Leveraging UNESCO Networks to Address the STEAM Gender Gap in Africa

The U. S. Mission to UNESCO (USUNESCO) announces the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a new program to design and administer a three-year grants program aimed at identifying, developing, and expanding the most promising grassroots-led initiatives in Africa to help address the persistent gender

gap in science, technology, engineering, arts/design, and math (STEAM) fields.

The targeted African countries for the proposed grants program would be:
Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

This program aims to make progress toward eventually achieving gender parity in STEAM-related fields so that more African women and girls are empowered by the socioeconomic benefits derived from acquiring expertise in these fields and so that more women and girls contribute to innovation by creating, rather than just using, technology.
Related Programs

Office of Global Women"s Issues

U.S. Department of State


Agency: Department of State

Office: Office of Global Womens Issues

Estimated Funding: $493,750


Who's Eligible





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Not Available

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Foreign Public Entities

Full Opportunity Web Address:


Contact:
USUNESCO Grants Team

Agency Email Description:
USUNESCO Grants Team

Agency Email:
USUNESCOGrants@state.gov

Date Posted:
2016-11-14

Application Due Date:
2017-01-31

Archive Date:
2017-03-02


Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.






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