Grants support research and education

The IFHE Delevopment Fund supports home economists around the world. Every four years, thanks to the donations raised by our US-based IFHE affiliate, we are able to award small competitive grants that support research, educational programmes and studies.

2020-2024 grants go to India and Pakistan

The Institute of Himalayan Environmental Research and Education (INHERE) focuses on enabling livelihoods, improving nutrition, and empowering women in villages in Uttarakhand, India through micro solar hatchery enterprises. The second grant winner, the College of Home Economics, University of Peshawar, Pakistan implements a project on the relation between societal discrimination, parental functioning and child psychosocial well-being” in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa District.