Call for Applications: World Bank Gender and Innovation Lab & Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria

Jan 8, 2021 | World Bank Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab
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The Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank issued a call for expressions of interest in a 'set of impact evaluation (IE) studies that evaluate interventions aimed at easing constraints faced by women in rural Nigeria.'

Seeking NGOs, governments, donors, and private sector firms with interventions designed to improve women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria.

About the World Bank Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL):

The GIL works to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in five thematic areas: land and property rights, agriculture, youth employment and social protection, entrepreneurship, and social norms. In close collaboration with partners, the GIL designs, launches, and oversees rigorous impact evaluations of interventions. These interventions are typically carried out by NGOs, governments, and private sector programs, policies, and products. Each GIL impact evaluation aims to generate evidence on what works best to close key gender gaps and relax identified constraints to women's economic empowerment. Each GIL impact evaluation is carefully selected to probe critical knowledge gaps and to meaningfully inform policymakers and project teams.

About this opportunity:

During 2020-2021, GIL plans to launch a new set of impact evaluation (IE) studies that evaluate interventions aimed at easing constraints faced by women in rural Nigeria. Specifically, through our analytical work, GIL has identified the following key constraints driving gender gaps in income from economic activities in Nigeria: limited crop choice, access to inputs, labor and mechanization for women farmers; access to capital stock and position in the value chain for women entrepreneurs; sectoral segregation for female wage earners; and time availability for all working women.

Submission deadline: 5pm EST on January 8, 2021