Grant opportunity
Gender and Learning Evidence Fund
Brink Foundation is funding researchers and implementers to test approaches that address gender and learning together, especially at the grades where divergence begins.
- Funder
- Brink Foundation
- Application deadline
- Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026
- Award
- Up to USD 250,000; up to 6 awards
- Applicant
- Researchers, implementers & partnerships
- Discipline
- Education & Social Sciences
- Region
- Africa
- Posted
- May 20, 2026
Call summary
Overview
The Gender and Learning Evidence Fund supports implementation and evidence work that recognises how gender and learning interact during primary and secondary education transitions. The fund is looking for projects that measure learning and gender outcomes together and help close an evidence gap in education programming.
Who can apply
- Applicants should be researchers, implementers, or partnerships able to address both gender and learning outcomes.
- The call covers Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
- Projects should focus on grades and transitions where gendered divergence in learning, schooling, and later outcomes begins.
What it supports
- Interventions or studies that connect foundational learning with gender-related outcomes.
- Measurement, longitudinal data, causal design, implementation learning, and practical programme adaptation.
- Work that bridges gender-focused and learning-focused education programming rather than treating them separately.
Funding and duration
Awards are up to USD 250,000, with up to six awards expected in this first call.
Application deadline
Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026
How to apply
Download the official request for proposals from Brink Foundation, review the country and project requirements, and submit through the official application form by 5 June 2026.
Call details
About the opportunity
The Gender and Learning Evidence Fund supports implementation and evidence work that recognises how gender and learning interact during primary and secondary education transitions. The fund is looking for projects that measure learning and gender outcomes together and help close an evidence gap in education programming.
Brink Foundation lists this opportunity for Researchers, implementers & partnerships, Education & Social Sciences, Africa.
This listing is written for researchers, students, universities, NGOs, research teams, policy professionals and academic institutions searching for Education & Social Sciences grants, fellowships, scholarships, conferences, workshops and funding opportunities in Africa contexts.
Eligibility
Applicants should be researchers, implementers, or partnerships able to address both gender and learning outcomes.
The call covers Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania.
Projects should focus on grades and transitions where gendered divergence in learning, schooling, and later outcomes begins.
Funding and benefits
Awards are up to USD 250,000, with up to six awards expected in this first call.
Themes and supported activities
Interventions or studies that connect foundational learning with gender-related outcomes.
Measurement, longitudinal data, causal design, implementation learning, and practical programme adaptation.
Work that bridges gender-focused and learning-focused education programming rather than treating them separately.
Deadline and timeline
Application deadline: Application deadline: Jun 5, 2026.
Applicants should confirm the exact deadline time, time zone, required documents, portal steps and any institutional approvals on the official call page before submitting.
How to apply
Download the official request for proposals from Brink Foundation, review the country and project requirements, and submit through the official application form by 5 June 2026.
Before applying, check eligibility rules, budgets, attachments, page limits, partner requirements, cost-share conditions and whether the opportunity uses an expression of interest, full proposal, registration or nomination stage.