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for Heard Everywhere and Represented Daily Program Norsaac partners with researchers, policy advocates, and community-based organizations in Northern Ghana to advance measurable improvements to the lives of women, girls, and youth. This grant supports the “Heard Everywhere and Represented Daily Program”o strengthen the voice, participation, and inclusion of rural vulnerable youth and women in Ghana’s governance processes and structures. Over the first two years of the program, Norsaac expects 15,000 rural vulnerable youth and 25,000 rural women from 20 youth and 15 women membership organizations to secure increased funding, capacity, and tools for advocacy on youth and women representation and voice in governance processes and structures. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights The main programs of RFSU focus on spearheading new sexual and reproductive health and rights methods, providing information and education, and undertaking advocacy and shaping opinion. Support will enable RFSU to continue its work, ensuring that the Swedish official development assistance goes to sexual and reproductive health and rights and that Sweden is a global leader in political commitment to/for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for integration of younger staff voices in country office processes and decision-making CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. This grant to CARE will support the CARE West Africa regional offices to advance more inclusive organizational culture and practice within country offices through creation of space for younger and lower level staff of various geographies and ethnicities to actively contribute to planning and decision-making.
for support to develop an online information portal Global Health Corps’s (GHC) one-year fellowship program aims to develop the next generation of leaders in global health, including reproductive health. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the creation of a new information technology system for GHC fellows and alumni. This system will be the first of its kind for GHC and act as a "one-stop shop" for fellows and alumni to access materials and resources, share data and feedback with GHC, and connect with one another. To develop the system GHC plans to engage a consultant with extensive experience in developing results-based management and monitoring and evaluation systems for the social sector.
for gender equality evidence gap map in East and West Africa The International Center for Evaluation and Development (ICED) is an Africa-based international think tank that combines research and innovation with extensive practical experience in evaluation for development in Africa. ICED aims to enhance the generation, synthesis, and uptake of evidence for better policy and action through research, innovation, monitoring, and evaluation. With this grant, ICED will develop an Evidence and Gap Map for gender equity that will enable the production and design of Evidence-Based Decision-Making Products (EBDMPs) and tools that can promote high utilization of evidence in the foundation’s Gender Equity & Governance Program in West and East Africa. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for monitoring, evaluation of, and learning about the accountability for water program The Partnership for Social and Governance Research (PASGR) is a Pan-African non-profit organization advancing research excellence for governance and public policy in Africa. With its Accountability for Water (AFW) Program Grant coming to an end, this organizational effectiveness grant will allow PASGR to engage a monitoring, evaluation and learning partner to conduct an end line evaluation that assess its effectiveness, relevance, and sustainability.
for a project to support organizational resilience Water Witness International works to ensure that people have reliable access to safe water for their well-being and livelihoods. This organizational effectiveness grant will support Water Witness International and its key partner in Tanzania, Shahidi wa Maji, to strengthen their fundraising ability and upgrade their Information Technology infrastructure to deliver their 2020-2030 organizational strategy.
for support of the Care Work and the Economy Africa project This grant will support the Care Work and the Economy Africa project to generate and foster the use of evidence and gender-aware macroeconomic tools that contribute to increased public investment in care provisioning and infrastructures for young children and older adults. The African Population and Health Research Center and a team of global and regional partners will assess the economic and social impacts of existing care arrangements in Kenya and Senegal and develop innovative tools to inform national economic policies and budgets. The team will support regional partners in using new evidence to influence governments’ post-COVID-19 policies to address the demand for unpaid care work and support women’s economic agency. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of a planning workshop on Gender-Sensitive Macroeconomic Models for Policy Analysis This grant will enable the Program in Gender Analysis in Economics at American University to organize a planning workshop to develop a full proposal on gender-sensitive macroeconomic models for policy. The workshop will bring together approximately 20 scholars to produce a research plan for gender-aware macroeconomic models, which will incorporate gendered behavior into economic decision making and the care economy. A small group of workshop participants will continue the work to develop a research project proposal by spring 2017. The resulting proposal will be shared with potential funders to secure support for the project.
for support of Mexico Evalua's public expenditure program Mexico Evalua is a think tank founded in early 2009 with the mission of evaluating public policy outcomes vis-à-vis economic development priorities in Mexico. A new grant from the Hewlett Foundation would enable Mexico Evalua to use existing expertise, evidence, and data to examine international experiences, budgetary best practices, and key development sectors to draw a feasible model to improve Mexico's complete budget cycle.
for support to the REAL Centre for assessment to action work This grant to the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge will support research on the theory of change used in different citizen-led assessments, identifying contextual differences, and linking these theories of change with case studies about how the information generated is used by citizen groups, school communities, and local or national education authorities to design and implement solutions that will lead to improvements in children’s learning.
for the Levy Economics Institute's Gender Equality and the Economy program This grant will support the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College to develop a framework to assess the macro and microeconomic effects of public policies aimed at reducing unpaid work burdens in Ghana and Tanzania. This work builds on previous research to revise poverty rate estimates in these countries by taking into account the time deficits of men and women, largely due to unpaid work responsibilities. The findings will be disseminated broadly to government agencies in Ghana and Tanzania, international development agencies, civil society organizations, and the academic community in order to inform policy debates and decisions.
for activities promoting improved collection and use of demographic and reproductive health data for development None
for support of the implementation of Mexico's Open Government Partnership action plan The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) is co-chair of the civil society working group for Mexico’s participation in the Open Government Partnership. In collaboration with their co-chair, Equis, and other partners, IMCO will monitor the implementation of Mexico’s fourth national action plan of open government reforms as part of their membership in the Open Government Partnership. (Substrategy: Fiscal Governance)
for creation of a secretariat to manage the Ouagadougou Partnership This project will support the creation of a secretariat for the Ouagadougou Partnership (which includes four donors and nine countries in Francophone West Africa), to be located in the IntraHealth country office in Dakar, Senegal. The secretariat for the Partnership will facilitate action at the country level on behalf of the Partnership and actively share information with countries and donors about activities and challenges in the region in scaling up family planning services.
for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data The United Nations Foundation serves as the institutional host for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The partnership will increase generation of, access to, and use of new and traditional data sources to help achieve and measure the Sustainable Development Goals. The partnership will connect people, institutions, and initiatives to solve problems related to data gaps, access, and use and build trust around data sharing. This grant will support the start-up activities associated with establishing the secretariat for the partnership, and for providing the operational support to the programmatic work of the partnership as led by its governance body and working groups.
for support and development of a Self-Care Trailblazer Group for Sexual and Reproductive Health The Self-Care Trailblazer Group will be a short-term catalyst to solidify the growing field of user-controlled sexual and reproductive health. Co-funded with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, this project aims to bring together self-care stakeholders and advocates to consolidate concepts and communicate around key events in 2019, build the evidence on self-care, and advocate for the adoption of forthcoming World Health Organization guidelines on user-controlled health care in Africa and India.
for the development of internal manuals, policies and procedures This grant will allow Article 19 to increase the professionalization and institutionalization of internal processes through the improvement or development of internal policies and procedures, which in turn will contribute to a smooth leadership transition by providing a more clear and stable basis for both the organization’s staff and new director to operate on. Article 19 will work with a  consultant to develop financial and human resources manuals, as well as audit, vacation and travel policies.The consultant will carry out interviews with staff, senior management and the regional director to inform a decision-making inventory as an operating framework in the absence of the Regional Director.
for support to the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health This grant will support the Centre for Health and Social Justice in its role as coordinator of the work of the Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health (COPASAH), a global network of civil society practitioners from the global South established in 2011. The goal of COPASAH is to amplify community voice at the national and global level through the practice of citizen-led social accountability. This project will support the next phase of COPASAH’s work, which focuses on building learning and knowledge in how social accountability can strengthen marginalized and indigenous people’s understanding of their rights and access to better quality reproductive and maternal health services.
for support to the Campbell Collaboration co-chairs The Global Development Network will oversee the work being done by the Campbell Collaboration.  The Campbell Collaboration supports the production and use of systematic reviews of evidence in social and economic policy. This grant will support the Campbell co-chairs to build Campbell's international profile and increase the use of evidence in policy. This work will involve consulting with stakeholders to inform the production of strategy discussion notes and fundraising materials. The co-chairs will also explore possible arrangements for an expanded secretariat.
for support of a strategy evaluation, planning, and facilitation This organizational effectiveness grant will support the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) to evaluate its current strategy and implement activities towards its 2022 – 2026 strategic plan.  Specifically, the funding will allow APHRC to conduct a scoping review of Africa's current research and policy landscape that will inform priority areas for the next five years. The team will undertake a facilitated design process in developing its new strategic direction.   
(Strategy: Global/Africa Reproductive Equity)
for Sàmm Sunu Alal: a program for participatory local economic governance in Senegal ALPHADEV is a Senegalese NGO that works toward the socioeconomic promotion of women, young people, and children from disadvantaged backgrounds. It aims for sustainable development at the grassroots so that communities can take charge of their own development, thus promoting the emergence of a more just and prosperous society. Its main mission is to contribute to the reduction of poverty at the local and national level by strengthening the capacities and the power of underserved categories of population.
Through this grant, ALPHADEV will promote citizen participation at the subnational level for better economic governance in the districts of Keur Massar, Kaffrine, Mbirkilane, Koungueul, and Malème Hodar. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance).
for general operating support With this grant, the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) will continue to provide timely and objective information and policy analysis on population, health, and environmental trends to policymakers, educators, the media, and the general public. PRB plans to expand and improve upon its digital dissemination capabilities, including the development of more animated and interactive data visualization features to enhance the appeal and understanding of technical information. A redesign of PRB’s website and development of applications for smart phones and tablets will help meet user expectations about speed of access to information and increasing sophistication of the search function. PRB will target large web portals, wire services, and media outlets to disseminate content and interactive graphics, and form stronger partnerships with think tanks, universities, NGOs, and development communities in developing countries to distribute research findings and publications in a variety of formats. Over the grant period, PRB also proposes to develop new initiatives that help link population to broader development issues such as agriculture, climate change, and governance.
for a project to promote Africa’s voice and positions in international tax dialogues The African Tax Administration Forum is an intergovernmental platform that promotes collaboration among African tax authorities. The forum seeks to build efficient and effective tax administrations in the region to enable governments to mobilize adequate resources from domestic sources for development. In addition to boosting domestic revenues and strengthening policies that support inclusive development, the forum’s global program provides a unified voice for African countries in international tax debates and norm-setting processes. This grant will enable the forum to deepen and strengthen the technical assistance the forum provides to African country tax authorities. While the forum has historically focused on tax administration and revenue collection, it is increasingly engaging in advising African governments on tax policy. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the Budget Transparency Initiative project in Uganda In collaboration with the Ugandan Ministry of Finance, the Ugandan think tank ACODE, and the Overseas Development Institute, Innovations for Poverty Action is launching the Budget Transparency Initiative. At the national level, the Initiative will make location-specific budget allocation and expenditure data publicly available. At the local level, the Initiative will support local councilors and community group leaders to monitor government spending and to provide feedback on the quality of public services. The project is designed to strengthen the responsiveness and accountability of local government officials to citizens and ultimately to improve the quality of local public services like education and health care.
for board development This grant will enable GIRE to strengthen their Board of Directors, specifically improving its governance and development. The current model depends on the willingness of both the Board President and the current Executive Director to maintain a good relationship. This model puts the organization at risk. A new governance system would give stability and legitimacy to the organization, as well as ensure improved mechanisms of support and accountability. The consultant will facilitate face-to-face meetings with the staff and the Board President, propose a new model, carry out an implementation model, modify the appropriate legal documents and continue follow-up on restructuring.
for expanding the East Africa Social Science Translation Collaborative The East Africa Social Science Translation Collaborative enables East African researchers to conduct impact evaluations of social and economic programs, generating evidence for public policymaking. Researchers receive fellowships and grants at the University of California at Berkeley to carry out field studies, build capacity in African universities, and engage with governments.
for general operating support 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. EarthRights will focus on legal empowerment of resource-rich communities to enable them to protect and defend their rights and environments.
for supporting the production of AAM's public radio programming, particularly its international affairs program, America Abroad None
for design-thinking collaboration in Sub-Saharan Africa IDEO.org applies principles of human-centered design to alleviate poverty. This support will allow IDEO.org to continue partnering with Marie Stopes International-US (MSI) in Zambia in the final phase of the "Divine Divas" project, particularly addressing questions of how to sustain the Diva services within MSI’s operating model for the next several years. IDEO.org and MSI will also continue collaboration in Kenya on the "Future Fab" campaign designed to make the connection with young Kenyan men and women between reproductive health services and a bright future.
for the Earth Institute to work with the government of India and other experts within the country to develop an implementation plan for improving social services and rural infrastructure in Indian villages None
for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, a donor collaborative The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI), hosted by the Open Society Foundation, is a donor collaborative that coordinates research and exchange among transparency and accountability donors at the global level. In order to take best advantage of this effort, this grant would support a three-year work plan, known as Phase 3 of TAI’s strategic planning, that will focus on the areas where donor collaboration has shown the most promise to date. These are grouped into three main categories: (1) sharing learning and addressing research questions whose answers benefit the field at large, including donors, practitioners, and academics; (2) encouraging collective action and coordination where appropriate, to position the issues of transparency and accountability in international debates that are made stronger by collective voice on the issue.; and (3) encouraging the growth of strategic funding for proven transparency and accountability interventions globally.
for a project to provide citizens with information on the performance of public officials in Ghana This grant will support the establishment of a data facility center to assemble, archive, and disseminate social, economic and electoral data at the district level in Ghana.  Armed with basic information on the state of public goods and services, citizens and the media will be able to assess and evaluate the degree to which public officials are fulfilling their obligations, and thus hold their representatives accountable.  Over the next 18 months, CDD will identify data sources, collect and process data into accessible formats, and make data available to citizens through regular bulletins, an established website, and strategic partnerships with key media outlets.
for general operating support EPIC-Africa is a research and mentoring organization based in Senegal committed to removing significant barriers that have long stifled the growth and impact of African civil society organizations (CSOs). EPIC-Africa's goal is to center African CSOs as critical voices in the localization discourse in philanthropy.
for a project to improve public accountability and service delivery The National Taxpayers Association mobilizes and empowers Kenyan citizens to monitor the delivery and quality of public services and engage national and county governments around service delivery challenges. This grant will enable the association to help taxpayer groups participate effectively in county budget planning and implementation. The association will also study how institutional arrangements under the constitution impact taxation and the incentive structure of county governments.
for disseminating award-winning documentary Presumed Guilty to targeted audiences in Mexico This Hewlett Foundation grant to the San Francisco Film Society will support the dissemination of the award-winning  Mexican documentary Presumed Guilty, to audiences that are usually overlooked by conventional documentary distribution. Targeted screenings will reach out to law students, law professors and deans nation-wide; groups of prisoners and their families, and vulnerable youth.  Hewlett Foundation provided the seed funding for the film, which became an incredible vehicle for disseminating some of the research that our program have supported for many years about the urgent need for justice reform in Mexico. The research findings are highlighted in the film and are a plea for greater transparency and accountability in Mexico's justice system, and for the implementation of the Constitutional Reform that requires the adoption of an adversarial type of criminal procedures all over the country.
for the development of Mexico's Open Government Partnership action plan This grant will support a core group of civil society organizations (CSOs) — previously chairs of the Tripartite Technical Secretariat of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Mexico — to accomplish these important tasks: develop a shadow report to monitor implementation of the third national action plan; support local open government processes by developing standards and providing capacity-building workshops; participate in OGP discussion forums nationally, regionally, and internationally; and coordinate experts and CSOs to develop public policy ideas to regulate governmental surveillance in Mexico.
for the African Regional Office performancebased funding position This grant will support two full-time positions in IPPF's Africa Regional Office responsible for managing implementation of the new performance-based funding system across the thirty-eight Member Associations in the region.