How to Prepare Concept Papers
Concept papers are due by June 21, 2010, to (email given in source link below). The concept paper should be a short, informal proposal that should not exceed five (5) double-spaced pages. It should describe a potential solution to challenge(s) facing women and girls, including, but not limited to, the areas of poverty, legal and customary constraints, health, education, violence, food security, or climate change. The innovation could be a tool to empower women and girls socially, economically, politically, legally and/or normatively. The paper also needs to explain how the innovation could be replicated, scaled up, and made sustainable.
Concept papers are to be organized as follows:
1. Describe the primary problem(s) concerning women and girls that your innovation or concept addresses.
2. Describe the solution, concept or innovation.
3. What stage is your concept in?
Idea phase
- Operating for less than a year
- Operating for 1-5 years
- Operating for more than 5 years
4. If your innovation has been operating for more than a year, tell us about the specific activities you have undertaken as part of your innovation, and their impact on women and girls. Please include both statistics (if appropriate) and specific examples as evidence of this impact.
5. How have you been able to sustain this innovation so far?
6. How will the award funding help expand the success of your project? Describe the expected results over the next three years.
Review Criteria
Concept papers and subsequent full proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Innovation: the applicant’s activity, product or process should represent a new strategy, or current strategy applied in new ways, for achieving improvements in women and girls’ empowerment.
Impact on women’s and girls’ empowerment: the applicant should clearly articulate a specific intended effect on the status or welfare of women and girls.
Measurable results: the applicant should provide milestones and clearly describe the quantitative methods that will be used to monitor progress toward their stated goals.
Capacity: the applicant should demonstrate the capacity to take their innovation to greater scale, either on their own or with the assistance of additional resources and partnerships.
Sustainability: the applicant must identify the inputs or resources that will enable the innovation to continue to scale beyond the time when award funds have been expended.
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