2001 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES

Population

Population pressures exacerbate many of the fundamental obstacles to sustainable development: degradation of renewable natural resources, income disparity, gender inequality and poor maternal and child health. The Fund seeks to achieve population stabilization principally by expanding reproductive health choices for women, thereby reducing unwanted childbearing and improving the lives of women and their families.

Recognizing the scale and complexity of the population issue, the Wallace Global Fund seeks initiatives which expand reproductive choices for women as a way to improve the lives of women and their families and slow the growth of human populations.

• Raise profile of looming shortfall of donated contraceptives

• Assemble stakeholders to deepen donor commitment to purchase contraceptives for international family planning programs and promote donor coordination

Better World Fund – $150,000 over six months 

Support for PAI, as fiscal agent of the Interim Working Group, to establish the International Consortium on Reproductive Health Supplies and finalize the Istanbul Action Plan.

Promote a universal set of reproductive rights as basic human rights

• Use progress achieved at the International Conference on Population and Development and Beijing Conferences to mobilize civil society and hold governments accountable to commitments

• Support highly leveraged initiatives to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation

Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS) - $60,000

Support for IDS’s Reproductive Rights and Democracy Program.

Research, Action, and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO) - $75,000 per year for up to two years

Core support for RAINBO’s International Program, including the Female Genital Mutilation Review, Evaluation, and Monitoring (FGM-REM) Project, general technical assistance to bilaterals and multilaterals, as well as the development and distribution of our Female Genital Mutilation (FC)/FGM materials to more agencies and organizations internationally and in the Africa region.

TOSTAN – $1,000

Support for Dr. Emad Abdeen, Project Director of TOSTAN Sudanese replication project, to attend a RAINBO conference on FGM in Cairo.

Women's International Network (WIN) - $15,000

Core support for WIN, an organization which has promoted networking among women’s groups around the world for the past 25+ years. WIN has been a leader in the international effort to eradicate the harmful traditional practice of FGM. Their Childbirth Picture Book has been distributed free of charge around the world, to teach women about reproductive health and the physical damage caused by FGM.

Mainstream emergency contraception in reproductive health care

• Support model introductions of dedicated products, the dissemination of standardized practice guidelines, and dissemination of lessons learned from product introductions

• Facilitate introduction of new postcoital contraceptives

• Support measures to lower barriers to access to new contraceptive technologies

Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP) - $75,000 

Core support for RHTP’s efforts to get FDA approval of a priority women’s health technology, and to reduce or eliminate barriers to access once a product is FDA-approved.

Expand informed reproductive choices for adolescents

• Support advocacy for policy change in order to improve the quality of reproductive health information and services available to adolescents at the global and regional level

Advocates for Youth (AFY) - $200,000

Year II of support for AFY’s International Program’s three-year plan, “Improving Access to Youth-Friendly Contraceptive Services in the Developing World.”

Advocates for Youth - $30,000 over six months 

Support for “Standing Up For Research-Based Approaches to Adolescent Sexual Health.”

Improve and increase access to safe abortion

• Support training in safe abortion in key countries

• Support advocacy and research for abortion policy change at the global and regional levels

• Support service expansion and increase public and private sector support for access to safe services

• Support program and policy work to increase access to medical abortion

Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE) - $50,000 per year for up to two years

General operating support to GIRE, the Information Group on Reproductive Choices in Mexico, a progressive regional influence in the Latin American debate on reproductive rights.

IPAS - $225,000 per year for up to two years 

Support for Action for Change in Abortion Policy, aimed at eliminating barriers to women’s access to safe abortion.

Reproductive Health Alliance Europe – $50,000 over six months

Support for An International Consortium on Medical Abortion, an effort to promote and support the use of pharmacological abortifacients (e.g., mifepristone/misoprostol, and misoprostol alone) in developing countries.

Population

It is widely acknowledged that the unmet demand for family planning and reproductive health services cannot be satisfied without the mobilization of significant additional resources. Unfortunately, governments and other donors have fallen significantly short of the targets set in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development. Therefore, WGF is supporting efforts to build diverse constituencies that will advocate for increased foreign assistance for population and reproductive health.

The Fund seeks initiatives which increase foreign assistance from major donors for population and reproductive health programs.

• Strengthen advocacy efforts within developed countries, the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe by NGOs and international organizations

• Increase information about accessing bilateral and multilateral funds for developing country grantseekers

Action Canada for Population and Development (ACPD) - $48,250 

Core support for ACPD in their work to mobilize public support and resources for international population and development issues. ACPD promotes the full implementation of the Programme of Action stemming from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) - $24,906 over eleven months

Support for Euromapping: Is Europe Living up to the ICPD Promise, an effort to systematically gather statistical information on government funding levels related to the ICPD Programme of Action in order to urge all European governments to honor their original IPCD commitments.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevoelkerung (DSW) - $75,000 per year for up to two years 

Support for Mobilizing Germany and Europe for the Rio and Cairo Follow up, an effort to increase public funding levels from the German government until 2004 and to engage major German and European NGOs as well as foundations for the Rio +10 and Cairo +10 campaigns.

Equilibres & Populations (E&P) - $100,000 per year for up to two years

Core support for E&P in their work to encourage the French government, the Francophone international organization, and the European Union to increase international aid directed toward projects dealing with social development and the unmet needs of countries requesting assistance for population programs.

International Planned Parenthood Federation, European Network (IPPF EN) - $50,000 per year for up to two years

Support for IPPF EN for Developing the Cotonou Watch and Expanding the DAC Watch.

Marie Stopes International (MSI) - $60,000

Support for MSI’s program Building Awareness and Commitment Among Key European Policymakers for Increased Support for Reproductive Health.

Increase support, both financial and technical, from the US government to international population and reproductive health programs

• Strengthen key grassroots constituencies in the US, including environmental activists, women’s groups, and communities of faith

Alan Guttmacher (AGI) - $100,000

Support for “Using Information and Analysis to Stimulate Action and Understanding Regarding International Policy Issues,” a set of highly related initiatives within AGI aimed at improving the United States’ support for international reproductive health and family planning programs.

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) - $50,000

Core support for CFFC’s work to protect and advance the right of all people, but especially women, to make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive lives.

Choice USA - $60,000

Support for Choice USA’s Next Generation Campaign, an effort to regain young people’s support for reproductive choice, mobilize young people to take action on behalf of these rights, and develop the young leaders who will lead this movement in the 21^st century.

Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) - $125,000

Support for Choices Campus Community: On-line Campus Leadership Program, a fully interactive online community designed to stimulate pro-choice organizing in the U.S. and worldwide.

Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights - $10,000

Continued core support for this organization of grantmakers who address domestic and international population issues.

National Audubon Society - $85,000

Support for the Audubon Population and Habitat Program’s “Increasing US Funding for International Family Planning Programs,” which includes policymaker and grassroots education around the substantial environmental benefits of international family planning.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) - $40,000 per year for up to two years

Support for NWF’s Population and Environment Program and its efforts to achieve a sustainable balance among the world's population, environmental quality, wildlife habitat, and our finite natural resources.

Pathfinder - $90,000 per year for up to two years

Support for Pathfinder’s advocacy work to bring the perspective and experience of the field to those who make and influence international family planning policy.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) - $80,000 per year for up to two years

Support for Planned Parenthood Global Partners (PPGP), the international public policy and affiliate partnerships initiative of PPFA, the world's largest and oldest voluntary reproductive health care organization.

Population Action International (PAI) – $25,000 over three months 

Support for PAI, on behalf of the International Family Planning Coalition, to convene a 2-3 day meeting to strategize about ways to protect and promote U.S. international family planning assistance.

Population Action International (PAI) - $10,000 

Core support for PAI’s work to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights.

Sierra Club Foundation - $90,000

Year 2 of support for the Sierra Club’s Population Program and its agenda to both support family planning programs that benefit women and to safeguard the environment.

Zero Population Growth (ZPG) - $60,000

Support for Public Outreach and Organizing for Family Planning, Empowerment of Women and Environmental Protection, part of ZPG’s work to protect and advance voluntary planning and reproductive health services worldwide.