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Challenge closed January 13, 2015. This is a decade-old archived challenge with past funded projects listed.
Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development is sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Focuses on how to effectively reach and empower the most vulnerable women and girls to improve health and development – including economic – outcomes as well as gender equality.
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Women and Girls | Global Grand Challenges The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is launching a new Grand Challenge: Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development . This challenge focuses on how to effectively reach and empower the most vulnerable women and girls to improve health and development – including economic – outcomes as well as gender equality.
Gender inequalities and the marginalization of the needs, roles and potential of women and girls are key factors limiting advances in development outcomes for all – women, men, boys, girls and their communities and societies around the world.
Moreover, strong associations have been identified between addressing inequalities and enhancing women and girls’ empowerment and agency, and improved development outcomes across sectors, ranging from maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition to agriculture, water, sanitation, hygiene and financial services for the poor.
The ultimate goal of this challenge is to accelerate discovery of how to most effectively and intentionally identify and address gender inequalities and how this relates to sectoral outcomes; scale-up approaches known to work, in context-relevant ways; and do more to develop better measures of the impact of approaches to enhance women’s and girls’ empowerment and agency.
Intentional efforts and strategies are required so that development can contribute more to gender equality and gender equality can contribute more to development. Grants will go to investigators in low- and middle-income countries, but we encourage partnerships with investigators in other countries, especially where the opportunity exists to build on existing collaborations. Application deadline is January 13, 2015 .
For a detailed description of this challenge, see the Request for Proposals to the right, including translated versions.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Investigators in low- and middle-income countries, partnerships are encouraged with investigators in other countries. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $500,000-$2,500,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development is funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This listing is flagged as international in scope. Check the official notice for country-specific restrictions before applying.
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