The UK's Department for International Development, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Canada's International Development Research Centre announce the launch of the jointly-funded research initiative Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW).
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.
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.
For an overview of this program, please read the GrOW brochure.
OUTLINE PROPOSALS
For more information, read the Call for Outline Research Proposals (PDF)
To apply, complete and submit the online application.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to read a background paper by Naila Kabeer, as well as two IDRC literature reviews: Women's Economic Empowerment and Economic Growth, and Women and the Care Economy.
Deadline: October 25, 2013 at 4:59 EDT (Ottawa time)
Deadline: October 25, 2013 at 4:59 EDT (Ottawa time)
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