African Center for Economic Transformation
For General Operating Support
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Amount$3,600,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/20/2011
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Term48.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Overview
A regional think tank based in Ghana, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) provides African policymakers with independent research and analysis to inform the design and implementation of sound policies that promote broad-based economic growth. ACET was established in 2007 with initial seed funding from the Hewlett and Rockefeller foundations; we subsequently provided a three-year core support grant to ACET in 2008. Since then, the Foundation’s core support has helped the institution raise approximately $16 million in additional project and core funding. The organization now has a staff of twenty-five at its Accra headquarters, hailing from eight African countries. This renewal grant will enable ACET to continue to expand its two main areas of work: (1) providing direct policy advisory services to senior government officials of African countries (current clients include the governments of Rwanda, Liberia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone); and (2) conducting original policy research on economic transformation issues in partnership with national think tanks in fourteen African countries, including producing the first edition of the Africa Transformation Report.
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)
