DIV Portfolio Organization Recognition
Read the latest about our portfolio organizations!
Orb Energy: India taps into solar energy provided by Orb Energy to power hospitals and schools (CNN - December 2, 2016)
myAgro: Smallholder Farmers Have the Ability to Save and myAgro is Helping Them Do It (Ag Funder News - November 21, 2016)
Ushahidi: A Kenyan crisis-tracking team has deployed to monitor US election violence and voter suppression (Quartz Africa - November 2, 2016)
EFL Global: When there’s no credit history, some lenders use Boston firm’s character tests (Boston Globe - October 30, 2016)
Vayu: Vayu’s drones launch off-grid healthcare in rural Madagascar (Al Jazeera - October 27, 2016)
Pratham: Teaching in accordance with learning capacity works best (Hindustan Times - October 6, 2016)
Good World Solutions: 'Press 1 for child labor': Garment workers use cellphones to report abuses through Laborlink and LaborVoices (Reuters - September 30, 2016)
University of Notre Dame: These Cheap Paper Tests Could Fight Against The Huge Counterfeit Drug Problem (Fast Company - September 8, 2016)
Bandhan-Konnagar: Time to diversify pro-poor policies (Live Mint - July 16, 2016)
BioLite: I’m a rocket scientist designing wood stoves that burn without smoking–to save lives and save the planet (Quartz - June 16, 2016)
Azuri: How Azuri is Pioneering Affordable Energy (Africa Outlook - May 5, 2016)
Evidence Action: Safe Water for All: Scaling Up Is Doable (WASH Funders - May 2, 2016)
Bandhan: Graduating the Ultra-Poor in India (J-PAL)
DIV Innovator Digest Newsletters
Read past issues of our “Innovator Digest” newsletter. We aim to make this as useful and relevant of a resource as possible for innovators, with a special eye to the DIV portfolio. Sign-up for future issues here!
Innovator Digest 1 (November 16, 2016)
DIV Program Updates
Learn about updates to the DIV program, including announcements about new DIV winners, new or changed application guidance, and so on.
DIV’s New Annual Program Statement Is Now Available (November 2, 2016)
USAID Awards Living Goods $5 Million to Improve Community Healthcare in Kenya (Press Release - October 19, 2016)
USAID Awards More Than $6M For Innovative Approaches To Fighting Extreme Poverty (Press Release - October 12, 2016)
USAID Awards $5 Million for New Ways to End Extreme Poverty (Press Release - April 12, 2016)
USAID Awards $5 Million to Off Grid Electric (Press Release - December 17, 2015)
USAID Awards $14.1 Million for Breakthrough Innovations to Fight Poverty (Press Release - October 21, 2015)
DIV Program Recognition
DIV has been widely recognized as a highly innovative program in government and a model for the development community in sourcing, testing, and scaling evidence-based innovations. Check out some of our recent recognition here:
Center for Global Development and J-PAL Event Highlights Impact of DIV for Its Catalytic Role in Investing in Evaluation and Scale-up of Evidence-based Programs (J-PAL - December 6, 2016)
White House Global Development Council Highlights DIV as Example of Obama Administration’s and USAID’s Commitment to Evidence-based Innovation (October 26, 2016)
Nesta UK Book on “Innovation for International Development” Includes Case Study on and Lessons from DIV (Nesta UK - April 25, 2016)
Results for America Includes DIV in Its 2016 Federal Invest in What Works Index (Results for America - April 18, 2016)
Moneyball for Government (2nd Edition) Chapter on Data and Evidence in Foreign Assistance Highlights DIV (Results for America - January 6, 2016)
Results for America Calls Out DIV in its “Invest in What Works” Fact Sheet (Results for America - October 22, 2015)
Harvard’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Names DIV a Finalist for Its 2015 Innovations in American Government Awards Competition (Harvard - May 5, 2015)
Can Silicon Valley Save the World? Defeating global poverty is the latest start-up trend. But is there really an app for that? (Foreign Policy - June 24, 2013)
DIV Videos
DIV Overview (2016)
DIV Portfolio Spotlight: Off-Grid Electric (2016)
DIV Portfolio Spotlight: Babajob (2016)
DIV Portfolio Spotlight: Bandhan-Konnagar (2016)
DIV Portfolio Spotlight: Eco-Fuel Africa (2016)
DIV: The Development Venture Capitalists at Work (2013)
DIV: How Combining Innovation & Evidence Can Help Find the Next Big Development Solutions (2013)