DRL FY2021 Research and Evaluation Innovation Fund: Global Trends in Democratic Erosion and Autocracy

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) announces an open-source competition for organizations interested in submitting proposals for a research project that supports the following goal: Contribute to building a portfolio of evidence to further identify democracy and rights program strategies that are effective. Projects should support the following objective: Cultivate the use of sound evidence and generate findings and recommendations to counter global trends in democratic erosion and autocracy. DRL is interested in partnering with a consortium that can provide research support to further aid students, scholars, funders, and practitioners in understanding global trends in democracy, as well as identifying effective program and policy recommendations to counter democratic erosion and autocracy. This project supports questions in the Department of State-wide and DRL-specific learning agendas, specifically related to understanding how the Department can improve the effectiveness and sustainability of its foreign assistance efforts.