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for strategic planning and leadership development This grant will allow EQUIS to update their Theory of Change based on changes to the context in which they operate. The grant will also consolidate leadership and supervision skills of key staff to respond to an increasing workload; develop a program area structure and work plan, and establish a salary grading system, to respond to the organization's growth in both size and scope of work.
for strategic communications planning This OE grant would assist the College of William and Mary, along with their partners the Development Gateway Foundation and Brigham Young University, to develop a revised "program plan" for implementation of the AidData project.  While the multi-year AidData strategy has already been developed, AidData has yet to explore the full range of market opportunities for its products and the potential customer/user base for its different tools and services.  With this additional assistance, AidData will be able to 
* explore the viability of the possible uses and roles for AidData, starting with those outlined in AidData’s Phase II Five-Year Plan (February 2010); 
* build consensus around an internally coherent vision and action plan; and 
* help AidData develop the appropriate organizational structure and resource base to deliver on its promise and make the program sustainable.

As a result of this grant, AidData will be able to validate (and possibly revise) the targets in its five-year plan and will have a clear operational roadmap for achieving those targets, including an updated organizational and team structure.  AidData will also have more accurate projections for allocating its own resources among the data collection, communication, and product development activities.
for strategic planning This organization effectiveness grant to World Faiths Development Dialogue International (WFDD) will support a strategic planning process aimed at refining both organizational goals. Through support from Hewlett, WFDD has been evolving its approach to engaging religious leaders in West Africa around family planning and other development topics. Hewlett has been the major funder of their work and so this grant is aimed at helping them reflect on their work and plan for their future strategic goals and fundraising plans.
for emergency relief in Haiti The Foundation approved $500,000 in emergency response funds to the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (New York, NY) for relief in Haiti. The effects of the earthquake hitting Haiti have been devastating, leaving one-third of the country's nine million inhabitants in urgent need of food, water, and medical care. In situations of disaster, documentation indicates that women and girls will be hit especially hard. There is an increased risk of sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and unsafe abortion. The Federation's long-time local partner in Haiti, PROFAMIL, has suffered the destruction of two of its clinics. In partnership with other organizations, the Federation will offer immediate primary health care and sexual and reproductive health services through mobile health units in the cities of Port-au-Prince and Jacmel and rebuild the organization's capacity (New, $500,000/1; $250,000 from Special Projects, $250,000 from Population; 20% of project budget)

The Population Program's overall goal is to protect and educate women and girls to provide them choices and safety. In situations of disaster, documentation indicates that women and girls will be hit especially hard.  There is an increased risk of sexual violence, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and unsafe abortion.
for strategic planning This OE grant would allow Equis to undergo a Strategic Planning which would offer clarity of mission and objectives; definition of a five-year strategy; setting measurable indicators of success, and a review of staffing and organizational structure. Equis has grown exponentially over the past couple of years, and has a new, incoming ED for the first time (the position had been occupied by different members of the Board). It is a timely moment to carry out a strategic planning process to deal with some of the current institutional challenges, as well as define a clear set of priorities and goals going forward.
for a project to analyze the impact of projected cuts to the U.S. foreign assistance budget Publish What You Fund conducts research, analysis, and advocacy to promote aid transparency and ensure that aid information is used by recipient governments for budget planning and decision making. This grant will enable Publish What You Fund to conduct research and carry out advocacy to raise awareness and ensure that governments and other donors of U.S. aid-recipient countries prepare adequately for potential reductions in U.S. development assistance.
for supporting civil society engagement with the Open Government Partnership With this planning grant, the Dutch nongovernmental organization Hivos will develop a multi-year strategy to enhance coordination and learning among civil society groups engaged in the Open Government Partnership. As countries participating in the Open Government Partnership make commitments to sharing more information with their citizens and encouraging greater civil society participation in public policy and oversight, Hivos will foster a strong civil society network and learning community.
for a project to scale evidence generation and policy outreach through demand-driven research The Network of Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) is an association of East African researchers who advance impact evaluations designed to inform policy decisions. The network is housed at the United States International University-Africa. NIERA aims to conduct impact evaluations and systematic reviews designed to inform policy issues, conduct policy outreach, and works to build impact evaluation capacity through a mentorship program and through introducing new courses in African universities. This grant supports NIERA's Demand Driven Research Initiative. NIERA will conduct two flagship impact evaluations designed to inform specific policy decisions. NIERA will also work to build awareness of and interest in low-cost, decision-focused approaches to impact evaluation, and its own track record and funding base as a research institution. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
For support of the Accountability Research Center’s joint research with social accountability groups This grant will support the Accountability Research Center at American University. The Center conducts action research in partnership with civil society organizations that are testing various approaches to expand citizens’ access to and use of information to identify gaps in service provision and to demand improvements. Their research focuses on power dynamics, and whether and how service providers and government decision makers are responsive to these demands. The Center’s activities aim to build the capacity and create channels for innovative civil society organizations from low- and middle-income countries to interrogate and share what they are learning within the transparency, participation, and accountability field and with other global development practitioners.
for an operational assessment An Organizational Effectiveness grant to the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) will fund an operational assessment by MD Management Development, a U.K. based consulting firm.  RWI identified several reasons for an operational assessment, including:  1) The need for RWI to define a path for full independence from its original host organization, 2) The need to address RWI’s expansion at the regional level, 3) RWI’s possible merger with a like-minded organization in the coming months, and 4) RWI’s need to align its operations to a new five year strategy.  With OE funds, the consultant will conduct an assessment of financial and human resources systems and provide a proposed implementation plan.
for support of the Africa POWER Consortium This grant to Boston University’s Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER) will support the establishment of the Africa POWER Consortium with an aim to fill critical research-policy gaps in service delivery and policymaking on issues related to gender, women’s empowerment, and women’s well-being in Africa. The consortium leverages and consolidates the expertise of global and African institutions that operate at the frontier of research, policy, and advocacy — specifically Boston University, the African Institute for Development Policy, IDinsight, AidData, and the EconInsight Center for Development Research. During this planning phase, the consortium will incubate multi-institutional approaches to promote women’s empowerment research, evidence use, and policy influencing. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity and International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Trade, Aid and Security Coalition to organize a series of roundtables, public meetings, and small meetings with opinion leaders on the topic of "aid for trade" programs None
for the development of a regional interfaith platform for family planning This project builds on a previous grant to the World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD) at Georgetown University to engage high-level faith leaders in Senegal and Guinea in increasing family planning use. Working with the Senegalese and Guinean governments, WFDD has a partnership with a religious association in each country to support their capacity and strategy growth for faith advocacy for family planning. In this next grant phase, WFDD will focus on building the organizational capacity of the Senegal group to be able to receive large philanthropic grants. It will also work on expanding the geographic scope of the Guinean group and explore new partnerships in other Sahelian countries. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for "poverty footprint studies" to assess the impact of business operations in developing countries None
for civil society to participate in developing a transparent system for managing Ghana's oil wealth None
for support of administrative data work in Africa Development Gateway helps governments and donors use data management tools to improve development results. This program will support governments in East and West Africa in using data generated through the implementation of government programs, referred to as administrative data. Development Gateway will support the governments of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire as they plan how to increase administrative data quality and use as part of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data’s national data road map process; help the governments of Tanzania and Senegal build data systems to address specific policy or operational challenges; and document and share evidence on administrative data use in Africa.
for support of PATH’s Francophone African forum focusing on contraceptive security The Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition is an initiative of PATH that ensures that people in low– and middle–income countries can access and use affordable, high-quality supplies to ensure better reproductive health. The Coalition is comprised of more than 180 agencies that offer a neutral platform to join forces, collaborate on common areas of interest, and advance the issue. This grant will supply funds to the Coalition to support its Francophone African forum known as La Sécurité Contraceptive en Afrique Francophone.
for a program to promote more equitable tax systems in Africa Tax Justice Network-Africa (TJN-A) brings together 23 civil society groups from across five African countries to promote socially just and progressive taxation systems in Africa while also representing African perspectives in international tax reform discussions. This grant would help TJN-A to generate empirical evidence on the costs of ineffective tax regimes and to advocate for the pro-poor tax policies that are necessary to fund broad-based access to social services. TJN-A would also strengthen the capacity of national tax coalitions and enlist the support of the media and trade unions to ensure that African countries adopt responsible tax practices.
for general operating support Publish What You Fund (PWYF) undertakes research and targeted advocacy to promote transparency and accountability in international development. Prior advocacy and technical support by PWYF has resulted in increased publication of aid data by donors. PWYF works to expand its transparency advocacy to development finance institutions and providers of humanitarian aid, and to engage its technical partners to improve the quality and use of aid and development finance information by governments and civil society.
for an examination of the poverty effects the Doha agreement would have in India None
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) is an organization that works to protect journalists, advocate for freedom of the press, and encourage access to public information. This grant will fund a project with Article 19’s Mexico office to evaluate how access to public information reforms have been implemented at the subnational level in Mexico, particularly in relation to the performance of information commissions created to act as ombudsmen for citizens requesting information from public agencies. At the same time, the project will create a platform for information requestors to share their experiences and exchange knowledge about best and worst practices in implementing access to information reforms.
for support to strengthen partnerships with feminist and SRHRJ organizations in Africa This grant will support Fòs Feminista, an international alliance working to expand sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ) for all women, girls, and gender-diverse people in the Global South. Through multiyear core funding, strategic accompaniment, and collaboration with African-led feminist networks, Fòs Feminista and its partners aim to advance SRHRJ by ensuring that the African regional ecosystem is well-resourced, well-connected, and well-coordinated. During the grant period, the alliance will strengthen SRHRJ organizing in Africa and build transnational and cross-regional bridges. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of the Young Urban Women’s Project This grant will support the second phase of ActionAid’s Young Urban Women’s Project, which seeks to ensure that poor young women living in urban areas in Ghana, South Africa, and India gain freedom and control over their bodies, time, income, and labor. ActionAid will work with young women leaders to develop a priority advocacy agenda based on key findings from the first phase of the project, such as access to decent work, recognition of and reduction of unpaid care work, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. ActionAid will also coordinate advocacy activities at both the national and international levels, and make sure young women are empowered to voice their own demands to policy audiences.
for increasing access to reproductive health in Cote d’Ivoire Pathfinder International works through the public sector to provide women, men, and young people all over the world with a range of quality health services: from reproductive and maternal health services to safe abortion provision and HIV prevention. This support will provide Pathfinder International with resources to begin operations in Cote d’Ivoire, where Pathfinder has identified several areas for collaboration with the Ministry of Health to improve family planning service availability in that country. Initial funding from the foundation will help Pathfinder build a portfolio to attract funding from other donors that are also prioritizing improvements in reproductive health in Francophone West Africa, such as the U.S. government.
for support of a review on reproductive health and women's economic empowerment policies This grant will support the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) to undertake a review of existing policies and programs on the intersection between reproductive health and women's economic empowerment.  The review is anticipated to provide insights for future research in the field, and guide ICRW's ongoing research agenda on women's time use and time poverty, informality, and economic empowerment.
for the development of the global Learning Metrics Task Force to inform global policy discourse As the lead United Nations agency for education, UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics will co-host the Learning Metrics Task Force along with the Brookings Institution. In addition to supporting the efforts of the Learning Metrics Task Force to promote and define learning goals for post-2015 development frameworks, this grant would support the Institute in consulting countries around the world on the proposed learning goals and exploring how to better collect comparable learning indicators across countries. These efforts would strengthen UNESCO’s voice in the post-2015 education and development discussions and provide guidance for countries to examine their progress on the current education goals in the lead-up to 2015. Such guidance from UNESCO would help ensure that countries not only report on the gains made in school access, but also measure and prioritize progress made on student learning.
for the Accountability Research Center to strengthen internal MEL and communications capacity With this organizational effectiveness grant, the Accountability Research Center (ARC) at American University will develop a robust monitoring, evaluation and learning plan to accompany its 2019 strategy update. In addition, ARC will review its external communications and develop a communications plan that will help them to both achieve their goals for influencing decision-makers and to improve the accessibility of their knowledge products for people with disabilities and non-English speaking audiences.
for support of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit This grant to Speak Up Africa will support the Coordination Unit of the Ouagadougou Partnership in Senegal. The partnership is a collaboration among donors and the nine Francophone countries in West Africa to increase family planning use through convening, data sharing, civil society engagement, and global representation. Speak Up Africa is the new host of the Coordination Unit, after a successful transition from previous host IntraHealth International over the course of 2021. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy’s third outcome focused on mitigating inequity in access to and use of contraception and abortion care in East Africa and Francophone West Africa.
for support of the Governance Lab This grant will enable the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Governance Lab (MIT Gov/Lab) to develop a doctoral training program, creating a pipeline of scholars trained in collaborative research with practitioners and enabling others to replicate the model. The MIT Gov/ Lab will build on existing work in East and West Africa and expand research-practitioner collaborations to Mexico, Brazil, and Asia. It will experiment with new ways of collaborating with practitioners to identify important research questions and co-producing scholarship. The MIT Gov/ Lab will develop and disseminate tools and templates of its practitioner-oriented research model to use in doctoral trainings and expand its reach through collaborations with other research institutions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
for the production of videos to enhance transparency and accountability advocacy campaigns The New Media Advocacy Project seeks to support civil society organizations by strengthening the use of multimedia techniques, notably video, to enhance the impact of strategic advocacy. This grant would support three partnerships in Mexico with organizations advocating for greater government transparency and accountability. The ultimate goal of the Project is to collaborate on developing polished videos for specific advocacy campaigns, while providing training to organizations on how multimedia can enhance impact. This grant serves as a pilot project to test how well video can enhance the advocacy goals of transparency and accountability organizations.
Quality Education in Developing Countries Initiative
for general operating support Flowminder Foundation’s mission is to enable decision makers to access the data they need to transform the lives of vulnerable people, at scale, using mobile operator, geospatial, and survey data in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Africa. It does this through information and capacity strengthening to governments, mobile network operators, national and international agencies, and researchers. In particular, Flowminder brings two critical things to the data revolution table: analytical technology, and deep skill in brokering key partnerships across the public and private sectors. Flowminder has a long history of leveraging call data records for statistical analysis and decision making, while partnering closely with governments and private sector actors. From Ghana to Malawi to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Flowminder has unlocked the potential of this unique data source to help policymakers answer important questions in everything from the health space to the disaster-preparedness space. This grant will provide Flowminder with general operating support and comes at a time as it develops and puts in place a new organizationwide strategy, while looking to the next phase of several key projects that Hewlett has supported in the past, including Data for Good in Ghana, and the Open Algorithms (OPAL) Project in Senegal and Haiti. This grant supports the Evidence-Informed Policymaking goal that governments use new and traditional forms of data to improve decision making, policies, and programs.
for the global campaign for aid transparency Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid transparency. As an independent nongovernmental organization, it advocates for more comprehensive, timely, accessible, and comparable data on aid flows to maximize the impact and effectiveness of aid resources. The campaign calls for the publication of all aid information in the common and open standard that was agreed upon under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). By 2016, Publish What You Fund expects that donors representing 90 percent of official development aid flows will publish to the IATI standard. One of Publish What You Fund’s most effective tactics for improving the quality and usefulness of the information being published is to rank donors annually in an Aid Transparency Index.
for a training program for journalists on justice reform, presumption of innocence, and due process Founded in 2004, Instituto para la Seguridad y la Democracia (Institute for Security and Democracy) is a policy research center specializing in justice and police reform in Mexico. In partnership with Institución Renace, also a Hewlett Foundation grantee, the organization has promoted implementation of Mexico’s justice reform. The Institute is poised to take advantage of the unprecedented attention generated by the documentary Presumed Guilty, especially among a network of journalists it has cultivated for years. Using the film, this grant will allow the Institute to support a variety of training activities for journalists to raise awareness about the relevance of using justice reform principles for their reporting work, thus enhancing their ability to place the information they produce within a framework in which presumption of innocence, due process, and privacy rights are preserved.
for an executive search Global Fund for Women (San Francisco, CA) - Project; New; $10,000 over 1 year ($0 from Population, $10,000 from Philanthropy), 6% of project budget
For an executive search
for a series of meetings to discuss specific issues under negotiation in the WTO Doha Round None