Deadline: 15 September 2016
The Government of Finland, EvalPartners are seeking applications from Voluntary Organizations for Professional Evaluation (VOPEs) for its Peer-to-Peer Grants Program 2016 with an aim to enhance the capacities of VOPEs to engage in a strategic and meaningful manner in national evaluation processes to be able to influence country-led evaluation systems.
Thematic Areas
- Developing evaluation culture
- Promoting evaluation policies and systems at the national and regional level
- Empowering VOPEs and developing their capacities
- Ethics and professionalization
- Promoting Equity Focused and Gender Responsive Evaluations
- Promoting networking among VOPEs
Grant Information
- A partnership that involves two VOPEs can apply for up to USD 10,000.
- A partnership that involves three or more VOPEs can apply for USD 15,000. Should one of those VOPEs come from an ODA-eligible country that has not received EvalPartners grant support in the last two P2P rounds, the proposal gets an additional bonus of 5 points (on a scale of 100) to its final score.
- Under this call for proposals EvalPartners expect to allocate the total of USD 120,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Project proposal should be jointly developed by at least two VOPEs.
- At least one of those VOPEs should be from the Global South, that is be a national VOPE from the ODA-eligible country.
- Preference will be given to proposals that include Global South VOPEs that have not received EvalPartners funding previously.
- Partnerships may also include academic institutions, NGOs and government agencies.
- In order to accommodate a maximum number of ideas, VOPEs and countries, a VOPE cannot be partner in more than two partnerships submitting proposals.
- Applications can only be received from VOPEs that are registered on the IOCE database
- VOPEs approved for grants are expected to be Contributing Members of IOCE (minimum USD 100 per year).
How to Apply
Applicants must download the application form via given website.
Eligible Countries:
Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti , Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kenya, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, Armenia, Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tokelau, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China (People’s Republic of), Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Gabon, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Montserrat, Namibia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Panama, Peru, Saint Helena, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Seychelles, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wallis and Futuna.
For more information, please visit EvalPartners Peer-to-Peer Grants.