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Contact: whatworks@mrc.ac.za
Funding
Opportunity: Call for Pre-Application Notices - Specific Target Countries
Prevention of
Violence Against Women & Girls: Intervention Development, Delivery,
Operations Research & Impact Evaluation
What Works To
Prevent Violence is a global programme administered by a consortium led by the
Medical Research Council of South Africa, in partnership with the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Social Development Direct, on behalf of
DFID. Its aim is to build knowledge on what works to prevent VAWG1. This spans
knowledge on (i) primary prevention strategies2 and programmes, (ii) interventions to
strengthen women’s and girls’ resilience to violence, and (iii) specific
response mechanisms that seek to prevent VAWG.
1 Definition: There are many
forms of violence against women and girls but we focus on intimate partner
violence (emotional, economic, physical, sexual), non-partner sexual violence,
and child abuse (emotional, physical, sexual)
2 These are strategies to prevent violence from ever occurring
We will be making innovation
grants to support 10-14 national organisations or international NGOs
working in DFID priority countries to fund innovative approaches to preventing
violence or meeting the needs of victims/survivors. In the process, the grants
will strengthen the capacity of researchers to conduct rigorous evaluation
research on VAWG interventions. We will also be undertaking operations
research and impact evaluations of promising existing interventions to
assess their effectiveness, or if proven effective, to better understand the
economics of scale up.
We request expressions of interest to apply for an innovation grant or to apply for an intervention to be evaluated (either by the MRC’s consortium, or in collaboration with the MRC’s consortium). Pre-application notices are requested prior to the issuing of a Request for Applications (RFA) in June 2014.
What will be supported?
1. Innovation
grants will range between £ 300 000 and £ 1 million, but will be made in
different categories (small, medium and large). We will make 10-14 grants.
Awards will be made in late 2014 for up to three years. The grants may cover
the development, implementation and evaluation of the intervention, M & E,
and capacity development of staff from the in-country lead organization. About
half of the projects supported will be eligible for funding for very rigorous
impact evaluation. All interventions must aim to prevent intimate partner or
sexual violence against women and girls. We encourage:
i) interventions, or combinations of
interventions, that have a clear theory of change
ii) interventions, or combinations of
interventions, that have greater potential for scale up if proven effective
iii) applications from consortia that
include implementing organisations and researchers (from outside the MRC
consortium)
iv) applications from organisations with small or medium budgets, and we reserve the right to work with promising organisations to negotiate changes to budgets and scope of work in keeping with needs of the overall programme
2. Operations Research and Impact Evaluation of existing interventions or combinations of interventions: we would like to hear of existing interventions that aim to prevent intimate partner or sexual violence against women and girls, either as their primary goal or a secondary goal within a wider programme, and would benefit from robust operations research or impact evaluation. We have funding for such evaluation and it would be conducted by the MRC Consortium in collaboration with in-country partners. We would particularly like to hear of interventions that already have some evidence of promise from preliminary research.
We welcome interventions that seek to work with disabled women and girls or other socially excluded groups, or interventions that will enable us to better understand how dimensions of social exclusion may affect both risk of violence and effectiveness of interventions.
How to submit a pre-application notice: by email to whatworks@mrc.ac.za
Closing date: The closing date for pre-application notices is 25 April 2014
Advantages of submission of a pre-application notice: We are requesting these in order to assist programme planning. All those who submit them will: (i) be informed of the Request for Applications (RFA) when it is issued; (ii) receive feedback on how to strengthen the proposal for the final applications. Feedback will take the form of a newsletter advising on how to improve commonly found problems, and up to three bullet points of individual feedback. Beyond this we will not be able to give individual feedback.
Pre-application
notice information summary:
Closing date for pre-applications: 25 April 2014
Eligible countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, India3, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, South Africa3, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe; projects working across more than one priority country or across a region will also be considered.
Location of eligible applicant institutions: applications from organisations in-country will be preferred, but all institutions are eligible. Applications will not be considered from individuals.
Address for submission of pre-application notices: whatworks@mrc.ac.za
Submission of
pre-application notice: A failure to submit a pre-application letter will not
preclude application when the Request for Applications (RFA) is issued.
Content of the
pre-application notice (1-2 pages) :
Name and address of
lead applicant organisation and lead individual
Name of
co-applicant organisations and lead individuals (if any)
Country (or
countries) of intervention
Expertise in
VAWG prevention, research and or intervention evaluation (max. 150 words)
Description of the intervention including: type of intervention, intervention timeframe, methods to be used, setting, risk factors to be addressed, target group(s) for intervention, preliminary
work the
intervention, intervention scale up potential. If a combination of
interventions, provide this information for each component.
Plan for
using the resources of the innovation grant, including distribution of
responsibilities among co-applicants or
Justification
for why the intervention would be suited for operations research, impact
evaluation or research on scale up
Total sum envisaged to be
requested for innovation grant (if applying)