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Overview of RESULTS Global Campaigns for 2011

In 2011, RESULTS is playing a pivotal role in advancing some of the highest impact interventions for eradicating poverty available on the planet: expanding access to education so all children have the chance to learn, ensuring that microfinance funding reaches the world’s very poorest people, and increasing access to vaccines against the biggest killers of children (pneumonia and diarrhea) and to diagnostic tools and treatment of one of the biggest killers of adults (tuberculosis). To achieve these goals, we also continue to develop our volunteer activists and leaders and to expand RESULTS chapters across the U.S.

Read a summary of our 2010 actions and accomplishments!

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Education for All

Context and Opportunity

Congress has increased funding for basic education nearly ten-fold since 2001, but progress toward universal basic education is too slow. A new Global Fund for Education is an opportunity to leverage additional funding, improve aid effectiveness, and accelerate progress toward reaching the 72 million primary school aged children currently out of school around the world.

Working closely with the Global Campaign for Education, RESULTS is supporting the reintroduction and advancement of an Education for All (EFA) Act, which includes authorization for a Global Fund for Education. Building support for the EFA Act is our best opportunity to maintain pressure on the Obama Administration to prioritize basic education. We also continue to press for expanded funding for the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) while working in parallel to ensure the FTI enacts necessary reforms.

Objectives

1. Support the re-introduction and advancement of the Education for All Act authorizing the creation of a Global Fund for Education.
2. Secure increased appropriations for a reformed Fast Track Initiative as a down payment on a Global Fund for Education.

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Economic Opportunity

Context and Opportunity

Microfinance is a successful, cost-effective tool to help the very poor (those living on less than $1.25 a day) lift themselves out of poverty and improve the lives of their families. Despite a strong history of proven accomplishments, sustainable microfinance for the very poor has not been a central focus of U.S. foreign aid or World Bank development assistance.

Since its passage, the Microfinance Results and Accountability Act of 2004 has been the foundation of our advocacy around USAID’s funding of microfinance. We continue to push for full implementation of the legislation — including the requirement that at last half of microfinance be directed to the very poor — and explore opportunities to further improve bilateral microfinance programs through new legislation and congressional oversight. The Congressional Gold Medal Award ceremony for Professor Yunus will be an important opportunity to leverage political and media attention for this work.

Objectives

1. Increase congressional pressure to fully implement the Microenterprise Results and Accountability Act, which directs half of microfinance assistance to the very poor.

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Child Survival

Context and Opportunity

Throughout its 30-year history, RESULTS has played a pivotal role in child survival advocacy. While there has been considerable momentum on maternal and child health, RESULTS can make a unique contribution to ensuring that resources are delivered through innovate, high impact mechanisms that benefit the very poor. Building on recent research from UNICEF, our child survival campaign will focus on an “equity agenda” to reach the very poorest with essential health services. An initial focus of our work is to support the introduction of new vaccines to prevent pneumonia and diarrhea among young children.

Objectives

1. Strong funding commitment from the U.S. at the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations pledging conference.

2. Build support for U.S. contribution to a UNICEF “poorest quintile fund.”

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Global Health

Context and Opportunity

The (tuberculosis) TB epidemic, fueled by TB-HIV co-infection and drug-resistance, remains a public health crisis. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the most effective tool the world has in the fight against TB as well as AIDS and malaria, yet it faces critical funding gaps.

President Obama’s three-year $4 billion pledge is the first U.S. multi-year commitment to the Global Fund. Fulfilling or exceeding this pledge will require concerted appropriations work as the foreign operations budget faces extraordinary pressure. The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 provides legislative authority and framework for a major scale-up to fight TB, but resources have not yet matched the need. The recent approval of a breakthrough TB diagnostic technology provides a renewed urgency for bilateral TB funding. We are pushing for increased funding by emphasizing the unique roll that the U.S. must play in expanding access to this new technology.

Objectives

1. Secure full funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

2. Secure $650 million in FY 2012 appropriations for bilateral TB programs as authorized by the Lantos-Hyde Act.

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Citizen Empowerment

Context and Opportunity

Our activists are still very committed to RESULTS’ mission of “creating the political will to end poverty,” and “empowering individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power.” However, many say that the second part, empowering others, is very difficult to do. In 2011 we are better equipping our activist leaders to do so by providing them with fresh coaching skills and support so that everyone engaged with RESULTS has the opportunity to achieve personal breakthroughs.

We will develop new training tools to provide activists with support for achieving our Activist Milestones and creating champions. Among these will be web meetings, live video presentations, recorded video, and training resources. We will also provide support and training for using the RESULTS Champion Scale and Powermapping so that groups have a better sense of how they are impacting their members of Congress.

We will evaluate our approach to generating media, taking into consideration the changing media environment and new online tools. We will determine new ways to become an asset to our local papers, many of which are struggling, so that we can create editorial space to cover global poverty issues.

Finally, we will work to expand our reach and impact. We will expand our reach by expanding the number of global chapters by 12 or more in 2011. We will also expand our impact by supporting groups to develop more community partnerships with national partners such as NEA, state TB controllers and persons affected by TB, ONE, National Peace Corps Association, MFI Connect, and Stop Hunger Now.

Objectives

1. Assure that all RESULTS Regional Coordinators possess “breakthrough” coaching skills, and provide breakthrough coaching training to at least half of the RESULTS Group Leaders.

2. Develop at least five new video training tools for the web, present issue or skill training via streaming video at least twice, and training via web meeting at least three times.

3. Identify and provide support to at least 12 grassroots op-ed writers who are published at least twice each in 2011.

4. Establish partnerships with NEA in at least 15 communities, and support groups to develop or strengthen one working partnership with allies working on the same issues.

5. Track progress made on moving members of Congress up the champion scale to assess the effectiveness of our activism.