Deadline: 01-Mar-2024
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) invites bids to conduct secondary research on the effectiveness of feeding children at school in low- and middle-income countries.
Purpose
- The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) requests proposals for research on the effectiveness and comparative cost-effectiveness of school feeding interventions in low- and middle-income countries.
- The research is intended to:
- Provide comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of school feeding on nutrition, education and social protection outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
- Provide robust estimates of the cost-effectiveness of school feeding, for individual outcomes and an aggregate level.
- Compare the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of school feeding with that of other interventions intended to achieve the same outcomes.
- Identify the circumstances in which school feeding is effective and cost-effective with regards to achieving nutrition, education and social protection outcomes, both individually and combined.
- The research is expected to provide the latest evidence on school feeding along with an assessment of the quality of available evidence and any evidence gaps. Findings will be used to inform FCDO’s policy position on school feeding as well as global dialogue on school feeding programmes.
Sector
- Education, Girls and women, Livelihoods
Funding Information
- The total funding available for this research is £120,000.
- Value of funding: £100,001 to £500,000
Who they are looking for?
- They are looking for organisations registered as a not-for-profit, including academic institutions and think tanks, with subject matter and methodological expertise.
- The accountable grant will be with one organisation – either as a single delivery partner or as a lead organisation which manages third parties in a consortium. Note that the third-party organisations may be either not-for-profit or private organisations. Organisations may be included in more than one consortium bid, but as lead delivery partner in only one of those. In others, they would need to be a third party employed by the lead partner.
- It is important that all organisations (both lead and third party) share details of any conflicts of interest that may impact their proposal and set out how these would be managed.
- The successful organisation must pass a due diligence assessment in areas including, but not restricted to: governance, finance, safeguarding and capacity to manage the proposed project. Consortium partners and other downstream delivery partners are likely to feature in this due diligence assessment, e.g., to test that adequate safeguarding measures are in place throughout the delivery chain.
Eligible Countries
- Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), Gabon, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible organisations:
- Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), UK-based non-profit organisations, educational institutions, Humanitarian relief organisations
For more information, visit FCDO.