MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions

Names of the winners of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions were announced by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago in January 2011. Eleven organisations based in six countries, including one in India were declared winners and will be receive constitute grants of $350000 to $1 million each. The missions of the organisations named winners range from protecting biodiversity to fighting poverty, analysing how tax policy impacts people to improving maternal and child health among the impoverished.

Action Research & Training for Health from India won the award. Action Research & Training for Health based in Rajasthan promotes sexual and reproductive health, neonatal and child health, and health systems and policy in rural Rajasthan. The other awardees from Asia are the Royal Society for Protection of Nature from Bhutan. Royal Society for Protection of Nature based in Thimphu is Bhutan's only national non-profit organisation, and focuses on the conservation of the country's environment and biodiversity.

The awardees are as follows:

The Arms Control Association, based in Washington ($500000); the Bay Area Video Coalition based in San Francisco ($1000000); the National Alliance of Latin American & Caribbean Communities based in Chicago ($350,000); Redress, based in London ($500000); the Sargent Shriver National Centre on Poverty Law based in Chicago ($1000000); the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre based in Lagos ($350000); the Sociedad Mexicana Pro Derechos de la Mujer based in Mexico City ($750000) that seeks to protect the rights of Mexican women; the Urban Institute's Tax Policy Centre based in Washington ($1000000); and the W. Haywood Burns Institute based in San Francisco ($750000) are the other organisations chosen.