Boston University
For Support Of Research On Women's Empowerment
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2018
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
This grant will support a program of research at Boston University that examines the causes and consequences of women’s empowerment policies and programs on the well-being of women, their families, and communities. These funds will extend existing studies in urban Malawi and rural India that test how interventions that aim to address the social and economic barriers to accessing contraceptives affect women’s contraceptive knowledge, family planning choices, educational attainment, and well-being.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
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Address
881 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of the Africa POWER Consortium
This grant to Boston University’s Program on Women’s Empowerment Research (POWER) will support the establishment of the Africa POWER Consortium with an aim to fill critical research-policy gaps in service delivery and policymaking on issues related to gender, women’s empowerment, and women’s well-being in Africa. The consortium leverages and consolidates the expertise of global and African institutions that operate at the frontier of research, policy, and advocacy — specifically Boston University, the African Institute for Development Policy, IDinsight, AidData, and the EconInsight Center for Development Research. During this planning phase, the consortium will incubate multi-institutional approaches to promote women’s empowerment research, evidence use, and policy influencing. (Strategy: Global Reproductive Equity and International Women’s Economic Empowerment)
for the Global China Initiative’s data analysis for transparency and accountability
The mission of the Global China Initiative at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center is to conduct policy-oriented research that reveals pathways for the Belt and Road Initiative to foster a more stable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sustainable world economy. The initiative’s data analysis for transparency and accountability provides a valuable public good, inside and outside of China. (Substrategy: China National Policy)
for a strategic analysis on enabling a low carbon South-South cooperation
To support Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center to conduct strategic analysis that can enable a low-carbon South-South cooperation. The project will conduct a strategic analysis to identify pathways under which China’s ambitious pledge to promote renewable energy development in the global south can become a reality. The project will also identify what investments by philanthropic entities would be necessary to maximize the opportunities and minimize the risk of inaction. (Substrategy: China National Policy)
