Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL)

The World Bank’s Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations which assess the outcome of development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, to generate evidence on how to close the gender gap in earnings, productivity, assets, and agency. 

GIL does this by generating and synthesizing rigorous evidence on what works; working directly with governments and program implementers to design evidence-based operations; and engaging with policymakers for change at scale. 

How the Gender Innovation Lab Works

Learn more about the services that GIL provides to project teams.

Our Impact Evaluations

GIL’s rigorous analytical work and impact evaluations aim to fill priority gaps in the literature about effective and cost-effective programming to help women and men achieve their full economic potential. Our efforts are informed by and in dialogue with those of other researchers and policymakers both within and outside of the World Bank. GIL’s impact evaluation design process involves identifying the specific contribution that this study will make to the literature, the key knowledge gaps that this study will help fill, and its policy relevance.

Learn more about our portfolio of impact evaluations by interacting with the map below.

Partners

The Africa GIL works in partnership with units across the World Bank, aid agencies and donors, governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector firms, and researchers.

This work has been funded in part by the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE), which is a multi-donor trust fund administered by the World Bank to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment through experimentation and knowledge creation to help governments and the private sector focus policy and programs on scalable solutions with sustainable outcomes. The UFGE is supported with generous contributions from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, the United States, the Gates Foundation, the Millenium Challenge Corporation, and Wellspring Philanthropic Fund.