Redstone Strategy Group

Redstone Strategy Group, LLC provides strategy assistance to the Coordinating Unit of the Ouagadougou Partnership, whose focus is to increase family planning use in Francophone West Africa. This supplemental support would allow Redstone to assist the Coordinating Unit to improve communications with member countries regarding the level of funding the Partnership’s core donors are providing; coordinate country monitoring activities with the global family planning initiative "FP2020"; identify funding gaps in country family planning action plans; and build capacity in the Unit to help align donor funding with priorities outlined in country action plans.

Redstone Strategy Group, LLC will provide technical assistance to the members of the Ouagadougou Partnership, including developing a Partnership strategy. The strategy will help the Partnership identify the most effective ways to increase the number of women using contraception in nine countries in Francophone West Africa, and represents an important step in the next phase of the collaboration. Redstone will help partners set a direction for the next several years, including defining a new Partnership governance plan, developing a process to monitor and update country family planning action plans, defining a potentially expanded role for the Partnership’s Coordinating Unit, and developing processes to track what donors are spending, which action plan activities are funded, and how civil society organizations are contributing to country plans.

This grant is the third in a series of grants beginning in 2010 to Redstone Strategy Group, LLC to improve the performance culture of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, a large grantee of the Global Development and Population Program. The ultimate outcome of these three grants is to improve IPPF’s performance to allow the Federation to serve more people, supporting IPPF’s stretch goal of doubling reproductive health services by 2015. The previous two grants supported the development of a performance-based funding system for IPPF and a tool designed to evaluate and improve clinic performance within country Member Associations. With this new grant, Redstone will translate the performance tool into French and provide training to IPPF Member Associations in Francophone West Africa; as well as provide technical assistance to previously-trained Africa and South Asia IPPF Member Associations to assess progress on their performance improvement plans.