Open Funding Opportunities
Peace & Recovery Initiative | Call for Proposals
The Innovations for Poverty Action Peace & Recovery Initiative (PRI), funded by UK International Development, supports rigorous impact evaluations, pilots, exploratory studies, evidence use and policy outreach support, and infrastructure and public goods projects to inform policies and programs related to the prevention of, responses to, and recovery from most forms of social and political violence as well as humanitarian emergencies, including:
- International and civil wars
- State-supported violence and repression, from mass killings to police brutality
- Electoral violence
- Riots, protests, strikes, and other collective action
- Intergroup violence, including ethnic and sectarian violence
- Terrorism and violent extremism
- “Recovery” responses after conflict or crises, including natural disasters
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:
- Understanding and preventing individual-level participation in violence
- Understanding, combating, and reintegrating armed groups
- Addressing prejudice and building horizontal social cohesion
- Strengthening household and community resilience
- Building institutions, resolving disputes, and delivering justice
- Addressing root causes and preventing future crises
PRI’s ninth call for proposals is now open. Optional expressions of interest are due on April 25, 2025, and proposals are due on June 13, 2025. Please reach out to peace@poverty-action.org with any questions.
Consumer Protection Research Initiative | Call for Proposals
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:
- Fraud prevention and detection
- High prices, price transparency, and market competition
- Over-indebtedness and responsible digital credit, and
- 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. Please reach out to consumerprotection@poverty-action.org with any questions.