OVW FY 2024 Restorative Practices Pilot Program Evaluation | O OVW 2024 171996

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The OVW FY 2024 Restorative Practices Pilot Program Evaluation (RPPP Evaluation) is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), authorized by 34 U.S.C. 12514. The purpose of the solicitation is to fund a single, large-scale research and evaluation effort focused on restorative practices used to address harms related to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. Importantly, this particular announcement is only for research and evaluation activities; the actual restorative practice pilot sites and the training and technical assistance (TTA) providers that support those sites are being funded through separate funding announcements.

OVW anticipates investing up to $8,000,000 total and expects to make one award (with an $8,000,000 ceiling). The award will be made as a cooperative agreement, which signals substantial federal involvement in the work. In practical terms, the selected recipient should expect an ongoing working relationship with OVW staff, including structured decision points where OVW must review and approve detailed plans before the project moves into key phases. OVW is emphasizing this staged, approval-based approach because the pilot sites have not yet been selected, and a credible evaluation design cannot be fully finalized until the evaluator understands who the sites are, what models they will implement, and what community contexts and constraints shape the work.

The core goal is to generate useful, decision-ready knowledge about how restorative practices are developed and implemented in real communities, and what outcomes, benefits, risks, and implementation realities emerge when these approaches are used to respond to violence and harm. OVW wants findings that can inform practitioners on the ground, policymakers who shape systems and funding, and members of the public who are affected by or interested in these approaches. Rather than focusing on a single narrow study, the solicitation anticipates that the one award will support multiple related research projects under one umbrella, coordinated by the single recipient, to address some (but not necessarily all) of OVW's research questions described in the full solicitation.

The successful applicant will be expected to work closely with multiple partners: OVW, the TTA providers, designated evaluation liaisons, and pilot site practitioners. A major part of the role is to help develop evaluation measures that are both reasonable (feasible given site capacity and sensitive contexts) and useful (able to produce meaningful learning) across pilot sites and within individual sites. The evaluation is expected to be adaptable and community-specific, recognizing that restorative practices are not one-size-fits-all and will look different depending on local needs, culture, systems, and survivor-defined goals. OVW also signals that the research approach should mirror the aims of restorative practices, which implies an emphasis on collaboration, community engagement, respect, and accountability, rather than purely extractive data collection.

Methodologically, OVW expects mixed methods approaches and alignment with OVW's stated methodological principles for research and evaluation, as well as demonstrated capacities and competencies outlined in the solicitation. While the detailed principles and competencies are referenced as being on specific pages of the full document, the practical takeaway is that applicants need to show they can carry out rigorous, ethical, and context-aware research in partnership with communities and practitioners, and can manage a complex multi-site evaluation that may evolve as pilot sites come online. Applicants are also asked to propose the "check points" or milestones where the evaluator and OVW will confer and make decisions before proceeding, reflecting the iterative nature of designing an evaluation when implementation details are not yet known.

Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (other than institutions of higher education), and Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments). The funding opportunity number is O-OVW-2024-171996 (as listed in the source data), the CFDA number is 16.052, and the original closing date for applications was June 11, 2024. Overall, this opportunity is aimed at selecting one highly capable research organization or consortium lead that can coordinate a collaborative, staged, mixed-methods evaluation across multiple yet-to-be-determined pilot sites, producing practical evidence on restorative practices in the context of gender-based violence.

• The Office on Violence Against Women in the law, justice and legal services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "OVW FY 2024 Restorative Practices Pilot Program Evaluation" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 16.052.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-03-27.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-06-11. (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 $8,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, 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, Private institutions of higher education.

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