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for leadership and staff development The Institute for Social Accountability (TISA) is a Kenyan civil society organization committed to promoting transparency, participation, and accountability through research, policy, and advocacy. TISA facilitates citizen oversight of the decentralization of Kenya’s governance and resource allocation through monitoring and campaigns, such as the Okoa Uchumi campaigns for more public scrutiny of Kenya’s growing sovereign debt. This grant will support TISA's leadership and staff development.
for the Fair Water Futures Program to strengthen water accountability in Tanzania and globally Water Witness International works for a water-secure world where all people have reliable access to the water they need. This grant will support social accountability and advocacy work to improve water security for 1 million people in Tanzania. Working in collaboration with Shahidi wa Maji, a Tanzanian CSO, and other partners, the program will train and support water activists and water user associations to diagnose, document, and track public-sector responses to water problems (legal enforcement, permitting, plan development, or additional investment). Water Witness will also document and share knowledge about accountability and better financing mechanisms in the water sector.
for the International Aid Transparency Initiative The International Aid Transparency Initiative is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder effort to improve the openness of development and humanitarian resources so that they are easier to access, use, and understand. The Initiative Secretariat maintains and updates the data standard for sharing information in a common format, assists organizations in publishing to the standard, and promotes the use of the data, especially in aid recipient countries.
for work on aid effectiveness Under this grant, Save the Children will advocate for the adoption and institutionalization of U.S. foreign assistance reforms that promote greater accountability and transparency, and foster greater alignment with partner country priorities. Save the Children, together with its colleagues in the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, will leverage the collective voice of the aid and development community to hold the U.S. government accountable for its reform commitments, and conduct research to provide practical recommendations on how to deepen local ownership of U.S. foreign assistance.
for general operating support The African Institute for Development Policy focuses on enabling policymakers to effectively access and use evidence in policy formulation and operationalization. During this grant period, the Institute will work to strengthen a culture of evidence-informed decision making among African governments. It will do so by addressing barriers to evidence use, providing practical evidence and technical assistance to help governments institutionalize the use of evidence, and advancing learning and networking among experts in this emerging field.
for financial systems planning The Mawazo Institute is a nonprofit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. The institute’s goal is to help East African women launch careers as academics and thought leaders and connect their ideas to policymakers and the public. This organizational effectiveness grant will allow the Institute to strengthen its financial management system, including to better link its accounting, banking, invoicing, budgeting, and grant management systems. (Sub-strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for a project on transparency and accountability in Mexico’s largest agricultural subsidy programs None
for support of the interactive FP Voices booth at the 2016 Women Deliver Conference The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health will be participating in the Women Deliver Conference in May 2016 in Copenhagen. This grant will support the redesign, construction and installation of the "FP Voices" exhibit at Women Deliver. FP Voices is an interactive storytelling exhibit originally created for the International Conference on Family Planning in January 2016 in Bali, Indonesia. The exhibit in Bali was a huge success as it created a dynamic way for all conference attendees to share their family planning stories and insights, and Gates Institute plans to recreate this experience for the upcoming Women Deliver conference.
for general operating support Friends of Publish What You Fund advocates for transparency and accountability for foreign assistance, with a special focus on the United States. During the grant period, the organization will focus on three outcomes:  (1) ensuring that the U.S. makes significant progress in improving the visibility, quality and use of its data by the end of the current presidential administration; (2) compiling lessons learned from the past 8-10 years on transparency and accountability that can inform the next set of policy makers; and (3) providing recommendations for an ambitious transparency agenda for the next Administration.
for support to expand access to quality sexual and reproductive health services in West Africa This grant will support the Population Council’s program of research, advocacy, and action focusing on Francophone West Africa. Specific activities include research on early pregnancy, capacity building of researchers and organizations, advocacy around safe abortion in Senegal, and participation in regional coordination groups including the Ouagadougou Partnership and le Centre ODAS. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy outcome to strengthen the reproductive health ecosystem in Francophone West Africa.
for research and advocacy on feminist and equitable economic policy in Africa Regions Refocus, hosted by the Sustainable Markets Foundation, fosters regional and feminist networks through policy dialogue and workshops among civil society, governments, subregional alliances, and the United Nations. This grant will support a research and advocacy agenda to promote feminist and equitable economic policy in Africa. Regions Refocus will convene a community of experts and scholars to develop research and economic proposals with a feminist lens to advocate more inclusive and equitable economic policies in regional and global policy arenas that affect the African context.
for general operating support EngenderHealth trains public sector health professionals to provide high-quality reproductive health services in more than 20 countries. This grant will support EngenderHealth’s organizational priorities during the grant period, which include work to train health care providers, offer supervision at health sites, and work with governments to secure the availability of contraceptive and other supplies. EngenderHealth also plans to play a global leadership role in promoting a woman’s right to choose her preferred contraceptive method and testing various models of how to protect these rights in public health care systems.
for general operating support The INDEPTH Network includes 49 health and demographic surveillance systems in 19 countries. These sites collect health, demographic, and other data on 3.8 million people during regular visits to households in geographically defined areas. Longitudinal data on these households, some tracked for decades, help explain how policies and programs affect people’s well-being in low- and middle-income countries. In this grant period, INDEPTH expects to increase emphasis on policy translation activities.
for NIERA’s organizational spinoff The Network for Impact Evaluation Researchers in Africa (NIERA) is an association of East African researchers who conduct evaluations of social and economic development programs. The association is housed at the United States International University Africa. This grant will support NIERA's planned transition from a group hosted at USIU-A to an autonomous organization.
for promotion of women’s human rights in Mexico through transparency in the justice system This grant will support Equis Justicia para las Mujeres to expand its framework of action from the promotion of an open government to an open state that guarantees access to justice for all women. This project aims to achieve this goal by increasing the participation of a diversity of feminist and women's movements in citizen audits and construction of public policy exercises; strengthening the institutional responses for the prevention of and attention and access to justice for gender-based violence through research, training, and alliance building; and finally, it will build the bases for the consolidation of an open justice model that focuses on a perspective of equality and nondiscrimination. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for general operating support of the Global Fund for Women's "Advancing Health and Sexual & Reproductive Rights" program None
for convening and connecting movements in Africa on feminist alternatives to neoliberalism ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 50 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. ActionAid builds international momentum for social, economic, and environmental justice, driven by people living in poverty and exclusion. This grant will support the convening of a group of strategic thinkers, including feminists, from across Africa on building a new economic paradigm to replace neoliberalism. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for research on how family planning impacts human capital formation The Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin) is one of the largest and most productive centers of social science research and training in population. Funds would support a study and evaluation of the socio/economic effects of family planning programs. (New, $30,000/1; 100% of project budget)

This grant is aligned with Guideline 2 of the Population Program strategy to promote research related to family planning and the impacts it has on human capital formation.
for general operating support Development Initiatives seeks to advance the global poverty reduction agenda through the provision of high-quality data on poverty and public resource allocation. The organization works with local partners in Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal to ensure that decisions about the allocation of public resources focus on reducing poverty. In addition to direct advocacy through local partners, it helps watchdog groups to access and understand this data so they can advocate for better resource allocation. Development Initiatives also seeks to foster strong feedback loops between national development priorities and international commitments, notably the "leave no one behind" campaign under the Sustainable Development Goals.
for support of applying behavioral insights to improve FPRH services This grant will enable IntraHealth International to work with Behavioral Ideas Lab (ideas42) and the Senegalese Ministry of Health to improve the integration of family planning with child immunization services through behaviorally informed interventions. By designing and testing interventions based on possible behavioral challenges associated with current integration practices, IntraHealth hopes to gain valuable insights that can potentially increase the uptake and use of family planning among postpartum women in Senegal. The close partnership with the Ministry of Health is a critical component of the project, as wide-scale testing and scale-up would benefit from the support of the Senegalese government.
for empowering communities to play a central role in improving children’s learning achievement This grant would allow Tostan to tackle gaps in children’s early learning in Senegal through continued expansion of its "Reinforcement of Parental Practices" model. The program is a community-led approach that empowers caregivers with knowledge about early childhood development and practical skills to support their children’s learning. This project will reach 5,500 participants in 110 communities directly, and many more through social mobilization, cooperation with religious leaders, and distribution of children’s storybooks.
for support of access to safe abortion care in Francophone West Africa This grant to Population Services International (PSI) Francophone West Africa will support a project to increase equitable access to medication abortion (MA) through product availability and field strengthening. In Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali, PSI will facilitate the MA market in partnership with others to promote access to MA, particularly in underserved geographies. Together with le Centre ODAS and MAMA Network, PSI will also support the ecosystem of organizations working on commodities for MA and the broader self-care movement. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support to strengthen youth advocacy leadership in East Africa This grant will support Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) to work with civil society organizations in Kenya and Tanzania to implement effective and coordinated advocacy on family planning and reproductive health. To build on its existing expertise on youth empowerment issues in East Africa, DSW will prioritize working with organizations led by, or focused on, youth. DSW is planning to provide advocacy trainings to about a dozen organizations and award subgrants to up to four organizations per country. DSW will provide ongoing mentoring support and other technical assistance to enable the selected subgrantees to implement locally driven advocacy strategies.
for a joint research program on population, reproductive health and economic development None
for support of the Policy by Providence: U.S. Involvement in Health Policy Abroad project None
for a project to support advocacy for the sustainable development process With these grant funds, Sex og Samfund (Danish Family Planning Association) would work to ensure the integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights within the post-2015 development goals. Sex og Samfund plans to collaborate with partners in the Population and Sustainable Development Alliance, a group dedicated to linking issues of reproductive health, population, and sustainable development, in order to influence the Sustainable Development Goals framework.
for support to host the Human-Centered Design Exchange This grant to JSI Research & Training Institute will support the second phase of HCD Exchange, an effort to promote the use of human-centered design (HCD) in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Co-funded with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the HCD Exchange aims to improve ASRH outcomes through increased use of methods and principles that center on the aspirations of youth, as well as to expand the field of human-centered design in adolescent sexual and reproductive health to more organizations, funders, designers, and evaluators. During this grant, JSI will harness the learnings and community built under the initial grant to promote the uptake of new practices and to deepen engagement and sustainability of the community. This is a final grant to the HCD Exchange project under the new Global Reproductive Equity strategy.
for work in Niger to help implementing partners use customer insights research Hope Consulting provides customer insights and strategy assistance to global development partners. This support would allow Hope Consulting to assist the Ministry of Health and other family planning partners in Niger to translate for current programs the firm’s recent research and insights about what women want in terms of family planning.
for the development and piloting of a responsive evidence system for African policy needs 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 aims to support a responsive and connected evidence ecosystem for African policy needs. PACE will engage, coordinate, and enable the dedicated work of individuals and organizations across Africa to provide locally tailored and increasingly institutionalized responsive evidence services to decision makers. The team will also build the capacity of evidence-informed policy practitioners by facilitating collaborations and knowledge sharing across national and regional contexts in Africa. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for membership development, travel grants program, and international outreach The Population Association of America is the association of professional demographers in the United States and fosters interdisciplinary research on the causes and impact of population dynamics and implications for policies and programs. This grant would continue support for the Association’s competitive travel grant program that brings scholars from developing countries to the annual meetings and provides editorial support for them to publish their conference submissions in a peer-reviewed journal. The project would also support the Association’s initiative to strengthen population science associations in developing regions.
for support of Africa No Filter’s local registration planning This grant to Rockefeller Philanthropic Advisors will support Africa No Filter (ANF) to facilitate a smooth transition to an independent, locally registered nongovernment organization. This shift will allow ANF to ensure its autonomy, improve administrative processes, and open up new funding opportunities. There is also an allocation in this grant for wellness in furtherance of the organization’s charitable purpose. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the Challenges for International Scientific Partnerships project This project will document and analyze cross-national scientific collaborations to address three questions: (a) what are the benefits of international scientific partnerships, particularly in cases where diplomatic relations are strained; (b) what are the structural barriers; and (c) what can be done to ameliorate these obstacles. The solutions to structural obstacles will be based on historical case studies drawn from multiple scientific disciplines (e.g., chemistry, physics, biomedical science, earth science, and social science). The results of the work will inform academic institutions in the United States and abroad, as well as public and private funders.
for communications strategy and capacity building Sunbird AI is a Ugandan organization that partners with African public sector and civil society organizations to develop practical AI systems to strengthen decision-making, service delivery, and feedback loops between governments and citizens. Sunbird AI also works to strengthen public sector capacities and policies on the use of AI. This organizational effectiveness grant will enable Sunbird AI to develop a communications strategy and strengthen its organizational positioning. Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking
for the Biodiversity and  Sustainable Development conference The Global Development Conference on Biodiversity and Sustainable Development will focus on substantive and inclusive discussions at the highest level of expertise, grounded in empirical evidence and focused on these interrelated topics of mainstreaming biodiversity: financing nature and biodiversity, diverse knowledge systems, nature-based alternative solutions to development challenges, the interplay between agriculture and food production with biodiversity and ecosystem preservation, links to poverty and inequality, as well as the implementation of the landmark agreement at the last COP15 – the United Nation’s Convention on Biological Diversity. This grant provides promising researchers and activists from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America the opportunity to disseminate their work, interact with academics and policymakers, and network globally. The conference brings forth new knowledge and southern perspectives on the intersection of biodiversity, sustainable development, and women’s economic empowerment.
for general operating support The Revenue Watch Institute (RWI) is the only organization devoted exclusively to helping countries that are rich in oil, gas, and mining resources guarantee the effective, transparent, and accountable management of their extractive resources for the public good. With support from the Hewlett Foundation since 2006, RWI has been successful in advancing global norms such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and in supporting country-level citizen watchdog and advocacy groups to ensure compliance with these norms. RWI is about to embark upon an exercise to define outcomes and undertake strategic planning. With the Foundation’s support over the course of 2012, in addition to its ongoing activities, RWI plans to evolve and hone its approach and to develop an integrated monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework.
for the joint Hewlett/ESRC population/reproductive health and economic development research scheme None
for Read India Phase III, a nationwide program to improve learning achievement in the primary grades With this grant, Pratham USA, a successful longtime grantee, would continue improving learning achievement in India’s primary grades through three interlinked activities: (1) ongoing creation and testing of better instructional practice and delivery models; (2) implementation of these models in demonstration areas to show how learning can be improved; and (3) mainstreaming the most successful models through collaborations with state and district governments.
for IT and systems updates The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) supports the production and dissemination of policy-relevant research; designs and delivers professional development courses for researchers and policy actors; and facilitates a collaborative higher education program across African countries. As a growing organization, PASGR is embarking on a number of necessary internal efforts to bolster the soundness of the organization itself. With this organizational effectiveness grant, PASGR will invest in the overhaul of two of its internal systems: (1) the upgrade, development and implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, and (2) the upgrading of its IT systems, processes and policies. This will further strengthen PASGR’s organizational resilience – made even more salient by the pandemic showing the criticality of having solid IT infrastructure in an increasingly virtual world.
for general operating support The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity) develops research tools and conducts evaluations to examine the impact of voluntary efforts that have been formed to tackle issues such as corruption in the oil sector. Many such initiatives involve businesses, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and communities as they contend with governance gaps that are not adequately addressed by domestic or international legal or regulatory regimes. MSI Integrity’s findings would strengthen both ongoing and future initiatives by determining whether, when, and how these efforts are most effective.