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for a project to ensure that economies and public service systems work for women and girls globally ActionAid USA is the U.S. branch of ActionAid International, which works in more than 50 countries to achieve social justice, gender equality, and poverty eradication. This grant will continue to support the Valuing Women’s Work and Young Urban Women projects under one grant. The Valuing Women’s Work project produces in-country feminist research on how economic models affect women disproportionately, linking to specific advocacy strategies in-country, regionally, and globally. The Young Urban Women project promotes movement building with young women in Ghana, India, and South Africa on issues around economic security, bodily integrity, and unpaid care work. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
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. Tackling inequality is one of Oxfam’s primary pillars of work and the impact of COVID-19 has elevated this issue to the top of the global development policy agenda. One of Oxfam’s approaches to addressing inequality is through taxation. With this grant, Oxfam will implement a project in Ghana to increase domestic revenues by focusing on property, wealth, and corporate taxation. Oxfam will work with two district governments to use innovative technology to facilitate property valuation and tax collection. Oxfam will also design and deploy the Ghana Responsible Tax Index, which ranks companies annually based on their level of tax compliance and disclosure of tax payment information. The information generated from the district pilots and the index will support Oxfam’s advocacy efforts to increase property taxation and corporate tax compliance. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for strengthening monitoring and evaluation to improve government performance and accountability Twende Mbele, hosted by the University of the Witwatersrand, is a peer learning partnership of African governments and regional organizations interested in using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to strengthen government performance and accountability. The partnership aims to (a) support governments in collaboratively developing and using M&E tools, such as gender-responsive national indicators for development planning; (b) strengthen peer learning between governments, including on government officials' capacity to use new tools like rapid evaluations; and (c) improve the comprehensiveness and coordination of national M&E systems, including building stronger links to budgeting and planning. This grant advances our Evidence-Informed Policy strategy's goals of enhancing governments' incentives, capacities, and systems for ongoing evidence use.
for travel costs for the Think Tank summit The African Capacity Building Foundation builds human and institutional capacity with a vision to see Africa capable of achieving its own development. It has a mission to build strategic partnerships, offer technical support, and provide access to relevant knowledge related to capacity building in Africa. The organization hosts the annual Africa Think Tank Summit to strengthen collaboration and partnership among Africa’s think tanks. This grant will fund the cost of travel for seven African think tanks to participate in the 2018 summit.
for general operating support The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a research and advisory firm based in Nairobi, Kenya, that advises government and civil society partners to apply behavioral science in the pursuit of poverty alleviation. In partnership with MIT Governance Lab, the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics trains graduate students from local universities in East Africa in behavioral science research. The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics will deploy behavioral science units within African partner organizations to embed a culture of behavioral science through experimental evaluation. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accountability Global Witness investigates, exposes, and challenges corruption in natural resource governance. It seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s resource-rich countries. Through this grant Global Witness (GW) will further embed its values as well as its newly developed Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accountability (DEIA) strategy. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of the Campbell Collaboration Secretariat The Campbell Collaboration supports the production and use of systematic reviews of evidence in social and economic policy, including international development. This grant will support Campbell’s secretariat to expand the production of evidence synthesis products and activities to support the use of evidence. This will include expanding Campbell’s grant management capacity and adopting a new business model to fund review production. Campbell will also build a network of evidence intermediaries to partner in the dissemination of Campbell-produced evidence.
for writing a paper on the current state and future directions for impact evaluation This grant will support one of three papers that the Global Development and Population Program is commissioning about the role of impact evaluations in informing development policy and programming. The Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University conducts experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations in the education sector in rural China, and this paper will capture lessons from the organization’s experience working closely with government officials to revise policy and programs based on findings from evaluations. Together, the three papers will both inform the field of impact evaluation, as well as the strategy development for the Program's Evidence-Informed Policymaking sub-component.
for Dr. Peter Kofi Aboagye Da Costa legacy initiatives The African Leadership Centre in Nairobi Kenya is a joint initiative of King’s College London and the University of Nairobi with a vision to build a new community of African leaders, generating cutting edge knowledge for peace, security, and development in Africa. This grant will support the center’s legacy projects in honor of Dr. Peter Kofi Aboagye Da Costa, mentor and vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the African Leadership Centre and long-time advisor to the Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population team. (Strategy: Global Development and Population)
for advancing feminist understanding of public-private partnerships' impact on women's human rights Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a global South feminist network of scholar-activists who research, analyze, and publish critiques and alternative perspectives on global (and regional) development issues; and advocate for gender equality and the fulfillment of women’s human rights in multilateral policy spaces. This grant will support DAWN to develop a range of learning and communication products (such as videos, podcasts, and publications) for advocacy and capacity building on the impact of public-private partnerships on women’s economics rights. The grant will also support online and in-person advocacy and capacity building for young feminists from the global South. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for PATH's Sexual and Reproductive Health program PATH’s Sexual and Reproductive Health program works to support better reproductive health services and policies for women, men, and young people in more than 70 low-income countries. This support will fund several priority activities of the Sexual and Reproductive Health program, including building the evidence base around key user-centered reproductive health approaches and packaging of research for enhanced use in policy and implementation.
for support of a grassroots legal empowerment grantmaking fund The Legal Empowerment Fund is a 10-year field-building initiative led by the Fund for Global Human Rights to narrow the justice gap by increasing the power and ability of frontline groups to employ legal methods to address and overcome systemic challenges faced by historically oppressed communities. During its first five years, the fund will build out its grantmaking staffing and systems to disburse funding to at least two cohorts of legal empowerment grantee organizations. In collaboration with the Global Legal Empowerment Network, it will contribute to a fieldwide learning and fundraising agenda. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support of the Program on Women's Empowerment Research This grant to Boston University’s Program on Women’s Empowerment Research will support a portfolio of studies in Malawi that examines the causes and consequences of women’s empowerment policies and programs on the well-being of women, their families, and communities. This body of research builds on existing field studies and ongoing engagement with policymakers and advocates to facilitate the use of evidence on the links between women’s productive and reproductive lives.
for support of research on reproductive health and economic empowerment This grant will support preparation of an edited volume of Feminist Economics, focused on the relationships among reproductive health, child care, and the quality of work. The International Center for Research on Women will convene meetings of experts to plan the volume, determine topics and content of contributing papers, and establish a process and timeline for draft submission, reviews, and editing. The edited volume will be published in 2019.
for general operating support Global Witness investigates, exposes, and challenges corruption in natural resource governance. It seeks to ensure that revenue from natural resources drives peaceful and sustainable development in the world’s resource-rich countries. Global Witness will continue its current strategic focus on the misuse of power to better respond to the biggest challenge facing our planet — the climate crisis. Global Witness is investigating, exposing, and tackling the abuses of power that are driving the climate crisis. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for producing and disseminating a report assessing transparency and accountability practices of Mexico's National Commission of Human Rights None
for the development and implementation of an advocacy strategy on unpaid care and domestic work Oxfam is a global movement of people creating lasting solutions to the social injustice of poverty and inequality. This grant to Oxfam America will support the Women’s Economic Empowerment and Care (WE-Care) program. WE-Care is Oxfam’s flagship initiative to increase women’s and girls’ time and choice to participate in social, economic, and political life by transforming how unpaid care and domestic work is valued, shared, and invested in. This grant will support advocacy for unpaid care and domestic work and undertake a collaborative co-creation process to design the next phase of the WE-Care program globally, regionally, and nationally in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for support of Fundar's access to information and public budget accountability projects in Mexico None
for general operating support Integrity Action seeks to empower citizens to demand openness and accountability from governments, service providers, and donor agencies. Integrity Action works to support citizen feedback reported on an open platform on government and donor projects, and help citizens work together with responsible authorities to solve problems. Integrity Action uses data from its online platform, DevelopmentCheck, to learn whether this type of constructive engagement contributes to timely resolution of these problems. Integrity Action seeks to learn if open citizen feedback in turn leads to changes in incentives, rules, policies, norms, and behaviors that increase public integrity.
for the charitable purposes of strengthening organizational capacity and furthering transparency SocialTIC, A.C. is a new non-profit organization in Mexico, providing training and technological solutions for civil society organizations working to improve government transparency and accountability. This grant will provide them with funds to undergo a comprehensive planning process, in order to consolidate their theory of change, strategic plan, and institutional development framework to ensure a thorough analysis of the best approach to growth as they meet increasing demand for their services in the field.
for general operating support EngenderHealth is a long-standing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) organization that is currently working in 15 countries to provide high-quality, gender-equitable programs. EngenderHealth’s priorities include implementation of their new strategic plan that is framed around gender equality in and through SRHR programs. Areas of work include supporting healthy systems, schools, and refugee camps with training to improve SRHR service quality and advocating for SRHR laws and policies.
for general operating support The International Planned Parenthood Federation Worldwide Inc. is a global federation of family planning associations working in more than 170 countries. It is the largest nongovernmental organization in the world that promotes reproductive rights and provides sexual and reproductive health services. This grant will enable the Federation to implement a new strategic framework that will take into account (a) the sexual and reproductive health needs of the largest-ever generation, (b) the growing social and economic inequalities around the world, and (c) the burgeoning opposition movement that threatens gains in sexual and human rights.
for support of the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change This grant will support the second phase of the global Learning Collaborative to Advance  Normative Change to establish an East Africa Learning Network with membership from diverse sectors and social science disciplines. The new East Africa Network will work with the global collaborative to strengthen locally informed social norms discourse, research, and programming. This new phase of the collaborative is a multiyear partnership with USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The collaborative aims to generate rigorous evidence and share practical resources to advance social norms practice; and strengthen networks and capacity among social norms researchers, program implementers, and donors.
for support of a website refresh and plain language summaries of systematic reviews The Campbell Collaboration supports the production and use of systematic reviews of evidence in social and economic policy, including international development. A grant to the Campbell Collaboration will support a project to redesign the Campbell website, including improving design to be consistent with Campbell’s branding and hiring a firm to develop and host the site. Campbell will develop plain language summaries, policy briefs, and other policy-friendly products from their systematic reviews that will be available through the updated website. In addition, Campbell will develop methodological resources and train four editors to increase the number of reviews that Campbell can manage.
for strategic fundraising Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) is a global action-research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy.  Due to some shifts in its current donor base, WIEGO is facing a major budget shortfall after 2015.  This recommended grant would enable WIEGO to develop and execute a comprehensive fundraising strategy.  This will include conducting a donor environment scan, improving its measurement and learning system, creating materials useful for fundraising, and training staff to engage more productively with existing and prospective donors.
for a program to support citizen engagement in implementing the Addis Tax Initiative in Kenya Save the Children promotes the health and well-being of children globally. In the last grant period, Save the Children succeeded in getting donor members of the Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) to commit to provide funding to civil society and other accountability actors working on domestic tax policy reforms in developing countries. It also successfully secured policy reforms in one county in Kenya that resulted in increased tax compliance among small business owners. In this grant period, Save the Children will engage  and advocate for ATI donor members to fulfill their commitment to fund local civil society and accountability groups, facilitate citizen participation in tax policy reforms in two Kenyan counties, and work with the Kenyan Council of Governors to expand this program to other counties. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for Editors' World, a journalism organization whose purpose is to redefine and improve coverage of international subject matter in mainstream and alternative news organizations in the U.S. None
for the videoconferencing project A videoconferencing grant to the GlobalGiving Foundation will support the purchase and installment of high definition audio and video equipment in two large and two medium-sized conference rooms at GlobalGiving's headquarters in Washington, D.C. It will also support technology that will be used to conduct remote interviews, trainings, webinars, and one-on-one video conferences with project partners around the world. Finally it will support a remote presence device called "The Double" that will improve communications with GlobalGiving staff who are not based in their DC office.
for support of the Francophone Social and Behavior Change Summit This grant to the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs will support the 2019 Francophone Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Summit in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The Summit aims to bring together for the first time a community of French-speaking SBC organizations, practitioners, and researchers to share current results, build capacity, and expand access in Francophone Africa to the latest behavior change approaches in the field of reproductive, maternal, and newborn health and nutrition. The event will include a focus on young and rising SBC professionals, youth advocates, and local champions.
for Oxfam Novib’s Voice initiative Oxfam America will provide funding to Oxfam Novib to support the Voice initiative, which promotes inclusive governance across 10 countries in Africa and Asia. Under the Voice initiative, Oxfam Novib partners with the Transparency and Accountability Initiative to support efforts by community-based organizations that seek to increase access of people who are marginalized and discriminated against, notably persons with disabilities, to the decision-making processes on how government revenues are allocated and spent. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support to the Secretary General leadership transition This funding will provide the incoming U.N. Secretary-General’s leadership team with the resources they need for early transition activities and to build the intellectual case and political constituency for longer-term U.N. strengthening.
for developing an external communications plan for the International Women's Health Coalition This Organizational Effectiveness (OE) grant would enable the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) to develop a more robust communications strategy.  Working with an external consultant, IWHC will conduct an audit of its current communications materials and products, consult with stakeholders, clarify its position and messaging, and develop a communications strategy and an implementation plan.  A stronger external communications plan is anticipated to help IWHC meet its institutional goals of supporting and strengthening women-led organizations in the Global South, and advocating for more progressive policies on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
for developing a new communications strategy This OE grant would enable Equis to develop a communication strategy that makes full use of the narrative potential in their work, as well as redesign their webpage and logo to better fit a modern web design and use of social networks.
for the NGO Leaders Forum A grant to the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University for the NGO Leaders Forum will support the planning and facilitation of a series of annual retreats bringing together the chief executives of the major U.S.-based international development and relief NGOs. The purpose of the retreats is to help build honest and candid communication among the CEOs and to encourage collective action on shared opportunities and challenges, such as U.S. aid reform and development effectiveness.
for developing an updated strategy based on their "Learning Journey" Firelight Foundation is an intermediary grantmaker that provides funding, technical support, and organizational capacity building to African NGOs and community-based organizations concerned with family, youth, and children's education and development. This OE grant will support a strategy review refresh focusing specifically on Firelight Foundation's social change theory and organizational capacity building approaches and tools.
for merger and strategic planning This grant will allow Mexico Evalúa to carry out an institutional assessment and a strategic planning exercise to inform and implement a merger process.  In addition to the assessment and the strategic plan, this work will include integration and strengthening of the Board, as well as coaching and leadership training.
for development of an MLE plan, an online integrated database of members, and financial training This grant will allow WIEGO to work in two areas: systems and technology; and, monitoring, learning and evaluation (MEL). WIEGO will develop an integrated database to systematically update and provide information about its membership and needs in real time, securely and in one place. The grant will also support migration of all of its documents to an existing network-wide Intranet so that all information is accessible to all its staff. Support includes training for staff on new systems. WIEGO will also develop a comprehensive and common framework for MEL that adapts to the unique characteristics of its structure and work, and will allow WIEGO to track and communicate its impact, strengthening its fundraising potential.
for a project to continue GMF's efforts to promote more effective U.S. development policies This project, which will also have financial support from the Swedish government, focuses on two key objectives: (1) modernizing American foreign aid budgeting, policy planning, and operations to support recipient country ownership of development strategies; and (2) ensuring that our policymakers make difficult decisions on priorities for U.S. development assistance—especially in this period of shrinking budgets—based on global best practices, including the experience of European donors. To achieve these objectives, the German Marshall Fund (GMF) will establish an Aid Effectiveness Experts Group, launch a new congressional education effort, and prepare policy briefs aimed at high-level policymaker audiences. These efforts will in turn strengthen GMF’s leadership within the Hewlett-supported Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, of which GMF Senior Fellow Jim Kolbe is a co-chair.  
German Marshall Fund of the United States