Deadline: 25 October 2013 at 4:59 EDT (Ottawa time)
GrOW (Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women) is a new funding initiative launched jointly by the UK’s Department for International Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. This initiative has presently announced a call for proposals.
This GrOW program aims to generate new evidence on women’s economic empowerment, gender equality, and growth in low-income countries. The program will address key evidence gaps by generating and synthesizing rigorous empirical research. It will also stimulate innovative partnerships and ways of working to ensure that robust evidence helps shape policies and programs to deliver better development outcomes for women, economies, and societies more broadly. The program will bring together leading researchers from around the world to work collaboratively in addressing critical knowledge gaps.
With a focus on low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, 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?
Themes 1 and 2 will be explored through innovative new research projects, developed through a competitive call for Outline Proposals, launched on July 25, 2013.
Theme 3 will be addressed through a series of commissioned papers (Evidence Synthesis) analyzing the best-available evidence. A separate call on this theme will be launched soon.
The program will award grants to institutions on a competitive basis. As a result of this Call, it expects to fund approximately 15 institutions with grants ranging from $ 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, including all research activities and final reporting.
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