Policy Projects

The aim of the Africa POWER Consortium is to facilitate collaborative partnerships and initiatives across multiple institutions that work on a range of issues related to women’s empowerment, gender equity, and human well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa. Addressing key challenges in women’s empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa requires multisectoral approaches and engagements that are costly to facilitate within a single institution or organization. To these ends, the mission of the consortium is to advance women’s empowerment through collaborative, transformative, demand-driven, and policy-embedded research with an engaged community of practitioners and partners. A key function of our in-country partnership hubs is to use the Africa POWER Consortium as a means to seed and implement high-quality research, leverage resources for the translation and scale-up of the research findings for operative policy change, and serve as a model for the development of effective partnerships in Sub-Saharan Africa. The consortium brings together five leading organizations — AFIDEP, AidData, EconInsight, IDinsight, and Boston University GDP Center.