EvalPartners Innovative Challenge call for equity & gender proposals

[Asela Kalugampitiya]

EvalPartners announces a call for suggestions of innovative ideas for promoting equity-focused and gender-responsive evaluations.  As described in the attached announcement, after receiving brief initial proposals (deadline 15^th November), four semi-finalists will be selected and invited to develop more detailed proposals, out of which two will be selected to receive grants of up to US$ 15,000 each.

More specifically (extracting from the announcement):

Innovation Challenge objective: We would like to offer this opportunity to identify innovative ideas which have an explicit spotlight on equity and gender within strategies to strengthen the demand for and use of evaluation to inform policy making, including in the context and spirit of EvalYear (the International Year of Evaluation, 2015). We are particularly interested in encouraging ideas that bring stakeholders together across national boundaries.

Eligibility: Proposals can be received from representatives of Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs), i.e. national or regional associations or societies or networks of evaluators.  Proposals might include cooperative partnerships with not-for-profit organizations, governmental, non-governmental or inter-governmental organizations, academic institutions or private sector organizations with an interest in and/or mandate for evidence-based policy making.

This call for proposals and the process for selecting winners are further described on pages 1-3 of the attached document.  Interested persons should use the Entry Form on page 4.

We invite those of you receiving this announcement to pass it on to others in your networks whom you feel may have innovative ideas to propose.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Inga Sniukaite and Murray Saunders, Co-Chairs of the EvalPartners Equity-Focused and Gender-Responsive Taskforce