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for a project to improve public accountability and service delivery in public primary schools In Kenya, as in many countries in Africa, parents often do not play an active role in monitoring and managing their children’s schools, despite national policies that mandate this role. The Centre’s National Taxpayers Association is helping parents make the connection between their tax dollars and the quality of their public schools, and then working with parents to provide greater oversight of the quality of education. Through this project, the Centre would involve parents in collecting information for a school report card to monitor key aspects of schooling and then help parents and other community leaders address areas of concern. By conducting this exercise across the country and releasing district and national school report cards, the Centre hopes to strengthen community voice in demanding accountability and quality education across Kenya.
for support of the Center for Reproductive Rights Africa program The Center for Reproductive Rights Africa program uses strategic advocacy, capacity and movement building, and high-impact litigation to ensure that sexual and reproductive health and rights are protected and promoted in law and policy and realized by women and girls across the region. During the grant period, the Center for Reproductive Rights Africa program will work with regional partners through the Africa Reproductive Rights Initiative to collectively advocate against shrinking civic space and opposition to progressive laws and policies that advance sexual and reproductive health and rights at the national and regional levels.
for a project on increasing extractive industry transparency in Mexico This grant would enable the Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER) to use public information to document the extent to which tax revenue is lost in Mexico due to poorly managed mining contracts. In addition, the project will work to identify the real ownership of the largest private companies working with natural resources in Mexico. This data will then be collated and curated by PODER and an external editorial committee of experts and presented in a public website.
for support of PPFA’s International Program The International Program of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) provides reproductive health services and advocacy in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. PPFA works in ten developing countries, where it provides its NGO partners funding and technical assistance to develop effective programs and build sustainable organizations within the movement for reproductive health and rights. A separate general operating support grant to PPFA is also recommended on this docket.
for assessing federal and state policies to implement performance-based public spending in Mexico None
for support of research on reproductive health and economic empowerment This grant will support the Global Health, Youth, and Development and the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods portfolios at the International Center for Research on Women  to undertake and disseminate research on the relationship between reproductive health and women’s economic empowerment. The center is planning to contribute to the evidence base on the relationship by (a) developing a framework on how various pathways to economic empowerment improve reproductive health and vice versa; (b) conducting research to elucidate these pathways and evaluating existing interventions; and (c) analyzing available data sets. The research will be compiled in an edited journal or policy volume and disseminated widely.
for a scoping project to improve data governance in Africa The African Economic Research Consortium supports economic scholarship and collaboration across Africa to bring rigor and evidence to economic policymaking, and to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent research on problems pertinent to the management of African economies. This grant renews support to an emerging consortium scoping a new line of research and policy engagement on data governance, with the aim of positioning Africa’s leading economic scholars to contribute to ongoing debates about data governance. This grant is a renewal within a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for support of research on data usage This project will collect information on the barriers to using official statistics in policy decisions and provide tools to help national statistical offices (NSOs) and international organizations increase the use of data in government decision making. The work is led by Open Data Watch, which operates at the junction of open data and official statistics, in collaboration with AidData, which has expertise in collecting information on data use. The partners will survey government officials; analyze the extent to which existing data-sharing portals are used; develop tools to help NSOs monitor and increase data usage; and share their findings with NSOs and international agencies.
for Farmsubsidy.org, a network of researchers, journalists, and activists pressing for more transparency about EU's farm subsidies and their impacts None
for the Ebola Crisis Fund Capital for Good connects donors and grantmakers with effective international and domestic nongovernmental organizations working in the areas of education, health, human liberty, and economic empowerment. Capital for Good, in partnership with Geneva Global, has established an Ebola Crisis Fund. This grant would support the Fund, providing resources for regranting to community-based organizations for awareness raising campaigns and mobilizing community-based volunteers; providing essential supplies such as disinfectant and protective gear; searching for cases, referring sick individuals to medical care and following up with them; and supporting those who have been quarantined by delivering food and basic medical supplies.
for support of a rights-based approach to family planning EngenderHealth works to improve access to and the quality of family planning and reproductive health services in more than fifteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in the public sector where many women seek services. Using insights from previously-funded work, this grant will allow EngenderHealth to practically demonstrate how family planning service providers, policymakers, and community members in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa, can act to ensure that women’s rights are respected when seeking services.
for strengthening U.S. Leadership on International Reproductive Health and Family Planning The Women and Population (W&P) Program at the United Nations Foundation works with the United Nations and other partners to promote gender equality and empower women and girls, especially through sexual and reproductive health and rights. In 2008, the W&P Program launched a multi-stakeholder advocacy initiative to strengthen U.S. leadership on international reproductive health and family planning, with support from the Gates, Packard, and Hewlett foundations and other funders. Since then, the initiative’s twenty-two sub-grantees have achieved impressive funding and policy results, contributing to a more than 50 percent increase in U.S. funding and the highest amount ever appropriated for international reproductive health and family planning. Recommended funds would enable the United Nations Foundation to consolidate recent gains and sustain momentum—vital in the changed U.S. political environment. The United Nations Foundation will push to strengthen U.S. leadership on international reproductive health and family planning through three intermediate outcomes: increased funding; effective and integrated policies; and more strategic, synchronized advocacy by NGOs and opinion leaders.
for a project to develop indices for measuring the quality of service delivery in Africa FROM PREVIOUS GRANT:
for the Africa Regional Office performance-based funding position The Africa Regional Office of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF ARO) provides technical and financial support to the Federation’s forty-seven Member Associations in sub-Saharan Africa. In service of the Federation’s goal to improve performance, this grant would support continuing efforts to develop the capacity of IPPF ARO’s Member Associations to improve quality and performance. Under previous grants, IPPF trained multiple Member Associations in sub-Saharan Africa to use a "branch performance tool"—an analytic tool that provides clinic managers and executive staff information previously unavailable about how to improve performance in individual clinic branches. Work under this grant would support program costs for several country-based refresher training sessions on the branch performance tool with two Francophone and two Anglophone Member Associations, as well as peer-to-peer technical support among select Member Associations in the region.
for general operating support The Center for Global Development (CGD) is one of the world’s leading think tanks focused on research and analysis of development policies, including foreign aid, trade, debt, migration, climate change, global health, education, and population. CGD’s focus on influencing the policy community in wealthy countries has been key to its success, and the organization now has a well-established audience of decision makers that rely on the research and analysis of CGD scholars.The coming two years represent a crucial transition period for CGD from Washington start-up to an established organization with global ambitions and capabilities. During this period, CGD plans to further develop the core strengths and values that have contributed to its success while extending its reach modestly beyond Washington to Europe and the rising emerging markets, and deepening and making more explicit its approach to linking research to policy influence and impact. Last year, on the occasion of CGD’s ten-year anniversary, the Hewlett Foundation made a special, one-time challenge grant to help CGD raise core funding for its next chapter. This grant would be a renewal of CGD’s regular general operating support.
for preparation of a professional memoir on key issues in global development This grant supports the writing and publication of a book that will describe and analyze the phenomenon of globalization, juxtaposed against the story of professional evolution of a distinguished development economist.
for the Public Service Accountability Monitor project The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) strengthens public resource management through citizen oversight and engagement. PSAM grounds its work in South Africa with activities at the local, provincial, and national levels to improve the government’s delivery of basic health and education services. The lessons PSAM learns from these interventions in turn strengthen its flagship training program for civil society advocates and media practitioners from across Africa. To ensure that trainees apply their new skills, PSAM develops ongoing mentoring relationships with a core set of the training participants, helping them design research and advocacy strategies to improve public resource management in their own countries. With the assistance provided by the Foundation, PSAM anticipates offering its Fundamentals of Social Accountability course three times a year, establishing at least three new regional learning partnerships with African civil society groups, and ensuring that lessons are documented and shared with peers in the transparency and accountability field.
for general operating support Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) brings attention to the ways in which women's choices are understood, acted upon, and reflected in sexual and reproductive health services and policies in Kenya. TICAH challenges abortion-related stigma and discriminatory practices through a multipronged strategy to reach the most vulnerable women with the least access to critical information. TICAH prioritizes scaling successful strategies to advance self-managed abortion as a time-critical COVID-19 investment. (Substrategy: Local Advocacy)
for logistics management of peer-to-peer convening for Evidence-Informed Policymaking grantees The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs is a not-for-profit organization housed in Accra, Ghana, that provides parliamentary strengthening support to representative parliaments in Africa. With this grant, the organization will help plan and deliver a convening of grantees under the Hewlett Foundation’s Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to take place in Accra.
for support of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda Under direction of the Secretary-General, the United Nations Development Programme UNDP is convening a high-level panel consisting of representatives from governments, the private sector, academia, civil society, and youth to advise on the global development agenda at the conclusion of the Millennium Development Goal time frame. This grant will support the research, outreach, and operations teams and with provide funding for international meetings to inform the high-level panel recommendations. These recommendations will serve as the framework for goals to be agreed upon by U.N. member states by 2015.
for the "Constituency for Conservation" initiative to build support for farm policies that encourage conservation programs as an alternative to commodity subsidies None
for digital communications for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Partnership brings together government, private-sector, civil society, and international institutions to harness new and traditional sources of data to better understand and address development challenges. This organizational effectiveness grant will help strengthen the Partnership’s ability to communicate impact and deliver effective digital communications.
This OE grant complements programmatic grants to the Partnership which support the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy goal that governments in East and West Africa make better use of data to improve decision-making and outcomes for people.
for implementing a Good Schools Toolkit to improve the classroom environment in Ugandan schools The threat of violence in the classroom is one of the many obstacles that prevents Ugandan children from learning. This grant would support Raising Voices to expand its 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. Raising Voices would strengthen its "good schools" approach in the Luwero district by engaging with more schools, facilitating community engagement, and running a district-wide "best teacher" competition to promote classroom changes that improve student achievement.
for support of a family planning policy working group This project will support the Center for Strategic and International Studies to establish a Family Planning and Women’s Health Policy Forum as a platform for bipartisan policy dialogue about the role of the current United States administration in global family planning and reproductive health. Through several high-level meetings, an international research trip, and several policy products such as videos and briefs, the Forum will attempt to bridge various perspectives in Washington and generate consensus around United States policies for key areas in family planning and reproductive health.
for the development of a new model to increase the effectiveness of African humanitarian organizations None
for support of a working group on stalled fertility in sub-Saharan Africa This grant will enable the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a workshop to assess the determinants of the slow fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa.  The workshop will engage top experts from diverse fields to present their work and debate the causes for recent fertility trends.  The workshop summary and papers will be published in academic journals and presented at policy fora. With Hewlett support, the National Academy of Sciences plans to expand participation of African experts in the workshop; produce a brief of the workshop report that can be more widely disseminated; translate the workshop summary into French; and organize two seminar-type public events in sub-Saharan Africa.
for the development of a new international program to promote government transparency Over the past five years, the Sunlight Foundation has dramatically expanded access to vital government information for American citizens and journalists, empowering the public with user-friendly tools to engage in online collaboration and dialogue and to pursue accountability with their public officials. Through this new program, Sunlight will work with partner non-governmental groups in a few target countries to sharpen their advocacy strategies to promote government and corporate transparency. Sunlight will adapt its current tools to meet the needs of national-level activists and technologists in other countries, develop new tools, organize staff exchanges, and monitor and analyze governments’ progress.
for general operating support Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA) is a regional growing network of 44 civil society organizations (CSOs) spread across 25 African countries. It is composed of think tanks, feminist groups, youth-led organizations, and community-based organizations, among other types of CSOs. TJNA envisions a just, prospering, self-reliant, and integrated Africa sustainably harnessing its resources to enable its people to lead a dignified life. The network advocates for pro-poor tax policies and strengthening tax systems to promote domestic resource mobilization by challenging harmful investment practices, improving international tax transparency, and restoring the sovereignty of natural resources back to African countries. TJNA’s 2021-25 strategic vision is to mobilize African citizens and challenge public institutions to influence and change policy to enable tax justice to prevail on the continent. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a coalition promoting accountable governance in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda The World Federation of United Nations Associations plans to host the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator staff positions for a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for good governance principles to be adopted across the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals as well as in the implementation and monitoring of the new goals. These staff would develop policy papers, broker joint position statements, draft speaking points, and facilitate information sharing among coalition members.
for general operating support Over the next 18 months, the Initiative for Global Development intends to continue its research and advocacy to improve U.S. global development policies. Supported by a small policy staff, the Initiative's network of senior U.S. and African business leaders promotes three issues: (1) a U.S. global development policy that delivers broad-based economic growth in poor countries and incorporates U.S. and African business input; (2) country and regional agricultural development plans that focus on the needs of African farmers and businesses; and (3) clear bipartisan congressional support for a more effective global development policy. To pursue these goals, the Initiative mobilizes its Leadership Council of prominent CEOs to act as spokespersons on these issues with Congress, the administration, and business organizations.
for a project to promote universal access to an affordable and safe female condom None
for support of a gender lens to macroeconomic policy at the local and regional level in Africa The African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a Pan-African feminist membership network established in 1988 that seeks to inform and mobilize women and girls to participate and influence policies and processes that affect their lives. This grant will support FEMNET to strengthen the capacities of women’s rights activists in Africa to use a feminist analysis to challenge current economic models; develop gendered data and evidence on the impact of macro level economic models on women’s rights; bring an African feminist economic perspective to mainstream economics decision making fora; and build and strengthen a network of feminist activists and economists.
for leadership and collaboration training for social justice leaders in Mexico This grant will enable the Rockwood Leadership Institute to translate and adapt a module from their flagship Art of Leadership workshop. The institute will use this adapted material to lead a one-day personal ecology workshop for grantee organizations in Mexico, to address issues related to high turnover and burnout, and strengthen collective action.
for general operating support Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy. WIEGO’s goals in each of their five core programs include: Organization and Representation, Statistics, Law, Social Protection, and Urban Policies. WIEGO engages in a set of cross-cutting activities such as developing training materials and carrying out workshops and training courses; supporting its networks and affiliates through convenings and exchanges; carrying out local, regional, and global advocacy campaigns; and developing and publishing research. (Strategy: Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for behavioral diagnoses and testing of new interventions in reproductive health programs This grant will enable Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) to expand the application and impact of a behavioral economics (BE) approach within the family planning and reproductive health (FPRH) sector. Working with existing partners, ideas42 will expand research to design and test a BE approach with underserved groups, scale successful interventions, and strengthen the capacity of FPRH practitioners to integrate behavioral science into their work. Through these activities, ideas42 aims to diffuse their behavioral diagnosis and design methodology, expand the evidence base for behavioral science interventions, and demonstrate the value of a BE approach within the sector.
for support of the Advance Family Planning project Advance Family Planning (AFP) is a project of the Gates Institute at Johns Hopkins University that seeks to convince policymakers in the developed and developing world to increase funds for family planning, remove policy barriers to family planning, and raise awareness of how family planning increases socioeconomic development and improves health. The initial phase of AFP from 2009–2012 was the largest advocacy project on family planning and reproductive health to date. The targeted advocacy action in focal countries resulted in a number of notable policy gains. For example, advocates in Uganda were able to change regulations to allow village health workers to provide injectable contraception. Hewlett will join the Gates and Packard foundations in supporting the second phase of AFP, from 2012–2017. AFP and its partners will work in nine countries (Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda) to mobilize and sustain effective family planning advocacy, amplify voices from the global South by cultivating champions of family planning, and document and diffuse best practices in advocacy.