[IAEP] Google Inform and Empower

[Edward Cherlin]

I find it bizarre that OLPC, Sugar Labs, and OLE are not part of this
program. Does anybody here have contacts at google.org, or at any of
the organizations listed below? None of them are working in schools.
There are studies of education, and public advocacy groups included.

http://www.google.org/inform.html

 Inform and Empower to Improve Public Services

We will work with public, private, and civil society partners to
address each side of this problem. Inform and Empower is starting with
a focus on education, health, and water and sanitation services in
East Africa and India.

Please note that we are not accepting unsolicited proposals at this time.

http://www.google.org/projects.html

Partners

    * Pratham: $2,000,000 to create an independent institute that will
conduct the Nationwide Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and
large scale assessments in the education sector
    * HakiElimu: $1,800,000 multi-year grant to improve the quality of
education in Tanzania by conducting critical research, conducting
policy analysis, and stimulating public debate in the media.
    * Educational Initiatives India: INR 61.9 million (approximately
$1.6 million) contract to conduct a benchmark study to gauge levels of
student learning in classes 4, 6 and 8 and to identify learning gaps
in India.
    * Institute for Finance Management & Research (IFMR): $1,015,000
multi-year grant to create district level development indices in India
and to support mapping of information including research, government,
non-government, and NGO database information
    * PRS Legislative Research: $880,000 multi-year grant to increase
citizen engagement, track the performance of members of parliament,
and procure photocopies of state laws throughout India
    * Aspen Institute Africa Leadership Initiative: $851,053 grant for
the ALI - East Africa program, in support of the program's efforts to
develop and cultivate the next generation of leaders in the region
from the business, non-profit and public sectors.
    * Center for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS): $765,000 multi-year
grant to create a Budget Information Service for local governments in
India, with the goal of facilitating better district and
municipal-level planning
    * Centre for Policy Research (CPR):
          o $600,000 multi-year grant to increase the debate and
discourse on issues of urban local governance and urban service
delivery in light of the rapid expansion of cities in India
          o $250,000 multi-year grant to create a centre for
accountability that will collect accountability tools, analyze them,
identify gaps, assess the effectiveness and disseminate this
information to policymakers and civil society in India.
    * Policy Forum: $510,000 multi-year grant to support a coalition
of civil society organizations seeking to make the policy process in
Tanzania more transparent, participatory and accountable, to benefit
society, especially the poor and marginalized communities
    * Shekhar Singh: $250,000 contract to conduct a study of the use
and implementation of the Right To Information (RTI) Act across
various stakeholders in India (including public authorities,
information commissions, media, judiciary, NGOs, and corporate
sector).
    * Center for Global Development (CGD):
          o $220,000 grant to support the launch of the International
Initiative on Impact Evaluation (3IE), which will bring new financial
and technical resources to conduct and disseminate impact evaluations
around the world
          o $150,000 grant to help CGD grow and continue to expand
their work on education and outcome based assessments
    * International Budget Project of the Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities (IBP): $197,000 multi-year grant to support the building of
a larger constituency for budget tracking work in India.
    * Social Development Network (SODNET): $149,967 multi-year grant
to support a budget tracking tool to monitor Kenya's Constituency
Development Fund and other development funds providing communities the
opportunity to make better expenditure decisions to maximize their
well-being.


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