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for a program to promote equitable tax policies in Ghana Oxfam America works closely with local civil society organizations around the world to promote transparency of government revenues and spending and to increase public participation in decisions about how public resources are allocated and spent. Oxfam’s vision in Ghana is “a just, equitable, and sustainable society where those with power are accountable and citizens realize their rights.” Oxfam’s Accountable Governance and Just Economy program supports increased citizen oversight and influence in the use of government revenues and resources in Ghana. Building off the previous one, this grant aims to sustain and scale up gains from the ongoing initiative for improved transparency, accountability, and performance of government tax revenue at both the subnational and national levels in Ghana through active citizenship and civil society engagement and oversight by end of 2024. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for general operating support The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation promotes the production and use of evidence from rigorous impact evaluations by policymakers to improve social and economic development programs in low- and middle-income countries. Founded on recommendations from the Hewlett-supported Evaluation Gap Working Group, 3ie is supported by a coalition of forward-thinking development partners, including the Gates Foundation and the British Department for International Development. Now in its second year of operation, 3ie has awarded more than fifty grants for new impact studies, has produced eleven reviews of exiting research, has published five issues of The Journal of Development Effectiveness, and has launched an innovative "policy window" grant competition to nurture evaluation proposals that incorporate the interests and questions of policymakers right from the design phase. Additional operating support would help 3ie meet the demand for, and promote the use of, evidence from impact evaluations by policymakers who can ensure that development resources are allocated to the programs that have the greatest impact.

The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Inc. (3ie) (Washington, DC) – GOS; Renewal; $2,000,000 over 1 year; 16% of organizational budget
for staff leadership development and communications training APHRC is a premier research institute in Africa, with a strong Education Research Program that seeks to provide rigorous information to educators and policymakers in East Africa about what school factors most affect children's learning. This grant would provide leadership coaching for staff at APHRC, including the manager of the Education Research Program, and would help the Education Research Program to develop a communications strategy along with building the staff's communication skills.
for a research and dissemination project on reforming the administration of justice in Mexico None
for supporting citizen-led assessments worldwide This grant will allow Hivos to support the People’s Action for Learning Network, a peer learning network that supports organizations that are implementing citizen-led assessments of learning in 13 countries. The network will support its members to improve their work, better understand and share learning about its impacts, and ensure that the data generated contributes to monitoring progress of the education Sustainable Development Goals at the country and global level.
for the charitable purpose of building grantee capacity to use technology for transparency in Mexico CitiVox is a new technology company dedicated to developing innovative technological solutions for promoting greater government transparency and citizen participation. In Mexico, CitiVox has quickly become an essential resource for the Hewlett grantee community, working closely with organizations to bolster their technical capacity through training and technical assistance, as well as developing tools that improve data analysis, web presentations, and outreach. This grant would strengthen CitiVox's technical assistance and training capacity, and support tailored technical development projects for at least 5 of our transparency and accountability grantees in Mexico.
for activities to ensure the participation of traditionally disadvantaged stakeholders in the trade policy arena None
for communicating research on economic development, reproductive health and population dynamics None
for policy and programmatic guidance on reproductive choices for people living with HIV/AIDS None
for capacity-building of women's organizations to engage in decision-making about public services ONG-3D is a Senegalese organization that promotes budget transparency and builds the capacity of local citizen groups to use information about their government’s policies and development plans to demand better public services. Through this grant, the organization will design and implement a project that tests approaches for achieving gender equity in local decision making. As a result of this grant, women’s organizations in two municipalities in Senegal will have better access to budget and other information about government services in their localities, know how to interpret and use it, and who within their municipality to contact to express their priorities and concerns.
for support of the Impact Evaluation for Evidence Based Decisions project Makerere University is a public Ugandan university engaged in teaching, research, and community outreach. This grant will support scholars from the School of Public Health and the School of Statistics and Planning to continue to implement an initiative called Impact Evaluation for Evidence Based Decisions. Their goal is to work with policymakers in the sectors of health, education, and agriculture to strengthen the use of impact evaluation in policy decisions and program implementation. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for co-hosting a peer-to-peer learning event on citizen engagement Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) conducts independent research and analysis of public expenditures and advocates for evidence-based public policies. ACODE  builds citizens’ capacity to use data to demand accountability in service delivery and enhances central and local governments’ capacity to respond to citizen demands. This grant will enable ACODE to jointly convene, with the Hewlett Foundation, a learning and exchange event for selected grantees in East and West Africa pursuing budget transparency and accountability, and service delivery monitoring initiatives.
for support of the civil society engagement in the Generation Equality Forum This grant supports the Global Fund for Women to strengthen the meaningful inclusion and strategic participation of grassroots feminist activists in the Beijing +25/26 processes. The inclusion and participation of feminist activists aim to maximize the impact of the Generation Equality Forums and ensure that priorities and commitments toward gender justice are cocreated with those most affected. These mobilizing efforts will inform subsequent work by feminist movements to establish accountability mechanisms for private and public sector commitments to advance women’s rights.
for the Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics The U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. The SDSN Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS) brings together members from academia, science, public policy, and companies to produce research and offer technical support for countries to increase their use of data for decision making, including nontraditional sources of data. During this grant period, TReNDS will produce research on various aspects of using data to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, support policymakers and practitioners to capitalize on new data technologies and approaches, and build capacity within academic institutions to support these processes.
for support for the Mexico City Policy tracking study This grant contributes to the Guttmacher Institute’s large-scale, multicountry study assessing the policy impact of the Mexico City Policy, or Global Gag Rule, on sexual and reproductive health funding, services, and outcomes in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda. The study will track changes in the funding available for services in these countries and the multiple pathways through which these changes may affect service delivery and individual-level outcomes. Research findings will be useful for advocacy.
for support of ONG RAES's SRHR program Réseau Africain de l’Éducation pour la Santé (RAES) uses communication and the media to advance health, education, and citizenship in West and Central Africa. This grant will enable RAES to launch a new center to deepen understanding of the determinants that strengthen narrative change, create and disseminate knowledge products based on its research, and bring together diverse social actors contributing to influential storytelling.   
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of the Centre of Actuarial Research's (CARe) population science training program Although the sub-Saharan African population projects to double in the next forty years, the African continent continues to lack adequate vital registration systems needed to accurately generate information about births, deaths, and other life events for development policy and budgets. A grant to the University of Cape Town would support the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe), the only African institution currently training population scientists to use demographic estimation techniques to overcome these poor data systems and convey population data for policy. Through its partnership with the Foundation, CARe supports vulnerable junior scientists from as many as fifteen different African countries to develop skills in technical demography. These scholars move on to research positions in their home governments and research institutes across Southern and Eastern Africa.
for measuring the impact of advocacy This grant will enable Dalberg Consulting to help develop a more sensible, collaborative, and effective way to measure the impact of advocacy. By taking stock of the tools already being used within the advocacy community and "adjacent fields" such as corporate marketing to measure their progress and impact, and piloting one or two new tools, Dalberg intends to learn about best practices in advocacy measurement and ways in which these practices could be improved upon. Dalberg ultimately hopes to support advocacy organizations to adopt an advocacy measurement approach that is easy to use, objective, and can act as a common language for organizations and funders.
for general operating support Quinto Elemento Lab is a Mexican nonprofit, nonpartisan, and independent organization that promotes investigative journalism and promotes citizen participation in matters of public interest, providing citizens with information that reinforces democratic practices. Over the long term, Quinto Elemento Lab works to cultivate a vigorous and diverse community of investigative journalists in Mexico by producing impactful investigative stories that serve the public and foster a culture of safety among investigative reporters and their editors.  Quinto Elemento Lab aims to increase the consistency, quality, and reach of the investigations it supports while diversifying the formats and dissemination channels to reach underserved audiences. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a program to improve primary school reading instruction in the Lango language in northern Uganda None
for general operating support This grant would enable the International Women’s Health Coalition to strengthen local organizations in developing countries and influence the policies and funding of governments and United Nations agencies to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls. The support would provide the Coalition with the flexibility to intensify its activities to ensure that the post-2015 development goals include a progressive agenda and meaningful targets and indicators on women and girls. During the grant period, the Coalition is also planning to evaluate past efforts to provide financial and technical support to partner organizations, and use the findings to inform its strategic planning process.
for a program to support open public contracting in East and West Africa The Africa Freedom of Information Centre brings together 37 civil society organizations from across Africa to promote the right of access to public information through research, capacity strengthening, and coordinated advocacy. The center provides leadership and technical support to members for effective implementation of country action plans to enhance citizens’ access to public information. This grant will enable the center to promote the principles and practice of open public contracting in East and West Africa and improve the quality and use of procurement data by citizens to monitor the delivery of public goods and services by private contractors.
for support of the next phase of the Ouagadougou Partnership Redstone Strategy Group, LLC will provide technical assistance to the members of the Ouagadougou Partnership, including developing a Partnership strategy. The strategy will help the Partnership identify the most effective ways to increase the number of women using contraception in nine countries in Francophone West Africa, and represents an important step in the next phase of the collaboration. Redstone will help partners set a direction for the next several years, including defining a new Partnership governance plan, developing a process to monitor and update country family planning action plans, defining a potentially expanded role for the Partnership’s Coordinating Unit, and developing processes to track what donors are spending, which action plan activities are funded, and how civil society organizations are contributing to country plans.
for Synergy of Actions for Participatory and Inclusive Governance in Senegal (SAPIGS) The Union of Associative and Community Radios (in French, Union des Radios Associatives et Communautaires - URAC) brings together 132 community radio stations. URAC is present in the 14 regions of the country and its member radios broadcast in all the languages of the country. The member radios were created by grassroots community associations and are dedicated to the progress, education, and empowerment of populations by promoting good governance and the consolidation of local democracy. URAC is made up of free, independent, and secular radio stations that are committed to the observance of human rights, the promotion of women and vulnerable groups in particular, and the preservation of the environment. They are independent, pluralistic, and refuse commercial communication. URAC has three main objectives: (a) make community radio a tool that encourages citizens to take part in the public debate by allowing them to own and control their means of participatory and pluralistic communication; (b) encourage an active participation of the community in the process of creating relevant news, information, and entertainment by promoting content based on the needs, interests, and priorities of listeners; and (c) be a consultation framework for all community radios, which on the one hand creates favorable conditions for the capacity development for member radios’ staffs and on the other hand works in synergy with state authorities, local authorities, and development partners for advocacy actions. With this support, URAC will establish participatory governance that favors new mechanisms and practices to guarantee power sharing and decision-making processes among the various actors in Senegalese society. URAC will do so by strengthening the capacities of community radios to produce content on participatory and inclusive governance, providing accurate and inclusive information to the different communities in Senegal and creating spaces for inclusive dialogue between different segments of the population. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a program to strengthen data governance in Kenya Open Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya, whose mission is to collaborate with governments, citizens, civil society organizations, and other players to develop policies, tools, and knowledge that strengthen citizens’ voices in the governance and development of their societies. Together with partner organization Amnesty International Kenya, this grant will supplement Open Institute's work supporting the effective operationalization of Kenya’s Data Protection Act, by working toward data protection harmonization and capacity building at the regional level (East African Community). This supplement 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 general operating support The Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER) works to build a citizen-led movement for corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America. PODER influences the regulatory framework of key industries, develops the capacities of communities and workers, and strengthens a citizens’ movement for corporate accountability. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for a project to develop measures of women’s economic empowerment This project will develop and test methods to measure women’s economic empowerment that can be incorporated into household surveys. Building on existing research, the project will create survey modules that will be placed in the public domain for use by the statistical community. The measurement methods will be used for a large nationwide survey in India. In addition, the project will support the creation of an online platform for a community of researchers, program implementers, and data collectors working on measuring and analyzing determinants and consequences of women’s economic empowerment.
for the Women Deliver 2013 Conference Funds will support a global conference in 2013 to focus worldwide attention on the urgent need to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5—reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three–quarters—and on interim solutions to improve the health and well-being of women and girls. The conference is anticipated to draw 5,000 participants, including parliamentarians from around the world. The conference will help raise maternal health and sexual and reproductive health to the status of global priorities by increasing awareness of the sound investment in women and girls; increasing knowledge and skills of advocates; and giving decision makers opportunities to connect to and network with their peers and other influential audiences.
for a project to study participatory budgeting for natural resource revenue in Mexico The Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) is a Mexican public research university with the mission to generate knowledge to improve policy and decision making. This project will study the impact of a participatory budgeting program in Cananea, Mexico, that enables residents to allocate funding from nearby mining revenue to infrastructure and development programs.
for support to grow the Performance Monitoring for Action abortion module This grant to the Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) project of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will support a study on abortion in Niger to assess abortion incidence, safety, clinical conditions, and individual and provider dynamics about abortion. The PMA project uses an innovative method to gather frequent data on sexual and reproductive health in eight focus countries that is used to inform national and global policy. This abortion-specific study will be the first of its kind in Niger, a highly restrictive and socially conservative context. This grant is aligned with the International Reproductive Health substrategy objective to reduce unsafe abortion in Francophone West Africa.
for support of SRHR data for decision making in Togo This grant to IDinsight will support a learning partnership with the Ministry of Health of Togo to improve its collection, management, and utilization of quality data for decisions related to family planning and other sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) programs. IDinsight will provide technical assistance to the Department of Maternal and Child Health, which oversees family planning, to develop the skills, tools, and systems needed to improve its data use, a request made by the Ministry of Health. This grant is aligned with our Global Reproductive Equity strategy and also the strategy of the Ouagadougou Partnership, to invest more in those countries within the region who struggle to meet their own family planning goals, which is consistently the case with Togo. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for enabling the PAL Network to provide citizen-led assessment data to inform action to improve learning The People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network is a South-South partnership whose member organizations work across three continents to raise public awareness about gaps in children’s learning based on evidence, and promote proven policy and community-level solutions. This grant will allow the PAL Network to continue to support its members through peer learning, the development and promotion of data quality standards, joint research, and advocacy that will contribute to monitoring progress in education.
for monitoring, evaluation, and learning, and internal communications EarthRights International defends human rights and promotes environmental justice through litigation and legal advocacy, training and leadership development, and public policy and education campaigns. In addition to the grassroots legal defense and empowerment work with individuals and resource-rich communities, EarthRights also pioneers international norms and standards that promote corporate and governmental responsibility for transparent and accountable natural resource extraction. This grant will enable EarthRights to develop a monitoring, evaluation, and learning system and strengthen their internal communications.
for the development of an alumni network This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant will support the Population Council to create an alumni network.  Many of the Population Council's researchers, fellows, and staff during its 60-year history have gone on to achieve high levels of professional success and become leaders in the population and reproductive health field and beyond.  Developing an alumni network would enable the Population Council to celebrate these successes, use the alumni and their networks to get research and evidence to a broader group of stakeholders, and over time look at opportunities to generate funding by working with the network to gain access to other, new sources of funding.
for a project to develop policy-relevant population sciences This grant would enable the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to continue to ensure that the latest research on population issues are discussed, debated, and disseminated. The Union organizes seminars and conferences to foster scientific exchange, and assists in sharing of key research results with policy makers to inform policies and programs. To help strengthen the analytical and communications capacity of junior scientists, the Union holds training workshops, provides open access to distance learning materials on advanced methodology, and supports their participation in conferences. It also coordinates the Foundation’s demographic training initiative in Francophone West Africa.