Yesterday, the Research Council of Norway announced its decision on NORGLOBAL calls on Women and Gender, AIDEFFECT and Democracy and Governance in Malawi. Four new projects received funding: Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan; Engineering gender equality: The effects of aid on women’s political representation in Malawi, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia; The Political Economy of Governance in Malawi; and Democratisation, Political Participation, and Gender in Malawi.

The projects amount on average to 4,5 million NOK.