Deadline: 30 January 2015
The World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) invests in impact evaluations of innovative human development programs in low-and middle income countries, works directly with policymakers and other key stakeholders to use the results and build better policies and programs that successfully improve people’s lives and thus contributes to ending extreme poverty and building shared prosperity.
SIEF is a multi-donor trust fund created with support of the Birtish Government’s Depart of International Development (DFID). Current areas of focus – Early Childhood Development and Nutrition, Basic Education, Health Systems and Service Delivery, and Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene.
Currently, there are two open calls on Basic Education and Early Childhood Development with 30 January 2015 deadline.
Funding Categories
- Effectively engaging non-state actors in basic education – Proposals are invited for impact evaluations of programs to promote the expansion and quality of primary and secondary education services in developing countries through non-state actors (ranging from for-profit private schools to NGO operated schools, and faith-based providers).
- Early childhood development, with a focus on promoting the cognitive and socio-emotional development of children ages 3-6 – Proposals are invited for rigorous impact evaluations of new or ongoing early childhood development programs, as well as longitudinal impact evaluation follow-ups of early childhood development programs. Programs to be evaluated can be government or non-governmental. Applications can be made for impact evaluations of World Bank supported programs, but no program affiliation with the World Bank or the funding organizations is required.
Eligibility Criteria for Both Calls
- Impact evaluation research teams from around the world are eligible. No prior affiliation with the World Bank or SIEF’s funding organizations is needed.
- The calls are focused on the impact of programs for low-income countries. Research in middle-income countries will also be considered as long as results will be clearly relevant to low-income countries with focus on fragile and conflict affected states.
- To submit an application, the impact evaluation team must partner with a World Bank staff member who will, if the application is successful, manage the SIEF grant and provide fiduciary responsibility. The World Bank staff member can also act as an investigator on the project and support policy outreach.
- The application must be submitted electronically by the partnering World Bank staff member (TTL).
- To identify potential World Bank TTLs, interested researchers are encouraged to reach out to World Bank staff in the country office where the evaluation will take place. Working relationships at the country level are key for the success of the research projects. Interested applicants can also liaise with sector and regional colleagues at the World Bank. The SIEF team welcomes inquiries from impact evaluation teams seeking assistance to identify a World Bank staff member (TTL) to partner with.
- The call is focused on the impact of programs for low-income countries, research in middle-income countries will be considered as long as results will be clearly relevant to low-income countries.
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