SRC Projects and Grants

This project is situated in an African feminist alliance and network of scholars keen to address the rising precarity of work in general and the gendered burdens of risk, low pay, and vulnerability in particular. This alliance is led by the University of Ghana at Legon and includes scholars in Kenya and in Egypt. The team proposes to examine the question of precarity in three different African countries across different regions, East, West and North Africa. The subject of precarity is an essential concern considering the continued casualization of African labor over the past three decades. But the project goes further than simply applying a precarity lens to Africa. It recognizes the sometimes incomplete fit of the concept of precarity to countries in the Global South where the formal economy has always been more of an aspiration than a reality. As such, it seeks to extend the conceptualization of precarity to consider seriously the nature of the labor market in Africa. Scholars in Egypt will focus on the intersections of social protection systems and work. This research will investigate how four categories of economic agents’ experience protection deficits and how to address these deficits. The four categories are:

• Women working in informal spaces of formal value chains specifically in the circular economy
• Women who are on social benefits and who work
• Young mothers who are on social benefits but do not work
• Women who work for their families

Implement a study that informs an expansion strategy for the dual system for the upcoming five years (2020-2025) considering the currently available and projected resources of the Ministry of Education and Technical Education and the current and projected capacity of public and private companies. This assignment focuses on three main objectives:

1. Conducting a study on the current growing and potential emerging economic sectors, sub-sectors, and relevant occupations on a macro and governorate level
2. Conducting a study on the potential for converting schools
3. Conducting a study on company disengagement from the Dual System

The EBRD-EIB-WBG enterprise survey is a joint initiative of the World Bank Group (WBG), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB). It is a firm-level survey whose objective is to gain an understanding of firms’ experience and perception of the environment in which they operate.

The EBRD-EIB-WBG enterprise survey will include re-visiting previously interviewed establishments, whenever possible, which will promote the expansion of the panel data set. The panel data set allows researchers to track changes in the business environment, to measure the effect of these changes on firm performance over time and to assess the effects of reforms on the business environment.

The grant will support the following activities for the project:

• Design the Impact Evaluation Strategy for the Cairo SC project
• Provide support to the main project partners, stakeholders and duty bearers
• Undertake a mid-term evaluation survey to monitor the performance of the interventions and produce a survey report

SRC will organize four training sessions for Kurdistan Region Statistics office staff:

• Analyzing population data
• Mortality
• Fertility
• Migration

Each session for around five days.