials and other persons and organizations of influence, including academicians, civil society representatives, the media, and development partners in targeted countries. In addition, the World Bank will take advantage of existing platforms such as country-level technical assistance and World Bank Institute courses that bring together experts from different countries to interact with bank staff and global experts. To capture the attention of these decision makers and influential entities, the World Bank plans to collaborate with partners to produce policy briefs and visual tools based on the analytical work.
for a review and refresh of Speak Up Africa’s strategic communication framework This grant to Speak Up Africa for Organizational Effectiveness will support key areas of growth in their strategic communications. Speak Up Africa has grown significantly in its ten years of work and this support will allow their leadership to assess and review their efforts to date and to create communications that reflect their objectives and impact as an organization. This will position them for resource mobilization, better partnerships and closer alignment with their strategic plan.
for development of monitoring and evaluation systems for the Public Service Accountability Monitor The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) promotes accountability in public resource management through citizen engagement and oversight. PSAM is in the process of developing a four-year strategy and this grant will enable them build and integrate a monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework into the new strategy.
for support of the Advocacy Accelerator This grant will support the startup phase of the Advocacy Accelerator, a physical and virtual platform that will allow for more effective sharing of advocacy resources, tools, and lessons. The Advocacy Accelerator is designed to strengthen the effectiveness, capacity, and coordination of advocacy groups by facilitating opportunities for advocates to exchange ideas and best practices for advocacy and improving access to advocacy resources, information, and expertise. This in turn could contribute to improved policies and greater funding for health and development issues. Amref Health Africa will host the Advocacy Accelerator and provide the necessary infrastructure and support.
for implementing a regional strategy in Francophone West Africa Ipas has a global mission to train health care providers to provide abortion services safely and advocate for improvements in the policy environment for abortion provision. This grant will support Ipas’ new strategy to address unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa. Ipas’ new strategy for the sub-region will engage ministries of health; regional health bodies; and clinical, research, and advocacy partners in improving the clinical and policy environment for comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptive services.
for a research project called "Diaspora Philanthropy: Existing Models, Emerging Applications" None
for support to Oxfam West Africa's project enhancing women's participation in extractives governance This grant to Oxfam America aims to ensure that women and other marginalized groups are able to participate and have equal voice in decision making about how extractive industry revenues are reported, managed, and used. Working through the Oxfam West Africa Regional Platform, this grant will support efforts to identify barriers and pathways to gender equity in extractive industry governance, and build the capacity of women’s rights organizations and civil society groups to implement more gender-aware extractive industry governance.
for a program to strengthen data governance in Kenya Amnesty Kenya is part of the Amnesty International global human rights movement, which consists of 70 national entities. With this grant, Amnesty Kenya will promote strong data governance in Kenya and Africa generally. Together with partner organization Open Institute, Amnesty International Kenya will inform the operationalization of Kenya’s Data Protection Act to ensure that Kenyans benefit from the advantages of technology without compromising their fundamental rights, and will promote responsible data use in the context of the COVID-19 response in Kenya and other African countries. This grant is part of a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for support of the development of quality indicators for social franchises The Private Sector Healthcare Initiative of the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco, advances the development of standardized performance metrics for social franchise programs in health. This grant will support the Initiative to undertake studies and consultations to develop technical consensus for a framework that measures the quality of care in family planning social franchises. The framework will focus particularly on the quality of patient-client interactions, which can be harder to regulate in franchised clinical settings.
for support of the Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health The Global Leaders Council for Reproductive Health consists of sixteen sitting and former heads of state and other high-level leaders committed to increasing awareness of the importance of reproductive health in all aspects of economic and human development. Funding for this project would allow the Global Leaders Council to continue to engage in communications and policy activities to build political leadership and increase financial support for family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) policies and programs. Communications strategy for the Council will focus on the links between FP/RH and economic growth and between FP/RH and climate change, and will be coordinated with the Foundation’s support for research on these topics.
for general operating support The Center for U.S. Global Leadership works to create an environment in which policymakers and opinion leaders recognize that U.S. investments in development and diplomacy are cornerstones of an effective U.S. foreign policy. Its goals over the next 18 months are to ensure that recently announced reforms result in a stronger U.S. development program and to protect resources in the international affairs budget that will allow civilian agencies-primarily the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development-to do their work effectively. The Center promotes these goals by creating a broad consensus among representatives of the diplomatic, defense, and development communities.
for phase three of the Fair Water Futures Programme Water Witness International works to ensure that people have reliable access to safe water for their well-being and livelihood. In its first phase, Water Witness recruited and trained 98 citizen observers in Tanzania (44% female) who documented water service infractions, held community forums, and filed complaints that contributed to remedial actions and changes in oversight and regulatory bodies. This grant will support the next phase of this project to improve water security for 1 million people in Tanzania. It will also continue to strengthen the fundraising and management capacity of Shahidi wa Maji, a Tanzanian civil society organization and co-implementor. Water Witness will also document its experiences and share what it learns with global water activists. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support CivLegacy Foundation serves as a philanthropic and civil society advisory organization working to enhance the impact and capacities of actors in Africa’s civil society space. As an operational pathway of CivSource Africa, together with a grantmaking arm, it contributes to refining the footprint of philanthropy in Africa to ensure that civil society thrives. CivLegacy will  support African civil society actors and organizations to navigate moments of crisis and build resilience. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for promotion of women’s human rights in Mexico through transparency in the justice system This grant will enable Equis Justicia para las Mujeres to build on its previous transparency and accountability work to demand a more responsive justice system for women in Mexico. The project will make use of research, data collection, and advocacy to promote greater transparency of the justice system. By documenting the use of transparency and accountability mechanisms, Equis will share its learning, experience, and tools with other feminist Latin American organizations.
for a project to engage Southern research organizations in the debate about reforms to the international aid system None
for evaluating a remedial education program in Ghana Despite high primary enrollment rates, less than 20 percent of third graders in Ghana are proficient readers. The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of QEDC’s peer foundations working in the sector, has approved a $7 million grant to support Ghana’s Teacher Community Assistant Initiative, a two-year government-backed, remedial education program that Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the government have adapted from principles established by Pratham, an anchor QEDC grantee in India.   This grant will leverage CIFF’s larger investment in the Initiative to helpand support Innovations infor Poverty Action to conduct a randomized evaluation of the Initiative. The evaluation will look at the extent to which the program helps improve reading and math skills among low-performing students. If the model is successful, the Ghanaian government has committed to expanding it across the country. It is also expected that the model could be adapted for other African countries with similar low achievement among primary students.
for a project to strengthen reproductive health and family planning services in sub-Sahara Africa None
for developing a communications strategy for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children None
for general operating support Prospera is a network of independent women’s funds that supports its members to develop their capacity to fund and strengthen women’s rights organizations in the Global South. This grant will allow Prospera to (a) consolidate its institutional capacity; (b) support women’s fund convenings for capacity building on learning, monitoring, evaluation, advocacy, financial literacy, and other key organizational skills; and (c) carry out research and data collection to document and evaluate women’s funds’ capacity, impact, and contributions to women’s movements in the Global South.
for staff leadership development The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) recently concluded a search for a new CEO with the hiring of Jeffrey Jordan in July 2014.  At the same time the search was underway, PRB's management team went through a strategic planning process.  Both these events led PRB to recognize the need to develop and nurture leadership skills among its mid- and senior-level staff to better equip them to take on larger leadership roles, so that the organization can continue to grow and excel.  This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant will enable PRB to work with the Training Resource Group, Inc. to design and deliver a one-year leadership development training and coaching program for eight selected staff.
for the global participatory budgeting hub The Participatory Budgeting Project will launch a global hub to coordinate participatory budgeting research and resource development. In collaboration with national and regional networks, the hub will support implementers and scholars of participatory budgeting exercises to contribute to more meaningful and equitable citizen participation in their local governance.
for support of South Feminist Futures' institutional and operating infrastructure development South Feminist Futures is a membership organization established and launched in 2020. It is led by women and trans and nonbinary people from across the Global South and Black, Indigenous, and people of color who are women and trans and nonbinary in the Global North. It is focused on strengthening South feminist movements with a view to better equipping them to enact transformative and radical changes at global, regional, and local levels. This grant will contribute to setting up the institutional and operating infrastructure of South Feminist Futures as an association.
for a project to translate population research and updates into French This grant would support the Population Reference Bureau to translate population and development related research, policy briefs, and information about funding and presentation opportunities from English to French. Many vital publications and information can only be found in English, and therefore difficult to access for Francophone policy makers, scholars, and other stakeholders. These materials have the potential to increase local knowledge of and capacity to analyze population and reproductive health issues in Francophone West Africa, such as the causes and consequences of high fertility, as well as the latest evidence about effective ways to address these challenges.
for support of the En(gender)ing African Social Movements Programme As a pan-African network, Africans Rising supports progressive African civil society organizations and individuals working toward justice, peace, and dignity. Through its multipronged approach — convene, connect, collaborate, and amplify — Africans Rising enhances members' collective power to strategize, mobilize, and influence duty bearers to advance positive change. This flexible support grant enables Africans Rising to strengthen its Engendering African Social Movements program by directly supporting African feminist networks and centering women's rights and African feminism within broader social justice activism. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for an expert consultation on the economic impact of abortion related morbidity and mortality None
for general operating support As an African activist economic think tank, the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) generates rigorous economic analysis, equips progressive policymakers and civil society with contextually relevant policy solutions, and provides training on African feminist economics. Over the next few years, IEJ aims to strengthen its capacity to influence feminist economics thinking across the research, advocacy, and policy spaces in Africa, focusing on macroeconomic policy and social protection, precarious work, and the implications of COVID-19 on care work. IEJ works to deepen these focal areas, including sustained, meaningful engagement with policy actors, and enhance its institutional capacity. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s data thematic group This grant will support the creation of a thematic group on data for sustainable development within the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, based in the Earth Institute at Columbia University. The group of data experts from diverse sectors will identify information innovations for achieving and measuring progress toward the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. It will provide technical support to national and regional hubs of the Network so that developing country governments can design improved monitoring systems that are relevant to the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
for support for human-centered design in the Sahel This support will allow Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) to build on its experience with human-centered design and apply the new approach to reaching 15- to 19-year-olds with contraception in its Sahel program countries. The current collaboration between MSI and IDEO.org in Zambia and Kenya has shown promise in increasing the number of young people using MSI’s services, and MSI will use the same approach in the Sahel, starting in Burkina Faso.
for strengthening U.S. leadership on international reproductive health and family planning This grant would support the United Nations Foundation’s Universal Access Project, currently supported by eight donors and designed to regrant funds for activities that foster stronger U.S. leadership in reproductive health. The project would seek three outcomes during the grant period: (1) sustained U.S. funding for international reproductive health and family planning; (2) more effective and integrated U.S. policies on reproductive health and family planning; and (3) enhanced capacity and collaboration of the reproductive health advocacy community.
for support of a leadership capacity building program To adapt to changes in the external environment affecting international nongovernmental organizations, IntraHealth plans to conduct an Adaptive Leadership training in Dakar, Senegal with 35-40 leaders from its headquarters and country programs. IntraHealth believes its leadership team will play a critical role in transforming the organization from being a project implementer to a catalytic agent of change -- a transition suggested is critical by FSG's "Ahead of the Curve: Insights for the International NGO of the Future".  IntraHealth will use organizational effectiveness grants to hire Alexander Grashow of Cambridge Leadership Associates to conduct the training, drawing on 30 years of research on Adaptive Leadership from Harvard University.
for grants to innovative programs that improve children’s learning in Africa Trust Africa is an intermediary grantmaker based in Dakar that specializes in convening and building civil society movements for change around critical social development issues. With this supplementary grant, Trust Africa will provide up to five additional small grants under its Early Learning Innovations Fund to promising civil society programs. These programs are for improving children’s learning and will support the activities of a community of practice among its grantees and other education civil society organizations and networks in Senegal. Trust Africa will also design the next phase of the Fund based on the results of a formative evaluation.
for general operating support The Hewlett Foundation is a founding member of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), an organization dedicated to generating evidence through rigorous impact evaluations of social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries. In just its first three years, 3ie has funded more than seventy new impact studies, has commissioned over 100 reviews of existing research, and has infused the evaluation community with new energy to ensure that research findings go beyond dissemination and are used by the policymakers who can ensure that development resources are allocated to the most effective programs. Continued support from the Foundation is critical as 3ie solidifies its reputation, builds its institutional capacity, and strengthens the links between building evidence and influencing policy.
for Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) Population Action International (PAI) works to ensure universal access to quality reproductive health care, including family planning, around the world. This grant to PAI is for the second phase of its project to support the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH), a network of civil society practitioners from the Global South established in 2011. The goal of this project is to strengthen the COPASAH network’s strategic approach toward ensuring that social accountability mechanisms are in place to improve health systems and sexual and reproductive health and rights outcomes at the local, regional, and national levels. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)