NOFO: Increasing Law Enforcement’s Capability to Prevent, Mitigate and Respond to GBV (US)

Project Goal(s) and Objectives

• Goal 1: Law enforcement officers in the intervention groups utilize survivor-center and trauma-informed approaches to respond and mitigate gender-based violence, relative to control groups. Specific changes of knowledge, attitudes, and actions will be defined by the proposed intervention and theory of change.
• Goal 2: Public audiences have access to more robust evidence with actionable guidelines for implementing successful interventions that are demonstrated to improve law enforcement’s ability to better prevent, mitigate and respond to Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

Funding Information

• Total available funding: $1,300,000
• Award amounts: awards may range from a minimum of $1,300,000 to a maximum of $1,300,000
• Length of performance period: 24-30 months
• Anticipated program start date: September 2024
• Number of awards anticipated: 1 award (dependent on amounts)

Project Activities and Deliverables

• Activity 1: Building on the project proposal, and in consultation with INL, finalize the intervention(s), monitoring, and evaluation plans. (Timeline: 3-6 months)
  • The project will require target country cooperation, formal agency support for the proposed study, including data collection, and selected intervention, and political will to improve law enforcement prevention and response to gender-based violence. Target countries should have existing, or easily adaptable, mechanisms for the chosen interventions and permit access to relevant criminal justice, and associated, records and data systems. Where such data is not available from government sources, or where official government data is of limited quality or consistency, applicants should identify alternative methods of collecting other credible and objective data to evaluate the impact of the proposed intervention. Ideally, the country selection process will also consider institutional and technical factors that existing theory and evidence suggest may be important for generalizability across contexts.
  • Deliverable 1-1: Project implementation plan; Performance Monitoring Plan; project evaluation plan
• Activity 2: Conduct a descriptive analysis of gender-based violence within the country using criminal justice statistics and administrative data, as well as other sources of credible data. Assess how law enforcement responds to gender-based violence. (Timeline: 2 months
• Activity 3: Implement the gender-based violence intervention(s), according to the project implementation plan. (Timeline: 12-15 months, including startup period for interventions)
• Activity 4: During project implementation, collect and report data needed for implementation monitoring and the impact evaluation, according to the monitoring and evaluation plans. (Timeline: 12 months)
  • Deliverable 4-1: Monitoring and evaluation data, to be reported in INL’s Project Monitoring Database
• Activity 5: Upon project completion, analyze the monitoring and evaluation data according to the evaluation plan. Conduct qualitative interviews, employing survivor-centered and trauma-informed approaches for working with GBV survivors, as necessary to determine what went right and wrong with project implementation and why. Estimate effects of the intervention on costs to the host Government and local economy. In collaboration with INL, produce study findings and a guide that outlines best practices and lessons learned in implementing the interventions. (Timeline: 3-6 months)
  • Deliverable 5-1: Impact evaluation report (including findings about effects, assessment of what went right and wrong with project implementation, and why; and estimates of social and economic impacts of the intervention)
  • Deliverable 5-2: An evidence-based program design toolkit that highlights lessons learned from the studies and provides a framework for donors, foreign partners, civil society organizations, or INL to develop programs or projects using the insights from the empirically tested interventions.

Participants and Audiences

• Law enforcement officers, government officials working in the criminal justice sector, attorneys, and judges; civil society actors; technical assistance providers, and academic and research organizations.

Priority Region/Countries

• Global, with one focus country. Possible countries include but are not limited to: Armenia, Georgia, Guatemala, Kosovo, Liberia, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, and Panama

Eligibility Criteria

• The following organizations are eligible to apply:
  • U.S.-based non-profit/non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
  • U.S.-based educational institutions subject to section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code or section 26 US 115 of the US 115 of the U.S. tax code;
  • Foreign-based non-profits/non-governmental organizations (NGOs);
  • Foreign-based educational institutions.

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