CID's Global Empowerment Meeting brings together leading practitioners, academics, and policy makers to advance solutions to the most pressing development challenges of our time.
By Valerie Krempus
The (CID) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 GEM Incubation Fund. The Fund supports emerging research that strives to advance solutions to pressing development challenges of our time, in line with the theme of CID’s annual Global Empowerment Meeting. This year’s fund prioritizes research that incubates solutions, recommends policy action, and develops tools to address gender equity in developing countries.
Each spring, CID’s Global Empowerment Meeting brings together leading researchers and practitioners to share insights and develop action-focused strategies to solve development challenges. The 2024 Global Empowerment Meeting, GEM24: Breaking Barriers for Women and Girls, was held on May 1-2, 2024, at the Harvard Kennedy School. This two-day event brought together over 230 participants, including researchers, policymakers, private sector leaders, civil society representatives, and philanthropists from more than 35 countries.
“We are thrilled the 2024 GEM Incubation Fund will provide seed funding for innovative research projects that strive to advance gender equity across the globe” said Asim I. Khwaja, CID Faculty Director. "These projects exemplify our commitment to advancing solutions that empower women and create more inclusive societies."
The selected research teams are working on diverse topics such as women’s labor participation, mental health, and maternal healthcare in countries including India, Mexico, and Madagascar. Principal investigators represent Harvard University, the University of Virginia, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Notre Dame, and Paris School of Economics.
The 2024 GEM Incubation Fund was supported by the and the .
2024 GEM Incubation Fund Awardees
Project Title: Female Labor and Hysterectomies in India
Principal Investigator: Eliana La Ferrara, Harvard University
Country: India
Project Title: Building an Inclusive Workforce: Interventions to Empower Women Police in India
Principal Investigator: Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia
Country: India
Project Title: Towards Dignified Birth For All: Addressing Obstetric Violence in México
Principal Investigator: Marcella Alsan, Harvard Kennedy School
Country: Mexico
Project Title: Improving Mothers' Mental Health and Children's Outcomes in High Poverty Areas
Principal Investigator: Raissa Fabregas, The University of Texas at Austin
Country: Mexico
Project Title: Restart: Interventions to Support Women's Re-entry into the Labor Force
Principal Investigator: Niharika Singh, University of Notre Dame
Country: India
Project Title: Hygiene and Girl Empowerment: Impact on Learning in Rural Madagascar
Principal Investigator: Karen Macours, Paris School of Economics
Country: Madagascar
CID's Global Empowerment Meeting
CID is excited to announce that GEM25: Catalyzing AI for Inclusive Change, will be held on April 28-29, 2025. Co-hosted with Harvard Business School’s Digital Data Design Institute, GEM25 will focus on leveraging technology and AI to solve pressing development challenges. Applications for the 2025 GEM Incubation Fund in support of research on AI and global development will open in July 2025.
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