Africa: Women Scientists Receive Joint Funding From Gates Foundation and USAID

18 October 2012
African Women in Agricultural Research and Development
press release

Nairobi — African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) today announced that its program, which develops the research and leadership skills of top women agricultural scientists in Africa, has received new joint funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (US$14 million) and the United States Agency for International Development (up to US$5 million).

This support will allow AWARD to launch a second five-year phase to equip more women agricultural scientists in 11 sub-Saharan African countries, in addition to the hundreds of researchers already served since 2008 in the program’s first phase.

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