WUNRN
Sexual Violence Research Initiative
- SVRI
WHAT WORKS TO PREVENT VIOLENCE? - REQUEST FOR INNOVATION GRANT APPLICATIONS
HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 17th JULY MIDNIGHT (SOUTH AFRICAN STANDARD
TIME)/ 6PM (US EASTERN STANDARD TIME)
Additional guidance is now available regarding the online application process, based on the most commonly raised questions in the previous week.
For all questions and advice on access to, and completion of the online ProposalCENTRAL application form, including any technical problems, please contact Support at pcsupport@altum.com or call +1 703 964 5840, or click on ‘customer service’ on the top right of the portal screen. This is a 24 hour support service.
For content
related questions about the innovation grant please email what whatworks@mrc.ac.za
How to
find the application details?
Go to www.svri.org - News and Events - "Request for applications: What Works to Prevent Violence." Here you will find direct links to the formal announcement, application guidelines and Proposal Central.
How to apply?
You must submit an application using the internet via an online portal - Proposal Central. Emailed applications to What Works will not be accepted.
1. Go to https://proposalcentral.altum.com.
2. Register on Proposal Central (see details above)
3. The Grant Maker is South Africa Medical Research Council and the relevant programme is What Works to Prevent Violence
4. Click ‘Apply Now’ on the right hand side
5. Complete all the sections online
Lead applicant:
The lead applicant is identified as the principal investigator (PI) on ProposalCENTRAL. This is just a standard title given by the online system. Please do not be concerned if this title does not seem to apply to you. NGOs and other non-research organisation are eligible to be the lead applicant. The lead applicant should be the person who is leading the implementation of the proposed intervention. This may be different from the contact person on the application.
Institutional
details:
When you register on ProposalCENTRAL for the first time, you will first be prompted to affiliate yourself with an institution. From your Professional Profile, you should search to see if your organisation is registered. If so, simply select it. If not, then go to the pink Institution Profile tab to set up a profile. Once the Institution Profile is available for selection, you should select it in your Professional Profile. Then it will carry over to the application once started.
As far as US specific information goes in the Professional Profile itself, please simply focus on the contact details and ignore anything that does not apply.
Expertise
of the lead applicant:
The RFA requests you to include the expertise of the lead
applicant and partners in prevention programming. Please include this in the
Professional Profile section – ‘Major research interests and expertise’.
Proposal
- Risk factors to be addressed:
The first box in the proposal (Section 7) asks you to specify what risk factors you will be addressing. This refers to the underlying drivers or factors that increase the risk of violence against women and girls in your setting, which you plan to address through your intervention. For example, the risk factors for intimate partner violence might include the normalization of violence in a community, child abuse that increases the risk of violence in adulthood, or notions of masculinity that promote dominance over women.
Proposal
- Implementation plan:
The RFA requests you to include an implementation plan with general timeframe and distribution of responsibilities among co-applicants. Please include this along with your discussion of activities in the Proposal Section 7, Box 4: “Methods to be used – detail the methods that you will use, and implementation plan, across your proposed intervention.” You do not need to present a detailed work plan, just a simple description of what you plan to do and when.
Proposal
- Justification for why the intervention may be suited for research:
This is requested in the RFA and has now been added to ProposalCENTRAL as a separate box in the proposal - Section 7.
Abstract
(Section 8):
‘Abstract’ is where you enter the summary of your proposal. The word limit is 1000 characters including spaces.
Budget
(Sections 10 & 11):
Some of the line items in the budget template may not be relevant for your organisation or intervention - you are not obliged to complete every line. Direct costs of project implementation can be included in ‘Other direct costs’. Please indicate the allocation per partner and any other important details in the narrative section of the budget (Section 11).
Ethics
(Section 12):
For those not conducting primary research with human subjects the ethics approval section is not applicable. Please simply mark NA.
Attachments
(Section 13):
The only documents that you are required to upload are the CVs of key personnel and the completed and signed What Works Grant Approval Form. Key personnel are the key people leading, managing or implementing the project. This may be different from the contact person on the application.
Signature
page (Section 15):
This provides the option for you to download your application as a PDF file for your personal reference. You are not required to sign or upload this printed version, it is simply for your own records.
Theory of
change:
We strongly encourage interventions to have a clear theory of change – a clearly thought through plan of how the intervention (or each part of the intervention) will lead to changes in known risk factors or promote protective factors for violence and ultimately a reduction in violence overall. The online application does not have a specific section for a theory of change, but your theory of change should be clear from the overall proposal (Section 7). That is, you have thought about what is driving violence (risk factors) in your context that need to be changed in order to prevent violence; you have thought about what types of interventions work to change the risk factors; you are working with relevant target groups; which leads towards related outcomes. What we are looking for a joined up idea of how the intervention will addresses key factors along a hypothesized causal pathway.
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Sexual violence is a global issue that requires coordinated evidence-based responses.