Deadline- 25 October 2013
Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) has been announced by UK’s Department for International Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. The mission of this program is to generate new evidence on women’s economic empowerment, gender equality, and growth in low-income countries.
The program will produce high-quality evidence on three sets of inter-related questions-
- What are the nature and magnitude of barriers to women’s economic empowerment and to closing gender gaps in earnings and productivity? How can these barriers be overcome?
- How do specific patterns of economic growth and types of structural change affect women’s economic empowerment and gender equality?
- How do women’s economic empowerment and gender equality affect economic growth?
This program will fund approximately $ CAD 300,000 to an amount not exceeding $ CAD 1 million. Projects should be scheduled to be completed within a timeframe of no less than 18 months and not exceeding 36 months.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Proposed projects must be carried out in or on one or more eligible low-income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and/or South Asia.
- A smaller number of proposals for research on middle-income countries can be considered if the proposed work clearly demonstrates that the research will provide lessons for low-income countries
- Proposed projects are to be undertaken by – or in the case of a research consortium, led by – a research-oriented institution with legal corporate registration.
- Research consortia comprised of up to three institutional partners may apply, however one partner must be designated as the lead institution.
- More than one research proposal may be submitted per institution if projects are led by different principal investigators.
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