Hivos
For The Twaweza Program To Increase Citizen Engagement In East Africa
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Amount$4,500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term28.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The Twaweza initiative, our largest transparency and accountability investment in East Africa, is a program of the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), a Dutch development agency. Twaweza, which means "we can make it happen" in Swahili, is a ten-year effort to enable people in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda to improve the quality of their lives through a citizen-driven approach to development and public accountability. Twaweza’s activities include brokering and investing in partnerships that can engage millions of citizens, including collaborations with the media, religious groups, unions, and private sector companies; experimental interventions that rigorously test what works; and critical analysis on the use of public money and service delivery to inform Twaweza’s partners. The Foundation’s ongoing support would take Twaweza through the first half of its ten-year strategy, to the point when Twaweza anticipates transitioning to an independent entity based in Tanzania.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.hivos.org
Grants to this Grantee
for supporting citizen-led assessments worldwide
This grant will allow Hivos to support seven organizations implementing citizen-led assessments in nine countries to improve their work and increase its visibility. Hivos will also help interested organizations in new countries to learn about and begin piloting their own work on similar assessments as a way to engage citizens in advancing an agenda for better learning outcomes.
for supporting citizen-led assessments worldwide
This supplemental grant will allow Hivos to support seven organizations implementing citizen-led assessments in nine countries to improve their work and increase its visibility. Hivos will also help interested organizations in new countries to learn about and begin piloting their own work on similar assessments as a way to engage citizens in advancing an agenda for better learning outcomes.
for the implementation of a civil society assessment of student learning in East Africa
This grant to Hivos would provide continued support to Uwezo, a nationwide, citizen-led assessment of student learning in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Uwezo is the largest annual assessment of children’s learning in Africa; in 2012 alone Uwezo tested nearly 350,000 children in about 11,000 communities. The results have sparked national, regional, and global debates about the magnitude of the learning crisis for schoolchildren. This renewal grant would support the ongoing efforts to collect, analyze, and communicate the results of the nationwide learning assessment to stimulate citizen action and oversight in education and policy reform.
