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Grants Management

GFII and CIti IPA Criteria

II. CRITERIA FOR ELIGIBILITY

Each application must be presented by a team consisting of (i) one or more researchers involved in the design of the intervention and responsible for carrying out a rigorous evaluation of the program and (ii) one or more practitioner institutions from the financial sector who will partner with the research team on the proposed intervention. Researchers must be affiliated with a research institution or a university and either hold a PhD or be a current PhD candidate in a relevant social science or engineering discipline, such as economics, statistics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, public health, education, or computer science.  They must demonstrate experience in field research and randomized trials.

Submissions to the competitive funds will be assessed under two project categories. All submitted projects must demonstrate a clear hypothesis and a rigorous study design for a randomized evaluation. Innovative research projects building on existing field experiments will also be accepted under each category.

1. PRODUCT TESTS

We consider a product test to be a randomized field experiment that primarily involves the collection and analysis of administrative data from the financial service provider to measure impact on client outcomes.

Product Test awards will be given to research projects that use randomized controlled trials to compare the relative effectiveness of interventions and product features in achieving behavior change or in improving financial outcomes, primarily using administrative data. These grants could fall under either of the following sub-categories:

Single-Site Product Test (capped at $75,000 per grant): Grants awarded in this category will conduct one or more product tests in a single country.

Example: Sticking to Long-term Savings Plan: Researchers test the efficacy of different interventions in helping customers with a high likelihood of missing contributions maintain commitments to a voluntary personal pension plan in Turkey. Interventions tested include messages as well as temporary matches and gifts for resuming regular payments or enrolling in a default payment. Researchers will also study variations in message framing to determine relative impact.

Multi-Site Product Tests (capped at $250,000 per grant): Multi-Site Product Tests will be awarded only under the Citi IPA Financial Capability Research Fund (FCRF), to conduct product tests across multiple countries. Projects will use randomized controlled trials conducted across three or more countries that seek to improve the policy relevance of findings and the richness of tests under different contexts and implementation arrangements. The replications should speak to a cohesive theory that incorporates context and mechanism tests and not merely be a proliferation of one evaluation in multiple locations.*

Example: Unpacking Reminders – The reminders replication program will work with financial institutions from around the world to test variations of this intervention that was already found to have cost-effective impacts in several countries. The replication of product tests based on administrative data will help derive a robust set of prescriptions for implementing reminders programs to improve savings and other financial behaviors.

*All sites and partners need not be identified at the time of the Expression of Interest submission (the application will need to be submitted jointly by a researcher and at least one financial service provider in order to be reviewed), but a credible strategy for identifying and managing the replication with likely additional partners should be detailed.

2. PRODUCT EVALUATION (capped at $150,000 per grant):

We consider a product evaluation to be a randomized field experiment that primarily involves the collection and analysis of survey data from households to measure impact on welfare outcomes.

Product Evaluations will be awarded to research projects that use randomized controlled trials to measure the impact of an intervention on the take-up and usage of a financial service/product and the resulting welfare impact on its users. Grants in this category will typically involve field data collection using surveys combined with administrative data from the financial service providers.

Example: Powering Small Retailers: The Impacts of Solar Energy under Different Pricing Schemes – In Kenya, researchers will conduct a randomized control trial to study the impact of access to electricity on businesses, along with how variation in pricing schemes and enforcement through the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) technology that rides on mobile money, affects electricity usage and fee payment.

Example: Changing Behavior to Improve Household Financial Management in Malawi – Researchers in Malawi test the effectiveness of three different interventions (labeled savings accounts, financial training and direct deposits) for overcoming common behavioral barriers to saving.  Researchers will collect information using surveys on aspiration levels, financial knowledge, consumption, savings, and agricultural inputs and outputs to determine if the interventions affected the savings behavior of participants.

All funding is for research costs. Implementation costs for the program are expected to be covered from other sources, except when adequate justification is provided for their inclusion in the study budget. No funding will be provided for the salary or time of researchers in developed countries. Funding under the study budget for the salaries and/or time of researchers in developing countries will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the selection committee.
 

 
        
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