OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Research and Evaluation Initiative | O OVW 2024 171921

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The OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Research and Evaluation Initiative (RampE) is a discretionary grant opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), focused on building practical, usable evidence about what works to prevent and respond to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. The core aim is to fund research and evaluation projects that strengthen the knowledge base behind victim services and offender accountability strategies, so that communities and organizations supported by Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) funding can better align their programs with approaches shown to be effective. A key theme of the initiative is helping the field not only learn what is effective, but also build local capacity to assess and improve newer or promising strategies through solid evaluation.

RampE is structured to support researcher-practitioner partnerships, meaning projects are expected to connect research expertise with real-world service, justice-system, or community implementation. OVW signals that it is open to a wide range of rigorous methods depending on the question being studied and the context, including qualitative studies, mixed-method designs, quasi-experimental evaluations, and fully experimental designs where appropriate and feasible. Because OVW notes that its research and evaluation funding is limited, the program is positioned as a targeted investment in priority topics where stronger evidence would most directly help OVW grantees use federal funds effectively and make better decisions about program design, implementation, and scaling.

The solicitation is cataloged under Assistance Listing (CFDA) 16.026 and falls within the Law, Justice and Legal Services activity category. Awards are made as grants, with an award ceiling of $500,000 per award, and OVW anticipates making about 8 awards under this opportunity. The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2024-171921. The opportunity was posted on February 7, 2024, with an original closing date of April 9, 2024, which is the deadline applicants would have needed to meet unless an extension or amendment was issued in the official solicitation.

Eligible applicants include a broad set of public, nonprofit, Tribal, and higher education entities that are positioned to conduct or support applied research and evaluation tied to violence prevention and intervention work. Specifically, eligibility extends to state governments and units of local government (such as counties and cities or townships), federally recognized Tribal governments and Tribal organizations, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (with the eligibility distinctions applying as described in the solicitation). In practical terms, this eligibility scope is meant to accommodate collaborations where, for example, a university research team partners with a local government agency, a nonprofit victim service provider, or a Tribal program to evaluate an intervention, document implementation, and produce findings that can inform OVW-funded work nationwide.

Overall, RampE is best understood as OVW's vehicle for funding applied, field-relevant research and evaluations that can directly improve how communities prevent violence and respond to survivors, while also strengthening accountability approaches. The emphasis is not just on publishing findings, but on generating evidence that can be translated into better program choices and more effective use of VAWA-supported resources in diverse community settings.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW Fiscal Year 2024 Research and Evaluation Initiative" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.026.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-02-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-04-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $500,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 8 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Others.

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