2003 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES   

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

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

Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) – $85,000
Year 2 of a general support grant to enable AGI to pursue the education of policymakers, the media and the advocacy community on the strong links between sexual and reproductive health and rights and economic and social wellbeing.

PATH – $100,000 over two years
Continued support for PATH's work towards the abandonment of the practice of female genital mutilation in Africa . This grant enables PATH to take their expertise with FGM eradication projects and scale them up to a critical level and mobilize new resources from European bilateral and multilateral sources.

Rainbo – $75,000 a year for up to 2 years
In support of Rainbo’s continued work to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). Through the “Integrated Initiative Against FGM: Technical Assistance and Information Exchange,” Rainbo will disseminate the “lessons learned” from FGM-eradication efforts over years past to the large bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, who can provide more funding to the effort than can smaller private donors.

Tostan – $2500
Travel support for Tostan staff to present their program at an international donors meeting on female genital mutilation, in Cairo. This is an opportunity for Tostan to extend their successful programs to other African countries.

Women’s International Network (WIN) – $7,000
Additional core support for WIN, for distribution of the Childbirth Picture Book which has been distributed free of charge around the world, to teach women and men about reproductive health and the medical sequelae caused by Female Genital Mutilation.

• 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

Meridian Development Foundation – $50,000
This grant supports the International Consortium on Emergency Contraception, which facilitates information sharing, global advocacy, and collaboration between members of the Consortium and private sector manufacturers and distributors of emergency contraception products. Collaborative efforts can maximize synergy between complementary organizations and strengthen the capacity to deal with issues on a regional and global scale.

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) – $100,000
Continued support for AFY to develop and carry out a sophisticated media strategy in order to reframe the U.S. and international policy agendas to promote adolescent reproductive health.

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) – $75,783 for year 1 and up to $99,609 for year 2
Support for ICRW to use their research findings on married adolescents to build awareness among policymakers of the reproductive health risks faced by adolescents in developing countries, particularly married adolescents.

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

Ipas – $100,000
Continued support for Ipas' work Building Support for Abortion Policy Reform Worldwide . They will continue to work to increase support for reforms among policymakers, to mobilize and build partnerships among different influential sectors, and to link abortion to critical issues such as HIV, adolescent health, and human rights.

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.

Increase support from multilateral, bilateral, and other donors to international 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

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung (DSW) – $110,000
Continued support for DSW to raise the awareness and the commitment of the German public and policymakers of the importance of fulfilling the ICPD Plan of Action. Germany is a significant bilateral donor of overseas development assistance and the largest contributor to the European Union; thus their actions with regard to the ICPD Plan of Action have a great influence on the actions of other EU countries.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevolkerung (DSW) – $24,600
Continued support for DSW’s Euromapping project, in which they gather information on the extent to which European governments have lived up to the financial commitments they made at the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. This information is used by many European advocacy groups to advocate to their governments the importance of allocating these funds.

Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung – $62,605
Year 2 of support for Phase V of DSW's "Guide to European Population Assistance". Since its inception, the Guide has been of great value to both Northern and Southern population NGOs seeking to navigate the complexities of the rules and regulations of European Community Official Development Assistance, in search of funding.

Equilibres & Populations (E&P) – $100,000 a year for up to 2 years
Continued support for E&P’s work to increase awareness of population issues in France and mobilize French funding for international population programs. France is the world’s third largest contributor to Official Development Assistance, but only a small fraction of those funds (.3%) is devoted to population programs. Earmarking more funds for reproductive health programs would go a long way in meeting France’s financial commitment to the 1994 Cairo Plan of Action.

International Planned Parenthood Federation- European Network (IPPF-EN) – $100,000
For "Building Support for ICPD in a Europe of 25: Working with the New Policymakers of the European Union," in which they will be raising the awareness amongst the governments and development NGOs in the accession countries on the link between poverty reduction and sexual and reproductive health. They will also be raising the ICPD Plan of Action as an issue in the European Parliament's June elections' debates.

Interact Worldwide (formerly Population Concern) – $30,000
Support for their work to educate the U.K. public and parliamentarians on the importance of international population programs and promote an increase in funding for these programs. The U.K. is a major contributor of Overseas Development Assistance, ranked 4th globally. This work is to help raise the amount of this ODA that is devoted to population programs, so that the U.K. can fulfill its commitment to the 1994 Cairo Programme of Action.

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

Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) – $100,000
Continued support for FMF's Choices Campaign , connecting and mobilizing the next generation of pro-choice leaders. The feministcampus.org website provides young people with the networking tools, support and resources that enable them to advocate for reproductive health services and oppose restrictions on reproductive rights in the U.S. and around the world.

International Womens’ Health Coalition (IWHC) – $25,919 over nine months.
Support for IWHC’s work to influence global policy initiatives which affect women’s reproductive health and rights. An example is the Millennium Development Goals, which, in their present form, threaten to re-direct bilateral and multi-lateral donor funding away from crucial women’s health concerns, such as ensuring access to contraception, safe abortion, and eliminating harmful practices such as female genital mutilation.

National Audubon Society – $85,000 a year for up to two years
Support for “Optimizing U.S. Support of International Family Planning,” a program of policymaker and grassroots education on the substantial environmental benefits of international family planning, with the goals of increasing U.S. funding and removing impediments to the effective delivery of global family planning services.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) – $10,000
Support for NCRP to research the extent, strategies and impacts of conservative foundations, including an analysis of how conservative think tanks operate, where they get their funding, and how they are governed. This is a much-needed update to two reports NCRP published in1998 and 1999: Moving a Public Policy Agenda: The Strategic Philanthropy of Conservative Foundations and $1 Billion for Ideas: Conservative Think Tanks in the 1990s.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) – $40,000
Continued support for NWF's Population and Environment Program, dedicated to teaching NWF's membership about the links between rapid population growth and the degradation of the environment and loss of species. NWF seeks to increase domestic understanding of this link, generate activism on these issues, and coordinate efforts with other like-minded organizations.

Pathfinder International – $90,000 a year for up to two years
Continued support for Pathfinder’s “Advocacy and Public Affairs Program”, in which they educate Members of Congress and other policymakers about the ways that family planning and reproductive health programs save and improve lives around the world.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) – $50,000
Continued support for PPFA’s Global Partners Program, an “exchange program” that enables representatives from PPFA affiliates in “key” states and NGOs from developing nations to visit each other and gain first-hand exposure regarding the human costs of perverse policies such as the Global Gag Rule. These affiliates then educate their Members of Congress and help train other grassroots supporters with the ultimate goal being policies that guarantee reproductive health and freedom in the U.S. and globally.

Population Connection – $40,000
Year 2 of support for Population Connection's advocacy work to encourage the Bush Administration to: repeal the Global Gag Rule, which denies U.S. funding to overseas family planning organizations involved in abortion counseling or provision, even if with their own funds; and to: release the funds being withheld from the United Nations Population Fund by right wing conservatives.

Population Action International (PAI) – $35,000
Continued general support for PAI’s work to increase political and financial support for effective population policies and programs grounded in individual rights. This is done through building relationships with Members of Congress and their staff, developing diverse coalitions, producing advocacy publications, influencing media coverage of issues, and empowering colleague NGOs in other key donor countries to carry out advocacy campaigns with their respective governments.

Sierra Club Foundation – $100,000
Year 2 of support for the Global Population and Environment Program, through which the Sierra Club educates its members and the general public about the need for the United States government to support international family planning programs, and thereby protect the global environment and preserve natural resources for future generations by slowing population growth.