Mawazo Institute
For The Mawazo Voices Program
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/2/2023
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Term12 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
The Mawazo Institute is a women-led African organization supporting early-career women researchers to find local solutions to global development challenges. Mawazo focuses on early-career women researchers, who are significantly underrepresented in academia and research. It works from the principle that African women researchers contribute essential knowledge and perspectives to issues affecting Africa’s development. Therefore, Mawazo seeks to unlock their potential by equipping them with the skills and networks to conduct high-quality research. Mawazo’s vision is to see more African women researchers become thought leaders, change makers, and decision makers in fields and sectors critical to Africa’s development. This grant supports the Mawazo Voices program to create pathways and pipelines that give African women researchers the tools to conduct impactful and quality research and prepare them for knowledge translation. Mawazo recognizes the need to create paths and channels for African women researchers to actively participate in research-to-implementation and research-for-impact activities.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
mawazoinstitute.org
Address
305 S. Catherine Avenue, La Grange, IL, 60525, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Mawazo Voices program
The Mawazo Institute is a women-led African organization supporting early-career women researchers to find local solutions to global development challenges. Mawazo focuses on early-career women researchers, who are significantly underrepresented in academia and research. It works from the principle that African women researchers contribute essential knowledge and perspectives to issues affecting Africa’s development. Therefore, Mawazo seeks to unlock their potential by equipping them with the skills and networks to conduct high-quality research. Mawazo’s vision is to see more African women researchers become thought leaders, change makers, and decision makers in fields and sectors critical to Africa’s development. This grant supports the Mawazo Voices program to create pathways and pipelines that give African women researchers the tools to conduct impactful and quality research and prepare them for knowledge translation. Mawazo recognizes the need to create paths and channels for African women researchers to actively participate in research-to-implementation and research-for-impact activities.
for a program to support the next generation of female policy-oriented researchers in East Africa
The Mawazo Institute is a nonprofit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. The institute’s goal is to help East African women launch careers as academics and thought leaders and connect their ideas to policymakers and the public. This grant will support Mawazo’s work to ensure that the research the organization supports and conducts is relevant to African policy debate and accessible to African policymakers, inserting the voices of young African women into pressing policy discussions.
for strategic and transition planning
The Mawazo Institute is a nonprofit research institute based in Nairobi, Kenya. The institute’s goal is to help East African women launch careers as academics and thought leaders and connect their ideas to policymakers and the public. This organizational effectiveness grant will allow the Mawazo Institute to update its 5 year strategic plan and assist the Board of Directors in succession planning ahead of the departure of the founding CEO in 2021. Sub-strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking.
