UC San Diego
For Support Of The Learning Collaborative To Advance Normative Change
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/30/2019
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant will support the second phase of the global Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change to establish an East Africa Learning Network with membership from diverse sectors and social science disciplines. The new East Africa Network will work with the global collaborative to strengthen locally informed social norms discourse, research, and programming. This new phase of the collaborative is a multiyear partnership with USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The collaborative aims to generate rigorous evidence and share practical resources to advance social norms practice; and strengthen networks and capacity among social norms researchers, program implementers, and donors.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.ucsd.edu
Address
9500 Gilman Drive Mail Code 0934, La Jolla, CA, 92093-5004, United States
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for the Power Transformation Lab
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for a project on public health governance in Mexico
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