APPLICATION FORM

This Application Form is part of the full Invitation Pack that serves to collect all available information required for the full proposal to be considered for funding by End Violence’s Safe Online initiative under the Open Call “Technology Solutions & Research for Tackling Challenges in the Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA): Age Assurance & Live Streaming of Abuse’’.

Please refer to the Technical Guidelines and Scoring Criteria set in the Request for Proposal document of this Open Call when developing your Proposal and completing this Application Form. 
 
Any links you provide will be regarded as supporting documents and may not be studied in detail. End Violence may review external links and record the content of those links with day and hour stamp upon submission. It also reserves the right not to consider any changes made to the content of these links after the submission date of the full proposal.  
 
Submitting this application in no way guarantees award of a grant. Submissions will be reviewed by technical experts at End Violence as well as external experts, as applicable. Please note that your organisation may be invited to do a demonstration of your technology or provide more details before funding decisions are final.  
 
All submissions must be made in English. Interested entities that meet the eligibility criteria are required to complete and submit the Application Form and provide the information and supporting documents indicated in the form.  

Proposal applications must be submitted through the online Form available at End Violence Safe Online 2023 Open Calls Webpage, where you will also find all the relevant information and annexes to apply for this Call. 
 
Proposals will be reviewed after the close of the call. The last day for submissions of applications is Wednesday, 29 March 2023 at 11:59 PM EST.  
 
Only shortlisted will be requested to provide additional clarification, as applicable. The Safe Online team may come back to applicants with feedback and/or requests to reshape or rescope their proposal if needed. 
 
If you have any questions about the Request for Proposals, please submit questions through this FAQ Form. Answers to all questions submitted will be shared publicly. 

Checklist:   

• Completed Application Form
• Annex 2 - Results Framework and Project Implementation Plan (to be downloaded from End Violence website and filled out by applicant)
• Annex 3 - Budget and Financial Reporting Template (to be downloaded from End Violence website and filled out by applicant)
• Annex 4 - Product Requirements Document (*Only for Technology Solutions Modality - to be downloaded and filled out by the applicant)
• Donor/Partner references - optional 
• CVs of the team (to be shared by the applicant)
• Evidence of research / methodological experience (*Only for Research  Modality  - to be shared by the applicant)
• Safeguarding Policy (to share existing or for applicant to confirm will be created)
• Audit reports (to be provided by the applicant from an Independent Auditor)
• Subcontracting form (where applicable)     

All items on this checklist are to be included/uploaded to this online application form. 

List the key partners or collaborators for the implementation of this project. Confirmation of the status of the partnerships and collaborations via written commitment such as signed MoU or, in the case of verbal commitment only, a support letter for the project from listed partners or collaborators is highly encouraged.

If your organisation is working with local organisations, please make specific reference to this here.

 

Suggested Format for response:

Partner 1

Name of organisation: 

Type of organisation: 

Area of work: 

Contact person: 

Purpose of partnership: 

Status of partnership: (e.g. actual or potential)

 

 Partner 2

Name of organisation: 

Type of organisation: 

Area of work: 

Contact person: 

Purpose of partnership: 

Status of partnership: (e.g. actual or potential)

 

ADD MORE PARTNERS AS REQUIRED

1. The problem: Please describe the challenge at the national, regional or global level related to age assurance or live streaming of abuse in the online CSEA landscape that your solution or research will address. What are the key needs or gaps your project is tackling?

2. Value Add: Please list organisations doing similar work and explain how your solution or research aligns with, adds value to and/or challenges existing solutions or research and ways of working. How is your project innovative?

3. Project summary & methodology: Please provide a summary of the project describing:

• Project objectives

• Methodology in terms of how your project will address the problem main techniques, models or assumptions involved.

• Key activities, outputs and milestones

Identify any interdisciplinary considerations and, where relevant, use of stakeholder knowledge or measures taken for public/societal engagement on issues related to the research. Where relevant, include gender and social inclusion dimensions - describe how underrepresented geographies or populations (BIPOC, LGBTQI+, children out of school (including due to Covid), children living in poverty, children with special education needs and disabilities, and those with relevant lived experience including survivors of online CSEA) and age and gender-disaggregation, i.e. sex and/or gender analysis, are taken into account in the research.

4. Expected results & impacts: Please describe the key results that your solution aims to achieve as outlined in the Results Framework that will be submitted as part of the Full Proposal Application Pack.

As relevant, please expand upon the impact (direct/indirect) to more effectively addressing age assurance or tackling live streaming of abuse. Please describe how solutions or research outputs will be made accessible, explainable and usable for various key stakeholders.

5. Risks & barriers: What are the key potential barriers or obstacles you can foresee to the effective delivery of this solution or research?

Describe any quantifiable risks, dependencies or framework conditions (such as regulation, standards, public acceptance, workforce considerations, financing of follow-up steps, cooperation of partners), that may determine whether and to what extent the expected results and outcomes will be achieved.

6. Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) plan: Please expand how you will monitor, evaluate and learn during the project period? What kind of data will you regularly collect for MEL purposes?

End Violence Safe Online Initiative would like to encourage applicants to think about monitoring and evaluation needs at the proposal design stage and will give preference to proposals that have rigorous evaluation components. We recommend that you allocate between 10-15% of the total direct costs to monitoring and evaluation component. Please align the answer to this question with the Results Framework and Project Implementation Plan that will be submitted as part of the Full Proposal Application Pack.

7. Country selection/Roll-out plan: Please outline the criteria you have used or will use to identify the country/countries listed above where your solution will be piloted and/or implemented. If your solution is global, please provide insight into anticipated rollout during and beyond the lifespan of the project.

Be sure to note how cross-cultural considerations and representation/ contextualisation from the targeted focus geographies/ populations will be ensured by the core team and partners/experts.

8. Team capacity: What are the different roles and responsibilities of key personnel for the project? Describe the composition of the core team, how it works together, and how responsibilities have been split across different individuals.

Please include anyone who will be included as ‘key personnel’ during the project period with details on the strengths, skills, experience and qualifications that each key person brings to the project. Does the team represent diverse perspectives, including across gender or underrepresented groups? Do you already have a network of experts?

9. Dissemination: Advocacy and communications will amplify the impact of your solution or research, ensure learnings are disseminated and contribute towards influencing policy makers, industry, key stakeholders and the general public.

As relevant, describe how you plan on using advocacy and communications (at local, national, regional and/or global levels). We recommend that you allocate between 3-5% of the total budget to advocacy and communications.

10. Safeguarding: End Violence defines safeguarding as "the responsibility that organisations have to make sure their staff, operations, and programmes do no harm to children and that they do not expose children to the risk of harm and abuse." You can read more about our Safeguarding Policy and definitions here. Please describe what steps you will take to safeguard children, including for your implementing and downstream partners/sub-contractors, etc. 

Thank you very much for completing the 2023 Open Call Application Form!