Deadline: 15 April 2015
The USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is a grant program open to NGOs around the world to apply and get support for project ideas that provide breakthrough solutions to development challenges around the world. It accepts project ideas on innovative solutions to problems related to development. As this opportunity seeks to address different kinds of development challenges, you can submit proposals for any sector, whether it is livelihood development, agriculture, climate change, environment, democracy, human rights, peace and conflict.
Focus Areas
- Humanitarian sector
- Water, Sanitation & Hygiene sector
- Latin America & the Caribbean region
- Haiti
Entrepreneurs, businesses, non-governmental organizations, academics, local partners, and others from around the world are encouraged to apply to DIV with innovative solutions to key challenges faced by the humanitarian sector (no special activity is required of applicants to identify themselves as Humanitarian Innovation Initiative applicants).
DIV supports ideas that
- Address development challenges more effectively and more cheaply.
- Provide evidence of success – the projects that have tested potential solutions identifying what works and what does not.
- Demonstrate ability to scale and reach sustainability.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should demonstrate that they are likely to compel host country governments, multilateral donors or other public sector players to scale the innovation. They should discuss how targeted outreach, rigorous evaluation (such as a randomized evaluation) and evidence of cost-effectiveness will result in action. At the time of application, the most competitive applicants have already achieved public sector commitments to scale successful results
- Applications should be made for innovations expected to achieve widespread adoption through private sector commercialization without long-run support from donors, governments, or philanthropy will provide evidence that: production costs and sales prices are such that producers make profits; beneficiaries demand and are willing to pay for the product or service; governments receive associated tax revenue; and development outcomes occur.
- Applicants should either plan to achieve commercial viability themselves, convincingly demonstrate that other businesses will scale their innovation, or a combination of both.
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