Deadline: 30-Oct-20
USAID in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank has launched The BetterTogether Challenge, seeking expertise, ingenuity, resources, and networks to develop transformative solutions to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by Venezuelans in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Panama.
The BetterTogether Challenge is a global initiative to crowdsource, fund, and scale forward-thinking solutions from anywhere in the world to support Venezuelans and host communities affected by the regional crisis.
Aim
- To transform the lives of Venezuelan migrants at risk of GBV and enhance available GBV resources in their host communities.
The BetterTogether Challenge is particulalry interested in solutions that target the most vulnerable migrant populations, such as women, children, youth, LGBTI, minority and indigenous groups, the elderly, and GBV survivors.
Solutions should be adapted to the local context and empower and collaborate with local partners.These solutions should be tailored to the cultural context, including power dynamics and social norms.
Types of Solution
- Innovative proposals to strengthen GBV referral and response procedures in host government systems and local civil society, incorporating new technologies to provide remote services to survivors.
- Transformative solutions that address inequalities, discriminatory practices or power dynamics using social behavior change techniques to address GBV for Venezuelans in host communities, including approaches that respond to GBV and raising awareness among men and boys on how cultural norms support cycles of violence.
- Strategies that help Venezuelan migrants expand legal pathways to enter host countries, and regularize their legal status, thereby allowing them to access services within their host communities.
- Strengthening livelihoods in support of vulnerable and at-risk Venezuelan women, girls, boys, men, youth, LGTBI persons, indigenous peoples, and GBV survivors.
- New ways to respond to GBV experienced by Venezuelans, and adapt responses to the COVID-19 context.
- Effective tools for preventing and responding to GBV in public and private spaces.
- Approaches to strengthen GBV referrals and barrier-free services from governments and civil society, promoting trauma informed care, particularly for migrant children.
- Proven efforts to address GBV, by increasing the capacity of officials to identify and refer cases, equip local responders with informed, sensitive procedures to support survivors.
- Methodologies that address online GBV and harassment targeting Venezuelan migrants in Trinidad and Tabago, Guyana, and/or Panama.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any organization around the world is welcome to submit a transformative approach to addressing GBV experienced by Venezuelan migrants and their host communities, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Panama.
- These solutions should demonstrate a strong understanding of the needs and priorities of Venezuelans experiencing GBV and the communities hosting them, and be prepared to respond to extraordinary circumstances, such as COVID-19.
The Challenge is not looking for
- Solutions that are routinely employed (therefore not innovative) and funded in complex crises environments, such as food distribution, general elections administration, labor market surveys;
- Solutions that are unlikely to lead to significant development or humanitarian impacts for affected Venezuelans and host communities;
- Solutions with minimal demonstration of effectiveness and impact;
- Support to ongoing programs or related costs including organizational overhead, training, or capacity-building initiatives that are not linked to the solution;
- Planning or diagnostic tools that do not directly link to measurable development and humanitarian impacts;
- Discovery science or basic scientific research (e.g., laboratory research of a prototype with no field testing);
- Large-scale infrastructure development and heavy machinery or equipment;
- Solutions that support police, military, militias, or other security forces, including any military, police, or surveillance equipment or tactics;
- Solutions that involve intellectual property rights are owned by a third-party institution, unless the third-party institution has granted the applicant sufficient license rights to the innovation to permit eventual scaling in relevant countries; and
- Solutions exclusively focused on publications and studies, video productions, and other media, and not related with a practical solution.
How to Apply
- Any organization around the world is welcome to submit a transformative approach to addressing GBV experienced by Venezuelan migrants and their host communities, particularly in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Panama.
- These solutions should demonstrate a strong understanding of the needs and priorities of Venezuelans experiencing GBV and the communities hosting them, and be prepared to respond to extraordinary circumstances, such as COVID-19.
- Proposals must consider that this program ends in September 2021 without the possibility of additional Challenge funding. Challenge funds are awarded via the Challenge’s Application page.
- Once you are ready to submit your application, make sure to check this box on the system: (i) violencia de género / gender-based violence (GBV).
For more information, visit https://juntosesmejorve.org/gbv?lang=en