The ONE Campaign
For A Project Promoting Transparent And Accountable Financing For Development
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Amount$2,500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/16/2015
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
ONE is an international campaigning and advocacy organization seeking to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. With Hewlett Foundation support, ONE would consolidate its transparency and accountability program to ensure the effective use of public resources. Focus areas would include advancing extractive industry transparency regulations in the United States, European Union, and Canada, and promoting greater budget transparency in African countries. It would also include deepening aid transparency commitments and execution by donor governments, and calling for new investments to collect, analyze, and disseminate data to track the Sustainable Development Goals.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.one.org
Address
1299 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20004, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for a project promoting transparent and accountable financing for development
Over the next several years, ONE, a grassroots organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, will expand its policy and advocacy program promoting the transparent and accountable use of public resources in developing countries. With Hewlett Foundation support, ONE will be able to advance extractive industry transparency, budget transparency, aid transparency, and African civil society empowerment.
for a project to examine Africa's infrastructure agenda with a focus on energy poverty
With this project grant, The ONE Campaign will examine and evaluate the policy landscape and options for improving African infrastructure. This examination will focus on the energy sector and energy poverty in particular as a key driver for reducing poverty and spurring economic opportunities.
for a project promoting transparent and accountable financing for development
The ONE Campaign is an international advocacy organization that promotes transparent and accountable use of public resources in developing countries, with a focus on Africa. During this grant period, ONE will work to secure specific anticorruption commitments from African governments and support efforts by local partners to hold governments accountable for these commitments. ONE will also support international efforts to promote open public contracting and beneficial ownership transparency, and advocate for investments to collect, analyze, and disseminate data to track the Sustainable Development Goals.
