Deadline: 06-Jun-2024
ODI’s Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) programme is looking for institutional partners to undertake primary research and subsequent communication/dissemination activities on the topic of strengthening women’s participation in male-dominated low-carbon jobs in low- and lower-middle income countries (LMICs).
Funding Information
- The available budget for this project is $25-35,000 USD, which should cover researchers’ time, primary research costs (including travel, data analysis, write up and production of outputs) and dissemination activities.
Timeline
- The expected timeline for the project is July 2024 – February 2025. The research, analysis and write up should be completed by the end of January 2025, to allow sufficient time for dissemination activities.
What are they looking for?
- Proposals should involve primary research to help expand the limited pool of empirical evidence on boosting women‘s participation in decent work in male-dominated, low-carbon jobs in LMICs, and related shifts in gender norms. The research could focus on a particular sector (e.g. renewable energy, transport, construction, waste management), or sub-sector (e.g. e-waste management, solar or wind energy). Climate-smart agriculture is outside the remit of this call, given the greater volume of existing evidence in this sector.
- Preference will be given to proposals that:
- Emphasise mixed methods with quantitative and qualitative components.
- Involve primary research with diverse social groups (e.g. from different socio-economic backgrounds, geographical locations or ethnic or religious backgrounds).
- Specify some of the likely measures or metrics to be used.
- Explore how initiatives in this area are contributing to/have the potential to catalyse shifts in gender norms.
- Focus on experiences in a LMIC.
- Explain how insights from the specific policies or initiatives to be investigated may help inform broader policy and practice in this area.
Outputs
- The project should produce the following outputs:
- Methodology: to be developed in collaboration with the ODI team.
- Research report: write up of the results, analysis and key findings.
- Presentation of key findings: to share feedback with key stakeholders.
- At least one additional output aimed at practitioners or policymakers. This could include a short executive summary, policy brief, op-ed, blog or other resource material.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations must be registered entities, based in a LMIC (per World Bank classification).
For more information, visit ODI.