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for organizational restructuring with a DEI lens The Local Public Sector Alliance (LPSA) is a newly formed global professional network for advocates of inclusive and efficient decentralization and localization. LPSA recognizes decentralization and localization are critical for achieving resilient, inclusive, sustainable, equitable, and efficient development. This Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) grant aims to support LPSA to direct greater attention within its membership and Community of Practice on public sector service delivery by elevating the debate on the linkages between multilevel governance and DEI. This grant will support LPSA regional working groups to prioritize local gender budgeting, women’s representation at the local level, and more inclusive local budgetary spending decisions. This grant will also allow LPSA to establish—and subsequently shift the center of gravity within the Alliance to regional and thematic Expert Working Groups, enabling it to bring together a range of voices and interests on different topics across global regions. This grant will further strengthen the leadership of each of LPSA’s nascent Expert Working Groups to promote the inclusion of different voices, gender parity in the leadership of all working groups, and gender representation in all of its public fora.
for a program to foster fiscal sustainability with citizen voices and evidence-informed policies This grant will allow the Centro de Investigación Económica y Presupuestaria (CIEP), A.C. to complete a public expenditures analysis by developing two public expenditure reports on financing public infrastructure and public security. CIEP will study alternatives to expand the fiscal space, as well as construct a database to improve the accuracy and targeting of fiscal policies. It will continue work on its fiscal simulator and promote its use by creating micro simulations in other countries in the Global South that are experiencing fiscal contraction. In addition, CIEP will develop participatory budgeting tools for public expenditures on key public services, such as health, at the local level.
for support of DSW Tanzania’s Reproductive Equity Strategy in Tanzania (REST) Partnership project This grant will support DSW Tanzania, an advocacy organization that works to create an enabling environment where young people are empowered to realize their full potential through inclusive and meaningful participation in society. Through core funding, capacity strengthening, and youth and gender empowerment initiatives, DSW Tanzania will implement the Reproductive Equity Strategy in Tanzania (REST) partnership project with 11 diverse youth- and women-focused organizations working on SRHR and gender. DSW Tanzania and partners will enable youth to work with national and subnational decision makers in Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, and Mwanza to improve reproductive health policies, financing, and supportive narratives. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the Trade, Aid and Security Coalition to organize a series of roundtables, public meetings, and small meetings with opinion leaders on U.S. trade and poverty policies that affect developing countries None
for training African lawyers and officials in trade law for international trade negotiations None
for the Fueling the Development Investment System program Oxfam America’s "Fueling the Development Investment System" program emphasizes increased transparency and opportunities for citizen participation in public resource decision making. Oxfam advocates for improved global and national norms for revenue and public finance transparency, and works with local partners to ensure that funds from extractive industries, external aid, and tax revenues are used to make economic growth more inclusive.
for fundraising planning IntraHealth International focuses on improving the quality of family planning and reproductive health services globally, with a particular focus on training and supporting health care workers. This organizational effectiveness grant will support assistance for IntraHealth from FSG to develop new strategic partnerships with the corporate sector. Funding will also allow IntraHealth to join the FSG-led Shared Value Working Group, a group of more than 15 similarly-challenged organizations seeking new ways of working.
for a pilot methodology to incorporate gender into fiscal incidence analysis The World Bank Group is an international financial organization that provides low-cost loans and grants to developing countries around the world, as well as policy advice, research and analysis, and technical advice. The World Bank Group’s twin goals are to eradicate extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity. The World Bank regularly conducts fiscal incidence analysis, assessing the overall economic impact of both government taxation and expenditures on individuals. The bank seeks to incorporate a gender perspective into the established fiscal incidence framework. With this grant, the bank will produce a methodological paper as well as two country case studies implementing the engendered methodology. In the long term, the bank plans to use the new methods to bring a gender perspective to fiscal incidence analyses that will influence future bank loans. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for development of a performance culture for reproductive health services For development of a performance culture for reproductive health services
for support of the network of organizations implementing citizen-led assessments Pratham’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has catalyzed international attention to India’s learning crisis by mobilizing volunteers to visit hundreds of thousands of households across the country and test whether children can read and do basic math. ASER has inspired similar citizen-led assessments of student learning outcomes in Pakistan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, and Senegal. With this grant, the ASER Centre would provide more intentional support to the growing network of organizations conducting citizen-led learning assessments. Their efforts would help catalyze further growth in the network, facilitate joint learning among network members, encourage wider use of the learning data and assessment tools developed by network members, and promote global and national education learning goals.
for AidData to more intensively engage with policymakers, influencers, and researchers in Africa AidData is a research lab at the College of William and Mary that equips policymakers and practitioners with analytical tools and better evidence. The purpose of this project is to help AidData identify and evaluate partnership opportunities and modalities for more intensive engagement with African policymakers, influencers, and researchers. AidData will also bolster the internal capacity of policy advocacy and research organizations to support government officials in Africa.
for support of Special Programme of Research, Development & Research Training in Human Reproduction None
for support of Valuing Women's Work for a More Equal World ActionAid USA will carry out in-country participatory research in South Africa, linking it to global analysis and advocacy in mainstream economic spaces relevant to women’s economic empowerment such as unpaid care burden, access to decent work and livelihoods, gender-responsive public services provision, and gender-just taxation. Learning from this research will be documented for adapting and replicating this project in other contexts. ActionAid will develop an international advocacy strategy and activities. They will work with feminist organizations in an international alliance, building their capacity to demand policy change within the broader frame of economic inequality.
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 widespread adoption of big data innovation for sustainable development and humanitarian action. This supplemental grant will support Global Pulse’s ongoing work to develop frameworks and standards to address data access and privacy challenges, connect communities of practice across disciplines and geographies to build trust, and provide public sector organizations with policy guidance and technical assistance. In addition, this grant will allow Global Pulse to undertake a strategic review and respond to new political and technological opportunities.
for general operating support The Center for Global Development (CGD) celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Its mission of improving the policies of the rich and powerful to promote shared global prosperity has been built on combining rigorous research and analysis with insider knowledge of how to engage and influence major institutions.  This model has been tremendously successful in translating ideas into action and influencing the policies of international financial institutions, the G-8/G-20, and the United States government. To remain successful over the next ten years, CGD plans to expand its research and advocacy networks to connect with new sources of influence in global development. The Center will therefore deepen its engagement in Europe, Asia, the Gulf States, and other emerging powers in Africa and Latin America such as Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. Along with this increased geographical reach and expertise, CGD will explore new arenas that are responsive to the latest trends in global development thinking, including energy and infrastructure, innovative private financial mechanisms, the future of extractive industries, and global governance.
for IDinsight's investment in strategic communications Idinsight helps leaders use data and evidence to combat poverty, working closely with decision makers to generate and help apply evidence to inform decisions. This organizational effectiveness grant will help Idinsight bolster its strategic communications. Specifically, Idinsight will improve its web presence and social media strategy, share its work to help governments respond to COVID-19, and develop processes and tools to make external communications more efficient.
for planning activities to establish a center for data technology The grant to Makerere University will support a planning phase for a center for data technology that will contribute to solving prevailing social and economic development problems on the African continent through the use of data. The planning process will draw on the technical expertise and project experience of leadership and scholars from Makerere University’s current Artificial Intelligence lab, broad outreach with policy stakeholders and potential partners, as well as support from a set of consultants to facilitate planning from both a strategic and operational perspective.
for general operating support TrustAfrica is a pan-African foundation that supports diverse civil society organizations to advance systemic change in the areas of equitable development, democracy and governance, and African philanthropy. It was established in 2006 as a vehicle to mobilize resources required to support African agency in setting priorities and championing responses to the most pressing issues facing the continent. Over the next two years, TrustAfrica will pursue program development and consolidation as well as organizational development and strengthening to build on the organization’s strategic plan. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation and Accountability)
for a project to analyze how proposed reforms for the U.S. farm bill reauthorization in 2007 will affect commodity prices and market opportunities for farmers in developing countries None
for support to Oxfam West Africa’s project enhancing women’s participation in extractives governance Oxfam West Africa is a global organization seeking to combat inequality by mobilizing extractive industry revenues toward social spending. This grant aims to ensure that women and other marginalized groups are able to participate, influence, and have equal voice in decision making about how extractive industry revenues are reported, managed, and used in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. This grant will particularly focus on strengthening the advocacy efforts to push for 30% of development funds from extractive sector revenue to benefit the development and rights of women and girls. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for the videoconferencing project A videoconferencing grant to Global Integrity will support the purchase and installation of videoconferencing systems for the OpenGov Hub based in Washington, DC.  The OpenGov Hub is the location of Global Integrity’s main office and is shared with other transparency and open government NGOs.   Videoconferencing equipment will facilitate communication with the organization’s recently opened Global Integrity office in Cape Town, South Africa and will also be a shared resource available to other organizations at the OpenGov Hub, including Hewlett grantee the Kiwanja Foundation as well as  Development Gateway, which receives Hewlett support via a grant to the College of William and Mary for the AidData project.
for a publication on the impact of how the U.S. promotes global development in the 21st century None
for the Regional Institute for Population Studies program The Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) at the University of Ghana is a rising center of excellence for interdisciplinary research and training in population sciences in Africa. Recommended core support for the RIPS program would enable the Institute to invest deeply in areas with high potential for growth. RIPS will broaden seed investments to expand its funded research portfolio, including its nascent population and health research site. The Institute also plans an expansion of its international programs, taking on doctoral candidates from other regions of the continent, and leveraging its alumni network to build an international portfolio of research.
for the La Promotora de Acción e Información Social (PRACCIS) project in Mexico Echoing Green will serve as fiscal sponsor for La Promotora de Acción e Información Social (PRACCIS), an organization dedicated to increasing corporate accountability in Mexico and throughout Latin America. Its goal is to educate the public about issues related to corporate social responsibility. The organization also seeks to train stakeholders to use more and better information about how corporations operate, to hold corporations accountable for the effects of their activities on local communities. This grant will help fund a Who’s Who Wiki for corporate accountability, an open-source, web-based tool designed to compile information on the behavior of major corporations working in Mexico. The project will emphasize the publication and dissemination of information about public procurement processes, and large public works projects that are outsourced to private corporations. This information will feed into the organization’s support for citizen monitoring of the execution of these publicly funded projects.
for fundraising development and communications strategy This organizational effectiveness grant will support the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to develop a fundraising plan. The grant will also support the development of a communications plan for boosting membership and reaching out to new funders. The communications plan will include a toolkit with resources to support the implementation of the plans.
for an international conference to discuss bioenergy as an alternative energy option for the future None
for general support of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is dedicated to fighting global poverty by ensuring that policy decisions are based on scientific evidence. To broaden and deepen the evidence base, J-PAL trains evaluators and policymakers in the design and use of randomized evaluations, and conducts outreach to encourage the expansion and replication of effective programs. Recognized as the premier institution in this field, and having established five affiliate offices around the world, including the Hewlett-supported branch in South Africa, J-PAL is well on its way to improving the lives of over 100 million people across the globe.
for strategic planning and geographic program expansion The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) trains public servants in Ghana and across West Africa. GIMPA also provides governance, management and public administration support for the public and private sector and non-governmental organizations. GIMPA is being supported by the Hewlett Foundation through the second phase of the Development Impact West Africa (DIWA) program. DIWA strengthens West African government decision makers’ knowledge and use of evaluations to inform policy and program design. With this grant, GIMPA will develop DIWA's Strategic Planning, further its geographic program expansion, improve effective communication and strengthen staff capacities in leadership and fundraising. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking).
for support of a public expenditure program This grant will allow México Evalúa to consolidate work on their Public Expenditure and Accountability Program by (1) designing a set of impact indicators to monitor and evaluate the performance of the public health sector; (2) promoting accountability in the planning and execution of public infrastructure in the health sector; and (3) contributing to more transparency and accountability in the planning, execution, and monitoring of public finances.
for improving the quality and transparency of public spending in states and municipalities of Mexico None
for strategic planning, program development, and strengthening of financial and information systems The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) promotes and protects the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and young people in developing countries.  IWHC is going through a leadership transition following the departure of the previous President after more than two decades of service.  The new President, Francoise Girard, started her tenure in February 2012.  The grant funds would help support transition activities and provide IWHC the opportunity to rethink its strategic positioning and streamline its financial and administrative systems to create a leaner, more efficient organization with a renewed focus on programmatic and communications work.
for general operating support DKT International uses commercial marketing techniques to promote and distribute contraceptive and safe abortion products in 19 countries, extending the availability of these products beyond the clinical setting. This flexible support will allow DKT International to expand the marketing of contraceptives — particularly long-term methods — to doctors, nurses, midwives, and consumers through pharmacies, informal drug shops, and franchised private clinics.
for support to the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit IntraHealth International hosts the Coordination Unit of the Ouagadougou Partnership in Senegal. The partnership is a collaboration among donors and the nine Francophone countries in West Africa to increase family planning use through convening, data sharing, and global representation. This grant will cover one year of support during which the hosting of the Coordination Unit will be transitioned from IntraHealth to a new West African organization to be determined through an open call for proposals that is underway. This grant is aligned with the International Reproductive Health strategy objective to increase access to family planning in Francophone West Africa.
for strengthening women's participation in social accountability in the extractive sectors This grant to Oxfam America will support research on gender biases in transparency and accountability mechanisms in the extractives sector in Zambia and the Dominican Republic. Oxfam America will use the research findings to build the capacity of civil society organizations through training and mentoring to incorporate women’s rights in the extractives industry accountability agendas. Ultimately, Oxfam America will develop a model for incorporating a gender lens into the extractives transparency and accountability work, which could be replicated for advocacy at different levels.
for a project to reform and enhance the effectiveness of U.S. foreign assistance None
for growing a pan-African feminist collective to transform macroeconomic narratives and policies This grant is to the Tax Justice Network Africa as the fiscal sponsor for Nawi – Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (Nawi Collective). The Tax Justice Network Africa is a growing regional network of 44 civil society organizations including think tanks; trade unions; feminists; and youth-led, faith-based, and community-based organizations spread across 25 African countries to promote socially just tax policies. The Nawi Collective is a pan-African feminist initiative launched in 2020, focused on building a community of African feminist and women’s rights organizations working on influencing, analyzing, deconstructing, and reconstructing macroeconomic policies, narratives, and understanding through an intersectional pan-African feminist lens. This grant will supplement the main grant supporting the development of the Nawi Collective, by providing increased resources to strategically influence policy spaces, build a body of knowledge, and curate spaces for reflection and learning. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for establishment of an impact evaluation laboratory at the Economic and Social Research Foundation The Economic and Social Research Foundation is a Tanzanian think tank. With this grant, the organization will expand its impact evaluation research, and provide training and support to Tanzanian researchers and policymakers who are interested in this kind of policy analysis.
for the Governance and Institutions Umbrella Program The World Bank Group is a global partnership of five institutions comprising the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation,  the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. Together they work for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries. The World Bank helps developing countries achieve sustainable growth by financing investment, mobilizing capital in international financial markets, and providing advisory services and analytical work. Within the World Bank, the Governance Global Practice helps countries build capable, efficient, inclusive, and accountable institutions for enhancing trust, public service delivery, and private sector development. The Governance and Institutions Umbrella Program (G&I UP) will focus on building the public institutions and public accountability pillars for that objective.
The objective of the Governance and Institutions Umbrella Program is to contribute to public sector modernization in bank client countries, including the support of improved public sector performance and institutional reform, increased application of digital and technology solutions, and enhanced transparency and accountability. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a project to establish standards for political finance transparency Through this grant, Global Integrity, along with partner organizations, would work to develop a set of internationally shared best practices for the way governments can publish information about political finance. Currently there are no standards for information about how campaigns are financed that are freely available to citizens throughout the electoral process. This initiative seeks to set a minimum baseline for political finance transparency, and encourage the adoption of these standards in countries with political systems to which such standards might apply.