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for general operating support Marie Stopes International US (MSI-US) provides reproductive health services in 37 countries through more than 600 clinics, 6,000 clinical outreach sites, 1,500 franchised providers, and 8,000 team members. This grant will support MSI-US’s organizational priorities during the grant period, which include making progress toward an ambitious global commitment to triple services between 2012 and 2020. MSI-US also plans to prioritize diversifying sources of revenue to meet the large demand for its services — particularly important after the reinstatement of the Mexico City policy.
for analyzing government proposals to implement performance-based public spending policies in Mexico None
for the APEC Study Center's conference, "The WTO at 10:  Governance, Dispute Settlement, and Developing Countries" None
for a strategy to develop a bioenergy industry in the agricultural sector of West African countries None
for any of PPD-African Regional Office's charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes None
for fundraising strategy Global Health Corps's (GHC) one-year fellowship program aims to develop the next generation of leaders in global health, including reproductive health. In 2015 GHC celebrates its fifth anniversary and is in the process of launching a new strategic plan for the next three years of growth. This organizational effectiveness grant to GHC will support external consulting assistance to strengthen and implement the organization's ambitious development strategy. Over the next three years, the organization has aspirations to generate approximately $20 million in new revenues, much of it unrestricted, to grow its fellowship class and expand the number of global health issues in which GHC fellows engage.
for a program to support the integration of mobile network data into national statistics in Ghana Flowminder Foundation is a nonprofit organization that specializes in the analysis of anonymous mobile phone data, satellite imagery, and household survey data for humanitarian and development purposes. In partnership with Vodafone Ghana and Ghana Statistical Services (GSS), Flowminder is supporting GSS to use metrics derived from aggregated, de-identified Call Detail Records (cell phone data) in the production of national statistics and to inform evidence-based decision making in government policies and interventions. This grant advances the Evidence-Informed Policymaking goal that governments in East and West Africa make use of new and traditional forms of data to improve decision making and outcomes for people.
for support of Twaweza Twaweza, a program sponsored by Hivos, is an ambitious effort in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to enable citizens to exercise agency, to promote greater openness and responsiveness by governments, and to improve basic learning for children. Twaweza’s main areas of work include (1) gathering data that gives voice to citizens, most notably through Uwezo, a citizen-led assessment of children’s learning; (2) gathering and generating evidence of what works in the domains of basic education and open government; and (3) using data and evidence to engage the public and policymakers for change. Twaweza has a strong commitment to sharing what it learns about citizen engagement with the broader field of transparency, participation and accountability.
for the Feedback Labs project Hosted by GlobalGiving, Feedback Labs is a collaboration among nine non-governmental organizations active in international development and philanthropy. The Feedback Labs partners 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. This seed funding would help staff the collaborative effort, support the rapid prototyping and testing of new feedback approaches, and fund the dissemination of the most scalable models and tools for gathering and enabling better citizen feedback.
for the videoconferencing project African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC) (Nairobi, Kenya) - Project, New, $35,000 over 1 year ($11,667 from Population, $11,667 from QEDC Extraordinary Reserve, $11,666 from Special Projects), 75% of project budget
For the videoconferencing project
for general operating support StreetNet International is a global network of street vendors and related informal economy workers, and currently has 54 affiliates in nearly 50 countries around the world representing approximately 620,000 individual members. This grant will include support for the organization in its efforts, including (a) mobilizing and supporting members to inform laws, policies, and guidelines in favor of street vendors and other informal workers at national and global levels; (b) building solidarity and alliances between StreetNet affiliates across borders, including through the organization of the 6th StreetNet International Congress in 2019; and (c) continuing to grow and develop StreetNet International to be sustainable.
for the Levy Economics Institute's Gender Equality and the Economy program This grant would support the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College to integrate gender in economic policies by advancing knowledge about the depth of women’s poverty. The Institute would engage scholars to define a research agenda to advance understanding of women’s economic empowerment and its relationship to macroeconomic policy.
for planning a project to strengthen the role and increase the impact of think tanks and research institutes in the Middle East None
for support of a research initiative on behavioral economics and reproductive health Strategies to improve women’s health and family welfare must address challenges at multiple scales—on an individual level as well as households, communities, institutions, and markets. The Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), the University of California’s premier center for research on global development, plans to establish the Reproductive Health Innovation Initiative (RI2) to spur the design of behavioral, social, and market interventions that strengthen reproductive health outcomes. RI2 will focus on improving outcomes for low-income households in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In collaboration with innovative NGOs and public service providers, CEGA researchers will develop low-cost, scalable interventions that integrate insights from behavioral economics and economic theory with rigorous evaluation techniques. The Initiative is envisioned as a multi-year program. This grant would support the first phase, which will include three key activities: (1) map the barriers faced by women in low-resource settings and identify interventions that are known to address these barriers to highlight key knowledge gaps and set research priorities; (2) administer competitive grants for researchers to design, prototype, and pilot evaluation of new interventions; and (3) organize a matchmaking conference to introduce CEGA researchers to practitioners to facilitate new research partnerships.
for J-PAL’s core efforts to reduce poverty by informing policy and practice with evidence The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded on the belief that anti-poverty programs can be made more effective - thus creating positive change in the lives of the poor - if policymakers have access to rigorous scientific evidence on what works and the capacities to apply it. J-PAL pursues three goals: (a) developing the capacity of researchers (including those from low- and middle-income countries) to lead randomized  impact evaluations; (b) generating evidence through randomized evaluations that respond to pressing policy problems; and (c) promoting  the systematic use and adaptation of evidence in informing policy windows and decision-making processes through tailored synthesis, targeted outreach, and technical assistance. These broad goals lay the foundation for achieving J-PAL's ultimate objective, which aligns with our Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy: to improve the lives of the poor globally by closing the gap between research, policy, and practice.
for support of the economic rights work of the women's rights program This grant will continue to support the Valuing Women’s Work and Young Urban Women projects under one grant. ActionAid US will promote movement building with young urban women in Ghana, India, and South Africa on issues around economic security, bodily integrity, and unpaid care work. ActionAid USA will support capacity building, convenings, networking, and presence of advocates in key decision-making spaces. Using participatory research, ActionAid USA will generate wider alliances on issues of inequality and tax justice, and advocate for government accountability for gender-responsive public services and economic policy alternatives with a feminist lens.
for establishing a Johannesburg office for the AMP Health program The Aspen Management Partnership for Health (AMP Health) aims to improve management and leadership capacity of teams in multiple health ministries across Africa, including Hewlett priority geographies (e.g., Ghana and Kenya). AMP recently founded and launched Aspen Institute Global-South Africa (AIGSA) as a nonprofit organization locally incorporated in South Africa, in order to move AMP project and back office support closer to its clients — African ministries of health. This grant will enable AIGSA to strengthen its human resources and organizational structure so that the AMP partnership can provide better support to build the leadership and management capacities in African governments. Building a culture of performance management in ministries of health should lead to greater government effectiveness (including reproductive health service delivery) and government responsiveness to its residents. (Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance)
for general operating support The Natural Resource Governance Institute promotes more effective and open management of oil, gas, and mineral endowments to ensure that citizens of resource-rich countries benefit from the extraction of their natural resources. At a global level, the Institute’s initiatives include the Resource Governance Index and the Natural Resource Charter. At a country level, it provides training, technical assistance, and organizational support to local partners including civil society groups, the media, government ministries, and legislatures. Over the next two years, the Institute will focus activities in a set of priority countries while continuing to champion improved international norms for natural resource governance.
for general operating support The International Budget Partnership (IBP) leads a global civil society movement to use budget analysis and advocacy to improve governance and reduce poverty. IBP invests in the capacity of citizens to understand and analyze public budgets, participate in budget processes, and advocate for policies and reforms that make government more transparent, accountable, and responsive to the needs and priorities of citizens, especially the poor and marginalized. IBP also promotes budget policies that are based on fair taxation.
for the New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact project The grant to the Center for Global Development will support the working group New Evidence Tools for Policy Impact (NET Policy Impact). The group will assess how innovations in impact evaluation are addressing concerns and driving real change in policies and outcomes and set out what’s next for the field. Ultimately, the goal is to support the impact evaluation field in spreading existing ways of being locally grounded, cost-efficient, and policy relevant while identifying new innovations.
for a report to contribute to the policy debate on economic effects of unpaid care work The Overseas Development Institute would use this support to produce a global report on paid and unpaid child care. The report would highlight the critical need for aligned policy and programmatic action to improve women and children’s well-being, and to alleviate individual, household, and national economic and social costs. This work is an outcome of the My World survey, conducted to give voice to local people around the world in the development of a post-2015 global policy framework. That survey uncovered strong demand for better child care options so that women could achieve their work aspirations.
for the design and implementation of a continental child care campaign in Africa The Africa Early Childhood Network (AfECN) is a platform championing excellence and collaboration in protecting children's rights, influencing policy and practice, strengthening partnerships, and sharing experiences and knowledge in early childhood development on the African continent. AfECN is a network comprised of organizations from civil society, academia, government, and the private sector at national and regional levels across Africa. This grant will support AfECN to increase awareness about the importance of child care across the women’s economic empowerment and early childhood development communities in Africa. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support As a premier research and policy think tank, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) generates evidence, strengthens research and related capacity in the African research and development ecosystem, and engages policymakers to inform action on health and development. APHRC’s extensive expertise and connections across health and development sectors in Africa and an emphasis on ecosystem strengthening afford the organization a unique role in the field, which it leverages to inform and influence policy and decision makers. This core support grant enables APHRC to deepen priority areas under its current strategic plan. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of country-level accountability for Universal Health Coverage in Burkina Faso 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. Through this grant, Diakonia will promote equal access to information on Universal Health Coverage policies for all people in Burkina Faso and produce reports and analytical studies to monitor implementation of health services under these policies. Diakonia will strengthen the capacity of local civil society organizations and civic groups in Burkina Faso through financial and other support to ensure they are able to use this information for awareness-raising campaigns and collective action to demand better health care.
for support of the demography field's participation in the Data Revolution International Union for the Scientific Study of Population convenes experts on issues of scientific and policy relevance and informs policymakers of the implications of population dynamics for human welfare. This grant will support the union to foster methodological advances to measure population in a more disaggregated, geographically precise way. It will ensure the involvement of top demographers at international forums related to the data revolution and create collaborations among demographers, data scientists, government officials, and others. The ultimate aim is to enable decision makers, researchers, and civil society to make better use of population data in informing development priorities and interventions.
for support of the Think Tank Initiative The Think Tank 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. The second and final phase of the Think Tank Initiative, cofounded by the International Development Research Centre, the government of the U.K., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the government of Norway, integrates recommendations from the 2013 evaluation. This includes provisions for more tailored technical assistance as well as additional opportunities for exchange of good practices among institutions. A focus during the second phase will be on helping the think tanks sustain the gains after the conclusion of support for the Initiative in 2019, and cultivate alternative sources of funding.
for support of TJNA’s executive transition, institutional strengthening, and sustainability plans Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a growing regional network of 44 civil society organizations including think tanks; trade unions; feminists; and youth-led, faith-based, and community-based organizations spread across 25 African countries. TJNA advocates for pro-poor tax policies and strengthening tax systems to promote domestic resource mobilization by challenging harmful investment practices, improving international tax transparency, and restoring the sovereignty of natural resources back to African countries. This organizational effectiveness grant will support TJNA to ensure enhanced organizational sustainability and a successful leadership transition. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).
for mainstreaming intersectionality within the organization This grant will allow the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) to implement a training and reflection process on racism, narrative practices and masculinities for its entire staff, and develop a work plan that includes tools to apply an intercultural perspective and approach to masculinities within the organization and in its work with partners and networks. Activities include several targeted workshops, a summer school program, and an institutional assessment.
for support of Gender, Women and Democracy work The National Democratic Institute works to strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness, and accountability in government. Over the next two years, its Gender, Women and Democracy program will partner with local feminist organizations to build women and girls’ political empowerment in urban centers. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for support of the in-country advocacy global partnership work This grant will support the International Women’s Health Coalition to partner with advocacy organizations in developing countries to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights, with a particular focus on improving young people’s access to reproductive health information and services and making safe abortion services more widely available. The five-year grant term will allow the Coalition to commit to longer partnerships with local organizations, and address capacity needs in more sustained and tailored ways. This is anticipated to help make sure local organizations can better articulate and follow through on their advocacy priorities, and work with the Coalition to connect these local priorities to the global agenda.
for support of Southern Voice The Centre for Policy Dialogue serves as the secretariat of Southern Voice, a network of think tanks from Asia, Africa, and Latin America that seeks to promote, through evidence-based policy inputs, the interests and concerns of developing countries in agenda-setting, implementation, and monitoring of the global Sustainable Development Goals. This grant coincides with a period of strategic planning and consolidation of the network, and will support Southern Voice in increasing policy engagement and public profile of its policy research and scholars during this time of transition.
for an evaluation of Nali Kali, a primary school activity-based learning program in Karnataka, India None
for an Oxfam South Africa program to advance transparency and participation in extractive industries Oxfam America will provide funding to Oxfam South Africa (OZA) to address natural resource governance challenges in southern Africa. With this support, OZA will embark on community mobilization and education to facilitate effective implementation of policies designed to deepen corporate and government responsiveness and accountability in the extractives sector. OZA will also mobilize civil society groups and communities to advocate for the formalization of artisanal mining and to participate actively in setting the terms of engagement in extractive processes including environmental impact assessments, social labor planning, and corporate social responsibility.
for support of the Improving Family Planning and Reproductive Health Development Cooperation project Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest proportion of women who lack access to FPRH services and, as a result, they suffer tremendously from high-risk, unwanted pregnancies, and unsafe abortion.  Making advances in this very sensitive area of social and ideational change in SSA will require not only more resources, but a much more effective use of existing resources.  However, significant structural problems prevent donor funds, especially those from the European bilateral agencies which are the strongest supporters of FPRH, from being accessed and used effectively.  Evidence for this is in some cases hard and in others anecdotal and impressionistic. Sometimes aid is diverted to health expenditures that do not best meet the needs of SSA women and do not represent the priorities of these European funders; sometimes inefficiency is the culprit. This grant to the Packard Foundation will support a policy research and dialogue project that will validate and document the situation in a structured and cohesive way, involving key stakeholders—European donor agencies and NGOs that advocate for FPRH, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), African governments and civil society and researchers—to identify specific issues and their root causes, to develop consensus around practical steps for improvement and to communicate the results in compelling ways that drive change.
for general operating support Transparencia Mexicana intends to continue promoting policies and actions to reduce government corruption and improve Mexico’s public administration accountability standards by rigorously monitoring government procurement and service delivery practices. This grant would allow TM to produce its highly respected National Survey on Corruption and Good Governance. The survey is widely used by academics, think tanks, accountability advocates, policymakers at all levels, and the media.
for the Open Government Partnership support unit This project will provide funding for the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Support Unit to advance the OGP processes for the coming 8 months, from November 2011-June 2012. This funding will allow the Support Unit to assist stakeholders, including government officials and civil society members, in 47 OGP countries to draft and implement national action plans on promoting transparency, empowering citizens, fighting corruption, and harnessing new technologies to strengthen governance. This work includes ensuring the participation of civil society in the OGP processes at the local and international levels.  The International Budget Partnership is currently the host institution for the OGP Support Unit, while the Transparency and Accountability Initiative and the OGP Steering Committee finalize a longer term hosting arrangement for the post-June 2012 period.