Deadline: 18-Oct-22
The Going Global Partnerships Programme is inviting applications to Gender Equality Partnerships Grants to support higher education institutions and sector bodies to progress gender equality – building on the potential of sector to influence wider society.
The aim of this Grant is to help progress gender equality within higher and further education, and to build on the potential of sector to influence wider society.
Objectives
All Gender Equality Partnerships awards will have the following overarching objectives:
- stimulate innovative approaches to addressing gender inequality in higher and further education institutions in the UK and their partner countries
- contribute to long term and sustainable institutional change that promotes gender equality, opportunities for women and girls and addresses gender related biases
- support initiatives that promote gender equality, particularly in one or more of the three priority themes that the British Council has identified as globally relevant
- encourage collaboration between disciplines and between countries which build cultural relations and mutual understanding based on shared values.
Themes
The fund will prioritise partnerships that focus on one or more of the priority themes that are globally relevant:
- Prevention of violence against women and girls with a particular focus on higher and further education institutions as safe spaces for women
- Addressing women`s underrepresentation in higher and further education leadership
- Enabling access and tackling subject segregation, particularly in the area of STEM (including encouraging STEM-related learning)
- Strengthening pathways into employment for women graduates from further and higher education.
Funding Information
The Gender Equality Partnerships expects to support 12 projects in participating countries of between £20,000 and £25,000 in value each, for a 12-month period, starting from January 2023.
Eligible Countries
Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and South Africa
Eligibility Criteria
- Each proposal must have both:
- one Lead Applicant from the partner country and
- one Lead Applicant from the UK, submitting one joint application
- UK lead partner must be one of the following:
- Higher Education provider with degree awarding powers.
- Not-for-profit research institutions, establishment and organisations.
- Any public or private organisations with a role in the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET)/Further Education (FE) system.
- Overseas lead partner must be one of the following:
- Higher Education provider, as locally defined
- In Jordan this includes: HE public sectoral bodies
- Not-for-profit research institutions, establishment and organisations; as locally defined
- In Jordan this includes: Research institutions within HEIs, NGOs and associations working directly with HEIs or representing academics
- Any public or private organisations with a role in the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET)/Further Education (FE) system
- Higher Education provider, as locally defined
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