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for support of capacity building and knowledge sharing This grant will support MannionDaniels, the lead fund manager for the AmplifyChange fund, to focus on capacity building and knowledge management activities. AmplifyChange is supported by nine funders and provides grants to local civil society organizations to advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and young people. This grant will allow AmplifyChange to provide more tailored technical assistance to its grantees and to assess how to make future funding more effective in building and sustaining advocacy capacity.
for capacity building and analysis To support a select group of African feminists, including young feminist activists and economists to build their capacity to engage with the Financing for Development and post 2015 discussions through exchange among themselves, and with feminist advocates from other regions of the economic South.
for a project to establish Urban Livelihood Learning Hubs in Mexico, Senegal, and Ghana This grant will support the establishment of three city hubs in Mexico City, Mexico; Dakar, Senegal; and Accra, Ghana, as part of Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing’s Focal Cities Program. The objective of this program is to increase the representation and power of membership-based organizations so that they can more effectively interact with city governments to promote policy changes that directly benefit women’s livelihoods.
for strategic planning This organizational effectiveness grant would support Oeuvre Malienne d'Aide a l'Enfance du Sahel (OMAES) in carrying out a strategic planning process, including reviewing, prioritizing and developing an implementation plan to act on recommendations of a recent evaluation of a citizen-led, household-based assessment of children's learning and awareness campaign known as Beekunko.
for promoting evidence use in the U.N. General Assembly and other international policy processes Promoting the use of evidence in international policymaking is by no means easy. There is little consensus on almost every stage of the evidence-to-policy process. As a result, it is hard for policymakers and experts to make suggestions on how to engage with one another, how to tailor their policy questions and make relevant their research, how to work within each other’s institutional contexts, and to each other’s time scales. Challenges are definitional (what kinds of evidence count?), institutional (what kinds of evidence-to-policy mechanisms work?) and scalar (how do we translate our knowledge of national policy processes to the international realm?). To help break the logjam, this grant will support a project bringing together researchers from the U.K. and across sub-Saharan Africa. Working closely with international policymakers in the U.N. system, the team will elaborate a series of detailed case studies from previously understudied sub-Saharan African countries (including Benin, South Sudan, Tanzania, and South Africa) to better understand localized meanings of evidence and local experiences of evidence-to-policy institutionalization. The work will culminate in a series of reflections and policy recommendations on how evidence can be better institutionalized in international policy processes, with specific attention to the U.N. General Assembly. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium to produce research on issues of trade, development and poverty alleviation None
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 and its partners will continue implementing the Universal Health Insurance policy monitoring and oversight program in Burkina Faso and establish formal partnerships and framework for dialogue between key stakeholders including the National Universal Health Insurance Fund and Agency, citizen monitoring committees, delegated management organizations and the Ministry of Public Service, Labour, and Social Protection. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for strategic planning for Data2X This grant will continue the efforts of Data2X, based at the United Nations Foundation. Data2X is a project to improve global gender data by connecting gender experts with large producers of data and organizations that establish data standards. Data2X's work and requests for their services is growing at a quicker than expected pace. This grant will help Data2X solidify their organizational strategy to ensure they grow in a smart and informed manner.
for support of consultation efforts on the "data revolution" within the post-2015 development agenda The United Nations Development Programme is the lead agency responsible for organizing consultations and generating analyses that will inform the post-2015 development agenda. This grant would support background analyses and a major international meeting on the data requirements for implementing and monitoring progress toward the post-2015 development goals. In particular, this grant would enable the participation of experts from the Global South, including many Hewlett Foundation grantees and think tank scholars.
for the Center for Communication Program's family planning/reproductive health and HIV/AIDS website None
for developing a methodology for single-teacher schools to ensure good learning outcomes in Mali None
for support of Southern Voice flagship research on SDG implementation The Centre for Policy Dialogue currently serves as the institutional host for 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 implementation and monitoring of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This grant supports the Centre to provide research leadership for Southern Voices’ flagship State of the SDGs initiative that will bring together research from 12 member organizations and provide a unique perspective on SDG progress, informed exclusively by scholars and experiences in the low- and middle-income countries of Southern Voice’s three regions.
for the Crossing Borders Initiative to strengthen the research capacity of partner institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America None
for general operating support EWG promotes transparent, accountable governance and efficient agricultural markets in the United States through an integrated strategy of policy research and advocacy, disclosure of agriculture subsidies, technical assistance, and public education. In addition, EWG intends to implement a grassroots communications strategy to mobilize rural constituencies on agricultural issues.
for a supplement to J-PAL South Asia to conclude an impact evaluation of Pratham's Read India We recommend a supplement grant to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in South Asia, an academic center at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (Chennai, India), for the adequate completion of an impact evaluation of the grant made to Pratham in 2007. The supplemental funds will allow J-PAL to finish evaluating the effect of volunteers, teachers, and materials on student learning in Pratham’s "reading to learn" and "learning to read" projects in India.
for the development of a communication strategy Associates in Research and Education for Development Inc. (ARED) is a local NGO based in Dakar, Senegal.  ARED designs and manages programs in adult non-formal education and children's literacy, specializing  in the production of high-quality pedagogical, educational, and leisure reading materials in several West African languages.  This organizational effectiveness grant will allow ARED to develop a comprehensive communications strategy and build skills of its senior management team to better communicate the breadth and depth of its work to the general pubic, media, donors, public officials, and the private sector in countries where it operates throughout West Africa.
for support of a fundraising plan This organizational effectiveness grant to EngenderHealth will support a fundraising effort to diversify and expand the organization's donor base. With a new strategic plan and leadership, EngenderHealth aims to become less reliant on large government funds so that it can achieve the goals of its new strategic plan. This grant will focus on building a deeper donor base among smaller family foundations and corporate sponsorships.
for work with community groups and programs to promote the well-being of Africans in slum communities None
for behavioral diagnoses and testing of new interventions in reproductive health programs Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) plans to apply insights from behavioral economics to improve the delivery of family planning and reproductive health services in sub-Saharan Africa. ideas42 would help identifying possible reasons why women in the developing world who do not wish to become pregnant do not use contraceptives; ideas42 will design and implement behaviorally informed interventions, with the objective of increasing contraceptive use among populations targeted by the interventions. This grant is proposed as part of the Foundation’s new strategy to use new tools and approaches to make sure no woman has an unintended pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa.
for support of monitoring and evaluation for the Ministry of Education project ID Insight generates and helps policymakers use evidence to inform decision making. With this grant, ID Insight will support Ghana’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation in generating and using evidence to inform the government’s free Senior High School program. The goal is to improve student learning and graduation outcomes, and to demonstrate that this kind of evaluation partnership can improve high-profile government programs.
for a project to improve public accountability and service delivery in public primary schools The National Taxpayers Association (NTA) helps Kenyan citizens make the connection between the taxes they pay and the quality of the services they receive. Through this project NTA would involve parents in monitoring key aspects of schooling and then help parents and communities address areas of concern. They would also conduct background studies to understand the current tax structure at the national and county levels as well as opportunities for greater transparency, accountability, and pro-poor targeting of government revenue. Through broadly sharing findings from each of these projects NTA hopes to strengthen community voice in demanding accountability and quality service provision across Kenya.
for support to "A World at School and Learning," a campaign to put learning on the global agenda This proposed grant would support a social media, communications, and mass mobilization campaign, "A World at School and Learning," to generate the needed political will and public interest to significantly decrease the number of citizens out of school in target countries, especially girls and the most vulnerable and excluded populations. The campaign would also place equitable learning front and center on the global education agenda. PiggyBankKids, a U.K. nonprofit organized and led by Sarah and Gordon Brown, brings two unique assets to this work: digital strategists with demonstrated success in campaigning; and Gordon Brown’s status as the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Global Education, which gives this group high-level access and visibility in post-2015 proceedings.
for leadership coaching This organizational effectiveness grant will allow two mid-level staff members from the United Nation Foundation's (UNF) policy team to undergo leadership coaching. Given the fact that the majority of the work done by the policy team focuses on interacting with diplomats and other high level officials, leadership coaching can help to make UNF staff more effective in these interactions.
for support of the demography field’s participation in the Data Revolution As a part of the post-2015 development agenda, the international community is working to facilitate a "Data Revolution" to improve the way data is collected and used to inform development; however, demography professionals are not yet part of the discussions. Through this grant, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population will work with its network of demographers to engage with and help to shape the Data Revolution. As experts in the collection and analysis of population data, demographers' knowledge is necessary to shape the discussion. This grant will support two meetings and at least one position paper on how demographers will use their specialized knowledge and skills to inform the Data Revolution .
for the Twaweza program to increase citizen engagement in East Africa The Twaweza initiative, our largest transparency and accountability investment in East Africa, is a program of the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), a Dutch development agency. Twaweza, which means "we can make it happen" in Swahili, is a ten-year effort to enable people in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to improve the quality of their lives through a citizen-driven approach to development and public accountability. Twaweza’s activities include brokering and investing in partnerships that can engage millions of citizens, including collaborations with the media, religious groups, unions, and private sector companies; experimental interventions that rigorously test what works; and critical analysis on the use of public money and service delivery to inform Twaweza’s partners. The Foundation’s ongoing support would take Twaweza through the first half of its ten-year strategy, to the point when Twaweza anticipates transitioning to an independent entity based in Tanzania.
for financial planning, management systems, and communications planning The Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE) is a nonprofit organization that specializes in promoting evidence-informed policymaking across Africa. PACE works to support evidence capacities, evidence communities, and evidence synthesis for decision makers across Africa. This grant will support PACE to improve their financial planning and tailor their management systems and organizational structure to their renewed pan-African mandate.
for support of the 2015 International Conference on Family Planning and time capsule This grant would enable the Gates Institute of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to co-host the fourth International Conference on Family Planning. The Conference will take place in Indonesia in November 2015, and the theme will be family planning and the Sustainable Development Goals. A steering committee of more than forty partner organizations will help organize the program. Examples of issue-oriented tracks include: addressing youth needs, quality of care, advancing family planning through faith organizations, and innovations in financing. The Conference will provide a platform for exchange of latest science and practices in family planning, and is expected to draw more than 1,500 abstract submissions.
for African scholars to attend the Global Development Conference The Global Development Conference on Tax Policy for Sustainable Development is a prestigious event held in different regions and on different themes each year. It hosts high-level, inclusive, evidence-based debates on current development challenges and priorities. It provides promising developing country researchers with an opportunity to disseminate their work, interact with world-renowned academics and policymakers, and network globally. This grant supports the travel and participation of African-based scholars in the 2022 conference. The conference brings forth new knowledge and Southern perspectives on sustainable development issues mostly debated in developed countries and reinforces cooperation and development effectiveness.
for research on reproductive health in Ghana This grant would support research to understand the trends and differences in women’s productivity and empowerment in Ghana, and the consequences of empowerment on the welfare of women and their children. The proposed research will analyze trends in women’s paid employment, self-employment, and home production using data from the Ghana Panel Survey. It will examine factors that impact women’s time allocation and productivity, such as local crop and industrial composition, women’s control of land and other assets, and education. Developing this framework for women’s economic productivity will provide a means to compare how alternative policies can facilitate women’s empowerment.
for general operating support The International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide Inc. (IPPF WWI) is a global federation of family planning associations working in 172 countries. It is the largest nongovernmental organization in the world that promotes reproductive rights and provides sexual and reproductive health services. IPPF WWI’s strategic framework addresses five priorities: adolescents, HIV/AIDS, abortion, access, and advocacy. This grant would allow IPPF WWI to pursue activities in these five priority areas.
for strengthening impact evaluation capacity in East and West Africa The Partnership for Economic Policy provides funding to researchers in low- and middle-income countries, and mentoring and training to help build research and policy engagement skills. With this grant, the partnership will support researchers in East and West Africa who conduct impact evaluation of government programs. Additionally, it will provide technical support to East and West African governments interested in conducting impact evaluations. This extra one-time funding is going to fund four additional impact evaluations.
for 2020 and 2021 Global Philanthropy Forum membership A project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the Global Philanthropy Forum aims to build, sustain, and continuously revitalize a learning community of private donors and social investors committed to international causes — and to inform, enable, and enhance the strategic nature of their work. This grant supports the forum’s virtual conferences for 2020 and 2021. The September 2020 conference focused on ways to harness the power of philanthropy to beta-test big ideas and innovations in policy, society, science, finance, and technology to find solutions that address climate change. (Substrategy: Multilateral)
for a seminar to identify the biggest obstacles in the Doha Round deadlock and ideas to achieve a resolution None
for expanding the global reach of the Transforming Evidence Funders Network The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent nonprofit organization that draws on research and analysis to improve public policy, inform the public, and invigorate civic life. This grant supports the continuation and expansion of the Evidence Project, which will formalize a research funders’ network. The network cultivates information-sharing and collaboration between funders in fields such as education, health, international development, and environment to fill knowledge and resource gaps in the evidence-use arena. The goals of the network are to (a) facilitate learning between funders, (b) coordinate efforts and funding to identify and make progress on critical needs for the field, and (c) grow the field of evidence use and inspire more funders to support evidence initiatives. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of a Gender and Macroeconomics workshop to be conducted by the Levy Economics Institute This supplemental grant will support the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College to conduct a workshop on gender and macroeconomics. A previously approved grant (#2015-2068) budgeted approximately $80,000 for the workshop, to be held at the Levy Institute.  The location of the workshop has since been moved to New York City, which would enable more participants to attend.  The supplemental grant would help to cover the higher costs of holding a workshop in New York City.  The goal of this workshop is to advance the current framework that integrates gender and unpaid work into macroeconomic analysis and enables the development of gender-aware and equitable economic policies.
for greater coverage of developing countries and more international perspectives in NPR's news programming None
for general operating support Ibis Reproductive Health improves women’s reproductive autonomy, choices, and health by conducting research in the United States, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa to inform advocacy for access to safe, affordable, high-quality reproductive health care. During this grant period, Ibis’ efforts will include a focus on testing new approaches to measure the quality of abortion services and abortion stigma, building new partnerships with service delivery and advocacy groups that can best identify their communities’ research needs, and managing the effort to make an oral contraceptive available over-the-counter in the United States.
for the Financial Transparency Coalition The Financial Transparency Coalition is a program of Third Sector New England that brings together civil society organizations, researchers, and technical experts from around the world to collaborate on research and advocacy to strengthen oversight and reduce secrecy within the international financial system. The coalition seeks to close taxation, accounting, and other loopholes that facilitate illicit outflow of revenues from developing countries. This grant will enable the coalition to foster greater collaborations among its members; strengthen taxation and accounting norms, standards, and practices; and promote their adoption and implementation at the country level.
for the videoconferencing project A grant to the Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) will support the installation of videoconferencing equipment at the new Africa Regional Office based in Accra, Ghana.  RWI already benefits from access to videoconferencing equipment at its New York headquarters and London office and videoconferencing equipment in Accra would facilitate communication and reduce the need for travel between these locations.  In addition, videoconferencing equipment would improve the ability for RWI staff in New York and London to provide technical assistance and mentoring to African partners and grantees.
for the Connect U.S. Fund The U.S. foreign policy community includes a variety of actors: policymakers navigating a complex, interconnected foreign policy landscape; NGOs competing for the policymakers’ time and attention; and foundations supporting projects to advance their vision of a better world. Since 2003, the Hewlett Foundation has supported the Connect U.S. Fund, a project of the Tides Foundation that builds relationships among these diverse players. The Fund has become increasingly recognized as a key convener and driver of high-level policy advocacy in five important issue areas: nonproliferation, climate change, reform of international financial institutions, support for U.S. civilian agencies engaged in development, and human rights. Not only do NGOs turn to the Fund for assistance, but policymakers ask it to facilitate conversations with NGOs on major policy issues. The Fund is among the few organizations that can respond to requests for rapid funding and therefore react nimbly to unforeseen events, thus multiplying its impact. In addition, the Fund provides grants to organizations that facilitate collaboration across issue areas. This renewal grant is a collaboration between the Global Development and Special Projects programs, in recognition of the fact that the Fund has broadened its issue areas far beyond those solely of interest to Global Development.
for general operating support Ipas works to improve the availability of safe abortion and contraceptive services in more than 15 countries through training and policy advocacy. Ipas works to support access of women and girls to high-quality abortion and contraceptive care by making these services available, accessible, and affordable.