Application Form

This document provides you with a detailed overview of the questions you will
be asked to answer as part of the application process.

You can prepare your answers by completing the form below. Then be sure to copy the
answers directly into the online form from your application portal. .

Any application that does not respect the format of the online form, and adds elements that
are not requested, will be automatically excluded from the process. No application in Word
format will be accepted by the FID team.

Step 1: Eligibility

Step 2: Applicant Organization Information

Step 3: Project Information

- Prepare Grant for future Stage 1 Applications

- Prepare Grant for future Stage 2 Applications

- Stage 1 - Pilot

- Stage 2 - Test and Position to Scale

- Stage 3 - Transition to Scale

- Transforming Public Policy (TPP) - Type 1

- Transforming Public Policy (TPP) - Type 2

Last stage before validation of your application

Step 1: Eligibility
Eligible entities

FID accepts applications from nearly any type of applicant, independently or in partnership
with others, including: research institutes and institutions of higher education; governments
or public agencies; non-governmental organizations; and private, for-profit companies.

Only individuals applying independently and public international and multilateral institutions
are ineligible for funding.

FID accepts applications for funding from innovators and researchers of all nationalities
living in all geographies, but specifically encourages applications from organizations based
in, led by, and significantly staffed by people from low and middle-income countries; people
who identify as women; and other marginalized populations.

Eligible countries

FID funds initiatives in all low and middle-income countries eligible for official development
assistance (see the list established by the OECD DAC), with special emphasis on the
countries recognized as priority by France's development policy (see the list of 19 countries).

FID accepts applications in French or English.

In order to check your eligibility for a FID grant, you must ensure that you meet the following
requirements:

1. I am NOT submitting an application as an individual (i.e., the application is being

made on behalf of or within an established organization) Yes / No

2. I am NOT applying on behalf of a public multilateral and international institution Yes /

No

3. I am applying for a project located in a low or middle-income country eligible for

official development assistance Yes / No

4. I have read the Call for Proposals, which describes the types of work supported by
FID and the criteria on the basis of which applications are evaluated Yes / No

Please note that if you check "No" to any of these four statements, your application will be
ineligible for a FID grant.

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Step 2: Applicant Organization Information
Applicant Organization Name:
Applicant Organization Type: (Academic, Nonprofit/NGO, For-profit, Public entity, Other)

Organization Contact Information:

Applicant Organization Website:
In which country is your organization legally incorporated? Country drop-down menu
Address:
How many employees are in your organization? <10, <50, <300, 300+

Contact Information:
You will need to fill in the contact information for the person responsible for the
application here. If this person is not the person responsible for your organization,
please fill in the details of this person as a secondary contact.

Primary Contact Secondary Contact

First Name: First Name:
Last Name: Last Name:
Job Title: Job Title:
Email: Email:
Phone: Phone:
Gender: Gender:
Nationality: Nationality:

Involved partner(s) :

For each partner involved who is a recipient of a sub-grant from the funds being
requested from FID, please indicate the name and type of organization. You will also
have to fill in the contact information of the person in charge of the project. Please
note, you can only add up to 4 partners. In case you have more potential recipients of
sub-grants, please mention them directly in answer to the question dedicated to partners
in the project information (step 3).

Name of the partner organization:

Type of organization: (Nonprofit/NGO, Academic, For-profit, Public entity, Other)
Country in which the partner organization is based:
Person in charge of the project (First name, Last name, Job title):

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Research partner(s):

If your application includes one or more researchers involved, please fill in the respective contact
information as well as their institution of affiliation.

Researcher 1 (First name, Last name, Job title, Name of affiliated organization):

Researcher 2 (First name, Last name, Job title, Name of affiliated organization):

Professional references:

Please provide contact information for individuals who can attest to your ability to implement the
activities proposed. These may include previous funders, supervisors, partner organizations, or
others, but not members of your organization or a partner organization involved in the proposed
activities. Please note that the persons indicated as references will be contacted by our teams if
the project passes to the second stage of the application review.

Reference 1 Reference 2
First Name: First Name:
Last Name: Last Name:
Job Title: Job Title:
Employer: Employer:
Employer organization type: Employer organization type:
Relation to the project: Relation to the project:
Email: Email:

Other:
How did you hear about FID? (website, referrals from AFD staff, referral from FID
grantees, press, mailing list, other)

Has the applicant previously submitted an application for this project to FID? Yes / No

If yes, could you briefly describe what has changed in this new proposal? (Short entry, limit at
1200 characters)

Answer :

Has the applicant submitted an application for this project to other funders? Yes / No

If yes, which funders? (Long entry, limit at 800 characters)

Answer :

If yes, is this proposal still actively under consideration by any or all of these funders? (Long
entry, limit at 1200 characters)

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Answer :

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Step 3 - Project Information
Please select the type of grant you are requesting:

● Prepare Grant for Stage 1 - Pilot

● Prepare Grant for Stage 2 - Test and position to scale
● Stage 1: Pilot
● Stage 2: Test and position to scale
● Stage 3: Transition to scale
● Transforming Public Policy (TPP) - Type 1
● Transforming Public Policy (TPP) - Type 2

For each stage of funding, please complete the respective application form.

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Prepare Grant for future Stage 1 Applications
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

Reminder: Eligible Organizations and Preparing for Later Funding

Stages
You are applying for a Prepare Grant to support proposal development for a future Stage 1
(pilot) grant. If you are interested in supporting the development of a proposal for a Stage 2
(test and position to scale) grant, please select the appropriate stage choice above.

These Prepare grants are intended to support promising applications that would otherwise
have had less opportunity to secure funding from a competitive fund such as FID. As such,
they are primarily intended for applications from poor countries that are priorities for official
French development assistance (the full list of countries is available following that link).

1. Short description of the Solution (long entry, limit at 800 characters)

Please provide a short description of your innovation in no more than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Development Challenge (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it impact the lives of people living
in poverty and/or marginalized populations? How would solving this problem improve their
lives?

Answer:

3. Description of the Innovation or Solution (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

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Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution and how it addresses the
development challenge. Who does your innovation impact? Explain who, specifically, is
affected by the problem and who would benefit from your innovation.

In this description, please summarize why your approach is innovative. What are the
advantages of your innovation compared to existing solutions to address the development
challenge?

Answer:

4. Project progress and need for funding (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)
Please describe the status of your project, milestones to date (if any), and any initial results.
What are the major gaps or issues that remain at this time and what support is needed to
address these issues? How will this Prepare Grant allow you to submit a future proposal that
is likely to meet the criteria necessary for a Stage 1 grant?

Examples of activities for which you might use a Prepare Grant could include: recruiting
partner organizations who are important to the deployment and scale of the innovation;
funding personnel or other operating expenses to explore the potential of a new innovation
prior to committing to a full pilot test or evaluation; capacity development for the lead or
partner organization(s), including relevant training or developing data management systems
necessary to implement the anticipated innovation; or determining market demand for an
innovation through customer interviews.

Answer:

5.1. Theory of Change (narrative) (long entry, limit at 4000 characters)

The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which your theory of change is
based, and your level of confidence around these assumptions. Please also explain the
assumptions in the theory of change for which you already have evidence, and the
assumptions for which evidence remains to be established.

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image of it (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 5.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram
in Question 5.2, please also respond to Question 5.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

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5.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image
(in the format JPEG or PNG only).

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

6. Learning Agenda and expected results (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)
You are requesting a Prepare Grant for a future Stage 1 application. What research
questions are important to this application? How will these activities help you determine the
innovation’s technical or operational viability in real-world settings? What learning do you
hope to gain from this project and the requested funds?

Answer:

7.1 Activities and associated budget (long entry, limit at 2800 characters)
Please list and describe the major activities you will implement for the proposed project,
indicating the approximate amounts (in euros) to be spent on each activity. If relevant,
please specify the percentage allocated to research and development. Finally, please
indicate any co-financing received for this project.

Answer:

7.2 Budget
Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through that link

Answer: Excel form

8. Pathway to Scale (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)

How many people does your innovation or solution currently serve? How many people do
you expect your innovation might eventually serve in the next five or ten years?

If the project is successful, how might your innovation scale and be funded in the long term?
What do you expect will be the source of financial support for your innovation when it is
scaled up (e.g., donor / government funding, a commercial model, or a mix of funding
sources)?

Note: FID understands that precise estimates can be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations for your working assumptions and supporting calculations to show how you
reached your estimates.

Answer:

9. Cost-effectiveness of the innovation (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)

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You are requesting a Prepare Grant for a future Stage 1 application. Stage 1 Grants will
require you to think through the cost-effectiveness of your proposed evaluation (i.e., why
your solution has the potential to have a greater impact per euro than alternative means of
addressing the same development challenge).

What is your expected cost per beneficiary of this solution (for a sample of 100 beneficiaries,
or 1000, or 10,000 depending on your innovation). How do you expect this cost to evolve as
your innovation is deployed on a larger scale?

Please indicate alternative solutions that already exist. Specifically, how does your
innovation offer a potentially more cost-effective way to address the development challenge
in your location, or in other regions?

What are the major drivers of cost, and how will you collect information about actual costs to
deliver the innovation throughout your project?

Note: FID understands that precise estimates can be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations for your working assumptions and supporting calculations to demonstrate how you
reached your estimates.

Answer:

10. Lead and Partner Organization (long entry, limit at 2800 characters)
Please provide an overview of the lead implementing organization. Describe your
organization’s area of expertise and why it is well-positioned to implement the proposed
activities.

Please also describe the key partner organizations and explain the role they will play in the
project. If partnerships are pending but not finalized, please discuss how Prepare Grant
activities would help secure their participation and risks to overall project success if these
partnerships are not secured.

Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations and
the country in which they are legally registered.

Answer:

11. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them. This discussion
should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s), current implementation
challenges and barriers to success both for the proposed activities and future sustainability
and scale of the innovation. This may include country risks, technical risks, institutional and
regulatory risks, market risks, environmental and social risks, and climate risks, or others.

Answer:

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11. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. You may include sources from peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study
results, verified news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports
claims made in the application.

Answer:

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Prepare Grant for future Stage 2 Applications
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

Reminder: Eligible Organizations and Preparing for Later Funding

Stages
You are applying for a Prepare Grant to support proposal development for a future Stage 2
(test and position to scale) grant. If you are interested in supporting the development of a
proposal for a Stage 1 (pilot) grant, please select the appropriate stage choice above.

These Prepare grants are intended to support promising applications that would otherwise
have had less opportunity to secure funding from a competitive fund such as FID. As such,
they are primarily intended for applications from poor countries that are priorities for official
French development assistance (the full list of countries is available following that link).

1. Short description of the Solution (short entry, limit at 800 characters)

Please provide a short description of your innovation in no more than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Development Challenge (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it impact the lives of people living
in poverty and/or marginalized populations? How would solving this problem improve their
lives?

Answer:

3. Description of the Innovation or Solution (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

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Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution and how it addresses the
development challenge. Who does your innovation impact? Explain who, specifically, is
affected by the problem and who would benefit from your innovation.

In this description, please summarize why your approach is innovative. What are the
advantages of your innovation compared to existing solutions to address the development
challenge?

Answer:

4.1 This Prepare Grant towards a Stage 2 funding concerns: (Scrolling menu)

● Preparing for an impact evaluation

● Preparing for program expansion or replication
● Preparing to test implementation models at scale
● Other

4.2 If other: please specify (Short entry, limit at 400 characters),

5. Project progress and need for funding (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)
Please describe the status of your project, milestones to date (if any), and any initial results.
What are the major gaps or issues that remain at this time and what support is needed to
address these issues? How will this Prepare Grant allow you to submit a future proposal that
is likely to meet the criteria necessary for a Stage 2 grant?

Examples of activities for which you might use a Prepare Grant could include: recruiting
partner organizations who are important to the deployment and scale of the innovation;
funding personnel or other operating expenses to explore the potential of a new innovation
prior to committing to a full pilot test or evaluation; capacity development for the lead or
partner organization(s), including relevant training or developing data management systems
necessary to implement the anticipated innovation; or determining market demand for an
innovation through customer interviews.

Answer:

6.1 Theory of Change (narrative) (long entry, limit at 4000 characters)

The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which your theory of change is
based, and your level of confidence around these assumptions.

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Please also explain the assumptions in the theory of change for which you already have
evidence, and the assumptions for which evidence remains to be established.

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image of it (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 6.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram
in Question 6.2, please also respond to Question 6.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

6.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image
in the format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

7. Learning Agenda and expected results (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)
You are requesting a Prepare Grant for a future Stage 2 application. What research
questions are important to this application? How will these activities help you determine the
innovation’s technical or operational viability in real-world settings? What learning do you
hope to gain from this project and the requested funds?

Answer:

8. Evaluation methodology planned or to be developed (long entry, limit at 2800

characters)
Stage 2 funding requires the submission of an evaluation methodology to test the key
assumptions of the theory of change and measure the success of your innovation or
solution.

For this Prepare grant towards Stage 2 funding, please describe your key assumptions and
evaluation methodology if already finalized. If this grant is for the design of the evaluation
methodology, please describe the various activities involved in designing the evaluation
methodology (field research, data collection, contacting a principal investigator, etc.) as well
as any potential barriers identified.

In both cases, please list the relevant measures or indicators you could use to track the
performance of your innovation, the corresponding targets for the next five years, and how
you will collect this data.

Answer:

9.1 Activities and associated budget (long entry, limit at 2800 characters)
Please list and describe the major activities you will implement for the proposed project,
indicating the approximate amounts (in euros) to be spent on each activity as well as their

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chronology. If relevant, please specify the percentage allocated to research and
development. Finally, please indicate any co-financing received or expected for this project.

9.2 Budget

Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through this link.

Answer: Excel form

10. Pathway to Scale (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)

How many people does your innovation or solution currently serve? How many people do
you expect your innovation might eventually serve in the next five years? If the project is
successful, how might your innovation scale and be funded in the long term? What do you
expect will be the source of financial support for your innovation when it is scaled up (e.g.,
donor / government funding, a commercial model, or a mix of funding sources)?

Note: FID understands that precise estimates can be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations for your working assumptions and supporting calculations to show how you
reached your estimates.

Answer:

11. Cost-effectiveness of the innovation (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)

You are requesting a Prepare Grant for a future Stage 2 application. Stage 2 Grants will
require you to think through the cost-effectiveness of your proposed evaluation (i.e., why
your solution has the potential to have a greater impact per euro than alternative means of
addressing the same development challenge).

What is your expected cost per beneficiary of this solution (for a sample of 100 beneficiaries,
or 1000, or 10,000 depending on your innovation). How do you expect this cost to evolve as
your innovation is deployed on a larger scale?

Please indicate alternative solutions that already exist. Specifically, how does your
innovation offer a potentially more cost-effective way to address the development challenge
in your location, or in other regions?

What are the major drivers of cost, and how will you collect information about the actual
costs to deliver the innovation throughout your project?

Note: FID understands that precise estimations can be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations for your working assumptions and supporting calculations to demonstrate how you
reached your estimates.

Answer:

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12. Lead and Partner Organization (long entry, limit at 2800 characters)
Please provide an overview of the lead implementing organization. Describe your
organization’s area of expertise and why it is well-positioned to implement the proposed
activities.

Please also describe the key partner organizations and explain the role they will play in the
project. If partnerships are pending but not finalized, please discuss how Prepare Grant
activities would help secure their participation and risks to overall project success if these
partnerships are not secured.

Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations and
the country in which they are legally registered.

Answer :

13. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them. This discussion
should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s), current implementation
challenges and barriers to success both for the proposed activities and future sustainability
and scale of the innovation. This may include country risks, technical risks, institutional and
regulatory risks, market risks, environmental and social risks, and climate risks, or others.

Answer :

14. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. You may include sources from peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study
results, verified news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports
claims made in the application.

Answer:

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Stage 1 - Pilot
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):
Duration of the project (in months):

1. Short description of the project (long entry, limit at 1200 characters)

Please provide a short description of the project and your innovation or solution in no more
than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Development Challenge (long entry, limit at 2800 characters)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it affect the lives of people living in
poverty and/or marginalized populations? How would solving this problem improve people's
lives?

How many people does this issue impact both in the country/countries you are working in
and globally? Please explain who, specifically, is impacted by the problem (e.g., different
genders, age groups, income levels, marginalized populations, etc.).

Answer:

3. Description of the Innovation or Solution (long entry, limit at 3200 characters)

Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution and how it addresses the
development challenge. In this description, please summarize why your approach is
innovative: why does your innovation have potential to address the development challenge
more easily, at lower cost, faster, or more feasibly at scale than the status quo or alternative
solutions?

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Please indicate the alternative solutions that already exist and specifically how your
innovation differs. What are the advantages of your innovation compared to existing
solutions to address the development challenge?

Please address whether your innovation has been piloted and what you have learned from
piloting. In your response, please discuss results you have achieved to date, including the
number of people your innovation or solution currently serves and any evidence of demand
for your innovation or that the innovation fills an identifiable need.

Answer:

4. Gender Equality (Long answer, limit at 1600 characters)

How have you considered gender equality in the design of your innovation? How can its
implementation contribute to reducing gender inequalities?

Note that additional information on gender is also expected in response to the questions
below, including theory of change, expected impact, project team and prospects for scaling
up.

5.1 Theory of Change and Expected Impact (narrative) (long entry, limit at 4000
characters)
The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which it is based, and your level of
confidence around these assumptions. Please also explain the parts of the theory of change
for which you already have evidence, and the parts for which evidence remains to be
established. Further, please specify how a perspective of gender is integrated within your
theory of change.

Please state the intended impact of your innovation as a result of the activities proposed in
this application, clearly stating the primary result you wish to achieve as well as any
additional outcomes expected (e.g., impacts on gender, health outcomes, household income
change, etc.).

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image of it (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 6.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram
in Question 5.2, please also respond to Question 5.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

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5.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image
in the format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

6. Hypothesis validation and assessment of pilot results (long entry, limit at 4000
characters)
Stage 1 funding requires monitoring and evaluation and data collection plans during the
grant period to test the key assumptions of the theory of change. FID’s goal with Stage 1
pilot testing is to illustrate the potential economic and social outcomes and actual costs of
implementing the solution in a real world setting. Please list the relevant metrics or indicators
you will use to track your innovation’s performance, and how you will collect and monitor this
data.

Answer:

7.1 Description of the activities and associated budget (long entry, limit at 3600
characters)
Please list, describe, and provide a tentative schedule for all major activities you will
implement in the proposed project. Please describe how these activities will help you to
determine the innovation’s technical or operational viability in a real-world setting. Please
indicate approximate amounts (in euros) to be spent on each activity and provide a brief
justification for the total amounts to be spent. Finally, please indicate any amount of co-
funding received for this project.

Answer:

7.2 Budget

Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through this link.

Answer: Excel form

8. Cost-effectiveness of the Innovation (long entry, limit at 2000 characters)

FID is interested in understanding why your solution has the potential to have a greater
impact per euro than alternative means of addressing the same development challenge,
including the status quo. Briefly present the existing solutions to address the development
challenge in your location or in other regions.

To the best of your ability, please provide your best estimate of the current cost of the
innovation per beneficiary served or unit treated (including any co-funding, but not including
evaluation and data collection costs). Please include both fixed and variable costs. Please
indicate how you plan to provide an initial measure of cost-effectiveness in terms of cost per

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development outcome in Stage 1. How do you expect these costs to change as your
innovation scales?

Note: FID understands that precise estimates can be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations for your working assumptions and supporting calculations to demonstrate how you
reached your estimates.

Answer:

9. Pathway to Scale and estimated reach (long entry, limit at 4800 characters)
FID’s ultimate goal is to support impactful development solutions that will scale to improve
millions of lives while being financially sustained through the public and/or private sector. .
How could your innovation be scaled up? Please describe possible channels for scaling up
(government policy, market-based solution, adoption by an international organization) and
sources of funding for this innovation in the long term. How many people do you expect your
innovation or solution to serve over the next five years, both locally (in the area of
implementation) and globally? Please explain who, specifically, is expected to benefit from
your innovation or solution.
Describe any steps you will take during the course of the award to ensure findings from this
project influence future policy, programming, or widespread adoption of your innovation (in
your context or elsewhere). If relevant, please also describe how the solution may inform or
impact the broader field or knowledge base.

Note: FID understands that precise estimates may be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations of your assumptions and supporting calculations to demonstrate how you reached
your estimates.

Answer:

10. Applicant Organization (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide an overview of the lead implementing organization and include relevant past
experience implementing similar activities. Describe your organization’s area of expertise
and within the targeted context and explain both why it is uniquely positioned and has the
capacity to implement the proposed activities.

Answer:

11. Partner Organizations (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please describe the key partner organizations (including, e.g., co-funders, major clients,
research partners) and explain whether and how they have demonstrated their commitment
to supporting or participating in the proposed project activities (e.g., entering a formal
agreement, verbal commitment). For each partner, please specify the contribution they have
made, their responsibilities, and the role they will play in the proposed activities. Please
specify which organizations are providing financial support for this project and the amount
committed.

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If the implementation or scale-up of the innovation, solution or evaluation depends on the
support of a partner, please describe the extent to which the applicant organization is
working with this partner now, and the expected role of the partner(s) in future
implementation or scale.

Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations and
the country in which they are legally registered.

Answer:

12. Project Team (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please list the key team members that will be contributing to project activities. For each
team member, please specify their: percentage level of effort dedicated to the proposed
activities; roles, responsibilities, and how they will contribute to project activities; and their
relevant skills, experience and expertise. Please do not include full CVs or resumes.

With regard to the initial question on gender equality in your project, please elaborate on
how the composition of your team reflects principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Answer:

13. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them. This discussion
should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s), current implementation
challenges and barriers to success both for the proposed activities and future sustainability
and scale of the innovation. This may include country risks, technical risks, institutional and
regulatory risks, market risks, environmental and social risks, climate risks, or others.

Answer:

14. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. You may include sources from peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study
results, verified news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports
claims made in the application.

Answer:

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Stage 2 - Test and position to scale
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

1. Brief description of the project/innovation or solution (long entry, limit at 400

characters maximum)
Please provide a short description of the project and your innovation or solution in no more
than two sentences.

Answer :

2. Development Challenge (long entry, limit at 2800 characters maximum)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it affect the lives of people living in
poverty and/or marginalized populations? How would solving this problem improve people's
lives?

How many people does this issue impact both in the country/countries you are working in
and globally? Please explain who, specifically, is impacted by the problem (e.g., different
genders, age groups, income levels, marginalized populations, etc.).

Answer:

3. Description of the Innovation or Solution (long entry, limit at 3200 characters

maximum)
Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution and how it addresses the
development challenge. In this description, please summarize why your approach is
innovative: why does your innovation have potential to address the development challenge
more easily, at lower cost, faster, or more feasibly at scale than the status quo or alternative
solutions?

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Explain who, specifically, would benefit from your innovation or solution. Please also provide
details on exactly where the project will take place (regions, provinces, cities, etc.). Be as
specific as possible.

Please indicate the alternative solutions that already exist and specifically how your
innovation differs. What are the advantages of your innovation compared to existing
solutions to address the development challenge?

Answer:

4. Gender Equality (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

How have you considered gender equality in the design of your innovation? How can its
implementation contribute to reducing gender inequalities?

Note that additional information on gender is also expected in response to the questions
below, including theory of change, expected impact, project team and prospects for scaling
up.

Answer:

5. Pilot (Closed answer)

Has your innovation already been piloted? Yes /No

5.1 If yes (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

Please indicate what you have learned from this pilot. In your response, please discuss the
results you have achieved to date, including the number of people your innovation or
solution currently serves and any evidence of demand for your innovation or that the
innovation fills an identifiable need.

Answer :

5.2 If no: (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

Please explain why your solution does not need to be piloted/tested in real-world conditions
before being considered for a Stage 2 grant. (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

Answer:

6.1 Theory of Change and Expected Impact (narrative) (long entry, limit at
4000 characters maximum)
The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

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Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which it is based, and your level of
confidence around these assumptions. Please also explain the parts of the theory of change
for which you already have evidence, and the parts for which evidence remains to be
established. Further, please specify how a perspective of gender is integrated within your
theory of change.

Please state the intended impact of your innovation as a result of the activities proposed in
this application, clearly stating the primary result you wish to achieve as well as any
additional outcomes expected (e.g., impacts on gender, health outcomes, household income
change, etc.).

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image of it (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 6.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram
in Question 6.2, please also respond to Question 5.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

6.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image in the
format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

7. Evaluation methodology (narrative) (long entry, limit at 4800 characters maximum)

An application for Stage 2 funding requires a plan to conduct a rigorous evaluation of the
causal link between the solution and the intended impact during the Stage 2 grant period.
Or, if causal impact evaluations have already been conducted in this or other contexts, a
detailed presentation of existing evidence is required. The impact evaluation must have
sufficient statistical power and include a credible counterfactual of what would have
happened in the absence of the innovation using a control group comparable in all respects
to the group receiving the intervention. Ideally, this evidence would be generated by a
randomized controlled trial (RCT). If the evidence is or is to be generated by another
method, please provide a justification for why the proposed evaluation method is
appropriate.

Please describe the evaluation methodology you will use to test the key assumptions of the
theory of change and measure the success of your innovation or solution. Please describe
your key research hypotheses and research methodology, including your study design: (i)
sampling frame; (ii) power calculations; (iii) the data you will use to measure each outcome;
(iv) a description of your planned statistical analysis and; if it is a randomized controlled trial
(RCT), (v) your unit of randomization and strategy.

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Please list the impacts you will seek to evaluate, the indicators you will use to measure
them, and the method for collecting the data. Note that we encourage you to collect data to
measure gender-related impacts.

Note: You can also illustrate your evaluation methodology with the help of a diagram by
uploading an image of it (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 7.2 (highly recommended). If you
upload a diagram in Question 7.2, please also respond to Question 7.1 with a narrative
explanation of the diagram provided.

Answer:

7.2 Evaluation methodology (diagram)

If you wish to illustrate your evaluation methodology with the help of a diagram, please
upload an image in the format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

8.1 Description of the activities and associated budget (long entry, limit at
3600 characters maximum)
Please list, describe, and provide a schedule for all major activities you will implement in the
proposed project. Please describe how these activities will test the impact of your innovation
and/or enhance the potential to scale up your innovation. Please indicate approximate
amounts (in euros) to be spent on each activity and provide a brief justification for the total
amounts to be spent. Finally, please indicate any amount of co-funding received for this
project.

Answer:

8.2 Budget
Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through that link..

Answer: Excel form

9. Cost-effectiveness of the Innovation (long entry, limit at 2000 characters maximum)

FID is interested in understanding why your solution has the potential to have a greater
impact per euro than alternative means of addressing the same development challenge,
including the status quo. Briefly present the existing solutions to address the development
challenge in your location or in other regions.

To the best of your ability, please provide your best estimate of the current cost of the
innovation per beneficiary served or unit treated (including any co-funding, but not including
evaluation and data collection costs). Please include both fixed and variable costs.
Please indicate how you intend to measure the cost-effectiveness of your innovation as part
of this funding request and include explanations of your working assumptions and
supporting calculations regarding cost structures.

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How do you expect these costs to change as your innovation scales?

Answer:

10. Pathway to Scale and estimated reach (long entry, limit at 4800 characters maximum)
How many people do you expect your innovation or solution to serve over the next five
years, both locally (in the area of implementation) and globally? Please explain who,
specifically, is expected to benefit from your innovation or solution.

How could your innovation be scaled up? Please describe possible channels for scaling up
(government policy, market-based solution, adoption by an international organization) and
sources of funding for this innovation in the long term.

Describe any steps you will take during the life of the grant to ensure that the results of your
work will influence policy, programming, or widespread adoption in the future (in your
original context or elsewhere). If relevant, please also describe how the solution may inform
or impact the broader field or knowledge base.

Note: FID understands that precise estimates may be difficult to calculate. Please include
explanations of your assumptions and supporting calculations to demonstrate how you reached
your estimates.

Answer:

11. Applicant Organization (long entry, limit at 2800 characters maximum)

Please provide an overview of the lead implementing organization and include relevant past
experience implementing similar activities. Describe your organization’s area of expertise
and within the targeted context and explain both why it is uniquely positioned and has the
capacity to implement the proposed activities.

Answer:

12. Partner Organizations (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please describe the key partner organizations (including, e.g., co-funders, major clients,
research partners) and explain whether and how they have demonstrated their commitment
to supporting or participating in the proposed project activities (e.g., entering a formal
agreement, verbal commitment). For each partner, please specify the contribution they will
make, their responsibilities, and the role they will play in the proposed activities. Please
specify which organizations are providing financial support for this project and the amount
committed.

If the implementation or scale-up of the innovation, solution or evaluation depends on the

support of a partner, please describe the extent to which the applicant organization is
working with this partner now, and the expected role of the partner(s) in future
implementation or scale.

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Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations, the
country in which they are legally registered and the amount delegated.

Answer:

13. Project Team (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please list the key team members that will be contributing to project activities. For each
team member, please specify their: percentage level of effort dedicated to the proposed
activities; roles, responsibilities, and how they will contribute to project activities; and their
relevant skills, experience and expertise. Please do not include full CVs or resumes.

With regard to the initial question on gender equality in your project, please elaborate on
how the composition of your team reflects principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Answer:

14. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them. This discussion
should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s), current implementation
challenges and barriers to success both for the proposed activities and future sustainability
and scale of the innovation. This may include country risks, technical risks, institutional and
regulatory risks, market risks, environmental and social risks, climate risks, or others.

Answer:

15. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. You may include peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study results, verified
news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports claims made in the
application.

Answer:

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Stage 3 - Transition to Scale
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters maximum):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

1. Brief description of the project/innovation or of the solution (long

entry, limit at 1200 characters maximum)
Please provide a short description of your innovation in no more than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Development Challenge (long entry, limit at 2800 characters maximum)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it affect the lives of people living in
poverty and/or marginalized populations? How would solving this problem improve people's
lives?

How many people does this issue impact both in the country/countries you are working in
and globally? Please explain who, specifically, is impacted by the problem (e.g., different
genders, age groups, income levels, marginalized populations, etc.).

Answer:

3. Description of the Innovation or Solution (long entry, limit at 3200 characters)

Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution and how it addresses the
development challenge. In this description, please summarize why your approach is
innovative: why does your innovation have potential to address the development challenge
more easily, at lower cost, faster, or more feasibly at scale than the status quo or alternative
solutions? Please indicate the alternative solutions that already exist and specifically how
your innovation differs. What are the advantages of your innovation compared to existing
solutions to address this development challenge?

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In your response, please indicate any evidence of demand for your innovation or that the
innovation fills an identifiable need, as well as the number of people your innovation or
solution currently serves.

Answer:

4. Gender Equality (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

How have you considered gender equality in the design of your innovation? How can its
implementation contribute to reducing gender inequalities?

Note that additional information on gender perspective is also expected in response to the
questions below, including theory of change, expected impact, project team and prospects
for scaling up.

Answer:

5. Evidence of Impact (long entry, limit at 2000 characters maximum)

For Stage 3 awards, you must provide evidence from prior studies (by you or others) that
demonstrate the causal impact of your intervention on the primary outcome described in the
"Theory of Change and Expected Impact" section. The underlying impact evaluation(s)
should have sufficient statistical power and include a credible counterfactual of what would
have happened in the absence of the innovation using a control group comparable in all
respects to the group receiving the intervention. Ideally, this evidence would be generated
by a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and have been peer-reviewed, published, or widely
disseminated.

If the underlying evidence of impact comes from a different context than the one targeted for
scale-up, please also discuss the extent to which this evidence is generalizable to the new
intervention context.

Please indicate if your innovation has been subject to a pilot in the context where it will be
scaled. If yes, please indicate the results that you have obtained and what you have learned.
If not, please explain why your solution does not need to be piloted in the intervention
context targeted for this Stage 3 scale-up.

Answer:

6.1 Theory of Change and Expected Impact (narrative) (long entry, limit at
4000 characters maximum)
The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

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Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which it is based, and your level of
confidence around these assumptions. Please also explain the parts of the theory of change
for which you already have evidence, and the parts for which evidence remains to be
established. Further, please specify how a perspective of gender is integrated within your
theory of change.

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 6.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram in
Question 5.2, please also respond to Question 5.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

6.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image in the
format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

7. Implementation Model at Scale (long entry, limit at 4000 characters maximum)

Please describe how you envision implementing the solution at large scale with Stage 3
funding, and, in particular, the channels through which end users and beneficiaries will
receive this government policy, product, or service. What public or private institutions or
organizations will be responsible for distribution or service provision at scale? What are the
main differences between the tested and evaluated approach to implementation in previous
pilots and the large-scale implementation approach proposed? What challenges and
difficulties do you anticipate in implementation at scale?

Answer:

8. Evaluation Methodology (long entry, limit at 4000 characters maximum)

Please describe the evaluation methodology that you will use to measure the success of
your innovation or solution at a large scale, and your key working hypotheses.

For a Stage 3, the application should include the key questions about large-scale
implementation of the solution remaining to be investigated and a plan to address them
during the proposed activities. These questions are often related to institutional changes that
will support scale up, the quality of the intervention at a large scale, collaboration with
governments, or the innovation’s institutionalization.

Please describe your data collection plan, including how it may monitor fidelity of
implementation of the solution at a large scale to the model tested in previous impact
evaluations. Please also indicate if you will be relying on existing data collection and
performance monitoring systems.

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If you are planning a new impact evaluation with this Stage 3 request, please describe the
methodology you will use and how it will inform questions relating to the solution’s scale-up.

Please list the indicators you will use to measure the performance and/or impact of your
innovation during the passage to scale. Note that we encourage you to collect data to
measure gender-related impacts.

Answer:

9.1 Description of the activities and associated budget (long entry, limit at
3600 characters maximum)
Please list, describe, and provide a schedule for all major activities you will implement in the
proposed project, including both the implementation and any evaluation of the solution.
Please describe how these activities will enhance the potential to scale up your innovation.
How will these activities help you determine the technical, political, or operational viability of
the innovation at large scale in the real world?
Please indicate approximate amounts (in euros) to be spent on each activity and provide a
brief justification for the total amounts to be spent. Finally, please indicate any amount of
co-funding received for this project.

Answer :

9.2 Budget
Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through that link.

Answer: Excel form

10. Cost-effectiveness of the Innovation (long entry, limit at 2000 characters maximum)
FID is interested in understanding why your solution has the potential to have a greater
impact per euro than alternative means of addressing the same development challenge,
including the status quo. Briefly present the existing solutions to address the development
challenge in your location or in other regions.

Based on the results of existing cost-effectiveness analyses, please provide your best
estimate of the current cost of the innovation per beneficiary served or unit treated.
Please include both fixed and variable costs.

Please also include your working assumptions to calculate the solution’s impact per euro
(or the business case supporting profitability, in the case of market-based solutions) and the
data you have collected to make this calculation.

How do you expect these costs to evolve as your innovation scales?

Answer:

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11. Pathway to Scale and estimated reach (long entry, limit at 5600 characters maximum)
How many people do you expect your innovation or solution to serve over the next five
years, both locally (in the area of implementation) and globally?

Please describe the scale-up timeline or schedule, specifying the rate at which the solution
will be gradually deployed with the target population or location. What major milestones do
you want to achieve during the grant period? What scale-up efforts have already been
made? What are your projections for scale-up beyond the grant, and with what funding?

How will you ensure financial and institutional sustainability of the solution at scale?

Please indicate the amount and sources of co-financing received or requested in the course
of this scale-up. What would be the added value of FID funds compared to financing already
available from other funders, and to what extent will FID’s support provide leverage to
access additional resources or catalyze further scale? For market-based solutions, why is a
public subsidy more appropriate than private investments to finance this component of the
scale-up?

If the implementation of the solution relies on the support of key partners, please describe a
plan for governance between partners. How will you ensure their continued involvement and
ownership of the innovation?

Describe any steps you will take during the life of the grant to ensure that the results of your
work will persistently influence policy, programming, or widespread adoption in the future (in
your original context or elsewhere). If relevant, please also describe how the solution may
inform or impact the broader field or knowledge base.

Answer:

12. Applicant Organization (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide an overview of the lead implementing organization and include the number
of full-time employees and relevant past experience implementing similar activities. Describe
your organization’s area of expertise and within the targeted context and explain both why it
is uniquely positioned and has the capacity to implement the proposed activities.

Answer:

13. Partner Organization(s) (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please describe the key partner organizations (including, e.g., co-funders, major clients,
research partners) and explain whether and how they have demonstrated their commitment
to supporting or participating in the proposed project activities (e.g., entering a formal
agreement, verbal commitment).

For each partner, please specify the contribution they have made, their responsibilities, and
the role they will play in the proposed activities. Please specify which organizations are
providing financial support for this project and the amount committed.

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Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations, the
country in which they are legally registered and the amount delegated.

Answer:

14. Project Team (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please list the key team members that will be contributing to project activities. For each
team member, please specify their: percentage level of effort (LOE) dedicated to the
proposed activities; roles, responsibilities, and how they will contribute to project activities;
and their relevant skills, experience and expertise. Please do not include full CVs or
resumes.

What experience necessary for scaling the innovation are missing from your team, and what
is your plan to secure this expertise?

With regard to the initial question on gender equality in your project, please elaborate on
how the composition of your team reflects principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Answer:

15. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them.

This discussion should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s) in which the
project will take place and current implementation challenges and barriers to success both
for the proposed activities and future sustainability and scale of the innovation. This may
include country risks, technical risks, institutional and regulatory risks, market risks,
environmental and social risks, climate risks, or others. Please particularly discuss the risks
related to sustainability of the innovation, political continuity, quality of services delivered
and potential for decay over time, local regulations, and risks that are both within and
beyond your scope of control.

Answer:

16. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. This may include peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study results, verified
news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports claims made in the
application.

Answer:

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Transforming Public Policy - Type 1
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters maximum):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

Reminder: type of Transforming Public Policy Grant requested

You are applying to a Transforming Public Policy Type 1 grant; these grants aim to
institutionalize existing innovations based on evidence of impact, whose optimal cost-
effectiveness and sustainability in the context of large-scale public policies have been
demonstrated. If you wish to apply for a TPP 1, please select the appropriate stage choice
above.
Transforming Public Policy Type 2 grants aim to build the capacity of governments in low-
and middle-income countries to design, test, pilot, and deploy innovations based on
evidence of impact. If you wish to apply for a TPP 2, please select the appropriate stage
choice above.

1. Brief description of the project (long entry, limit at 1200 characters maximum)

Please provide a short description of your innovation in no more than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Public Policy Challenge (long entry, limit at 3200 characters maximum)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it affect the lives of people living in
poverty and/or marginalized populations? How many people does this problem affect in the
country where you work? Please explain who, specifically, is impacted by the problem (e.g.,
different genders, age groups, income levels, marginalized populations, etc.).

Please also describe the need to build government capacity to institutionalize innovation in
public policies. How was this need identified and who is involved in its public administration?

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In your response, please indicate to what extent there is any evidence of a governmental
request to respond to this need.

Answer:

3. Description of the innovation and the opportunity for intervention

(long entry, limit at 3200 characters maximum)
Please provide a brief description of your innovation or solution, and the way in which it
responds to the targeted development challenge. In this description, please summarize why
your approach is innovative: why does your innovation have potential to address the
development challenge more easily, at lower cost, faster, or more feasibly at scale than the
status quo or alternative solutions?

Please indicate the alternative solutions that already exist and specifically how your
innovation differs. What are the advantages of your innovation compared to existing
solutions to address the development challenge?

In your response, please indicate any evidence of demand for your innovation or that the
innovation fills an identifiable need, as well as the number of people your innovation or
solution currently serves.

Answer:

4. Gender Equality (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

How have you considered gender equality in the design of your innovation? How can its
implementation contribute to reducing gender inequalities?

Note that additional information on gender perspective is also expected in response to the
questions below, including theory of change, expected impact, project team and prospects
for scaling up.

Answer:

5. Evidence of Impact (long entry, limit at 2000 characters maximum)

For TPP Type 1 Grants, you must provide evidence from prior studies (by you or others) that
demonstrate the causal impact of your intervention on the primary outcome described in the
"Theory of Change and Expected Impact" section. The underlying impact evaluation(s)
should have sufficient statistical power and include a credible counterfactual of what would
have happened in the absence of the innovation using a control group comparable in all
respects to the group receiving the intervention. Ideally, this evidence would be generated
by a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and have been peer-reviewed, published, or widely
disseminated.

If the underlying evidence of impact comes from a different context than the one targeted for
scale-up, please also discuss the extent to which this evidence is generalizable to the new
intervention context.

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Please indicate if your innovation has been subject to a pilot in the context where it will be
implemented. If yes, please indicate the results that you have obtained and what you have
learned. If not, please explain why your solution does not need to be piloted in the
intervention context targeted.

Answer:

6.1 Theory of Change and Expected Impact (narrative) (long entry, limit at
4000 characters maximum)
The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your innovation and
its impact on people.

Please describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to
the desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which it is based, and your level of
confidence around these assumptions.

Please state the intended impact of your innovation as a result of the activities proposed in
this application, clearly stating the primary result you wish to achieve as well as any
additional outcomes expected (e.g., impacts on gender, health outcomes, household income
change, etc.).

Please also explain the parts of the theory of change for which you already have evidence,
and the parts for which evidence remains to be established. Please include sources and
references, a summary of the literature, and examples from different contexts to support this
theory.

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 6.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram in
Question 6.2, please also respond to Question 6.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

6.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image in the
format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

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7. Activities and Expected Impacts on Public Policy (long entry, limit at 2400
characters maximum)
For TPP Type 1 Grants, please list and describe all major activities you will implement to
institutionalize the innovation in the public policy of the country. What capacities and
systems do you propose to develop within the government for the innovation to continue as
public policy?

Please describe how these activities will ultimately enable government teams to base their
public policy decisions on evidence. To what extent will these activities contribute to
establishing new processes with the potential to sustainably transform public policy? More
specifically, how will the project strengthen governmental capacity in Monitoring, Evaluation
and Learning to enable the scale-up of evidence-based innovation?

Please also describe how the project can inform or impact the broader field or public policy
knowledge base.

Answer:

8. Evaluation Methodology (long entry, limit at 4800 characters maximum)

Please describe the evaluation methodology that you will use to measure the success of
your innovation or solution at a large scale, and your key working hypotheses. Please list the
indicators you will use to measure the performance of your project and indicate if you will be
relying on existing data collection and performance monitoring systems.

For TPP 1 funding, the application must include key questions to investigate regarding the
institutionalization of the innovation in public policy, and a plan to address them during the
project’s duration. These questions are often related to institutional changes that will support
scale-up and implementation at scale, quality or fidelity of implementation of the solution at a
large scale compared to the model tested in previous impact evaluations at smaller scale, or
developing governmental capacity to use and generate evidence.

Answer:

9.1 Activities to be funded and associated budget (long entry, limit at 3600
characters maximum)
Please list and provide a timeline for the major activities mentioned in Section 7, “Activities
and the Expected Impacts on Public Policy.” Please indicate approximate amounts (in
euros) to be spent on each activity and provide a brief justification for the total amounts to be
spent. For TPP grants, please also specify the approximate amounts that will be delegated
to governmental entities to build their capacity or implement public policy directly.

Please indicate the amount and sources of co-financing received for this project. What
would be the added value of FID funds compared to financing already available from other
funders?

Answer:

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9.2 Budget
Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through that link.

Answer: Excel form

10. Cost-effectiveness of the Innovation (long entry, limit at 3200 characters maximum)
FID is interested in understanding why your solution has the potential to have a greater
impact per euro than alternative means of addressing the same development challenge,
including the status quo. Briefly present the existing solutions to address the development
challenge in your location or in other regions.

Based on the results of existing cost-effectiveness analyses, please provide your best
estimate of the current cost of the innovation per beneficiary served or unit treated. Please
include both fixed and variable costs.

Please also include your working assumptions to calculate the solution’s impact per euro
(or the business case supporting profitability, in the case of market-based solutions) and the
data you have collected to make this calculation.

For TPP grants, you should also discuss how you hope to develop the capacity of relevant
public entities to conduct rigorous cost-effectiveness analyses or use their results to
increase the impact per euro of public policy at scale.

Answer:

11. Pathway to scale and Institutionalization of the Innovation (long

entry, limit at 3600 characters maximum)
How many people do you expect your innovation or solution to serve over the next five
years, both locally (in the area of implementation) and globally?

How might your approach develop the capacity of governments to deploy the innovation
sustainably and at a large scale? What steps or milestones are important to achieve
sustainable impacts?

Please describe the scale-up timeline or schedule, specifying the rate at which the solution
will be gradually deployed with the target population or location. What scale-up efforts have
already been made? What are your projections for scale-up beyond the grant, and with what
funding? To what extent will FID’s support provide leverage to access additional resources
or catalyze further scale?

Describe any steps you will take during the life of the grant to ensure that the results of your
work will persistently influence policy, programming, or widespread adoption in the future (in
your original context or elsewhere).

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If the implementation of the solution relies on the support of key partners, please describe a
plan for governance between partners. How will you ensure their continued involvement and
ownership of the innovation?

Answer:

12. Applicant Organization (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide an overview of the lead organization responsible for implementing this
project. Describe your organization’s area of expertise, experience within the proposed
context, and explain both why it is uniquely positioned and has the capacity to implement the
proposed activities. If the lead organization is not a governmental entity, please describe
relevant past achievements from implementing similar activities.

Answer:

13. Partner Organization(s) (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please describe the key partner organizations (including, e.g., governmental entities
involved, co-funders, research partners) and explain whether and how they have
demonstrated their commitment to supporting or participating in the proposed project
activities (e.g., entering a formal agreement, verbal commitment).

For each partner, please specify the contribution they have made, their responsibilities, and
the role they will play in the proposed activities. Please specify which organizations are
providing financial support for this project and the amount committed.

Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations, the
countries in which they are legally registered, and the amounts delegated.

Answer:

14. Project Team (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please list the key team members that will be contributing to project activities. For each
team member, please specify their: percentage level of effort (LOE) dedicated to the
proposed activities; roles, responsibilities, and how they will contribute to project activities;
and their relevant skills, experience and expertise. Please do not include full CVs or
resumes.

What experience necessary for scaling the innovation are missing from your team, and what
is your plan to secure this expertise?

With regard to the initial question on gender equality in your project, please elaborate on
how the composition of your team reflects principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Answer:

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15. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)
Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them.

This may include country risks, technical risks, institutional and regulatory risks, market
risks, environmental and social risks, climate risks, or others. For a TPP grant, please
particularly discuss risks associated with political continuity and transition, or movement and
attrition of governmental officers.

Answer:

16. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. This may include peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study results, verified
news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports claims made in the
application.

Answer:

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Transforming Public Policy - Type 2
Title of the project (short entry, limit at 400 characters maximum):
Total amount requested (in euros):
Location of proposed activities (primary): Country drop-down menu
Location of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Country drop-down menu (optional)
Sector of proposed activities (primary): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and Governance
/ Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance / Water and
Sanitation / Other
Sector of proposed activities (secondary - optional): Agriculture / Climate / Democracy and
Governance / Education / Energy / Gender Equality / Health / Humanitarian Assistance /
Water and Sanitation / Other
Duration of the project (in months):

Reminder: type of Transforming Public Policy Grant requested

You are applying to a Transforming Public Policy Type 2 grants; these grants aim to build
the capacity of governments in low- and middle-income countries to design, test, pilot, and
deploy innovations based on evidence of impact.

Transforming Public Policy Type 1 grants aim to institutionalize existing innovations based
on evidence of impact, whose optimal cost-effectiveness and sustainability in the context of
large-scale public policies have been demonstrated. If you wish to apply for a TPP 1, please
select the appropriate stage choice above. If you wish to apply for a TPP 1 Grant, please
select the appropriate stage choice above.

1. Brief description of the project (long entry, limit at 1200 characters maximum)

Please provide a short description of your innovation in no more than two sentences.

Answer:

2. Public Policy Challenge (long entry, limit at 3200 characters maximum)

What is the problem that you are targeting and how does it relate to governmental capacity
where you work? How has this need been identified and who is involved in public
administration (for example, what categories of civil servants or public service providers)? In
your response, please indicate to what extent there is any evidence of a governmental
request to respond to this need.

To what extent might resolving this problem improve the lives of beneficiaries of public
policy, and particularly people living in poverty and/or marginalized populations?

Answer:

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3. Description of the innovation and the opportunity for intervention
(long entry, limit at 3200 characters maximum)
What capacities (skills, systems, processes) do you propose to develop within government?
How do you propose to strengthen the capacity of government teams to deliver evidence-
based public services?

Specifically, how do you plan to strengthen the capacity of governments to (i) use existing
evidence of impact and/or (ii) produce data on the impact of public policy in the country?
How will you use evidence of impact based on rigorous impact evaluations and cost-
effectiveness analyses, beyond referring to existing descriptive data on targeting, execution,
and program results?

In your response, please explain the reason that your capacity-building approach has the
potential to address the public policy challenge more efficiently, sustainably or quickly than
the status quo or existing approaches. Please describe these alternative approaches and
specify why your approach differs from the typical practice of public policy.

Answer :

4. Gender Equality (long entry, limit at 1600 characters maximum)

How have you considered gender equality in the design of your approach? How can its
implementation contribute to reducing gender inequalities?

Note that additional information on gender perspective is also expected in response to the
questions below, including theory of change, expected impact, project team and prospects
for scaling up.

Answer:

5.1 Theory of Change and Expected Impact (narrative) (long entry, limit at
4000 characters maximum)
The “Theory of Change” describes a strategy or blueprint for achieving a desired long-term
goal. The theory of change identifies the prerequisites, pathways, and interventions needed
to achieve that goal. A theory of change should include an identification of needs, inputs,
outputs, intermediate outcomes, and final outcomes. It allows you to build a clear narrative
and highlight the causal chain of events and assumptions that explain your approach and its
impact on people.

Describe the theory of change behind your innovation (how the solution will lead to the
desired results). Please specify the assumptions on which it is based, and your level of
confidence around these assumptions.

For TPP Type 2 grants, please particularly demonstrate the causal link that exists between
your capacity building approach and improvement in the lives of beneficiaries of public

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services. Please also indicate if your organization or others have piloted or implemented this
solution/approach and the results achieved so far.

Note: You can also illustrate your Theory of Change with the help of a diagram by uploading an
image (JPEG or PNG format) in Question 5.2 (highly recommended). If you upload a diagram in
Question 5.2, please also respond to Question 5.1 with a narrative explanation of the diagram
provided.

Answer:

5.2 Theory of Change (diagram)

To illustrate your theory of change with the help of a diagram, please upload an image in the
format JPEG or PNG.

Answer: JPEG or PNG file

6. Evaluation Methodology (long entry, limit at 4800 characters maximum)

Please describe the evaluation methodology that you will use to measure the success of
your approach and your key working hypotheses. Please list the indicators you will use to
measure the performance of your project

For TPP Type 2 funding, the application must include key questions to investigate regarding
the institutionalization of an approach to public policy based on evidence of impact, and a
plan to address them during the project’s duration. These questions are often related to
institutional changes that will support evidence-based innovation, its political viability, wide-
scale adoption of a culture of learning within government, or developing governmental
capacity to use and generate evidence.

Answer :

7.1 Activities to be funded and associated budget (long entry, limit at 3600
characters maximum)
Please list and provide a timeline for all major activities that you will implement in the
proposed project. Please indicate approximate amounts (in euros) to be spent on each
activity, and provide a brief justification for the total amounts to be spent. For TPP grants,
please also specify the approximate amounts that will be delegated to governmental entities.

Finally, please indicate any amount and source of co-financing received for this project.
What would be the added value of FID funds compared to financing already available from
other funders?

Answer:

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7.2 Budget
Please provide a concise budget by project activity with the help of the Excel budget
template available through that link.

Answer: Excel form

8. Sustainability and Institutionalization of the Innovation (long entry, limit

at 3600 characters maximum)
Please describe how your approach might institutionalize a culture of learning beyond the
FID grant that enables the government to design, test, pilot, and deploy innovations based
on evidence of impact. How will the proposed activities create a sustainable process for
identifying innovations based on evidence of impact? To what extent will these activities
contribute to establishing processes with the potential to sustainably transform public policy
in the long term?

If the implementation of the solution relies on the support of key partners, please describe a
plan for governance between partners. How will you ensure their continued involvement and
ownership of the innovation? To what extent will FID’s support provide leverage to access
additional resources or catalyze further scale?

Answer:

9. Applicant Organization (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide an overview of the lead organization responsible for implementing this
project. Describe your organization’s area of expertise, experience within the proposed
context, and explain both why it is uniquely positioned and has the capacity to implement the
proposed activities. If the lead organization is not a governmental entity, please describe
relevant past achievements from implementing similar activities.

Answer:

10. Partner Organization(s) (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please describe the key partner organizations (including, e.g., governmental entities
involved, co-funders, research partners) and explain whether and how they have
demonstrated their commitment to supporting or participating in the proposed project
activities (e.g., entering a formal agreement, verbal commitment).

For each partner, please specify the contribution they have made, their responsibilities, and
the role they will play in the proposed activities. Please specify which organizations are
providing financial support for this project and the amount committed.

Please indicate whether you intend to make any sub-grants to partner organizations using
the funds requested from FID. If so, please indicate the names of these organizations, the
countries in which they are legally registered, and the amounts delegated.

Answer:

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11. Project Team (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)
Please list the key team members that will be contributing to project activities. For each
team member, please specify their: percentage level of effort (LOE) dedicated to the
proposed activities; roles, responsibilities, and how they will contribute to project activities;
and their relevant skills, experience and expertise. Please do not include full CVs or
resumes.

What experience necessary for scaling the innovation are missing from your team, and what
is your plan to secure this expertise?

With regard to the initial question on gender equality in your project, please elaborate on
how the composition of your team reflects principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Answer:

12. Risks to Implementation (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide a realistic assessment of present and anticipated challenges and risks to
implementation, as well as practical mitigation plans to address them.

This discussion should demonstrate a strong understanding of local context(s), current

implementation challenges and barriers to success both for the proposed activities and
future sustainability and scale of the approach. This may include country risks, technical
risks, institutional and regulatory risks, market risks, environmental and social risks, climate
risks, or others. For a TPP grant, please particularly discuss risks associated with political
continuity and transition, or movement and attrition of governmental officers.

Answer:

13. Works Cited (long entry, limit at 2400 characters maximum)

Please provide links and references to sources used in your responses to the above
sections. This may include peer-reviewed literature, research articles, study results, verified
news articles, public reports, or any other credible source that supports claims made in the
application.

Answer:

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Last stage before validation of your application
By submitting this application, I accept that the information contained in this form may be
communicated by FID as follows:

(i) natural or legal persons external to FID, given their knowledge in the field of
the call for proposals - YES

(ii) To other bilateral or multilateral donors likely to finance or co-finance

development assistance projects – YES

(iii) I have been informed that these funders may communicate all or a part of the
information contained in this application form to any person with respect to
whom these funders have a disclosure obligation under the law, applicable
regulations, or accepted court decision. YES

You must answer "yes" to each of the following statements before submitting your
application. At this stage, you can also download a PDF copy of your application.

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