Research Projects

•  Africa POWER Consortium

The aim of the Africa POWER Consortium, which is built on the foundations of the POWER program, 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.