EfD’s global network Women in Environmental Economics for Development (WinEED) has sustained its effort to encourage women to take leadership positions in research and development. Women researchers at EfD Nigeria were trained to improve their proposal writing capacities on October 10-13. The training was the second of its kind in two years.
WinEED is a network of women economists from different EfD centers. The network seeks to boost the capacity of women from the Global South to take on research leadership in environmental and development economics.
WinEED’s first capacity-building training for women researchers at EfD Nigeria in 2023 yielded no less than three research projects funded by the EfD Global Hub.
The training was inspired by the success of 2023 exercise
Inspired by the impact of the 2023 training, a WinEED team, led by María del Pilar López Uribe trained 20 women researchers at EfD Nigeria in October 2024.
“The training allowed the facilitators to meet the female researchers at the center, ascertain the progress made by those who got grants last year, and assist the researchers in developing grant proposal ideas,” said Ebele Amaechina, the coordinator of WinEED Nigeria
Ebele Amaechina is optimistic that more women researchers from EfD Nigeria will be ready with grant-winning proposals for next year.
The training covered proposal writing, a crash exposure to impact analysis, and hands-on exercises on decomposition analysis and Oster Bound.
The October timing was chosen to give the participants enough time to develop their ideas into proposals before the next EfD call, expected in May 2025.
“The participants are clear about what they want to achieve and I am glad they are making progress,” Maria del Pilar Lopez said.
Chinasa Onyenekwe, one of the participants and Principal Investigators in one of the research projects, said that the insight she gained after presenting the progress report of her project will improve the outcome of her work.
"The training has significantly inspired me as a female researcher and reinforced my commitment to contributing to research in environmental economics," Chizoba Oranu, another participant said.