Strengthening Women’s Economic Power

Apply before: December 6, 2023

The Strengthening Childcare Models that Advance Women’s Economic Power project aims to test and learn from childcare models in South Asia and Africa that help women participate in the workforce. It focuses on providing paid work opportunities, easing the burden of unpaid care, promoting women’s leadership roles, and changing gender norms related to work and caregiving.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Strengthening Childcare Models that Advance Women’s Economic Power project, applicants must:

Support Women’s Economic Opportunity: Advance childcare models that support women’s economic opportunities and/or pathways to leadership by expanding access to childcare services, reducing and redistributing the burden of unpaid care for women, and/or increasing decent work opportunities for women in the childcare workforce.
Advancing Evidence: Advance evidence of scalable, sustainable, effective, and gender-intentional models of childcare, including (but not limited to) pilots that test and compare multiple models of childcare provision, proposals that study applicability and customization of successful care models in target geographies, programs that demonstrate business models which can sustain themselves (either with public or private resources), and pilots that help to understand the minimum and optimal levels of childcare quality.
Shift Gender Norms: Accelerate the economic benefits and impacts of childcare for women by shifting gender norms to expand women’s economic agency through (but not limited to): increasing acceptability of women working outside the home, increasing women’s control over newly gained income (inside or outside the care workforce), and shifting social norms regarding the acceptability of women using care services.

Benefits

Global Grand Challenges will consider proposals for awards of up to $400,000 USD for each project, with a grant term of up to 3 years. Application budgets should be commensurate with the scope of work proposed. Indirect costs will be considered and should be included in the budget for the up-to-$400,000 USD award

Application Process

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