Open Call: Funding Program to address Gender-based Violence (GBV) – India

This Open Funding Call seeks innovative, practical, and sustainable solutions to combat GBV, offering financial support for implementation and technical support in designing/conducting rigorous impact evaluations to deepen the understanding of what truly works to address GBV.

Sexual harassment and GBV remain pervasive issues in India that affects the lives of countless individuals, particularly women, across public and private spaces. Despite widespread media coverage of sexual harassment and violence in India, there is a lack of representative data on the extent of the problem. There is also little evidence on what works to solve this problem. To address this solutioning gap, Aparajita and J-PAL South Asia have come together to launch GBV Solve: Open Funding Call.

The GBV Solve: Open Funding Call invites groundbreaking actionable solutions to tackle sexual harassment and GBV in India. The funding call will focus on sexual harassment and violence outside the home, as well as other forms of gender-based violence. Successful proposals submitted to this call will be offered funding for implementation alongside technical/expert support in designing/conducting randomised evaluations.

Objectives 

• One of the key objectives of the funding call is to support organisations and individuals committed to addressing harassment and GBV, and close the evidence gaps on what works to eliminate it in all forms. They aim to achieve this by identifying and funding solutions that could be tested for impact, and work with partners to take effective solutions to scale.
• Participating in the GBV Solve: Open Funding Call offers:
  • An opportunity to build a sustainable, large-scale, and impact-driven program addressing GBV and harassment in India.
  • Catalytic funding for your programme.
  • An opportunity to evaluate the impact of your program with J-PAL-affiliated researchers.
  • Avenues to learn about using evaluations to strengthen programming.

Focus Areas

• Approaches should focus on solutions addressing sexual harassment and GBV in any form, including preventative or rehabilitative interventions. These include but are not limited to root causes of harassment, support for citizens impacted, education, and awareness programmes, social and behaviour change programmes, capacity building and training, etc.

Funding Information

• Selected awardees will receive:
  • Flexible funding up to INR 50 lakhs to pilot and implement their new intervention ideas or support the implementation of existing solutions.
  • Please note this funding is specifically to support implementation activities including piloting new interventions/ideas. This does not include funding for any research activity such as scoping, data collection, data analysis, etc.
  • Access to the Evaluation Incubator by J-PAL South Asia and Aparajita, offering:
  • Technical support to design impact evaluations and use of evidence/data.
  • Partnerships with J-PAL researchers to conduct randomised evaluations of their solutions.
  • Advisory support and ecosystem connections as needed.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any institution, company, organisation or individual(s) passionate about addressing this problem and meeting the following criteria below are invited to send their best ideas:
• Geographical Scope: Suggested solutions must operate in India

For more information, visit J-PAL.