Low penetration of modern household energy technologies puts access to clean, sustainable and reliable energy at risk and makes combating climate change harder, while also threatening gender equality and women’s empowerment.
This two-year project aims to inform public policy and debates in Algeria, Iraq, and Sudan on pressing economic, political, and social challenges.
Online work promises autonomy and flexibility, and it has the potential to address women’s unpaid care responsibilities and to broaden their market opportunities.
Modern concepts that govern many of the accepted research ethics practices and principles in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are based on western value systems that do not speak to the region’s diverse local and cultural contexts and reali
This project seeks to establish a “Women in Trade” (WIT) knowledge platform that will help women-led businesses improve their access to Canadian and international markets, thereby boosting inclusive and sustainable growth.
There has been a rapid increase in the number of digital work options available to women. While some options are almost exclusively used by men, others, such as craft and creative marketplaces like Etsy, are dominated by women.
This project will fill critical knowledge gaps regarding women’s opportunities for home-based work on digital platforms and it will enable comparisons across different forms of platform-based work.
This project will investigate how youth in Iraq, Libya, and Syria carve out opportunities for livelihoods and strategies for wellbeing in conflict and post-conflict contexts.
Women’s labour force participation in India is just 26% as of 2018, and it appears to be in decline. While job losses have been happening across India’s economy, they are most pronounced for women.
This project explores the issues of women’s precarious work and other gender-related issues in the digital platform-based care economy in Thailand.