Call for Expressions of Interest: Jobs and Income for Women – A World Bank GIL Opportunity – is now open
About the Africa Gender Innovation Lab
A World Bank GIL is a regional initiative that the World Bank has launched under its Jobs and Income for Women research program. This existing innovation focused on leveraging high-quality and evidence-based research in order to unlock and understand the gender disparities in the areas of income, employment, productivity, and agency. Apart from over 80 impact evaluations, which collected 80+ countries, indicate GIL support has designed an effective and scalable development solution that is rooted from data and context specific insights.
The main objectives of the Gender Innovation Lab are to shape gender-smart policies that reflect the World Bank Group’s Gender Strategy 2024- 2030.
Under the Africa gender innovation lab, the World Bank is seeking organizations that are working on gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to create collaboration efforts to implement impact evaluation. The call is focused on generating rigorous and evidence-based research on what works to empower women economically and close the gender gap.
Overview of the Expression of Interest
This call for expression of interest is a part of the Gender Innovation Lab under the Jobs and Income for Women research program. Therefore, the selected organization will partner and closely work with GIL to effectively evaluate program that aims to reduce gender gaps and disparities and foster inclusive growth. The evaluation will be based on key policy questions, and supporting partners’ design and implementation in order to contribute a global knowledge.
Successful applicants will be matched with expert researchers and it also receive technical assistance and financial support for any data collection process and analysis
If your organization is serious about transforming women’s economic outcomes in Africa, this is your chance to partner with global research experts and scale impact through data. Submit your EOI now and be part of the evidence-based gender equality movement.
Who Is Eligible?
This call for expression of interest is open to:
- Organizations, NGOs, donor agencies and government agencies
- Operating in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Strong alignment with gender equality
- Organization must demonstrate commitment through impact evaluation
- Willingness to co-design solutions and pilot innovation
- Capacity to share cost and collaborate monitoring framework
Eligible Countries
The call for expressions of interest is only eligible applicants across Sub-Saharan Africa, so that project must produce a regional insight and contribute to reducing gender inequality across the continent
Focus Areas
The call for expression is given priority in the following thematic area:
- Social protection and resilience
- Property right and asset ownership
- Entrepreneurship and productivity
- Women employment and earnings growth
- GBV prevention
- Challenging harmful norms around care work and leadership
Selection Process
Expressions of Interest will be evaluated on:
- Geographic and thematic fit with GIL’s mission
- Ability to contribute to critical research questions
- Organizational capacity and program readiness
- Commitment to transparency, learning, and knowledge sharing
- Potential for scalable, cost-effective impact
- Successful EOIs will proceed to form joint teams with GIL researchers. Together, they will design an impact evaluation and develop a concept note to guide the research. Approved projects may begin data collection in late 2025 or early 2026.
Application Timeline
Call launched: April 14, 2025
Deadline to submit EOI: Monday, June 2, 2025
Evaluation team formation: August 2025
Research design and data collection: Late 2025 to early 2026
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