Past Grantees

The following organizations have been supported in past rounds of the TAP Grant Program:

Grant Program: TAP Phase 1 Round 1

Bandung Institute of Governance Studies

In the wake of massive decentralization in Indonesia after 2001, researchers from the Bandung Institute of Governance Studies (BIGS) wanted to evaluate the effectiveness of local government health and education programs. They focused on three cities in West Java: Banjar, a city with a...

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Center for Budget and Policy Studies

The Centre for Budget and Policy Studies (CBPS) is an independent, non partisan, not for profits society based in Bangalore. The mission of the Society is to contribute through research to understanding and implementing a process of sustainable and equitable development in India, with a focus on...

Gdansk Institute for Market Economics

The Gdansk Institute for Market Economics (GIME) was concerned that the systems that fund Polish health care and education are inefficient and undermine the quality of service. GIME researchers investigated this general concern by analyzing detailed financial data and secondary sources on Polish...

Integrated Social Development Centre

The Accra based Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) is a registered non-profit Ghanaian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in 1987 with a mission to promote social justice and fundamental human rights, especially of the poor and those without organized voice and influence....

The Institute for Urban Economics

The Institute of Urban Economics (IUE) investigated whether recent Russian government spending in health and education was sufficient and reflected Russia’s stated priorities.  IUE selected two of Russia’s development success stories—the Chuvash Republic and the...

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The Research Center of the University of the Pacific

The Research Center of the University of the Pacific (CIUP) analyzed the recent move by the Peruvian government towards Results-Based Budgeting (PPR).  Because PPR is only in the pilot stage, much of CIUP’s analysis of it was therefore theoretical. But CIUP researchers also examined...

Grant Program: TAP Phase 1 Round 2

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Center for Democratic Development

The goal of Center for Democratic Development’s study was to understand the extent of and reasons for one of Ghanaian education’s most difficult problems: teacher absenteeism. Researchers collected data on teacher absenteeism in 30 schools in three districts, and found, in line with...

Indo-Dutch Project Management Society

The Indo-Dutch Project Management Society (IDPMS) analyzed the quality of public health care in rural areas of the Indian state of Karnataka. The Karnatakan government operates a number of rural Public Health Centers; IDPMS randomly selected 15 in two Karnatakan districts, Chamarajanagar (CR...

Institute for Policy Analysis and Research

Kenya’s Secondary Education Bursary Scheme is a scholarship program designed to help economically vulnerable groups cope with the rising cost of secondary education. In evaluating the scheme, the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) surveyed 48 school principals, representing...

Institute for Policy Analysis and Research

The Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR) investigated the frequency and causes of absenteeism of public-sector health care workers. More than half of Kenya’s health budget goes to paying salaries. IPAR researchers suspected that a substantial proportion of this money is wasted...

National Center for Economic Research

Researchers at Guatemala’s National Center for Economic Research (CIEN) wanted to assess government programs aimed at getting poorer students to go to and stay in school. They surveyed hundreds of students, teachers, and parents from 41 schools—20 urban and 21 rural—around...

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Romanian Academic Society

Research by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) focused on the Romanian government’s efforts to improve the education system’s responsiveness to local needs by decentralizing financing. To start the process, the Romanian government began a pilot program in 2005 in eight of Romania...

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The Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth

The Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC) conducted a study of class time lost in Buenos Aires schools due to teacher absenteeism and school closures. Researchers collected data on absenteeism and closures for June and October, two school months...

The Centre for Regional Information and Studies

The Centre for Regional Information and Studies (PATTIRO) examined the many schemes that fund Indonesia’s highly decentralized education system. Researchers focused on seven financing schemes—three that fund operating expenses and four that fund investments—in 38 elementary and...

Grant Program: TAP Phase 1 Round 3

2A Consortium

The 2A Consortium of Albania—a partnership between the Albania Center for Economic Research (ACER) and the Albanian Socio-Economic Think Tank (ASET)—set out to demystify the budgeting process that funds Albanian health care. They examined the budgeting system and surveyed government...

Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economia Paraguaya

Paraguay recently emerged from a long dictatorship, during which education was intimately linked to the government. CADEP (Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economia Paraguaya) wanted to evaluate what has happened to education spending during the democratic transition....

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Institute for Development and Social Initiatives

Moldova is currently experimenting with decentralization in education. Moldova’s Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS) “Viitorul” wanted to assess the extent and effect of the decentralization, as well as the general state of financing for Moldovan education...

Grantee News

Radio France Internationale Interviews George Ofosu of CDD

After the release of the latest TAP book From the Ground Up, Radio France Internationale interviewed George Ofosu of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development, who explained some of the reasons for and implications of Ghana’s shocking rates of teacher absenteeism, and discussed the importance of civil society organizations acting as local watchdogs.

Click here to listen to the interview.

Indonesian CSOs Working to Improve Education Legislation

A network of Indonesian CSOs, including TAP grantee Center for Regional Information and Studies (PATTIRO), are currently submitting reviews of two pieces of education legislation through the judicial system in the hopes of seeing improved policy related to all levels of education in the country.  The first piece of legislation (BHP) focuses on universities, while the second (Sisdiknas) covers all levels of education in Indonesia.

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Grantee Research

The Use of Public Resources in Hospitals

Focusing on high levels of debt in Polish hospitals, the Gdansk Institute for MArket Economics (GIME) analyzed previously unreleased data on all hospitals in Poland to attempt to identify revenue and spending patterns among hospitals that are in the greatest debt.  Researchers examined hospitals grouped by levels of debt, geographical location, and costs.  To supplement their quantitative research, GIME conducted four follow-up case studies of hospitals with varying...

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