Ending
extreme poverty and building shared prosperity requires evidence to
identify those programs and policies that will have a real impact. The
World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF) makes this happen
by investing in impact evaluations of innovative human development
programs in low-and middle income countries, and by working directly
with policymakers and other key stakeholders to use the results and
build better policies and programs that successfully improve people’s
lives.
SIEF
is a multi-donor trust fund created in 2012 with the support of the
British government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
The fund currently focuses on four human development areas that are
crucial to improving the lives of the world’s poorest and most
vulnerable: Early Childhood Development and Nutrition, Basic Education,
Health Systems and Service Delivery, and Water Supply, Sanitation, and
Hygiene.
SIEF
partners with leading impact evaluation researchers and those who
develop and implement innovative programs — both within governments and
within non-governmental and other organizations. In the process, we
ensure active engagement with key stakeholders and we support teams to
make evidence accessible and policy relevant.
The Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF), a partnership program
promoting evidence-based policy making in human development, is very
pleased to announce two new calls for impact evaluation research
proposals. SIEF is looking for proposals in (1) early childhood
development, with a focus on promoting the cognitive and socio-emotional
development of children ages 3-6, and (2) effectively engaging
non-state actors in basic education. The application process is a
two-step process. The first stage requires completing the online SIEF Application Form and submitting a completed Evaluation Budget Template by
email. Detailed information on the
calls is available below. Selected proposals will have the opportunity
to receive seed funding up to US$25,000 to develop a full technical proposal for the impact evaluation. Selection
in this round is not a guarantee of funding beyond the seed funding.
All technical proposals will also undergo a careful peer review.
