USAID Development Innovation Ventures 2012-2013

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced a new funding opportunity under the new Annual Program Statement (APS) called “Development Innovation Ventures” (DIV) FY2012 and FY2013.

Through the DIV, USAID is seeking innovative solutions which are linked to solving a development challenge. These innovations should lead to transformative (as opposed to incremental) improvement to development outcomes that could ultimately scale across multiple developing countries and, ideally, multiple sectors in these countries. These solutions can include new technologies and new service delivery practices or novel or more cost-effective variations on existing practices.

DIV welcomes projects that find a new means to deliver an existing service or a new way to make an old model substantially more cost-effective. Applications may be considered for ongoing efforts provided they introduce a major new or innovative approach, dynamic, or element. Applications on all development topics and sectors are welcome.

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All Children Reading Competition – Call for Proposals

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and World Vision are inviting grant proposals from interested organizations for innovative programs with potential to improve reading skills and low literacy rates among primary grade children.

Through a multi-year initiative called ‘All Children Reading – A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR)’, the Founding Partners have plans to collaborate to achieve the goal of global action to improve child literacy.

Objectives

The All Children Reading Competition aims to encourage innovative thinking and design to bring new knowledge to the challenge of improving primary grade reading rapidly and at scale in certain countries. Applications from and relating to low- and lower-middle income countries are particularly encouraged.

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