Applications Invited for Competitive Fund for Peace and Recovery

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About the Organization

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is a research and policy nonprofit that creates and shares evidence, while equipping decision-makers to use evidence to reduce poverty. With a long-term presence in 22 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, IPA leads the field of development in cutting-edge research quality, innovation, and impact.

In recent decades, trillions of dollars have been spent on programs designed to reduce global poverty, but clear evidence on which programs succeed is rare, and when evidence does exist, decision-makers often do not know about it. IPA exists to bring together leading researchers and these decision-makers to ensure that the evidence we create leads to tangible impact on the world. Since our founding in 2002, IPA has worked with over 600 leading academics to conduct over 900 evaluations in 52 countries. This research has informed hundreds of successful programs that now impact millions of individuals worldwide.

About the Grant

The Peace & Recovery (P&R) Program supports field experiments and related research on reducing violence and fragility, promoting peace, and preventing, managing, and recovering from crises. The program prioritizes studies that develop, illustrate, or test fundamental theories of peace, violence, and recovery, especially those that challenge common beliefs, pioneer innovative interventions, and produce evidence where little currently exists. Topics of study include:

• International and internal wars
• Peacebuilding
• State-supported violence and repression, from mass killings to police brutality
• Electoral violence
• Riots, protests, strikes, and other collective action (violent and nonviolent)
• Intergroup violence, including ethnic and sectarian violence
• Terrorism and violent extremism
• Forced displacement
• “Recovery” responses after violence, conflict, natural disasters, or crises (including COVID-19)

P&R supports full randomized trials, pilot studies, exploratory and descriptive work, travel grants, and (in rare but deserving cases) non-experimental evaluations. Funding for the Peace & Recovery Competitive Fund comes from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), and the Open Society Foundations (OSF). A list of full and pilot projects P&R has funded to date can be found here.

Deadline

November 8, 2021

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