Peace & Recovery Initiative

_NOTE: While submitting an EOI is not required to submit a full proposal, we strongly encourage research teams to submit one. See RFP for optional EOI Deadline.

Peace & Recovery Initiative

The Innovations for Poverty Action Peace & Recovery Initiative (PRI), funded by UK International Development, supports rigorous impact evaluations, pilots, exploratory studies, evidence use and policy outreach support, and infrastructure and public goods projects to inform policies and programs related to the prevention of, responses to, and recovery from most forms of social and political violence as well as humanitarian emergencies, including:

• International and civil wars
• State-supported violence and repression, from mass killings to police brutality
• Electoral violence
• Riots, protests, strikes, and other collective action
• Intergroup violence, including ethnic and sectarian violence
• Terrorism and violent extremism
• “Recovery” responses after conflict or crises, including natural disasters

Supported projects will contribute to innovation and generalizable learning on program effectiveness, identify the mechanisms underpinning programming, and address potential barriers to impact.

Priority areas of research include:

• Understanding and preventing individual-level participation in violence
• Understanding, combating, and reintegrating armed groups
• Addressing prejudice and building horizontal social cohesion
• Strengthening household and community resilience
• Building institutions, resolving disputes, and delivering justice
• Addressing root causes and preventing future crises

Project Types & Funding

• Exploratory grants: Maximum award: $10,000
• Pilot studies: Maximum award: $75,000
• Full studies: Maximum award: $500,000
• Infrastructure and public goods creation: Maximum award: $250,000
• Evidence use and policy outreach support: Maximum award: $25,000

In recognition that research in some locations or with some populations is more costly, on a case-by-case basis we will consider budgets over the above award maximums that provide appropriate justification.

Eligibility

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