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for a data policy center at the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law Strathmore University hosts the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT). Its mission is to study, create, and share knowledge on the development of intellectual property and information technology, especially as they contribute to African law, policy, and human rights. Under this grant, CIPIT will consolidate and expand its work on data governance and data policy in Africa in a new Data Governance Research Centre, with the goal of adding credible evidence and balanced analyses to the ongoing policy discussions throughout the region. This grant is part of 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 a project to reform U.S. foreign assistance InterAction American Council for Voluntary International Action (Washington, DC) is the largest coalition of U.S.-based development and humanitarian NGOs. One of InterAction’s key roles is to mobilize its 179 member organizations to reach consensus on a collective advocacy agenda. With previous Hewlett support, InterAction created a CEO-level task force to negotiate common positions on the parameters of fundamental aid reform, and to consider ways of overcoming the practice of sectoral advocacy groups advocating for budget earmarks in Washington.  After a year of working with this Task Force, InterAction believes that there are two key issues that still need to be resolved. With support from the Hewlett Foundation, InterAction will use its unique comparative advantage as a convener and consensus-driver among the NGO community to reach broader consensus on: 1) The possibility of a community-wide Grand Bargain, which implies a compromise between Congress, the Executive Branch, and civil society to achieve a more  effective foreign assistance system that is needs-based and country-driven. 2) A working, civil society definition of country ownership for use in implementing the U.S. Government's new development policy. With continued Hewlett support, InterAction staff will draft initial position papers on these topics, facilitate a series of high-level meetings to refine their content, and then disseminate final documents to the broader policy community.
for a project to promote diverse recruitment and inclusive organizational culture Well Told Story is the producer of the multi-media entertainment platform, Shujaaz, which aims to engage all East African youth so that they are more empowered and have more money, safe sex, and fun. With this organizational effectiveness grant, Well Told Story will engage two consultants to develop a plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion with the participation of all staff.
for general operating support Funders for Reproductive Equity (FRE) transforms philanthropic culture by optimizing resources for all people’s freedom over their sexual and reproductive lives. FRE is a community of U.S. and global grantmakers with a shared interest in advancing reproductive equity and justice in ways that contribute to the broader aims of racial equity and gender justice. The community organizes annual member conferences; curates and disseminates relevant information on the reproductive health, rights, and justice landscape; and offers meaningful learning opportunities and platforms to build strategic collaborative partnerships. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for support of the Twende Mbele program Twende Mbele, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, is a peer learning partnership of African governments and regional organizations interested in using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to strengthen government performance and accountability. The partnership aims to (a) support governments in collaboratively developing and using M&E tools such as gender-responsive national indicators for development planning; (b) strengthen peer learning between governments, including on government officials’ capacity to use new tools like rapid evaluations; and (c) improve the comprehensiveness and coordination of national M&E systems, including building stronger links to budgeting and planning. This grant advances our Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy goals of enhancing governments’ incentives, capacities, and systems for ongoing evidence use. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of a leadership transition This grant will support the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) to work with a search firm to find a new executive director. APHRC has not had a major leadership change since 2001, so this is an important transition for the organization, which is a longtime partner of the foundation.
for a project to examine the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance in insecure countries A grant to the Aspen Institute will assist the Aspen Strategy Group in furthering an important conversation on aid reform.  As global development issues now often intersect with security challenges in the 21st century, the Aspen Strategy Group recognizes the need to elevate development and foreign assistance within the overall debate on national security.  The Aspen Strategy Group has contributed to this conversation by organizing a session at its annual summer workshop exploring the effectiveness of America’s development assistance and financial aid to Pakistan.  In addition, the Aspen Strategy Group commissioned a paper delving into the myriad of challenges that development organizations and the US government face in Pakistan.   The paper on Pakistan will become a chapter of a larger policy book with specific recommendations for the US government.  Ultimately, by including a discussion on aid to Pakistan and the need to balance development and security, the goal is to widen the discussion and deepen the link between the development, defense and diplomatic communities.

(Aspen Institute (Washington, DC) - Project; New; $25,000 over 1 year; 6% of project budget)
for a project to contribute to gender equality and women's rights by changing the international macroeconomic policy environment This grant to ActionAid UK will support the Bretton Woods Project (BWP) and its partners. The Bretton Woods Project focuses on the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to challenge their power and open space for civil society and social movements to contribute to the development of policies that are gender transformative, equitable, environmentally sustainable, and consistent with international human rights norms. This grant will work to curtail the most harmful macroeconomic policies promoted by international financial institutions (IFIs), shift discourse on macroeconomic policymaking toward the achievement of just, equitable, and sustainable economic recoveries centering care, and strengthen the capacity and interconnectedness of civil society to challenge macroeconomic orthodoxies for women’s rights and gender equality. BWP will work in partnership with Gender and Development Network, Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice, and International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for general operating support This funding would allow Population Action International to continue to promote universal access to family planning and reproductive health services through research, advocacy, and innovative partnerships. Its current ten-year strategic plan aims to (1) double annual funding for family planning and reproductive health services in low-income countries to more than $25 billion by 2022 and (2) establish a supportive policy environment for these services. The organization has set three-year organizational priorities to expand its global advocacy program to deepen its impact in priority countries, and to increase funding and advance supportive policies from donor governments and agencies in at least two focus countries. During this grant period, it also plans to build a communications infrastructure to support its program and advocacy agenda.
for promoting the use of rigorous evidence for policymaking in Sub-Saharan Africa This grant to the University of Cape Town will provide flexible support to the Africa Region branch of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Over this grant period, J-PAL Africa will work with a selection of African countries to ensure that rigorous and policy-relevant evidence is incorporated into policy and implemented at scale, including through strengthening policymakers’ capacity and government systems to absorb, synthesize, and use evidence. J-PAL Africa will also help strengthen capacity among policymakers, practitioners, and local researchers to understand impact evaluation methodology and conduct rigorous evaluations where appropriate.
for general operating support The International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) defends and advances sexual and reproductive health and rights through trust-based philanthropic partnerships with women’s organizations and movements. IWHC engages in policy advocacy on women’s health and rights at the global level, and with its partners at regional and national levels. IWHC prioritizes three areas: resourcing diverse and inclusive feminist movements in low- and middle-income countries; applying evidence-informed advocacy to oppose harmful norms, laws, and discourses that hinder the full expression of sexual and reproductive health and rights; and ensuring that its organizational values are reflected in internal practices and external partnerships.
for general operating support Open Knowledge Foundation partners with civil society organizations to take action on social problems through the use of data and monitoring. This grant will support the organizational priorities of the Open Knowledge Foundation during the grant period, including OpenSpending, a global network of actors and tools to monitor government budgeting and spending, and Open Data for Tax Justice, a global network of actors using open data to improve advocacy, journalism, and public policy around tax justice.
for a program to promote more equitable tax systems in Africa Tax Justice Network Africa brings together more than 30 civil society groups from 20 African countries to promote socially just tax policies and prevent illicit outflow of government revenues. In the last two years, the network used litigation and evidence-based advocacy to compel as well as encourage the governments of Kenya, Senegal, and Zambia to revisit and renegotiate their double tax avoidance agreements with Mauritius, a tax haven. These tax agreements enable companies and investors to avoid paying taxes in several African countries. The network also trained journalists and parliamentary members on tax justice issues to enable them to play their watchdog roles effectively. This grant will enable the network to work with African tax administrations to close tax loopholes, train watchdog groups on tax justice, and advocate for progressive and pro-poor tax policies. The network will also strengthen the capacity of national tax justice coalitions and enlist the support of media and trade unions to promote responsible tax practices in the region. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for a program to build the capacity of local civil society and water activists in Kenya and Benin The Water Integrity Network is an international nongovernmental organization that works to improve transparency, citizen participation, and accountability in the water sector within select countries and globally. Through this grant, it will build the capacity of local civil society organizations, water user associations, and water activists in Kenya and Benin to use tools and strategies that enable citizen oversight of water services. They will also build coalitions to advocate for more responsive government provision and regulation of water services. The Water Integrity Network will share what it has learned from these country-level programs with its members, and organize global advocacy campaigns to promote better water governance.
for support of the Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program This grant will support the Population Council’s Poverty, Gender, and Youth Program to conduct policy-oriented research that can help improve the lives of vulnerable populations, especially disadvantaged girls. Research will examine relationships among education, vocational training, labor force participation, and reproductive outcomes.
for a program to promote transparency and accountability in the extractive and financial sectors Global Witness investigates, exposes, and challenges corruption in natural resource-rich countries. Global Witness seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s resource-rich but development-poor countries. With this grant, Global Witness will work with the media, the Publish What You Pay coalition, and other civil society organizations to investigate and expose corrupt practices in the extractives sector. Global Witness will mount campaigns against secrecy in the international financial system, focusing on the problems of hidden company ownership, tax evasion, and money laundering.
for community-based research on early childhood development in Tanzania Firelight finds, funds, and strengthens catalytic community-based organizations (CBOs) working with their communities to address important systems for women and children in southern and eastern Africa. A critical aspect of Firelight’s work is centering and amplifying the perspectives, insights, and analysis of community stakeholders who are most affected by key issues. This grant supports research examining the intersectionality of women’s agency and choices with early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania. Guided by an intersectional Global South feminist approach, and centering the perspectives, analysis, and thought leadership of community-based co-researchers, Firelight will collaborate with CBOs and research institutions to gather, make sense of, and build contextually grounded knowledge about how women’s agency and choices are affected by and affects early childhood development realities and initiatives in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.
for fundraising strategy development With this grant, Integrity Action will strengthen its fundraising capacity for unrestricted and restricted funding to support its multi-year organizational strategy.
for support to civil society advocacy coalitions in West Africa In late 2011, with funding from the Hewlett Foundation, IntraHealth International, Inc. initiated an effort in Francophone West Africa to build civil society’s capacity to advocate for family planning services and to hold governments accountable for improving national family planning programs. The project, called the Civil Society for Family Planning (CS4FP) project, created advocacy coalitions in Benin, Mali, and Senegal whose membership includes nongovernmental service delivery organizations, religious leaders, youth and women’s associations. This grant would extend the CS4FP project and permit IntraHealth to develop options for creating a family planning advocacy network for civil society throughout the region.
for support of the En(gender)ing African Social Movements Programme As a pan-African network, Africans Rising supports African grassroots movements in crisis to strategize, mobilize, and influence decision-makers to advance positive change. This flexible support grant enables Africans Rising to strengthen its En-gendering African Social Movements Program by mainstreaming women’s rights and African feminism within broader social justice activism.  (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support to redesign an operating model This organizational effectiveness grant will support Population Services International (PSI) to develop a new operational plan for the organization. Population Services International introduced a new global strategic plan in 2017, one that represents a big shift in the way PSI achieves its mission. While the strategy spells out the strategic direction, PSI needs a new operational model that will support the implementation of this plan at headquarters and in over 50 country programs.
for implementation of a discrimination and sexual harassment protocol This grant will enable Fundar to develop guiding principles, a manual and carry out awareness workshops to implement the protocol on prevention of discrimination, gender-based violence, and sexual harassment.
for exploring the links between care and women’s economic empowerment The International Labour Organization (ILO) proposes to conduct qualitative and quantitative research on the relationship of child care to women workers’ rights and empowerment, workplace productivity, and economic growth. The ILO seeks to foster an evidence-based policy dialogue on this subject at global and regional levels, hold meetings to highlight dimensions of the care-economic empowerment links for different audiences, and produce and disseminate high-level reports. This work will improve the gender analysis and evidence for the 2015 International Labour Conference, which is expected to generate a new recommendation regarding the transition from informal to formal employment.
for establishing a unit to promote impact evaluations of poverty reduction programs The University of Cape Town is one of the premier African research and training institutions and is already a key Hewlett Foundation partner for the Population Program. Taking advantage of UCT's in-house expertise and collaborative relationships with researchers throughout sub-Saharan Africa, this new grant would establish a unit at UCT to build African ability to conduct impact evaluations of social programs and to use the results to influence policy decisions. The model for the new unit is the Hewlett Foundation grantee MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the premier entity devoted to reducing poverty by generating evidence on what works through randomized evaluations of poverty reduction programs. At UCT, the new unit would be known as J-PAL Africa, the Africa regional affiliate of the J-PAL network. The goal of J-PAL Africa is to make social programs in sub-Saharan Africa more effective by ensuring that policymakers and the public have access to rigorous evidence about which social interventions are most successful and cost-effective. Making decisions in this way helps ensure that development resources are expended with greater accountability for both impact and value for money.
for a project to strengthen Regions Refocus’ administrative, legal, and financial infrastructures This grant is to the Sustainable Markets Foundation which hosts Regions Refocus. Regions Refocus builds cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy, sparking alliances and strengthening analysis to challenge the dominant, neoliberal development framework. Regions Refocus work includes collaborating on policy workshops, organizing collective research projects, and growing advocacy coalitions. This organizational effectiveness grant will support Regions Refocus to carry out an assessment of available institutional arrangement models to determine what is the best model for it going forward. It will also enhance program management systems through tailored capacity coaching, including evaluating existing systems, assessing operational needs, and charting a coaching plan to focus on priority areas. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment).
for general operating support The African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) is a pan-African nonprofit research and policy institute that works to bridge the gaps between research, policy, and practice in Africa. AFIDEP supports governments to consistently use robust evidence to inform policy formulation, resource allocation, and program implementation to accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and other national development goals. AFIDEP will strengthen institutional systems that facilitate evidence-informed decision making (EIDM); contribute to and expand the EIDM community of practice; generate and translate evidence to inform action on the SDGs; share best practices in promoting evidence use; and to internally strengthen institutional systems and processes to deliver its mandate. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a project to promote Africa’s voice and positions in international tax dialogues The African Tax Administration Forum is an intergovernmental platform that promotes collaboration among African tax authorities. The forum seeks to build efficient and effective tax administrations in the region to enable governments to mobilize adequate resources from domestic sources for development. In addition to boosting domestic revenues and strengthening policies that support inclusive development, the forum’s global program provides a unified voice for African countries in international tax debates and norm-setting processes. This grant will enable the forum to deepen their regional training and peer learning programs as well as the international advocacy program.
for general operating support Advocates for Community Alternatives partners with communities in West Africa to explore community development alternatives that are not dependent on mining and carbon extraction. It will expand its community oversight initiative in the Donkro Nkwanta region of Ghana from the municipal to district level while deepening its West African regional partnerships for coordinated public interest litigation. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for the Open Contracting Partnership project The Open Contracting Partnership engages governments and nongovernmental groups to establish and implement new global standards for transparency and broad participation in public contracting. The new standards will require that governments and companies disclose more contracts, that the information in the contracts is easily accessible and presented in user-friendly formats, and that citizens have opportunities to monitor contract award and execution processes. In addition to encouraging others to create and adopt these new norms, with this grant the Partnership would support country-level application of the principles and would facilitate learning among countries to ensure greater effectiveness in the use of public resources.
for documenting the cost of unsafe abortion in Rwanda Guttmacher Institute, Inc. (New York, NY) - Project, New, $200,000 over 1 year; 67% of project budget
for support of documenting the cost of unsafe abortion in Rwanda
for general operating support The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is an alliance of advocates for inclusive and efficient decentralization and localization. LPSA aims to elevate the debate on decentralization and localization by informing, connecting, and expanding the global community of practice and by shifting the focus of the community of practice from the global level to the country level. LPSA activities include the development of knowledge products; ongoing knowledge sharing efforts; the development of online courses; and laying the foundation for field-building efforts, particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa region.