For the past 30 years OWSD has been supporting women in science across countries such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, and Afghanistan with programmes such as PhD Fellowships, to name one example.
OWSD knows well that many women who are refugees or displaced have fallen through the cracks. Because of this, this new initiative has the objective of ' Leaving No One Behind' (LNOB), the central, transformative promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With generous financial support from Sida, and assistance from UNHCR, OWSD is launching a new Masters Scholarship Programme to support displaced and refugee women wishing to pursue a Masters of Science in STEM fields in countries such as Jordan. The new OWSD Masters Scholarship scheme will initially provide around 25 comprehensive scholarship packages to women for up to 24 months’ study. The project will also focus on capacity building, working with selected institutes on gender-sensitive policies and raising awareness around protection needs.
The Women in Science Displacement Outreach Master's Program (OWSD WISDOM) is a pilot project that aims to provide scholarships to displaced women to pursue master's degree programmes at high-quality universities in the Global South, in partnership with the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR.