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DFID Growth Research <dfidgrowthresearch@...>
Date: Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM
Subject: Call for partners: Evaluation support for programmes that economically empower women in sub-Saharan Africa
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Cc: Katie Chapman <
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Dear All,
Call for projects/programmes to partner with World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab
Do you fund or know of a programme that seeks to economically empower women that would benefit from a robust impact evaluation to see if it works? Does it require additional financial and
technical support (in quantitative and qualitative methods) to move forward?
If so, please consider applying to the WB Africa Gender Innovation Lab. See details of Call for project partners attached, and also posted here
– deadline for Expressions of Interest is 8 July.
- In March, DFID’s Secretary of State announced our support to a new partnership with the World Bank to test interventions and look at what works and what doesn’t to give girls and women control over their economic lives
in sub-Saharan Africa. The Word Bank Gender Innovation Lab will
provide a specialist impact evaluation facility, included for planned DFID programmes. It will focus on interventions in sub-Saharan Africa that increase agricultural productivity, markets for the poor, enterprise development, jobs, skills and training, property
rights. Programmes may either (a) target women directly, or (b) be broader interventions (eg. M4P) that include economic empowerment of women as one of their outcomes. See also: http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/introducing-the-africa-gender-innovation-lab
- Some interesting results and lessons from previous Gender Lab evaluations are available on the girls and women themesite:
- If you are not in a position to submit an EoI by 8 July, then it is still worth emailing the GILab to express interest in getting engaged at a later stage. Depending on the success of this first call for project partners, we may be able to have a second
call later in the year.
Please circulate this to your networks as we are keen to get the best possible range of proposals.
Apologies for any cross-posting.
Best regards,
DFID Growth Research Team
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