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for promoting the use of gender data to inform, influence, and design policies to narrow gender gaps The World Bank Group is an international financial organization that provides low-cost loans and grants to developing countries around the world, as well as policy advice, research and analysis and technical advice. The twin goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. The grant will support the bank in promoting the use of gender data to inform, influence, and design government policies to improve women’s economic opportunities in two countries. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support EngenderHealth is a long-standing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) organization that is currently working in 15 countries to provide high-quality, gender-equitable programs. EngenderHealth’s priorities include implementation of their new strategic plan that is framed around gender equality in and through SRHR programs. Areas of work include supporting healthy systems, schools, and refugee camps with training to improve SRHR service quality and advocating for SRHR laws and policies. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for building cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy This grant is for the Sustainable Markets Foundation, which hosts Regions Refocus, an organization that builds cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy, sparking alliances and strengthening analysis to challenge the dominant, neoliberal development framework. Regions Refocus collaborates on policy workshops, organizes collective research projects, and grows advocacy coalitions. This grant will support Regions Refocus in its three core areas of work: the Gender and Trade Coalition; Post-Colonialisms Today; and Economic and Vaccine Imperialism. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general support of The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the MIT None
for the On Think Tanks project This grant supports On Think Tanks (OTT), a global initiative that studies and supports both think tanks in developing countries and their funders. During this grant period, OTT will strengthen the governance, management, and funding of the initiative by establishing an advisory board, improving the quality and uptake of services it offers to the think tank community, generating new research and commentary on issues of importance to global think tanks, and expanding its capacity development interventions. Through this work, OTT aims to help think tank staff and leaders better run and strengthen their organizations. It also seeks to help funders better support think tanks, and foster a new generation of think tank leaders and funders.
for strategic and transition planning The Mawazo Institute is a nonprofit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. The institute’s goal is to help East African women launch careers as academics and thought leaders and connect their ideas to policymakers and the public. This organizational effectiveness grant will allow the Mawazo Institute to update its 5 year strategic plan and assist the Board of Directors in succession planning ahead of the departure of the founding CEO in 2021. Sub-strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking.
for building and testing a grassroots women leaders' digital advocacy platform This grant would allow World Pulse to launch an upgraded digital communication platform that supports networks of grassroots women’s leaders and amplifies their voices locally, regionally, and around the world. The plan includes the development of a community leadership training model, new editorial and "call to action" strategies, and translation of the community leadership training materials into French. The upgraded platform would include the launch and evaluation of economic empowerment and leadership hubs that would spotlight community-generated content. The grant would also support development and implementation of a partner communication toolkit, and piloting digital strategies to increase grassroots women leaders’ participation.
for the implementation of the Fostering Equitable Agricultural Development project in E. Africa The Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS) Geneva Resource Centre was established with Hewlett support to foster a pro-trade, pro-development, credible Southern NGO voice in Geneva and conduct a project on fostering equity and accountability in the trading systems of five Sub-Saharan African countries. With this tie-off grant, CUTS would implement the Fostering Equity and Accountability in the Trading System project and will launch the Fostering Equitable Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (FEADS) project in select countries in eastern and southern Africa. FEADS will help develop an enabling environment for private sector-led and farmer-friendly agricultural development through policy-oriented research and analysis, targeted advocacy, and networking for empowerment and change.
for implementing a Good Schools Toolkit to improve the classroom environment in Ugandan schools One of the many obstacles that prevents Ugandan children from learning at school is the threat of violence in the classroom. This grant would support Raising Voices to work with schools on developing safer classroom environments in which corporal punishment is banned, teachers elicit more participation from students, and children are given freedom to think critically and creatively as a result. This grant is expected to show how classroom transformations such as these influence student achievement. Raising Voices’ "good schools" approach would be implemented in at least 50 schools in Uganda and evaluated to look at the model’s impact on learning. The evaluation will also provide evidence of how such an approach could be implemented across the country.
for developing a youth program using human-centered design Since 2013 Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) has been collaborating with design firm IDEO.org to use human-centered design to improve the uptake of reproductive health services among teens in Zambia and Kenya. This grant will support MSI to develop a strategy and evaluation framework for youth programming that builds on this experience in Zambia and Kenya. MSI will first convene IDEO.org, the International Centre for Social Franchising, and donors for a consultative workshop in London in spring 2016. The team will use the workshop to agree on appropriate measures of success and options for scaling and sustaining youth services in these two countries and across MSI’s global platform.
for general operating support The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) provides research, policy advice, and capacity enhancements that African countries can use to transform their economies with the aim of reducing poverty and improving living standards for their citizens. During this grant period, ACET will conduct economic analysis and research that provides practical understanding of economic transformation, and engage African policymakers to incorporate drivers of transformation into national strategies and plans. It will also support governments in strengthening the planning and finance institutions necessary to implement these strategies. ACET will advance these activities both independently and through its Pan-African Coalition for Transformation that brings together scholars, governments, and the private sector from across Africa.
for support of APHRC’s fundraising and development strategy This grant will enable the African Population and Health Research Center to design and implement a new revenue stability and fund development strategy with the goal of improving long-term financial sustainability. The Center aims to generate scientific knowledge to inform local development priorities and cultivate the next generation of African researchers engaged in evidence-driven change. To achieve these aims, the Center will produce a business development model with a focus on achieving full cost recovery and raising unrestricted support.
for support of reproductive health fellowships Global Health Corps operates a one-year fellowship program that seeks to seed the future of global health leadership. Candidates, who are 30 years of age or under, are from all over the world and have varied professional backgrounds. They are matched with fellowship opportunities in four countries in East Africa, southern Africa, and the United States. With this grant, Global Health Corps will place a portion of the next two fellowship classes in host organizations that focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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 oversight and governance. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability.)
for strategic planning Population Action International (PAI) is one of the best-known independent policy advocacy groups in the United States working to strengthen political and financial support for international population programs grounded in individual rights.  The organizational effectiveness grant will support PAI to update its current five-year strategic plan, which expires in 2012, and to align its operational and monitoring and evaluation plans with the new strategy.
for support of human-centered design in rural Kenya This project will build on previous support to Marie Stopes International-US (MSI-US) for using human-centered design to improve adolescent reproductive health services in Kenya. A prior grant resulted in the design and creation of the "Future Fab" program, which has significantly increased the number of 15- to 19-year-olds using Marie Stopes’ services in urban and peri-urban areas. This project will support MSI-US to collaborate with a human-centered design firm to create an approach that will reach the large number of 15- to 19-year-olds in rural areas through Marie Stopes’ mobile outreach teams.
for a project to explore policy transformations for a gender-just economic recovery Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a global South feminist network of scholar-activists who research, analyze, and publish critiques and alternative perspectives on global and regional development issues and advocate for gender equality and the fulfillment of women’s human rights in multilateral policy spaces. This grant will support producing robust feminist analysis of macroeconomic policies and systems to influence the post-COVID 19 economic trajectory. (Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance Program).
for the Young Lives program's organizational planning This Organizational Effectiveness grant would enable the Young Lives research project of Oxford University to develop possible options for continuing its work beyond the current end date of 2018.  Since 2001, Young Lives has been working in four countries to follow the lives of two cohorts of young people from childhood.  As the young people transition to early adulthood, there are opportunities to study their pathways into employment, partnership, and parenthood, beyond the original project focus on childhood issues.  Young Lives plans to work with a consultant to determine the desirability and feasibility of continuing the project as a way to build on considerable investments made to date.
for support of ODAS (Organisation pour le Dialogue pour l’Avortement Sécurisé) This grant to Ipas will support Le Centre ODAS, an action network for safe abortion in Francophone West Africa. After three years of building the network and strategy of this movement-driving mechanism, ODAS will continue their work to strengthen the abortion ecosystem through convening, training, and networking efforts. This grant will be co-funded by the Packard Foundation and the Foundation for a Just Society International, as well as the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy.
for support of testing models for tailored guidance in care policy process in East Africa Building on the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) East Africa Initiative, this grant to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) will support testing models for tailored guidance in women's economic empowerment and care policy processes. IDRC will partner with East African think tanks to rapidly produce demand-driven evidence, provide capacity strengthening, and build coalitions with women’s rights advocates to influence macroeconomic policies that will reduce and redistribute unpaid care. The project aims to generate, synthesize, and translate evidence on the care economy for gender-responsive COVID recovery efforts, specifically in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Kenya. (Strategy: Women's Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) provides research, policy advice, and capacity enhancements that African governments can use to transform their economies with the aim of reducing poverty and improving living standards for their citizens. ACET conducts economic analysis and research that provides practical understanding of economic transformation, and engages African policymakers to incorporate drivers of transformation into national strategies and plans. It also supports governments in strengthening the planning and finance institutions necessary to implement these strategies. ACET advances these activities both independently and through its Pan-African Coalition for Transformation that brings together scholars, governments, and the private sector from across Africa.
for fund development This grant to Centro de Investigacion Economica y Presupuestaria (CIEP) will enable the center to design a three year fundraising strategy. CIEP will hire a consultant  to help develop a donor map; establish fundraising goals, strategies and a work plan for the implementation of a fundraising strategy. In addition, the consultant will accompany the organization in the development of a proposal to help strengthen the fundraising capacities of the team, and share best practices on healthy, sustainable donor-grantee relationships.
for the continued support of diversity, equity, and inclusion work This grant will support the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) to institutionalize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as a core value in its organizational culture and external advocacy, grantmaking, and movement building. IWHC has centered DEI in its new strategic plan goals. With this grant, IWHC will embark on a second phase of DEI work, which includes establishing a shared language and rationale for DEI within the organization, creating an action plan to operationalize DEI; and designing a learning journey to build the DEI capacity of its staff and board members.
for general support of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law None
for evidence on gender in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative This grant to Publish What You Pay (PWYP) will support the expansion of a pilot to promote gender-responsive feedback mechanisms within the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) to improve policy outcomes for women in this sector. This Transparency, Participation, and Accountability grant is aligned to the fiscal transparency and governance channels substrategies, contributing to global norms and standards and participation mechanisms that encourage the participation of women, considering their needs and experiences. The grant will support EITI multistakeholder groups in seven target countries to implement and document the impact of gender provisions; secure additional commitments in the global EITI Standard in 2022; and build the institutional understanding and capacity of PWYP national coalitions and regional and global leadership on the principles and approaches of feminist natural resource governance.
for demographic training, research, and policy dissemination in sub-Saharan Africa To help respond to growing demand for well-trained demographers and statisticians, the Population and Development Program at Cornell University has engaged in a partnership with the Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographiques, a primary research and training resource for Francophone African states. The proposed program would expand and improve technical training and research, as well as enhance the Institute’s policy communications capacity.
for a project to assess the performance of state and federal information commissions in Mexico The Campaña Global por la Libertad de Expresión A19 (Article 19) works to protect journalists, advocates for freedom of the press, and encourages access to public information. This grant would fund a project with Article 19’s Mexico office to demand accountability regarding the performance of the right to information commissions, which serve as ombudsmen for citizens requesting information from public agencies. This is expected to strengthen the independence and effectiveness of these commissions.
for a project on changes in rural household welfare and their implications for development policy The Rural Economies of the Americas Program at the University of California at Davis is a research center devoted to understanding the problems of the Mexican rural sector by collecting data, conducting research, training students, enhancing institutional development, and disseminating critical research findings to policymakers, academics, and the public. In collaboration with a Mexican university, El Colegio de México, the Rural Economies of the Americas Program recently completed the third round of the Mexican National Rural Household Survey. This survey provided detailed information on poverty and welfare in rural Mexico that is comparable over time. A renewal would provide researchers with support to analyze and disseminate findings related to whether rural households have been able to move out of poverty or have fallen into further impoverishment, and how public investments have affected rural welfare at the household and community levels. The results of this research would shed light on how to make government subsidies more responsive to the needs of Mexico’s poorest rural communities.
for promoting effective and evidence-based policies to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals This project will provide support for the United Nations Foundation to, in collaboration with policy actors and think tanks from the Global South, promote the use of evidence, data, and analysis to inform implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through its close working relationship with U.N. member states and regional commissions, the Global Policy Team will create opportunities for policy researchers from Africa, Latin America, and South Asia to engage with U.N. and government officials in New York and in each of these regions, with the goal of informing SDG implementation and monitoring with country-specific and cross-country policy research.
for general operating support Controla Tu Gobierno partners with local watershed associations to monitor the government’s management of water resources and to advocate for equitable access to clean water. They will monitor implementation of clean water treatment and sanitation access in Mexico and expand their advocacy for greater verdict and sentencing transparency by local courts. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for support of the 2014 Global Conference on Social Franchising for Health The Global Health Group at the University of California at San Francisco conducts research on the provision of health services around the world, with a particular focus on the extent and quality of health services provided by the private sector.  This grant to the Global Health Group would support the 2nd conference on best practices for social franchising in health in October 2014 in the Philippines.  Health social franchise programs use a commercial franchise model to improve access to and the quality of public health services in privately-run, and increasingly government, health clinics – many of which specialize in reproductive health.  This conference in the Philippines will target 170 implementers, donors, policy-makers, and academics and feature successful practices in health financing, performance measurement, use of technology and ways to strengthen links to the public health system.
for organizational planning for the International Budget Partnership An Organizational Effectiveness grant will help the International Budget Partnership (IBP) determine the future of its institutional relationship with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).  The IBP was initially created as a project of the CBPP and has been housed there since.  However, IBP has grown rapidly over the past few years.  Spurred on by IBP’s upcoming mid-point review of its 5 year strategic plan and by plans to increase fundraising, IBP has also begun to think about its relationship to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.  There are several reasons for IBP to consider it relationship with CBPP, including that the Center’s budget work is domestic only and IBP has an international focus.  In addition, the Center and the International Budget Partnership do not share any staff.  The consultant hired with OE funds will help IBP determine the different options for the organizational/institutional formats appropriate for IBP in the coming years.
for the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium's developing country researcher program None
for support of the Reproductive Health and Poverty, Gender, and Youth programs This grant would support the Population Council’s Reproductive Health and Poverty, Gender, and Youth programs to conduct research on ways to increase the use of family planning and reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa. During the grant period, the Council plans to focus on understanding the reasons for stalls in fertility decline in some settings, analyzing the demographic impact of investing in adolescent reproductive health, and expanding access to comprehensive family planning services in Francophone West Africa. The Council would also support global advocacy on these issues, including the promotion of safe and comprehensive abortion care.
for strategic planning This grant will allow Gesoc to develop out a strategic plan that will serve to both onboard the new Executive Director and update Gesoc's strategies and lines of work. The strategic planning work will include five participatory working sessions with the new ED, Board and staff members to discuss: the institutional trajectory of Gesoc; the state of the art of the ideas market and thinks tanks in Mexico; define strategic objectives and priorities; review the mission, vision and institutional values; and, development of an institutional operational model.
for support of the weekly public affairs television program, "Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria" None