Open Funding Opportunities
Displaced Livelihoods Initiative | Call for Proposals
The Innovations for Poverty Action and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Displaced Livelihoods Initiative (DLI) supports rigorous impact evaluations, pilots, exploratory studies, infrastructure and public goods projects, and scaling work to inform policies and programs on sustainable livelihoods for displaced populations and host communities. Funding for DLI comes from the IKEA Foundation.
Supported projects will contribute to innovation and generalizable learning on program effectiveness, identify the mechanisms underpinning programming, and address potential barriers to impact. Priority areas of research include:
- resilience
- entrepreneurship
- wage employment
- social cohesion, inclusion, and norms
- rights and regulations
DLI’s fourth call for proposals is now open. Optional expressions of interest are due November 20, 2024, and proposals are due January 17, 2025.
Human Trafficking Research Initiative | Call for Proposals
IPA’s Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) has launched its third Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for full randomized controlled trials (RCTs)/rigorous impact evaluations and pilot research to assess the impact of prosecution-focused counter-trafficking programs. HTRI is an eight-year project funded by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (the TIP Office)’s Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) at the U.S. Department of State. Applications should seek to conduct research that examines the effectiveness of human trafficking-focused interventions along the entire justice system pipeline, including identification, referrals, investigations, prosecutions, adjudication, and legal aid. Proposals are due by 11:59 pm US Pacific time on January 10, 2025. Please reach out to ipa_htri@poverty-action.org with any questions.