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The Call for the Social Protection Thematic Window (SPTW) is now closed:

For more information (including FAQ) related to this call please visit: http://www.3ieimpact.org/social_protection_thematic_window.html

We received a total of 220 EOIs. Three clusters were identified during the Expression of Interest review process: (1) Public works programs (22 EOIs), (2) Unconditional/social and conditional cash transfers (60 EOIs) and (3) Youth training and labor insertion (22 EOIs). Of these, 84 were invited to submit a full application. Out of these 84 full applications, 54 have submitted successfully and these are currently under review.

SPTW Full Application Results: We anticipate announcing awards 8-10 weeks after the full application deadline - January 29, 2012

SPTW Review Stage II: Full proposals

  • Guidance documents and application forms will be available on line for those research teams invited to submit a full proposal. Once received, the proposals submitted online are allocated to 4 reviewers (3 external and 1 internal). External reviewers are drawn from our pool of approved external reviewers (over 100) and social protection experts
  • All reviewers score the proposal according to two sets of criteria:
    The first set relates to the technical aspects of the proposal, and includes 4 criteria:
    • Qualifications of proposed staff (20%)
    • Involvement of developing country researchers/evaluators (15%)
    • Quality of technical proposal: internal validity (30%)
    • Quality of technical proposal: external validity (30%)
    * The final 5% for the first round of scores will be added based on 3ie membership of either the applicant, the implementing agency, or the funder. The second set relates to the relevance of the proposal, and includes 3 criteria:
    • Policy relevance (40%)
    • Potential policy impact (40%)
    • Cost (20%)
  • After full consideration against all the criteria, the reviewers allocate the proposals to one of the following 4 categories; (i) definitely accept; (ii) accept with minor revisions; (iii) fundable after major revisions; or (iv) reject. The allocation to any of the first three categories does not guarantee that the proposal will be financed.
  • A first shortlist is based on the average of the technical scores only, to ensure sufficient quality of the funded research. Large differences in scores across reviewers will be further investigated and controlled. The shortlist cutoff point will be set in part as a function of the total number and quality of proposals received.
  • Those proposals above the technical shortlist cut-off will then be ranked based on their relevance scores. Based on these latter scores and the assigned grading categories, the proposals are allocated into three categories: (a) all those that have an average score above a certain threshold, or that get at least 2 'definitely accept' grades and no „reject? grade get allocated to the selection panel directly; (b) those not included in (a) that get an average score above a lower threshold, or that have no more than “one reject? score get allocated for further internal review; and (c) those not in a and b are rejected.
  • Internal reviewers will revisit those allocated to group (b) and reviewer patters to decide whether to allocate to group (a) and or (c). The final shortlist is then shared with the selection panel.

Selection panel and approval:

A panel of social protection experts, evaluators and policy makers will review and rank the short listed proposals. The panel will make a recommendation to the 3ie Board on which awards should be made.