Funding Opportunity: GBV Tech Innovation Challenge

The window for submitting Expressions of Interest is now open with a deadline of 16:00 BST (UTC+1) on Tuesday 27 June 2023. For full information please see the Challenge Handbook, which is available below in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. To apply for the GBV Tech Innovation Challenge, submit an Expression of Interest via our Common Grant Application platform:  

   
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This Innovation Challenge is for piloting tech-based interventions relevant to Gender-based Violence (GBV) humanitarian programming, which have the potential to be scaled in the future. By tech-based we meanrelating to and dependent on the practical use and application of technology.  

Beyond the tech focus, this Challenge takes a broad framing to allow for the most promising    GBV-related tech innovations to be supported. Applications must however be able to present the relevance of their    intervention to at least one of the 26 priority gaps identified in our 2021 Gap Analysis Report. Some examples of gaps which    may be relevant to tech-based interventions include:

Risk Mitigation:

   
• Women and girls insufficiently engaged when identifying risks, developing mitigation plans and monitoring implementation  
       
• Lack of community ownership of risk mitigation activities  
   

Response:

   
• Lack of sustained  support for those providing essential Psychosocial Support (PSS) and GBV case management services  
       
• Lack of coverage and  survivor-centeredness of formal and informal legal and justice services, especially in remote locations  
   

Prevention:

   
• Lack of understanding and capacity to ensure that prevention programming is built on evidence-based behaviour change theory, and addresses social norms change at institutional and systemic levels  
       
• Lack of attention to GBV  experienced by adolescent girls
   

Please note that the questions for both the Expression of Interest form and the Full Proposal form are available in the Challenge Handbook. The application forms themselves are only available in English. Applications are only accepted in English and the grant management for the Innovation Challenge including verbal and written reporting must be completed in English.  

This Innovation Challenge looks to identify and support promising tech-based interventions relevant to GBV programming within humanitarian settings.

   
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• Download here in French
• Download here in Spanish
• Download here in Arabic