Deadline: 1 September 2017
The World Bank’s Development Data Group (DECDG), in collaboration with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) is seeking proposals for its “Collaborative Data Innovations for Sustainable Development” to encourage collaboration, experimentation, learning and capacity development in the field of sustainable development data.
This call has been issued to target improvements where needs are continuous or recurrent, and where innovations can be readily adapted to other regions and sectors.
Themes
- Leave No One Behind
- Environment
Grant Information
- The amount of funding available for each project will range from $25,000 to $250,000, depending on whether the project is embryonic or ready to scale up.
- Funding disbursements will start in March 2018.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any consortium, with at least two organizations, may apply.
- Consortium members may include social enterprises, for-profit companies, non-profit organizations, government agencies, international organizations, academic organizations, networks and partnerships.
- The Program prioritizes the funding of work in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
- The Program especially interested in proposals that bring different types of organizations together and in seeing these organizations contributing and integrating their data.
- To better understand how the proposed project supports action and decision making, a specific end-user of the project’s outputs must be identified and included as part of the team applying.
Selection Criteria
- Innovation and impact
- Potential to scale
- Results and lessons learned
- Experience, record and resources
How to Apply
Applicants must submit the following proposal elements via online application system through the given website.
- A set of narrative responses that addresses the criteria above
- A high-level budget (Note that awards will be in form of vendor contracts and that indirect costs or administration fees are not allowed; procurement of goods is capped at 20%)
- Letters of support from all collaborating organizations
- Letters of support from end users of the project
Eligible Countries:
- Low-Income Economies: Afghanistan, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Dem. Rep, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, The, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Korea, Dem. People’s Rep., Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
- Lower-Middle-Income Economies: Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Rep., Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Arab Rep., El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Mauritania, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, São Tomé and Principe, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Rep., Zambia.
For more information, please visit Call for Proposals.
