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for research on reproductive health in Ghana This renewal grant to Yale University would support research on the factors behind the decline in fertility in Ghana and its consequences on women’s health and productivity. The research team will analyze a series of five Ghana Living Standard Surveys collected from 1988 to 2005, and the 2009–10 Ghana Socio-Economic Panel Survey. Several topics will be explored in depth, including (1) the effects of local public services for reproductive health, family planning, and schooling; (2) the intergenerational transfers of schooling, land, and other assets; and (3) the impact of increases in women’s ownership of land (resulting from land tenure and inheritance laws passed in 1985), microenterprises, and business assets on their fertility and their children’s health and schooling.
for a project on improved global access to information standards Article 19, Inc. is a U.S. 501(c)(3) that will serve as a fiscal sponsor for Article 19 international, which is a nongovernmental organization that promotes freedom of expression and the right to access public information. This grant would provide funding to continue a project to improve international standards for citizen access to government information.
for general operating support The West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) based in Accra, Ghana, builds the capacity of and facilitates peer learning of civil society organizations across both Francophone and Anglophone West Africa. WACSI also advocates for government policies and donor practices that enable the growth of a robust civil society in the region. WACSI is led and staffed by Africans who have deep knowledge, experience, and networks across the civil society landscape in West Africa. This general operating support will fund WACSI’s priorities as described in their 2018-2022 strategic plan. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for a project to improve citizen access to government information and services using mobile phones The Social Impact Lab (SIMLab) makes it easier for citizens to access government information and services by using mobile devices, particularly in lower-income countries. As the team behind FrontlineSMS, the free mobile phone software, SIMLab helps lower barriers to citizen engagement by building and disseminating its open source software and by providing support to transparency and accountability groups. SIMLab also works with governments that are actively seeking more robust tools for soliciting citizen participation and feedback. This grant would enable SIMLab to tailor their software more to government and civil society needs and to measure and document the impact of using mobile technologies in promoting more productive citizen-government engagement.
for work with African journalists to increase the use of data for development planning None
for strategic planning This Organizational Effectiveness grant will support the Population Association of America to develop its first organizational strategic plan. Input from members and other stakeholders will help guide the consultant and Board to develop a strategy that will raise the profile of the demography field and guide organizational decision making.
for support of EngenderHealth's programs and strategy in West Africa This grant will help EngenderHealth build its program for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Francophone West Africa. EngenderHealth will collect data and generate evidence, use this evidence to test marketing strategies that would gain broader acceptance for the need for reproductive health services, and develop the clinical capacity of providers in the public sector to deliver critical services such as safe abortion. During this phase of the project EngenderHealth will initially focus activities in Togo, while looking for opportunities to expand activities to other countries in the region.
for general operating support The Population Council generates ideas, produces evidence, and designs solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. Under its new strategic plan, it seeks to ensure sexual and reproductive health, rights, and choices by leveraging its long-standing thought leadership, cutting-edge research, and deep networks for evidence use.. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for the creation of a national index of corruption and good governance Transparencia Mexicana, the Mexican chapter of Transparency International, is focused on promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity in the provision of public services in Mexico. Among its core activities, the organization monitors national and subnational government practices on service delivery and procurement. This grant will allow the organization to continue producing its National Index on Corruption and Good Governance, incorporating disaggregated data at the local level for the first time.
for providing technical support for a project to publicly disclose agricultural subsidies in Mexico None
for support of APHRC's Policy Engagement and Communication Program This grant will enable the African Population and Health Research Center to ensure research and evidence generated by the Center is better utilized in local, national, and regional policy formulation and action. Specifically, the Policy Engagement and Communication program plans to work to increase the Center’s participation in pan-African policy forums, enhance the visibility of the Center’s work through strategic communication, and manage and share knowledge more effectively internally and externally. A separate grant on this docket provides general operating support to the Center.
for a learning agenda for public/private data partnerships The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), hosted by the United Nations Foundation, engages with partners across sectors to broker partnerships that enable the production, sharing, and use of better data to drive better decisions and better lives for all. With this grant, GPSDD will work to increase government actors’ access to and use of privately held data by (a) improved governance, management skills, and capacity of government actors in focus countries to access and ultimately use privately held data; and (b) advanced learning on the pathways from strengthening governance and management capacity to smoother data access and increased data use. This grant will advance one of the goals under our Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy, that governments use new and traditional forms of data to improve policy decision making and ultimately outcomes for people.
for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative The Transparency and Accountability Initiative, hosted by Proteus Fund, is a donor collaborative that coordinates research and exchange among transparency and accountability donors at the global level. This grant will support a new three-year strategy to increase members’ collective impact by improving their grantmaking and facilitating collective action around four priority themes: (a) data use for accountability, (b) taxation and tax governance, (c) strengthening civic space, and (d) learning for improved grantmaking.
for conference sponsorship of Whose Knowledge Whose Knowledge? is a program of Peace Development Fund that works toward more diversity and inclusion in the design, architecture, content, and governance of the internet. This grant will support Whose Knowledge? to convene marginalized community organizers, technologists, scholars, artists, and contributors to Wikipedia to develop a research-action agenda to identify opportunities to make open-licensed content more diverse, representative, and inclusive.
for general operating support EngenderHealth trains public sector health professionals to provide high-quality maternal and reproductive health services in more than 20 countries. This flexible support will allow EngenderHealth to train health care providers in providing quality services, offer supervision at health sites, and work with governments to assure the availability of contraceptive and other supplies. EngenderHealth will also use this support 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 health care systems.
for support to the Evidence in Governance and Politics network Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) is a research, evaluation, and learning network based at the University of California at Berkeley that fosters academic-practitioner collaborations to study governance and politics with an intensive focus in the Global South. This grant supports EGAP to strengthen its partnerships with regional research hubs through three sets of activities: (a) events and research papers that take evidence on governance interventions in specific contexts and use them to make policy recommendations in new contexts; (b) the development of tools and infrastructure for improving governance research; and (c) a series of “Learning Days” events for researchers from the Global South coupled with a grantmaking program for research projects. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for general operating support This general operating support to the African Population and Health Research Center will enable the Center to ensure that health and education policies and practices in sub-Saharan Africa are informed by robust scientific evidence. As a pan-African research organization, the Center generates and synthesizes knowledge on education, health systems, population dynamics, aging, and urbanization. The Center also engages with policymakers and other key audiences at the local, national, and regional levels to make sure the evidence is understood and used to guide policy formulation and action. A separate grant on this docket provides dedicated funding support to the Center’s Policy Engagement and Communications department.
for staff development and capacity building 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 are informed by data on poverty incidence. 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 strengthens feedback loops between national development priorities and international commitments, notably the "leave no one behind" campaign under the Sustainable Development Goals.
for fundraising planning Since 2009, QEDC has provided funding to the Associates in Research and Education for Development (ARED) to develop a multi-lingual teaching approach for primary school students in Senegal. With this organizational effectiveness grant, ARED plans to hire Dalberg Global Development Advisors to put together a fundraising plan and train ARED principals and staff in how to implement it. We expect that this will help ARED to diversify its funding base for core organisational support, as well as to secure additional funding to sustain and expand the projects that QEDC continues to support.
to assess the feasibility of working with religious leaders in West Africa on family planning The Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty (CIFA) has strong networks, a successful track record and the capability to engage religious leaders to promote positive behavior change because of a successful blend of religious, development and private sector experience.  With this planning grant, CIFA will build upon desk research to engage key leaders in Senegal across the faith, government, NGO and policy communities to access their receptivity to interfaith action and partnership on the issue of healthy timing and spacing of births and to establish concrete steps for setting up a pilot program in that country.
for a research program on data governance The Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) is a Nigerian think tank with core expertise in conducting multicountry studies and advocacy in the areas of regional integration and global economic governance. This grant will support CSEA’s research and advocacy to support the drive for a regional data governance framework in Africa within the context of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement. 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 strengthening monitoring and evaluation systems This grant would help the Firelight Foundation improve the speed and effectiveness of its monitoring and evaluation by giving their grantees skills and resources for mobile data collection.
for general operating support The Engine Room partners with human rights and governance organizations to increase their impact through the effective use of data and technology. The Engine Room works with six to eight national organizations to use data and technology to improve governance. It also researches and documents how technology is shaping and empowering social justice activism, and civil society at large.
for general operating support 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 in accord with the reforms put in place by its 2010 constitution.
for support of the Gender Funders CoLab’s staffing and communication planning This organizational effectiveness grant to Panorama Global will support Gender Funders CoLab in implementing a retrospective review of its programming and developing a new staffing structure aligned with its strategic goals and values. Gender Funders CoLab is a feminist network that mobilizes funders to support the women's rights ecosystem and bring more and better resources to the field. These organizational development efforts aim to ensure that Gender Funders CoLab is able to strengthen programming under its Learn, Collaborate, and Leverage framework.  
(Strategy: Gender Equity and Governance)
for support of DKT's Francophone West and Central African program This project supports DKT International’s new Francophone West and Central Africa program, which is increasing private sector availability of contraceptive and safe abortion technologies. These technologies and products will be sold at a significantly lower price than products currently on the market in Francophone West and Central Africa, increasing the range of products that women can buy. Because many women in the region do not have the resources to purchase contraceptives or safe abortion products in the private sector, DKT’s program also works with governments to improve the supply of similar products in the public sector.
for a baseline study on urban data governance in Uganda While the field of data governance in Africa continues to mature at both the continental and national level, work is also needed at the subnational level, and especially cities. To that end, ToroDev — a Ugandan research and advocacy organization with extensive experience working at the nexus of transparency, participation, and accountability, as well as evidence-informed policymaking — is undertaking a baseline study of the current state and future needs of urban-level data governance in Uganda. The project is examining the challenges and opportunities of urban data governance in East Africa by developing case studies of two very different Ugandan cities: Fort Portal (a city with a strong tourism base) and Hoima (a city with an extractives base). An intensive literature review combined with an online survey are also being conducted in other African countries and cities to compare with the situation in Uganda. Together, this multipronged effort will draw out broader lessons learned and policy recommendations for data governance in African urban settings. This grant is a supplement to the main grant for this work dating from May 2022. It will be used to more fully engage key stakeholders and researchers by expanding the scope to more cities in Uganda, and more closely involve the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, and Ministry of Local Government. 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 support of leadership and organizational development This organizational effectiveness grant will support Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) to invest in leadership development as an essential resource in successfully implementing its new strategy. Specifically, the funding will allow TICAH to build team cohesion and establish a shared humane leadership approach that clarifies each team member's strategic goals and responsibilities. 
(Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for general operating support The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) identifies, synthesizes, and disseminates rigorously vetted demographic, health, and environmental data. It also serves as a bridge between data producers and evidence users including policy influencers, public- and private-sector decision makers, and advocacy organizations. PRB’s extensive expertise in demography, public policy, communications, and health affords the organization a unique role in the global development field, which it leverages through a wide range of strategic partnerships across multiple sectors. PRB’s programmatic priorities include expanding its reach to new audiences and increasing its influence through key regional partnerships in Africa. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for a project promoting transparent and accountable financing for development The ONE Campaign is an international advocacy organization that promotes transparent and accountable use of public resources in developing countries, with a focus on Africa. During this grant period, ONE will work to secure specific anticorruption commitments from African governments and support efforts by local partners to hold governments accountable for these commitments. ONE will also support international efforts to promote open public contracting and beneficial ownership transparency, and advocate for investments to collect, analyze, and disseminate data to track the Sustainable Development Goals.
for strengthening women’s participation in social accountability in the extractive sectors Oxfam is a global organization working to end poverty by tackling its root causes and creating lasting solutions. This grant will allow Oxfam America to consolidate, ensure the sustainability of, and explore the potential scale-up of six years of collective work with partners to advance a feminist natural resource governance policy agenda in Vietnam, Peru, and Zambia. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for a project to increase and improve financing for quality education in developing countries The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) is the largest international advocacy coalition in education, consisting of development NGOs, teachers’ unions, national education coalitions, and children’s activist groups. With this final grant, the GCE will focus on launching a "literacy for all" campaign to improve learning for children and on securing a modest increase in donor funding for basic education. GCE will continue to use mass mobilization efforts, targeted policy work, and their seat in global policy forums to push governments to improve learning for children and ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to basic education.
for general operating support The Media Foundation for West Africa is a Ghanaian civil society organization that works with national partners to promote media development and freedom of expression across West Africa. Among their priority issues, they support investigative journalism, protect endangered journalists, and monitor threats against freedom of expression.
for Global Pulse’s work on data privacy and data protection UN Global Pulse is a United Nations innovation initiative working to discover and mainstream applications of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) for sustainable development, humanitarian action, and peace. This grant supports Global Pulse’s program on Data Privacy & Protection, AI Ethics, and Digital Cooperation. The goal is to support the global advancement and regional scaling of ethical and human rights-based approaches in order to design and use AI and big data to address the impact of the COVID-19 crisis with an emphasis on African economies. This grant is part of a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to advance policy frameworks that help governments in East and West Africa strike a balance between public good uses of data and data privacy and protection.
for a project on changes in rural household welfare and their implications for development policy This grant would enable University of California, Davis researchers to continue their collaboration with Mexican researchers in analyzing and disseminating findings from the Mexican National Rural Household Survey’s third round. The results of this research could potentially help make government subsidies more responsive to the needs of Mexico’s rural communities.
for the Global Attitudes Project, a survey of international public opinion on a variety of topics None
for general operating support of the African Population Studies Research and Training Program None
for general operating support Open Data Watch encourages and supports countries in increasing the quality, coverage, openness, and use of official statistical data. Their flagship product is an annual assessment of the coverage, availability, and openness of official statistics in national databases. The organization also provides technical advice, engages in advocacy, and builds connection between the mainstream official statistics community and those interested in using technological advances to improve data quality and timeliness.
for Southern Voice's leadership transition Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo serves as the institutional host for Southern Voice, a network of over 50 think tanks from Africa, Latin America, and South Asia working toward a power shift in the global debates on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through collaborative cross-country research, policy engagement with the U.N. and European systems, and bridging between national and global policy issues, Southern Voice elevates ideas and scholars from the Global South into global development policy debates and advances evidence-informed policies in support of the SDGs and global COVID response. This grant will support a leadership transition at Southern Voice that includes the hiring and onboarding of a new Executive Director.
for a database and analysis of policies affecting women's economic empowerment This grant will support the WORLD Policy Analysis Center to disseminate and promote the use of information about laws and policies affecting women’s economic empowerment, equality, and population health. The center will also compile information about laws and policies that influence correlates of women’s economic empowerment, including early marriage, education, and early childhood education.
for supporting efforts to develop a business model The International Institute for Impact Evaluation will develop a business model that will support its long-term vision for the organization. This includes support to the global public goods that they offer, such as an impact evaluation registry and database. The business model will be an input to the organization's strategic planning process to develop a new strategy that will start in 2016.