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for increasing access to reproductive health in Côte d'Ivoire This project supports Pathfinder International’s program in Côte d’Ivoire, where Pathfinder has identified several areas for collaboration with the Ministry of Health to improve family planning service availability. This project builds on two previous rounds of funding from the foundation that helped Pathfinder build a program in Côte d’Ivoire as its hub for operations in Francophone West Africa. Through national and local advocacy and provider training, Pathfinder aims to increase availability of contraceptive methods and improve access to safe abortion and postabortion care. This grant for Pathfinder’s program in Côte d’Ivoire is aligned with the International Reproductive Health strategy’s objectives to increase contraceptive use and reduce the incidence of unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa, particularly in member countries of the Ouagadougou Partnership.
for support of an abortion incidence study in Kenya This grant to the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) will support a national abortion incidence study in Kenya. In partnership with the Guttmacher Institute, APHRC will use mixed research methods to produce an updated estimate of the number of induced abortions in Kenya and the magnitude and severity of unsafe abortion-related complications. The previous estimates were done in 2012 and since then the abortion landscape in Kenya has shifted dramatically with the availability of self-managed medication abortion as well as increasing criminalization efforts from anti-abortion actors. This project will have a focus on evidence dissemination with policy advocates and government partners as well as research capacity-building efforts between the two research institutions involved. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy outcome that safe abortion is legal and/or decriminalized in a greater number of East and Francophone West African countries and is accessible to more women and girls in these countries.
for board development and resource mobilization strategy This grant will enable the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) to enhance the leadership and strategic management capacities of its Board and executive team and diversify the organization’s funding profile by developing new investment channels and deepening existing donor relations. These institutional-strengthening activities aim to ensure FOWODE’s organizational health and long-term sustainability so that it can continue to advance gender-transformative approaches in civic engagement and challenge inequitable power structures that limit women’s rights and gender equity in Uganda.
for general operating support This grant would enable the Population Reference Bureau to continue to inform people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empower them to use information to advance the well-being of current and future generations. The Bureau plans to advance four key intermediate outcomes in the near term: on the programmatic side, the organization would develop a pipeline of projects on priority emerging issues such as data needs in the new Sustainable Development Goals, and increase its visibility and leadership in the population and development field; on the organizational side, it would develop a comprehensive monitoring, learning, and evaluation framework, and improve its human resources management system.
for a program to promote social accountability and community action for learning in Uganda Link Community Development International works to improve the quality of education in Africa. Through its local partners, Link develops educational standards, improves information about school performance gaps, and strengthens the capacity of school management committees and school inspectors to exercise oversight and jointly resolve problems. This grant will support a program in Uganda to raise awareness among parents and school communities about what a "good school" looks like; strengthen the capacity of school management committees to use school performance data to exercise oversight and problem-solve; and create clear accountability mechanisms at the district and national levels.
for support of the Social Innovation and Citizen Participation Program This grant will support the Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir (ILSB) to strengthen the advocacy capacity of young people and indigenous women on issues of sexual and reproductive health using transparency and access to information tools. The ILSB will implement state-level advocacy strategies in partnership with local organizations to contribute to the improvement of the quality, availability, and relevance of public sexual and reproductive health services in various states through evidence-based advocacy. The ILSB will also share lessons and experiences on applying a gender-intersectional lens with the field of transparency, accountability, and open government both nationally and internationally.
for support of ICRW's Global Health, Youth and Development program This grant will support the Global Health, Youth and Development portfolio at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), which conducts policy-oriented research on positive youth development and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for support of Ideo.org's Health XO program IDEO.org applies principles of human-centered design to alleviate poverty. Over the past six years, IDEO.org has developed the Health XO program, targeting improvements in adolescent girls’ reproductive health. This grant will allow the program to explore new ways of collaborating with partners, experiment with new approaches to bring outside perspectives to the design process, and make the resulting solutions more accessible to the reproductive health field.
for support of the development of internal organizational and managerial processes This grant would allow Fundar to develop and systematize a comprehensive labor policy, including issues such as organizational structure, contracts, salaries, compensations and performance evaluation.
for the Southern Voice secretariat The Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) is a Sri Lankan think tank promoting a better understanding of poverty-related development issues. CEPA is an active partner of Southern Voice, a network of think tanks from Africa, Asia, and Latin America working on the Sustainable Development Goals. This grant will allow CEPA to contribute operational support and communications capacity to the Southern Voice network.
for general operating support The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. It conducts nonpartisan research and analysis to help shape public debates and ensure that policymakers and the public consider the needs of those communities, whose voices are too often unheard. The Center also develops policy options to alleviate poverty in the United States, and it examines the short- and long-term impacts of proposed policies on the health of the economy and the soundness of federal and state budgets. The Foundation has funded the Center since 2004, and we see it serving a particularly important role during the current difficult economic times.
for Global Pulse’s work to strengthen an ecosystem necessary to harness big data for development Global Pulse, an initiative of the United Nations Secretary General, accelerates discovery, development, and scaled adoption of big data innovation for sustainable development and humanitarian action. This grant supports Global Pulse’s work to strengthen the ecosystem necessary to achieve this mission. This includes (a) lowering barriers to scale, by supporting the development of frameworks and standards to address data access and privacy challenges; (b) strengthening the innovation ecosystem, by connecting communities of practice across disciplines and geographies to build trust and accelerate the pace of innovation; and (c) enabling institutional adoption, by providing public sector organizations with policy guidance and technical assistance to strengthen their capacity for implementing big data innovations.
for general operating support Ipas works to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights by enhancing women’s and girls’ access to and use of safe abortion and contraception. This grant to Ipas is aligned with the International Reproductive Health strategy to ensure that no woman dies from an unsafe abortion. Ipas represents the primary global vanguard organization in the safe abortion sector, using a multifaceted approach that includes legal reform, health system strengthening, and community education and engagement. Ipas produces global goods that benefit the sector broadly — including programmatic tools, global monitoring of opposition actors, and a robust research agenda. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for strengthening attention to learning outcomes in Kenya This grant would help enable a network of organizations in Kenya to work collectively to promote learning as the metric of success in education. The Women’s Educational Researchers of Kenya would coordinate the network, leading three main activities: first, facilitating information sharing across members of the network; second, coordinating communications messaging that helps focus the education debate on improving children’s competencies; and third, using the global debate on what education goals should be post-2015 to promote the learning agenda locally and, vice versa, using local successes to influence the global dialogue.
for a project to strengthen transparency and accountability in the exercise of reproductive rights This grant would allow the Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) to promote women’s access to and exercise of reproductive rights by strengthening transparency and accountability. GIRE will analyze information regarding the Mexican government’s compliance with national and international human rights standards, focusing on six reproductive rights: safe and legal abortion, contraception, maternal mortality, obstetric violence, work and family life, and assisted reproduction. The grant would support the development of the second edition of the Report on Reproductive Rights in Mexico, part of an advocacy strategy to hold the federal and local governments accountable (via national and state human rights commissions) and carry out strategic litigation of cases of reproductive rights violations.
for the Open Government Partnership Support Unit The Tides Center hosts the Support Unit of the Open Government Partnership, an international platform for galvanizing public attention and political momentum to advance open governance reforms. Through the Open Government Partnership, governments commit to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. In its first year, the organization has grown to include over fifty-five countries. While additional countries will be encouraged to join the Open Government Partnership, the Support Unit will focus most of its attention on deepening engagement with participating governments, refining the quality of their action plans, brokering peer learning to advance implementation, and initiating the assessment and independent reporting processes.
for a tool to improve the efficiency of field-based data collection teams Global Integrity carries out fieldwork to assess the existence and effectiveness of anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability mechanisms in more than 100 countries around the world. From its experience working with diverse organizations and individual researchers, GI has developed a tool called Indaba that helps teams in the field manage projects that collect and process data. Indaba is a Web-based interface that improves work flow, streamlines communications, and facilitates report writing, editing, and publishing. With this grant, GI would partner with other key Hewlett grantees and the broader community of transparency and accountability groups by sharing the Indaba platform and tailoring it to their needs. GI anticipates that Indaba will help like-minded groups collect data more accurately and efficiently, thereby accelerating the pace of transparency and accountability reforms around the world.
for mainstreaming of gender considerations in the IMF’s operations The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution working to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for its 190 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote macroeconomic and financial stability and monetary cooperation. This grant will support efforts to assess the economic consequences of gender gaps in economic inputs and opportunities as well as understand the gender differentiated impact of macroeconomic, financial, and structural policies. The overarching goals of the grant are to provide macro-level evidence on the importance of closing gender gaps and boosting inclusion and gender equality and to foster more gender-responsive economic policies. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for a workshop on South-South cooperation and strategic planning for the Southern Voice network Under this grant the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research Organization (STIPRO) will host a workshop of Southern Voice, a network of think tanks from the global south collectively engaged in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop has two objectives: 1) to establish a methodology for a research program on South-South collaboration; and 2) to advance strategic planning for the future effectiveness and sustainability of the network.
for general operating support With almost 60 years of experience, World Neighbors works with rural communities in developing countries to identify and address local development issues. Continued funding will enable World Neighbors to adapt and expand its community-based reproductive health, family planning and HIV/AIDS service delivery and outreach models and to strengthen the capacity of local partners. Due to budget cuts and the fact that World Neighbors is not aligned with the Population Program's strategy as well as other grantees, we recommend a tie-off.
for studies of programs to increase transparency and accountability in natural resource governance The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) provides grants to conduct impact evaluations of socioeconomic development programs in low- and middle- income countries. With this project support, 3ie will manage several studies to provide evidence on the effectiveness of transparency and accountability interventions in the natural resources sector. The studies will explore which interventions are better at improving the governance of natural resources, and under what circumstances. Ultimately, findings from the studies will improve policies to ensure that public natural resources are managed more effectively and efficiently for better development outcomes.
for developing an approach to teaching reading in two local languages in Senegal None
for support of FIGO’s abortion project in Francophone West Africa This grant to the International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (FIGO) will provide bridge funding for the Advocating for Safe Abortion Project, which works with societies of obstetricians and gynecologists (ob-gyns) to build their capacity to be leaders on abortion advocacy. The project had five years of funding from another donor that is ending due to strategic shifts. While FIGO fundraises for onward support, we are supporting their continued work in Francophone West Africa, with co-funding from the Foundation for a Just Society International. Ob-gyns are respected members of the regional abortion ecosystem in Francophone West Africa with the potential to influence key decisionmakers in the health system to expand access to this essential medical service. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for communications and fundraising strategy This grant will allow CIESAS to implement three priority areas identified in their institutional development plan: 1. Strengthening their communication skills through the design and implementation of workshops on written communications skills and communication strategies for the Observatory of Maternal Mortality staff and partners; 2. strengthening their communication platforms by developing a social media strategy and optimizing their webpage design; and, 3. achieving financial sustainability through the development of a digital fundraising campaign and workshops on high impact proposal writing and fundraising tools.
for including a gender perspective in mainstream media This grant will employ journalism to increase public understanding of and commitment to women’s economic empowerment, presenting research and data to thought leaders and broad audiences to drive policy and cultural change by bringing to life the stories behind the data. The New America Foundation will create a survey for international policymakers and economists to learn which news sources inform their policymaking, and will make use of data and research from grantees to produce a series of articles highlighting the economic value of women’s unpaid work. Through compelling storytelling the New America Foundation aims to deepen understanding of the gendered dynamics of global economic policies.
for a project to improve public accountability and service delivery for marginalized groups in Kenya The National Taxpayers Association (NTA) mobilizes and empowers Kenyans to influence government budgets and spending and to monitor the delivery of public services at national and subnational levels. In the last grant period, NTA focused on counties where the auditor general’s report revealed extensive misappropriation of funds and successfully mobilized groups of taxpayers to engage and hold officials in those counties to account for the lost funds. Following this, the taxpayer groups engaged actively in county budget processes to ensure that allocations were responsive to public priorities. This grant will enable NTA to undertake research and advocacy to ensure that the Kenyan government’s post-COVID-19 stimulus package is inclusive of the priorities of women and youth. This project is informed by lessons from the prior grant where inclusion of minority groups was only on paper. NTA will mobilize women and youth in two counties to engage with governments to ensure that allocation of funds take their needs into account. NTA will then draw on the lessons from this project to inform inclusive budget processes at the national level. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the Open Government Partnership Support Unit Tides Center hosts the secretariat—the "Support Unit"—of the Open Government Partnership, an international platform for advancing open governance reforms. In Partnership member countries, which now number sixty-five, government officials and civil society champions jointly develop and implement commitments to improve government transparency, accountability, and responsiveness to citizens. The secretariat would support and empower government reformers with technical expertise, foster the engagement of a more diverse group of civil society actors, and ensure that participating countries are held accountable for making progress toward achieving their Partnership commitments.
for support of HIV/AIDS and family planning/reproductive health projects in Africa None
for a program to support and improve evidence-based decision making in sub-Saharan Africa The Transfer Project is a regional initiative led by the University of North Carolina, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, and the Food and Agriculture Organization to generate evidence on impacts of national cash transfer programs in sub-Saharan Africa, and to translate that evidence into policy through partnerships with national governments. The Transfer Project conducts evaluations and research that respond to governments’ policy questions about social protection programs, and helps governments apply this evidence to decisions. In coming years, their work will include helping governments target social protection budgets to address the economic hardships caused by COVID-19. Ultimately, the goal is to have more social welfare ministries in Africa systematically commission and use evidence to inform their decisions, and to have this evidence primarily generated by Africans.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights Riksforbundet for Sexuell Upplysning, the Swedish Member Association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, aims to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights by educating the Swedish public and engaging with policymakers and decision makers. This support would allow the Association to encourage the Swedish government to strengthen its role as a global champion for universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, primarily through activities with Sweden’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
for support of African member associations The International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide, Inc. (IPPF) is one of the largest international organizations affected by the reinstatement of the Mexico City policy in January 2017. This project will provide resources for IPPF Member Associations in Kenya, Malawi, Togo, and Uganda — the countries most impacted by the early termination of a large, global family planning project funded by the United States Agency for International Development.
for research on the economic impacts of population/reproductive health The grant would support randomized controlled trials in sub-Saharan Africa to assess the impact of improved access to family planning services on contraceptive use, fertility, child and maternal health, and economic outcomes. These studies are expected to provide rigorous evidence about which interventions increase utilization of family planning services, and what the longer term effects are on outcomes such as women’s employment and earnings.
for support to the International Education Funders Group This grant will provide support to the International Education Funders Group, an affinity group of more than 100 foundations making grants to education in the developing world, which is fiscally sponsored by Firelight Foundation. The International Education Funders Group helps its members improve the effectiveness of their philanthropic efforts by providing opportunities for networking, peer learning, and collective action.
for strengthening learning outcomes measurement globally This grant will allow the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to continue and deepen work begun under the Learning Metrics Task Force. The Institute will build consensus and lead technical work to define learning indicators that are expected to be adopted for tracking the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals related to education. It will also expand its mapping of national assessments, including alternative and citizen-generated learning assessments, and develop and disseminate quality standards.
for a research and dissemination project on the governance of public health in Mexico None
for establishing an initiative to strengthen the supply and demand for evidence in West Africa The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) trains public servants in Ghana and across West Africa. With this grant, GIMPA will launch the Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) program. DIWA will strengthen West African government decision makers’ knowledge and use of evaluations to inform policy and program design. Students and faculty of GIMPA and other regional research institutions will work with the government of Ghana and the Economic Community of West African States to design and conduct policy evaluations, and to support the use of the findings.