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The Women RISE initiative supports several projects. Each project is a potential step toward pandemic preparedness for vulnerable groups.
The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to control it have threatened livelihoods, introduced new workplace risks and made unstable work relationships even more precarious, especially for women.
To address this, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council have launched Women RISE (Women’s health and economic empowerment for a COVID-19 Recovery that is Inclusive, Sustainable and Equitable) to support global action-oriented, gender-transformative research by teams of researchers from low- and middle-income countries and Canada.
An externally reviewed, open, two-stage competitive Call for Proposals was launched on March 8, 2022. Projects were recommended for funding by the External Scientific Review Committee on July 21, 2022, and were approved by the Women RISE Steering Committee on July 28, 2022.
The following projects are funded under Women RISE:
Contributing to gender-transformative, action-oriented research on the intersection of women’s health and work in the context of post-CoviD-19 recovery efforts.