DIV - In the News

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USAID Announces the Innovation Fund for the Americas
Apr 15 2012

Although the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has experienced more than a decade of strong economic growth, declining poverty, and deepening democracy, development challenges persist.

Annie Lennox at Skoll World Forum
DIV and grantees featured at CSIS, CGD, Skoll World Forum, and more
Apr 9 2012

Development Innovation Ventures is attracting praise for its approach to frugal innovation. At the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Center for Global Development (CGD) and at the 2012 Skoll World Forum, DIV and its grantees were featured in discussions about how to bring innovation to development practice. 

Investing in Game-Changing Ideas
CSIS | USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures: Investing in Game-Changing Ideas
Mar 20 2012

Center for Strategic and International Studies | USAID:  In a more austere era for international development, innovative and cost-effective solutions are in greater demand than ever.

Innovation
White House
White House Honors DIV Grantees at Innovation in Development Event
Feb 7 2012

 

On Wednesday February 8, the White House is shining the spotlight on three DIV grantees at an event to explore how government and the private sector jointly promote science and technology innovations in global development.

Tune in at www.whitehouse.gov/live from 9:00am EST to watch the innovators deliver pitches for their development solutions.  They will share t

Lab technician in Port-au-Prince Haiti checks for cholera. c Kendra Helmer/USAID
USAID Announces New Collaboration to Seek, Test, and Scale Innovative Solutions in Haiti
Jan 12 2012

Two years ago today, the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince also catalyzed an outpouring of attention on reducing Haiti’s poverty and fostering its economic growth.  As part of this ongoing effort, the USAID Mission in Haiti has partnered with Development Innovation Ventures to launch the DIV Haiti initiative. 

DIV Haiti initiative, Haiti
Crowd Sourcing Development Innovation India
Crowd Sourcing Development Innovation in India
Dec 20 2011

 

Innovation
Woman holds up finger with stain that shows she voted
Results are in: DIV-funded study on election fraud in Afghanistan finds success, grabs attention of Qualcomm
Dec 16 2011
 

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) researchers find a 60% reduction in the theft of election materials and a 25% drop in votes for the most well-connected candidates when polling stations are warned that they will be monitored. The researchers have shared their lessons within and outside USAID, including in a December 15 post on Foreign Policy’s Afpak Channel.

Afghanistan, Corrupt Organizations, DIV Stage 1, Election Fraud, Information Communication Technology, Results
Turning poop into power: DIV announces first WASH for Life grant to Sanergy
Dec 2 2011

$100,000 grant goes to award-winning startup building sustainable sanitation in urban slums

Kenya, MIT, Sanitation, social enterprise, Stage 1, urban slums, WASH for Life
Coca-Cola vendors in Kenya will have access to a new credit tool.
USAID launches DIV grant to unlock credit for African small businesses
Oct 24 2011

Washington, DC - To an audience of business executives, NGO leaders, and development experts at Public-Private Partnerships Week last Thursday, USAID announced the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) award to support a new credit tool designed to help small-scale retailers expand their inventories.  

Economic Growth, Kenya, Public Private Partnerships
Raj Shah PATH announcement
Admin. Shah announces DIV's latest grant: testing the balloon that can save mothers' lives
Oct 19 2011

Seattle, WA – USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced in Seattle on October 18 that Development Innovation Ventures will support a new technology to help combat postpartum bleeding – the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide.

Grants, Maternal Health