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PROGRAM ON GLOBAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Grants Authorized 2005
MacArthur grantmaking reflects a comprehensive approach to reproductive and sexual health and rights, one that places women’s well-being at the center of population policy and emphasizes the rights of individuals to determine and plan family size. Through its offices in India, Mexico, and Nigeria, the Foundation makes grants that support efforts to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity and to encourage responsible sexual behavior by adolescents.
INDIA
Academy for Nursing Studies, Hyderabad, India
$200,000 to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity through skill building and gender sensitization of Auxiliary Nurse Midwives in rural Gujarat (over three years).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$165,000 to develop monitoring and evaluation capacity of local organizations in India (over two years).
Nehru Foundation for Development, Ahmedabad, India
$250,000 to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity through Traditional Birth Attendants and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives in rural Gujarat (over three years).
Population Council, New York, New York
$510,000 in support of a program to develop leadership skills of individuals working in reproductive and sexual health, especially in areas of young people and maternal mortality and morbidity in India (over two years).
Public Service Broadcasting Trust, New Delhi, India
$315,000 to produce a series of documentary films for national public television in India related to population and reproductive health with a special focus on increasing awareness of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Seva Mandir, Udaipur, India
$280,000 in support of a project to develop and evaluate community-based interventions to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the Udaipar district of rural Rajasthan (over three years).
St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India
$8,500 for strengthening a community outreach and training center in the city of Bangalore.
MEXICO
Afluentes, Mexico City, Mexico
$50,000 to research NGO-government collaboration experiences in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mexico (over two years).
Article 19, London, United Kingdom
$30,000 in support of improving access to government information related to youth sexual and reproductive health services in Mexico.
Asesoria, Capacitacion y Asistencia en Salud, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
$180,000 in support of developing social outreach strategies for engaging rural indigenous communities in preventing maternal death (over three years).
Centro Mujeres, La Paz, Mexico
$130,000 in support of improving young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in the state of Baja California Sur (over two years).
Comunicacion e Informacion de la Mujer, Mexico City, Mexico
$150,000 in support of increasing media coverage of maternal mortality and morbidity (over three years).
Consorcio para el Dialogo Parlamentario y la Equidad, Asociacion Civil, Mexico City, Mexico
$170,000 in support of improving parliamentary debate and knowledge of maternal mortality and morbidity, including Mexico’s national and international commitments related to reducing the maternal mortality ratio (over three years).
Democracia y Sexualidad, Mexico City, Mexico
$240,000 in support of a national sexuality education campaign and improvement of government reproductive and sexual health services to youth (over three years).
Foro Nacional de Mujeres y Politicas de Poblacion Capitulo Distrito Federal, Mexico City, Mexico
$150,000 to improve federal public policy for maternal mortality and morbidity reduction and increasing visibility of the issue among policymakers (over three years).
$190,000 in support of increasing access to emergency obstetric care in the Southern Sierra region of Oaxaca state (over three years).
FUNDAR, Centro de Analisis e Investigacion, Mexico City, Mexico
$270,000 in support of research and dissemination of information regarding public budgetary allocations for maternal health and reducing maternal death (over three years).
Investigacion en Salud y Demografia, Mexico City, Mexico
$200,000 to continue and disseminate a longitudinal survey on sexual and reproductive health of young women ages 12-19 in rural communities of Oaxaca (over 27 months).
$255,000 in support of strengthening NGO skills in monitoring and evaluation of work to advance youth sexual and reproductive health and rights and decrease maternal mortality (over three years).
Rosario Castellanos–Grupo de Estudios Sobre la Mujer, Oaxaca, Mexico
$210,000 in support of scaling up of a training model for preventing maternal mortality with government health workers from the Oaxaca Ministry of Health and imssoportunidades (over three years).
Salud Integral para la Mujer, Mexico City, Mexico
$190,000 in support of consolidating and scaling up a model for increasing use of reproductive and sexual health services by public high school students (over three years).
Unidad de Atencion Sicologica, Sexologica y Educativa para el Crecimiento Personal, Merida, Mexico
$150,000 in support of documenting and scaling up a model of reproductive and sexual health services for young people (over three years).
NIGERIA
Adolescent Health and Information Projects, Kano, Nigeria
$330,000 in support of implementation of the Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education Curriculum in Kano State (over three years).
Management Strategies for Africa, Ilford, United Kingdom
$240,000 in support of building a constituency to advocate for and ensure the successful implementation of the national sexuality education curriculum (over two years).
INTERNATIONAL
California Center for Population Research, Los Angeles, California
$86,000 in support of improving research on the demographic dividend by integrating geographic information system data into an ongoing population-based survey in Indonesia to enhance information about changes in age structure and contraceptive use after the December 2004 tsunami.
Catholics for a Free Choice, Washington, D.C.
$600,000 in support of educational and advocacy efforts on population and reproductive health in Europe and in the United Nations system (over three years).
Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevolkerung, Hannover, Germany
$250,000 in support of educational efforts with policymakers within the European Union to ensure support for population and reproductive health (over two years).
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, Calabar, Nigeria
$300,000 in support of analysis and advocacy linking sexual and reproductive health and rights to the Millennium Development Goals in countries of the Global South (over three years).
Family Care International, New York, New York
$50,000 in support of creating educational materials to illustrate the relationship between reproductive health and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (over sixteen months).
Family Violence Prevention Fund, San Francisco, California
$140,000 in support of reducing social causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico (over 18 months).
George Washington University Medical Center, Center for Global Health, Washington, D.C.
$100,000 in support of strengthening the evidence base on the ways in which population and fertility are linked to poverty at the household level.
Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, California
$200,000 in support of general operations.
Gynuity Health Projects, New York, New York
$100,000 in support of the creation of an Arabic language web-based resource center on reproductive health (over two years).
Harvard University, Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$90,000 in support of writing, editing, and disseminating a volume entitled Critical Reflections on Global Reproductive Health and Rights.
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
$125,000 in support of research activities on the links among reproductive health, demographic outcomes, and aggregate economic performance (over 19 months).
International Center for Research on Women, Washington, D.C.
$330,000 in support of strengthening the evidence base on the linkages between youth and demographic change (over 30 months).
Management Systems International, Washington, D.C.
$560,000 in support of training and transfer of scale-up methodology in Foundation focus countries (over two years).
Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation, Sausalito, California
$30,000 in support of its Freeing Indentured Daughters program.
New Woman Foundation, Cairo, Egypt
$100,000 in support of establishing an Arabic language website for the organization (over three years).
Population Council, New York, New York
$1,600,000 in support of programs on reducing maternal mortality and advancing young people’s reproductive health in Mexico, India, and globally (over three years).
$100,000 in support of Arabic translation and web-based distribution of key documents in population and reproductive health.
Reproductive Health Matters, London, United Kingdom
$400,000 in support of an international journal published biannually (over three years).
United States Committee for the United Nations Population Fund, New York, New York
$200,000 in support of general operations (over two years).
$200,000 in support of activities to draw attention to the population and reproductive health concerns during the tenth anniversary review of the 1995 World Conference on Women’s Platform for Action.
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
$250,000 in support of research on the feasibility of changing fertility policy in China (over three years).
University of California, San Francisco, Women’s Global Health Imperative, San Francisco, California
$1,149,000 in support of continuing, expanding, and beginning to scale up the Anti-shock Garment pilot project in Nigeria, and to support an experimental trial of the Garment in Egypt (over two years).
University of Chicago, Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois
$36,000 in support of evaluating the long-term consequences of family planning and reproductive health programs on the well-being of women and their children in Matlab, Bangladesh (over 18 months).
University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center, Austin, Texas
$250,000 in support of research and policy analysis to help Mexico and Brazil take advantage of the potential demographic dividend inherent in their current age structure (over 30 months).
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
$71,000 in support of evaluating the long-term consequences of family planning and reproductive health programs on the well-being of women and their children in Matlab, Bangladesh (over 18 months).
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