Inaugural Meeting of Co-Impact’s Gender Fund on Practitioner-Focused Research Grants

08 February 2022

Co-Impact’s Gender-Fund intends to provide funds for policy-oriented research projects to facilitate development through reducing gender disparities. IPS’ Research Director Dr Nisha Arunatilake, as the initiative leader of one of these grants managed by PEP on ‘Addressing Context-specific Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation in Decent Work: A Multi-country, Mixed-methods, Gender-sensitive Analysis’, attended this inaugural meeting. The other grantees of this fund include: Equis – Justice for Women (Mexico); Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India); International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia Pacific (Malaysia); National Council of Applied Economic Research (India); and Partnership for Economic Policy (Kenya).