Lire l’article en anglais ici. La réunion annuelle du Partenariat de Ouagadougou est ma réunion préférée de l’année et cette année, elle sera particulièrement spéciale. Il y a une magie intangible à ce rassemblement de dirigeants de neuf pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest francophone et de donateurs, défenseurs et chercheurs qui a pour objectif de partager les…

The Hewlett Foundation’s Global Development and Population Program provides roughly $20 million a year in grants for evidence-informed policymaking. The goal of these grants is to ensure policymakers can access and use high-quality evidence to improve social and economic policies—and ultimately, improve lives. Program Officers Norma Altshuler and Sarah Lucas explain the basic idea behind…

This is the third in a series of posts about the Education Program’s OER strategic planning process. Read the first post on “Exploring the future of open educational resources” and the second post on “Beyond access: Using open educational resources to improve student learning.” I feel fortunate to meet so many wonderful educators in my…

As a queer black woman who has worked in the arts—as an artist, nonprofit staffer, consultant, and funder—for more than a decade, I have often found myself in the role of teacher around issues of equity. That’s meant helping folks understand how institutional practices reinforce or contribute to a culture of exclusion and disempowerment of…

Last year, our Education team engaged in an intensive, year-long strategy refresh for its K-12 Teaching and Learning work, known formerly as the Deeper Learning strategy. The process affirmed our work in some areas, forced healthy questioning in others, and brought us into contact with a broad array of new friends and fresh ideas. Strategy…

When the high-level panel on universal health coverage meets on September 23 at the United Nations General Assembly, heads of state, political and health leaders, and universal health coverage (UHC) champions will have an opportunity to chart a way forward toward health for all. I’ll be in New York for the event and will be…

With so much excitement around Africa Evidence Week, a cross-country virtual and live bonanza of Evidence Informed Decision-making (#EIDM) hosted by the Africa Evidence Network and dozens of partners, I couldn’t help but jump in. Through the outpouring of videos, webinars, events, blogs and #AfricaEvidenceWeek tweets we have met emerging evidence leaders; learned about evidence…

The newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land confirms the lived experiences of people who have suffered from deadly fires in California to famine in Somalia, to widespread loss of ancestral forests in Brazil and peatlands in Indonesia: the impacts of climate change are already being felt in…

Anand Gopal is a program officer for clean transportation with the foundation’s Environment Program. We spoke with Anand about our transportation strategy and how he’s working with grantees and partners to solve climate change by reducing vehicle emissions. What drew you to this work? Why are you doing this work? I grew up in a…

Editor’s note: This is the last of six reflections by Ruth Levine, Director of the Global Development and Population Program, at the close of her eight-year term. The first post was “Closing the gap between social movements and policy change.” The second was “Strength in numbers: Taking a field-level view.” The third, fourth and fifth…