College of William & Mary
For Understanding China’s Transition Minerals Investments
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Amount$500,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/3/2023
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Term18 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Housed at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, AidData supports the use of data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts of policies and investments. This grant will support AidData in strengthening its data collection on China’s transition mineral investments and its relationship to the new global energy economy.
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for supporting AidData
The College of William & Mary is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Housed at its Global Research Institute, AidData supports the use of data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts of policies and investments. This grant will support AidData in strengthening its capacity in understanding China’s transition mineral investments and its relationship to the new global energy economy.
For understanding China’s transition minerals investments
Housed at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, AidData supports the use of data and innovative tools to solve pressing problems, precisely target resources, and use rigorous evidence to measure the impacts of policies and investments. This grant will support AidData in strengthening its data collection on China’s transition mineral investments and its relationship to the new global energy economy.
for design, implementation, and evaluation of policies and investments that affect the Global South
A long-term, core partner of the Evidence-Informed Policymaking strategy within Gender Equity & Governance, AidData is a research lab at the College of William & Mary that generates evidence to help decision makers — both inside and outside of government — design, implement, and evaluate policies and investments in ways that improve the well-being of people living in low- and middle-income countries. Over the next three years, this renewal of general operating support to AidData will allow the institution to continue pursuing two major lines of effort: creating more voice and choice for development decisionmakers in the Global South, and promoting behavioral change among development finance institutions that is responsive to partner country needs and perspectives, and underpinned by rigorous and independent analysis. Tactically, this will mean support to programs in five areas: geospatial tools and impact evaluations, research on gender equity in development, the flagship Listening to Leaders multi-year study, best-in-class analysis and data collection on Chinese development finance, and measuring foreign policy influence. Each of these programs will form a core part of AidData's new 2024-26 strategic plan.
