African Center for Economic Transformation
For Establishing A Unit To Advise On Extractive Resource Issues
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Amount$1,310,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
ACET is an African think tank that receives core support from the Global Development Program for its Africa-wide policy analysis and advisory activities. This grant would help ACET launch its special division focused on extractive resources: the Extractive Resources Facility. Conceived in collaboration with Hewlett Foundation grantee Revenue Watch Institute and Norway’s Oil for Development program, the Facility will build capacity for African governments to manage their natural resource wealth for the maximum public benefit by providing expert advice and assistance in developing, negotiating, and administering agreements with petroleum and mineral companies. Initial pilot activities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, which the Hewlett Foundation supported through a planning grant, are already under way, and ACET anticipates extending its services to Ghana within the next year.
African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) (Accra, Ghana) – Project; Renewal; $1,310,000 over 3 years; 14% of project budget
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.acetforafrica.org
Address
C/O Open Gov Hub
1100 13th Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support to strengthen ACET's Gender Equality program
As a pan-African economic policy institute, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) supports sustainable and resilient growth in Africa. Through its Gender Equality program, ACET embeds a gender lens to unearth gender issues and to develop gender-responsive policy recommendations with the aim that this focus will, over time, condition policymakers to adopt a gender-responsive approach in macroeconomic and microeconomic policy development. Over the next few years, the Gender Equality program aims to grow into a center of excellence at the intersection of gender and economic policymaking in Africa. This flexible program grant will enable ACET to deepen these focal areas, including sustained, meaningful engagement with policy actors and civil society. (Strategy: Women's Economic Empowerment)
for support to strengthen ACET's Gender Equality Program
As a pan-African economic policy institute, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) supports sustainable and resilient growth in Africa. Through its Gender Equality Program, ACET aims to embed a gender-responsive lens in economic policy formulation. Over the next few years, the Gender Equality Program will develop the African Transformation Report on Gender Equality and support African governments in designing gender-responsive macroeconomic policies and implementation models. This flexible program grant will enable ACET to deepen these focal areas, including sustained, meaningful engagement with policy actors and civil society. (Strategy: International Women's Economic Empowerment)
