Deadline: 8-Jan-21
Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) has launched a new set of impact evaluation (IE) studies that evaluate interventions aimed at easing constraints faced by women in rural Nigeria.
GIL has identified the following key constraints driving gender gaps in income from economic activities in Nigeria: limited crop choice, access to inputs, labor and mechanization for women farmers; access to capital stock and position in the value chain for women entrepreneurs; sectoral segregation for female wage earners; and time availability for all working women.
The GIL works to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in five thematic areas: land and property rights, agriculture, youth employment and social protection, entrepreneurship, and social norms.
GIL is in the process of establishing a Nigeria Gender Innovation Lab which will:
- Document the magnitude and key drivers of gender gaps in economic outcomes in Nigeria;
- Generate new evidence on what works to improve women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria through at least 5 new impact evaluations; and
- Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to promote the uptake and scaling of effective policies and programs.
Priority Research Questions
Under this call, GIL will prioritize interventions that aim to ease one or more of the key constraints faced by women in Nigeria. In particular, it seeks to conduct studies that strive to answer one or more of the following priority questions:
- What works to shift women’s crop choice from low-value crops to high-value crops?
- Which interventions can help in promoting and increasing the use of farm inputs like fertilizers and herbicides among women farmers?
- What works to boost women’s access to high-productivity labour and mechanization?
- What works in improving women’s access to land and livestock and strengthening women’s land tenure security?
- What interventions work to enhance women entrepreneurs’ access to capital?
- What works to help women farmers move up in the value chain?
- Which initiatives work in enhancing women’s access to skills and information such that female wage earners could enter male-dominated sectors and secure high-paying jobs?
- What interventions work to ease women’s time constraints?
Eligibility Criteria
Each successful applicant will meet all four criteria below:
- Be an NGO, government, donor, or private sector firm.
- Have a new or existing intervention, which they are planning to roll-out or scale-up; that could help strengthen women’s economic empowerment in rural Nigeria, and for which the organization has already secured any necessary funding.
- Be interested in gaining insights into how and why their intervention is working through a scientifically sound, quantitative impact evaluation.
- Be interested in strengthening their intervention’s design towards more effectively serving women.
Selection Criteria
- Geographical Fit: Will the intervention take place in rural Nigeria? GIL works across Sub-Saharan Africa but only interventions in rural Nigeria will be eligible for evaluation under this expression of interest call.
- Project Fit: Is the intervention a new or existing intervention with the potential to strengthen women’s economic empowerment in rural areas?
- Potential to Probe Critical Knowledge Gaps: Will an impact evaluation of the intervention help answer one or more of the priority questions?
- Project Partner’s Capacity and Risk Factors: Does the prospective partner have proven capacity to successfully carry out the type and scale of intervention that it is proposing? Does the partner have funding already secured to carry out the intervention? Is the environment going to be sufficiently secure within the timeframe of the project to not impede or undermine the impact evaluation?
- Organizational Commitment to Learning: Partnering with researchers for a rigorous impact evaluation requires a sustained and deep-seated commitment, including buy-in from the partner’s senior leadership, program managers, and sometimes, key stakeholders, including donors. It also requires a true interest in learning how one’s programs are working and letting this information become publicly available when the results of the impact evaluation are published and presented. Finally, the organization and project implementation team must be willing to work constructively on an impact evaluation, including potential changes to implementation plans.
For more information, visit http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/991801606141980005/pdf/Nigeria-Call-for-EOIs-Nov-2020.pdf