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for support of the 15th AWID International Forum The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is a global feminist membership organization that supports a movement to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. AWID is organizing its 15th AWID International Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, from December 2-5, 2024. The forum is a space centered on feminist and gender justice movements, created by and for the movements. This sponsorship grant supports the 15th AWID International Forum.
for supporting local NGOs to grow and innovate on the TaRL approach in Africa Empower Learning Africa is a nonprofit organization that works to support every child across Africa build foundational skills for a better future through the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) initiative. TaRL is a pedagogical approach that involves evaluating children using a simple assessment tool, and then grouping them according to learning level rather than age or grade. The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its partner Pratham have extensively evaluated this approach, showing that it substantially raises reading and math learning outcomes. This grant will enable Empower Learning Africa to establish a fellowship program that will create a pool of African leaders to provide locally rooted, nimble support for TaRL programming across the countries where the approach is being implemented. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for board development The Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI-Integrity) conducts research on initiatives that bring together governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations to address issues of common and general interest. MSI-Integrity started off intending to maintain a lean staff and outsourced systems. Over time, it has become apparent that they need to strengthen their governance systems in order to keep up with their expanding role in the transparency and accountability field. A strong MSI-Integrity will advance our understanding of the many multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) that we support - the OGP, EITI, IATI, GIFT etc. - and inform our future relationship to these and other MSIs.
for support of the Okra Collaborative, a partnership of Black feminist organizations This grant is a collaboration between the Racial Justice Initiative and the Gender Equity and Governance Program, in support of the Okra Collaborative, a partnership launched in 2021 designed to identify Black feminist leaders and organizations globally. The project is coordinated by Black Feminist Future in the United States, and aims to map Black feminist organizations working in the African diaspora to increase connectivity, share resources, and exchange ideas across Black feminist movements. Through the seeding funds provided by this grant, the partnership will invest in building collective power while aligning on transnational issues of interest.
for general operating support Development Initiatives works closely with partner governments, international institutions, and civil society organizations to ensure that data-driven evidence and analysis are used effectively in policy and practice to end poverty, reduce inequality, and increase resilience. The organization works with local partners in Kenya, Uganda, and Nepal to inform policy and practice, change mindsets, and influence debate at the global, regional, and national level in order 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. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for the Open Contracting Partnership program The Open Contracting Partnership is a collaboration among government and nongovernment actors aimed at promoting country-level implementation of norms and standards related to disclosure and citizen participation in public procurement and contracting. In this grant period, the partnership will support reform champions to use procurement to foster effective and equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and, more broadly, to improve public goods, works, and services. The partnership will also invest in data quality improvement and capacity building for civil society partners to monitor and provide feedback to government and the general public on contract execution. Through the work of the partnership, more than 50 governments have committed to implement open public contracting in the last three years; open contracting has also been endorsed by the G7, G20, and the OECD. Recent estimates show that open contracting reforms have resulted in annual savings of US$2-3 billion. By preventing leakage and enabling the effective use of public resources, open contracting is central to the achievement of the goals of all strategies of the Global Development and Population Program. (Strategy: Transparency, Participation, and Accountability)
for efforts to strengthen linkages between HIV/AIDS and family planning and reproductive health activities None
for the expansion of FrontlineSMS This follow-on grant to the kiwanja Foundation would allow them to refine and develop additional applications for the FrontlineSMS software. Activities would also support the increased and targeted engagement with the transparency and accountability community.  Enabling populations to interact with governments and civil society groups via SMS, the FrontlineSMS platform and associated tools use low-cost mobile interactions to reduce historical barriers to citizen access to information and channels for feedback and oversight.
for development of a fundraising strategy The Water Integrity Network supports its members in identifying risks to effective water governance, demonstrating approaches for civil society and citizen groups to work collaboratively with government and implementing awareness raising and advocacy campaigns to improve the quality of water services. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the Water Integrity Network to develop a longer-term fundraising strategy and plan, and build the capacity of its staff to manage fundraising efforts.
for Femmes Actives et Citoyenneté Engagée (FACE) project (Active Women and Committee Citizenship) WELL is a Senegalese civil society organization of advocates and practitioners that have been working in the past 30-plus years to combat poverty in rural communities in Senegal through providing functional literacy, strengthening social and civic participation, as well as financial empowerment for women and girls. Through this grant, WELL will implement the Femmes Actives et Citoyenneté Engagée (FACE) project to strengthening the power, decision making, and agency of women and girls in partner villages to expand their impact in the inclusive development of their communities. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance).
for legal advocacy support to improve grassroots communities' access to quality services Namati is a global network of grassroots legal advocates who work with local communities to understand, use, and shape the law to gain access to basic services and rights. This grant will support Namati’s work in Mozambique, where they raise awareness of health policy and help people take action to address breakdowns in health care delivery; and in Kenya, where paralegals focus on the right to legal identity, a prerequisite for accessing many services, including health care and education.
for organizational planning for Pulse Lab Kampala United Nations Global Pulse (UNGP) is as an initiative of the Executive Office of the Secretary General (EOSG) at the UN, currently re-positioning itself as the UN Secretary-General’s Innovation Lab, and expanding its scope beyond AI and Big Data, and into innovation, strategic foresight, and behavioral science. UNGP's lab in Kampala ("Pulse Lab Kampala") is a long-time Evidence-Informed Policymaking (EIP) grantee, for whom the Hewlett Foundation is currently supporting its work developing the national data strategy for Uganda. As UNGP transitions to this new role globally, a key part of this transition is a renewed focus on impact on the ground, and empowering its locally-based labs to become strengthened (and more independent) regional hubs, including in Africa. To this end, this grant will support Pulse Lab Kampala as it scopes and sets itself up to serve as UNGP's regional hub for Africa. The work will include designing an impactful and sustainable organizational setup, a needs assessment, a resource mobilization plan, and a transition implementation plan.
for support of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences is a global network of scholars and institutions committed to improving the standards of openness and integrity in policy-oriented research. This grant will enable the Initiative to address the widening research capacity gap between scholars in the West and those in the Global South. The Initiative will do this through bringing visibility to research transparency efforts in resource-constrained institutions, providing hands-on training at UC Berkeley, in-country and online, and offering seed grants to support adoption of transparency best practices. The Initiative will translate dissemination and training materials into French and Spanish to increase accessibility.
for the Transparency and Accountability Program The Population Program's recent advocacy efforts have focused on addressing inefficient and ineffective uses of funding for reproductive health, including the lack of transparency and accountability in budgeting and expenditures at the country level. This contribution to the Transparency and Accountability Program will allow it to select about two organizations per year with particular interest in addressing issues ranging from supplies stockouts to staff absenteeism in the reproductive health sector. TAP will provide the organizations with technical assistance on using specific methodologies such as expenditure tracking studies to generate evidence for advocacy. This collaborative grant with Global Development helps to illustrate potential synergies in the integrated program, and the possibilities for sector-specific applications of Global Development's transparency and accountability work. Please refer to Global Development's docket for more information about this grant.
for general operating support This renewal grant would provide unrestricted funds for Bread for the World Institute's work, including its policy analysis and faith-based advocacy for more and better U.S. development assistance, U.S. leadership to strengthen agriculture and nutrition in poor countries, and the reform of U.S. food and farm policies. The Institute engages diverse church groups across the United States on public policy issues that are important to poor people. Bread for the World's ambitious Offering of Letters, which mobilizes religious congregations throughout the country, will focus in 2011 on foreign assistance reform. Supported by a previous Hewlett Foundation grant, the Institute also continues to host the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, a coalition of think tanks and advocacy organizations committed to improving the effectiveness of U.S. development aid.
for the Power and Money program Oxfam America’s Power and Money program promotes government and corporate transparency and creates opportunities for citizens to participate in decisions about how public revenues are generated, allocated, and spent. Oxfam advocates at the international level for stronger governance and transparency norms and works with local partners at national and subnational levels to promote effective implementation of those norms. During this grant period, Oxfam will intensify efforts to protect civic space and foster greater participation of women and minority groups in fiscal matters.
for gathering evidence for policy advocacy and monitoring This grant will allow Oxfam to build on its Women’s Economic Empowerment Care work in three areas: (a) working in two countries to increase and improve public data collection on time use and unpaid work, with accompanying national and international advocacy campaigns; (b) working with women’s rights groups in four African countries to carry out capacity building for advocacy on care work and create a communications strategy; and (c) extending the research and analysis in new areas of unpaid care work, to develop key findings and improve methodologies.
for a project to improve natural resources governance, transparency, and accountability in Mexico 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 continue working with grassroots organizations in rural Mexico that are negatively affected by mining and other extractive industries.
for a project to enhance data use in monitoring progress toward the SDGs in Ghana The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), based in Ghana, provides parliamentary-strengthening support to representative parliaments in Africa. Under this grant ACEPA, with its partners INASP and the Ghana Statistical Service, works to (a) strengthen the Parliament of Ghana’s access to and use of data to monitor Ghana’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and other national development priorities; and (b) foster learning among the broader evidence-informed policymaking community about parliamentary use of data to enhance representation and oversight functions. This grant advances the Evidence-Informed Policymaking goal that governments in East and West Africa use evidence to improve policy decisions.
for Civic Futures launch event Civic Futures is a philanthropic initiative that was conceptualized by Funders Initiative for Civil Society and the Fund for Global Human Rights. It aims at enabling a strategic, global, cross-sectoral response to the overreach and the abuse of security and counterterrorism laws and norms.
for general operating support The Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) is a collaboration among governments, businesses, civil society, and technologists to open up and transform government contracting worldwide. Bringing open data and open government together, OCP makes sure that fair and effective public contracting will provide everyone everywhere with the public goods, works, and services that they need. In Africa, OCP works with regional partners to better automate and open up procurement systems through improved data management. OCP also helps make procurement more inclusive and accessible to marginalized groups like women and small businesses, and promotes sustainable development in Africa where many governments began digitizing their entire procurement process by implementing electronic procurement systems with the hope of transforming procurement to be more efficient, fair, and accountable. In 2023 OCP will kick off the development of its next five-year strategy. Advancing open contracting in Africa and helping partners to use procurement as a strategic lever for equity and inclusion are some of the key goals that OCP would like to pursue. (Strategy: Inclusive Governance)
for support to manage the AmplifyChange fund This grant will allow MannionDaniels, in partnership with the African Women’s Development Fund and Global Fund for Women, to manage the AmplifyChange fund that is dedicated to support civil society advocacy on sexual and reproductive health and rights, primarily in Africa and South Asia. Through an inclusive and collaborative grantmaking approach, AmplifyChange provides grants and capacity-strengthening to local civil society organizations to advocate for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women, the LGBTI community, and young people. Through pooled funding, AmplifyChange is supported by nine bilateral agencies, foundations, and private philanthropy initiatives.
for developing actionable tools for expanding social protection for caregiving to accelerate WEE The WORLD Policy Analysis Center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health provides access to global research, data, and maps for sharing ideas and resources on social policies. It uses data to identify effective policies and laws, publish original research, and offer evidence-based policy recommendations. It also works with organizations to translate its global policy data into community and country-level improvements. This grant will support the development of actionable tools to support the social protection needs of caregivers to advance Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). (Strategy: International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Utafiti Sera program to connect researchers and policy actors in East Africa The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) supports the production and dissemination of policy-relevant research; designs and delivers professional development courses for researchers and policy actors; and facilitates a collaborative higher education program across African countries. Under this grant, PASGR will foster ongoing communities of research and policy actors in several thematic areas in Kenya, Rwanda, and Nigeria. These Utafiti Sera communities will prioritize policy questions, identify and fill research gaps to respond to these questions, and draw on research findings to inform policymaking.
for a project to develop indices for measuring the quality of service delivery in Africa None
for ISSP's program to train population scholars The sub-Saharan African population is projected to double in the next forty years, with booming urban centers where health systems and other social services have been unable to keep pace. In Burkina Faso, the University of Ouagadougou has built the only population research and training program on the continent capable of studying this dominant demographic trend in real time. The university’s Institut Supérieur des Sciences de la Population (ISSP) operates an urban population observatory, where 80,000 residents participate in an ongoing population and reproductive health research study with the Institute. The observatory produces a stream of demographic and socioeconomic data on African urban poverty, which will be used for the first time for both training and research in Africa. The recommended grant would support an expansion of ISSP graduate programs, which train population scientists from throughout the Francophone region. Hewlett funds would also support ISSP’s plans to become a regional hub for demographic data by building a sharable repository of modern data for the region’s research and training institutes.
for general operating support The International Budget Partnership (IBP) is the leader of a global civil society movement to use budget analysis and advocacy as a tool to reduce poverty and to improve the quality of governance. The IBP’s Open Budget Survey is conducted in over 100 countries to measure the degree to which budget processes are transparent and open to public input. The organization also provides training and technical assistance to local organizations to strengthen their advocacy campaigns for budget policies and practices that make efficient use of public resources while effectively addressing the needs of the poor and marginalized.
for a meeting on infrastructure development at the 2008 U.S.-Africa Agribusiness Forum None
for general operating support This grant would allow Sonora Ciudadana to continue its work on accountability and service delivery. Sonora Ciudadana will refine its substantive work to improve access to and quality of public health services in the state of Sonora. To that end, the organization will continue accessing relevant public information, tracking local budgets, and analyzing service delivery chains for the provision of public health services
for advising African governments on the management of oil, gas, and mineral resources The African Center for Economic Transformation is a think tank that undertakes policy analysis and advisory activities. With this grant, the Center would assist governments with oil, gas, and mineral resources to exploit these resources effectively. The Extractive Resources Services program helps build capacity within African governments to manage their natural resource wealth for the maximum public benefit and provides expert advice and assistance in developing, negotiating, and administering agreements with petroleum and mineral companies. The Center also promotes dialogue among policy makers, investors, and civil society groups to create national platforms for good governance and responsive stewardship of natural resources.
for strengthening local government policy actors’ capacity to use evidence to improve the quality of public policy for inclusive development in Ghana The Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is an advocacy think tank that seeks to advance democracy, good governance, and inclusive economic growth and development in Ghana and Africa. With this grant dubbed “Evidence for Development” (E4D), the center will strengthen the capacity for evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) as a mechanism to enhance governance and accountability relating to the use of public resources and service delivery improvement at the subnational district level. CDD-Ghana will strengthen connections and coordination across the emerging community of actors advancing the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy in Ghana.
for general operating support IDinsight designs, deploys, and promotes evidence-generating tools designed to help organizations combat poverty worldwide. The organization’s guiding principle is to inform decision makers' priorities, thus maximizing rigor within decision makers' budgetary, time, and operational constraints. The grantee’s goals are to (a) increase the impact of its direct support to decision makers, including by deepening and lengthening relationships; (b) raise expectations and lower barriers so that evidence is used for policymaking and implementation, including by lowering data collection costs; and (c) further enhance the organization's ability to attract and retain top talent. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)
for support of consultation efforts on the Post-2015 Development Agenda The United Nations Development Programme is the lead agency responsible for organizing consultations and generating analyses that will inform the post-2015 development agenda. This grant would support the participation of experts from the Global South, including many Hewlett Foundation grantees and think tank leaders, in consultations related to Population and Education. In addition, the grant would support analysis of reports on progress to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
for a seminar to discuss responses to negative impacts of open markets, free trade and globalization None
for a project to develop a common data standard with the International Aid Transparency Initiative With renewed project support, the Foundation Center will continue to map out and align the Center’s data standard with the International Aid Transparency Initiative data standard. Ensuring interoperability between the two standards will enhance public access to information about U.S. foundation giving while also making it easier to understand how philanthropic giving contributes to international development efforts.
for general operating support As the premier multidisciplinary African think tank, the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) generates rigorous research, supports evidence uptake, trains African scholars, and transforms knowledge ecosystems to influence policies and programs. APHRC’s extensive expertise in Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights, urbanization, health systems, and an emphasis on research-capacity strengthening and stakeholder engagement affords the organization a unique role in the field. (Strategy: International Reproductive Health)