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for research on the impact of design and social goods IDEO.org applies principles of human-centered design to alleviate poverty. This organizational effectiveness grant will support a research project on the impact that design has on the social sector to inform a new strategic plan and a new monitoring and evaluation framework. IDEO.org is the leading design thinking firm working in the social sector. This project will allow them to advance build their organizational strategy and more clearly capture the impact that their work has made. This will serve IDEO.org but also the broader human-centered design field.
for research on potential drivers of fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa None
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights The grant will support the International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide, Inc. (IPPF WWI) in providing capacity strengthening and funding to African member associations and civil society organizations (CSOs) that advocate for government accountability on sexual and reproductive health and rights. In partnership with Planned Parenthood Association Ghana, IPPF will work with member associations and CSOs to acquire the advocacy and organizational development skills needed to effectively engage in policy development and implementation processes at the national, regional, and global levels.
for the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa to build a coalition to advocate for improvements in U.S. policies related to emergency food aid procurement and distribution None
for the Asia Pacific Alliance: Advancing the International Conference on Population and Development Agenda (APA/ICPD) None
for research on how family planning program efforts impact fertility desires None
for support of PopPov travel grants With this grant, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population will work in collaboration with members of the PopPov Research Network to organize and host two conferences on the links among population dynamics, sexual and reproductive health, family planning, and economic development. The goal of these conferences is to advance knowledge on how population policies can be used for poverty reduction at the household level and economic growth at the national and subnational levels.
for a study of teacher professional development programs in six African countries None
for an advocacy project to inform the development of the post-2015 global goals With this grant, Save the Children would advocate for the adoption of new learning goals in the post-2015 development framework. Save the Children would conduct targeted policy work in three African countries, engaging civil society and country champions in promoting learning goals. Their advocacy work would also extend across the Save the Children network to ensure greater awareness of their policy positions within the education and related sectors. As a respected voice on children’s issues, Save the Children would use their influence in key global policy forums to promote learning outcomes as a key measure of success.
for the Open Algorithms (OPAL) project Flowminder specializes in the use of big data for public policy and humanitarian purposes. The Open Algorithms (OPAL) program aims to spur the use of mobile network operator data for public-good purposes in a privacy preserving manner. The overall goal of the program is to enable increased ethically sound access to and use of these data, particularly in low-and middle-income countries, to bring about improvements in population well-being through better response to disasters, public resource allocation, infrastructure planning, and accelerated achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. This grant supports the Evidence-Informed Policymaking goal that governments use new and traditional forms of data to improve decision making, policies, and programs.
for bolstering engagement with policymakers, influencers, and researchers in Africa AidData is a research lab at William & Mary that equips decision makers with evidence to more effectively design, monitor, and evaluate policies and investments that affect the well-being of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Their work includes helping decision makers use new methods such as geospatial evaluation tools, tracking of all types of financial flows and assessing to what extent resources reach the most vulnerable. This grant will enable AidData to partner with African organizations on new research directions. The project includes building a strong working relationship with the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, a long-standing grantee of our TPA strategy. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for coordinating input from African researchers on the post-2015 global development goals The active participation of leading thinkers from developing countries is essential to the success of the post-2015 global development goals process. The goal of this grant to the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research is to bring together a diverse group of African researchers and academics from think tanks and universities across the region, enabling them to engage in discussion and generate consensus on which post-2015 approach or approaches appear to best serve African needs and circumstances.
for a project to study the impact of community-led initiatives in conflict-affected environments None
for general operating support Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) is a feminist organization with 30 years of experience in comprehensive legal accompaniment, advocacy, research, and communication strategies. These strategies are interconnected as a way to achieve a social and cultural transformation in Mexico by demanding reproductive justice from a human rights perspective, while maintaining strong relationships, alliances, and collaboration with national and local organizations and collectives both in Mexico and regionally. GIRE’s  aims to react to contextual changes, challenges, and opportunity windows for the reproductive justice movements, as well as to mitigate internal risks. GIRE will work to expand and explore systemic change projects and initiatives that are usually underfunded. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for supporting the Partners Improving Laws Affecting Philanthropy in Mexico program The International Center for Non-Profit Law’s mission is to ensure that appropriate legal frameworks support the expansion of civil society around the globe. The Center has provided technical and research assistance to support the reform of laws governing nonprofit organizations in more than ninety countries including Mexico. With Hewlett support, the Center has offered critical input to increase eligibility for tax exemption to a variety of groups including human rights organizations, and environment, transparency, and accountability watchdogs. The Center was also instrumental in the implementation of the Double Taxation Treaty that allows Mexican tax-deductible organizations to be equivalent to public charities in the United States. This program grant for the Center’s Partners Improving Laws Affecting Philanthropy would assist the organization to continue collaborating with Mexican civil society advocates with the goal of enhancing the legal and fiscal framework that governs Mexico’s nonprofit sector. The Center will continue to focus on providing hard data and evidence-based policy analysis to improve regulations and administrative practices that could facilitate philanthropic giving, improve self regulation of the civil sector, increase the number of tax-exempt organizations, and expand local expertise on civil society law.
for support of a youth leadership and service learning program in the Bay Area Global Glimpse works with high schools in the Bay Area and New York to identify and prepare high school juniors to participate in a three-week educational summer program in Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. This grant would allow Global Glimpse to expand the number of low-income Bay Area students it reaches with its program, which aims to increase students’ global awareness and help them build critical-thinking and leadership skills.
for strategic planning and staff capacity building The Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER) works to build a citizen-led movement for corporate transparency and accountability in Latin America. With this grant, PODER will develop resources and training workshops to pursue gender equality within the organization and to reflect on diversity, equity, and inclusion during strategy planning and reflection.
for support of research on SRHR and women's economic empowerment This grant to the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) will strengthen its Global Health, Youth and Development program as it seeks to improve business development strategies and respond to a changing global funding and research landscape. During the grant period, ICRW aims to reposition the organization by increasing its visibility and presence in West Africa and exploring opportunities to expand research in South Asia. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for assessing and highlighting gender-specific conditions and impacts in Idinsight’s projects Idinsight is a global nonprofit that seeks to improve development outcomes by providing data analytics, evaluation, and advisory services to leaders in government, the nonprofit sector, and funding agencies. This project will enhance Idinsight’s ability to integrate gender analyses into client engagements. Specifically, Idinsight will identify gender-specific conditions and impacts related to social protection, economic empowerment, and taxation. The organization expects to increase the impact of its gender-sensitive recommendations for demand-driven research during the two-year grant period. This grant will focus on two work streams: first, to deepen and expand its internal expertise in gender and foster internal knowledge sharing on gender-related topics. The second work stream focuses on providing top-up funding to client projects to facilitate active inclusion of gender lens. Through this grant, IDinsight aims to promote more gender-sensitive decisions across multiple domains including agriculture, education, financial inclusion, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), environment, and energy and livelihoods. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for fundraising and communications strategy This Organizational Effectiveness grant will enable Open Data Watch to develop an organizational business model. As a new organization, Open Data Watch is currently lacking a coherent strategy for raising funds and communicating their value. Open Data Watch will work with consultants to use the launch of the Open Data Inventory to test and refine their business model and how they communicate about their work.
for general support of the Partners Improving Laws Affecting Philanthropy program None
for mid-term evaluation of universal health coverage policy implementation in Burkina Faso Diakonia is the joint international development organization of two Swedish churches. Its overall goal is to change the unjust political, economic, social, and cultural structures that generate poverty, inequality, oppression, and violence. Diakonia works with the most vulnerable people, local partners, and other strategic actors for the realization of the right of all to live in dignity, regardless of age, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, political belief, or religion. This grant will allow Diakonia to implement the recommendations of the mid-term evaluation of its Burkina Faso program on “Strengthening citizen engagement and government accountability in the universal health coverage policy implementation.” (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of Ipas Africa Alliance This grant will provide core support for Ipas Africa Alliance, a member of the Ipas Impact Network, whose mission is to advance reproductive justice globally. The alliance works with partners to secure equitable contraception and abortion care in East Africa and to pursue advocacy for sexual and reproductive health and rights across Africa. This grant is aligned with the Global Reproductive Equity strategy. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for support of Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health To support the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) Global Symposium on Citizenship, Governance and Accountability in Health held in New Delhi, India, in October 2019.
for general operating support Marie Stopes International US (MSI-US) is one of the largest international family planning and reproductive health service delivery organizations in the world. MSI’s reach is significant and growing; it operates in forty countries through 611 clinics, 6,000 clinical outreach sites, 1,500 franchised providers, and 8,000 team members.
Marie Stopes articulates how it will achieve the desired outcomes in "The Power of Ten", its organizational strategy for 2011–2015, which aims to make the biggest contribution possible to achieving the Millennium Development Goal targets of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters (against a 1990 baseline) and promoting universal access to reproductive health by 2015. This funding would enable MSI to implement this strategy, focusing on its five-year goals in terms of health impact, organizational capacity building, and enhanced revenue generation.
for civil society to participate in developing a transparent system for managing Ghana's oil wealth Ghana’s intention to begin oil production at the end of 2010 provides a window of opportunity for civil society organizations (CSOs) and others to influence the development of policies and systems for managing oil wealth responsibly and for monitoring the use of the oil proceeds. Over the past year, Oxfam America has been assisting Ghanaian CSOs to make informed contributions to Ghana’s new policy and regulatory framework for petroleum production. A full-time "oil coordinator" has helped to organize and coordinate the CSOs’ oil advocacy platform. A renewal grant would continue this important work by supporting citizen oversight of the oil revenues that are about to begin flowing. Funds would also expand CSO monitoring of expenditures from oil proceeds at the national and local levels to ensure that Ghana’s new oil wealth translates into better quality services for Ghanaian citizens. 

Oxfam America (Washington, DC) – Project; Renewal; $500,000 over 2 years; 52% of project budget
for implementation design and strategy for strengthening institutional research capacity in Africa This grant will allow Drexel University to incubate an initiative to support policy research institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. By the end of the grant period, a task force of African leaders aims to design a funding platform and research award system, identify a host institution, and secure a first round of financial commitments. Ultimately, the goals are to increase the amount of research funding that flows to African entities, and to offer these entities support in strengthening their institutional capacity.
for communications and strategy development The African Institute for Development Policy focuses on enabling policymakers to effectively access and use evidence in policy formulation and implementation. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the Institute to draw on communications expertise to reframe its institutional mandate, ensure that this mandate is clearly presented in the website and publications, and train staff to communicate their work relative to this mandate.
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights Väestöliitto, the Finnish Member Association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, aims to improve sexual health and rights and access to quality family planning and reproductive health services in low-income countries, particularly for women and young people.  This support would allow Väestöliitto to increase the understanding of Finnish policy- and decision-makers that sustainable and positive development outcomes can be achieved by putting sexual and reproductive health and rights at the forefront of policy and budgetary agendas, particularly through the post-2015 development framework.
for general operating support of the African Partnership Travel & Learning Fund None
for promotion of women’s human rights in Mexico through transparency in the justice system Founded in 2010, Justicia para las Mujeres (Equis) seeks to promote women’s human rights and gender equality through legal, advocacy, and women’s leadership strategies to achieve social justice. This grant would enable Equis to use access to information and transparency tools to give women greater access to a responsive justice system in three Mexican states and at the federal level. The project will focus on using social audits, requesting access to information, and monitoring public service delivery throughout the justice system in order to hold Mexico’s judges, public prosecutors, clerks, police officers, defense attorneys, and other justice providers accountable to the country’s international human rights and gender equality commitments.
for general operating support The Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights holds annual meetings, webinars, and teleconferences to help funders learn from one another and understand the reproductive health landscape in the U.S. and abroad so members can make the most strategic grantmaking decisions.
for Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH) Population Action International (PAI) works to ensure universal access to quality reproductive health care, including family planning, around the world. This grant to PAI is for a project to provide technical assistance to the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH), a network of civil society practitioners from the Global South established in 2011. The goal of this project is to shape, strengthen, and sustain a community of practitioners and allies committed to community-centered social accountability processes for quality health care. (Substrategy: Service Delivery Monitoring)
for J-PAL Africa HR planning The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab for Africa (J-PAL Africa), based at the University of Cape Town, works to ensure that policymaking in Africa is informed by rigorous evidence. This grant will help J-PAL Africa hire an HR specialist to benchmark salaries across the African countries where they have staff to help them create equitable and competitive salary bands and benefit packages. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
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. With this grant, Open Institute will promote strong data governance in Kenya and Africa generally. Together with partner organization Amnesty International Kenya, Open Institute will help operationalize Kenya’s Data Protection Act to ensure that Kenyans benefit from the advantages of technology without compromising their fundamental rights, and will promote responsible data use in the context of the COVID-19 response in Kenya and other African countries. This grant is part of a cluster of grants under the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy to strengthen a field of African institutions working on data governance. The goal of this cluster is to help governments in East and West Africa develop policy frameworks that balance public good uses of data with data privacy and protection.
for a project to examine Africa's infrastructure agenda with a focus on energy poverty With this project grant, The ONE Campaign will examine and evaluate the policy landscape and options for improving African infrastructure. This examination will focus on the energy sector and energy poverty in particular as a key driver for reducing poverty and spurring economic opportunities.
for support of RAHU’s media work to advance youth-centered SRHR narratives Reach A Hand Uganda (RAHU) uses health communication and the media to advance young people’s livelihoods and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Uganda. This grant will enable RAHU to deepen its work under the SautiPlus Media Hub and promote narrative change through the creative arts that supports young people’s agency in making informed life choices. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity)
for a review of barriers to accessing the WTO dispute settlement by developing countries None
for support of a regional program to reduce unsafe abortion in francophone West Africa This grant will support Population Services International (PSI) to continue expanding its safe abortion program in Francophone West Africa. PSI will use insights about women’s preferences to increase reproductive health options and use commercial marketing techniques and provider training to promote new products in several countries in West Africa. It will also test innovative models that require less infrastructure to distribute reproductive health products and look for opportunities to provide alternatives for women who otherwise would seek an unsafe abortion. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)
for an effort to reform U.S. foreign aid to ensure the foreign policy goal of "sustainable security" None
for grants to innovative programs that improve children’s learning in Africa The Firelight Foundation has a strong model for providing support to community-based organizations to improve the lives of vulnerable children and families in sub-Saharan Africa. Through this grant Firelight would support twelve community-based organizations in Tanzania with innovative approaches to improving children’s literacy and numeracy by strengthening families, increasing teacher competency, and increasing citizen engagement. As part of this grants program Firelight would also support organizational development for its grantees, evaluate the effectiveness of these innovative models, and encourage lateral replication of those models that improve children’s learning.
for a database and analysis of policies affecting women's economic empowerment This grant would support the WORLD Policy Analysis Center to improve the quantity and quality of comparative policy data on laws and policies affecting women’s economic empowerment, equality, and population health. The data, analyses of policies and outcomes, and rich info-graphics will be featured on WORLD’s user-friendly Web platform to engage and inform its users—government leaders, citizens, civil society, and researchers around the world. A unique feature of the site will be links to policies that affect gender, educational equity, income security throughout a person’s life, and work-family issues. WORLD will use policy briefings, international meetings, and workshops to disseminate data, findings, and toolkits.
for the International Budget Partnership The International Budget Partnership (IBP) collaborates with civil society around the world to analyze and influence public budgets to reduce poverty and improve governance. After fifteen years of steady growth and a strong track record of impact, the IBP is gearing up to significantly expand its support to partner organizations, as well as its own research, analysis, and advocacy to promote budget transparency. During this grant period, the IBP will lay the groundwork to launch a new five-year strategy in 2014. This will include reevaluating its institutional status and relationship to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, putting in place the necessary financial and administrative systems to expand and deepen its re-granting effort, and further developing its approach to focus countries. IBP will continue to implement the Open Budget Index, the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency, and research on the impact of civil society budget work.