IPA’s Consumer Protection Research Initiative (CPRI) 2025 Call for Research Proposals is now open. CPRI accepts proposals for large grants that fund rigorous impact evaluations, as well as smaller grants that can fund pilots, add-ons to existing studies, low-cost evaluations such as lab-based experiments, or evaluations relying primarily on administrative data (e.g., A/B tests or quasi-experimental evaluations using historical data).

Our primary focus is on evaluating interventions that reduce consumer risks and build trust in digital payments and credit products.

We fund work addressing four core research areas:

1. Fraud prevention and detection
2. High prices, price transparency, and market competition
3. Over-indebtedness and responsible digital credit, and
4. Complaints redress mechanisms.

This year, we are particularly interested in research that examines:

• Gender disparities in consumer protection, including solutions that may be particularly effective at mitigating risks and building trust for women.
• Studies focused on productive credit, particularly work focused on reducing risk for small business owners and smallholder farmers.
• The role of agents in promoting consumer protection in digital finance, for example in improving transparency, reducing overcharging, or preventing fraud.

Optional Expressions of Interest are due May 4, 2025, and full proposals are due June 15, 2025.

We encourage you to attend a Q&A webinar on April 16 at 9:00AM EDT (register here). Please reach out to consumerprotection@poverty-action.org with any questions.