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Rural Solar Access via Consumer Cooperatives enhanced societies (ACCESS)UPDATED APR 2021
Consumer Cooperative Enhanced Society Retails for Enhancing Rural Access to Solar Power
FOCUS AREAS
Energy, Solar
IMPLEMENTED IN
Uganda
TO DATE$98,360 Funds Raised
Equalize HealthUPDATED MAR 2021
Equalize Health (formerly known as D-Rev) is a not-for-profit medical technology company that designs affordable, world-class medical products for the biggest gaps in health care that work in even the toughest circumstances.
FOCUS AREAS
Health, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Medical Devices
IMPLEMENTED IN
India, Kenya
TO DATE$1,611,137 Funds Raised
One Acre FundUPDATED MAR 2021
Financing and Services for Smallholder Farmers
FOCUS AREAS
Agriculture, Climate Change and Resilience, Evidence & Impact and 1 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Burundi, Kenya, Malawi and 4 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$44,408,972 Funds Raised
HappyTap Co. UPDATED JAN 2021
Happytap Co. is a social business on a mission to make handwashing convenient and delightful for everyone.
FOCUS AREAS
Prevention & Vaccination, Social and Behavior Change, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and 4 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh and 3 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$1,106,828 Funds Raised
Living GoodsUPDATED JAN 2021
Community Health Workers Providing Door to Door Healthcare
FOCUS AREAS
Health, Maternal Newborn and Child Health, Nutrition and 10 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya, Uganda
TO DATE$16,717,020 Funds Raised
Dispensers for Safe WaterUPDATED JAN 2021
A simple, cost-effective innovation providing millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa with access to safe water.
FOCUS AREAS
Health, Sanitation, Social and Behavior Change and 1 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya, Malawi, Uganda
TO DATE$9,366,557 Funds Raised
CommCare by DimagiUPDATED JAN 2021
Dimagi is working with organizations around the world to support COVID-19 response with our customizable mobile data collection and service delivery platform, CommCare, which is being used for everything from contact tracing to facility readiness.
FOCUS AREAS
Agriculture, Infectious & Vector Diseases, Maternal Newborn and Child Health and 11 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$4,215,106 Funds Raised
BURN Manufacturing Co.UPDATED JAN 2021
BURN Manufacturing is the only vertically integrated modern cookstove company in Sub-Saharan Africa. The solar-powered facility currently has a capacity of 45,000 stoves per month and employs over 400 people, 60% of whom are women.
FOCUS AREAS
Clean Cooking, Environment, Health and 3 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya
TO DATE$1,318,500 Funds Raised
BioLite HomeStoveUPDATED JAN 2021
A fan-assisted biomass stove that burns wood like gas, turns fire into electricity, and reduces smoke emissions by 90% and fuel consumption by 50% compared to traditional open-fire cooking.
FOCUS AREAS
Economic Empowerment, Lighting, Post Harvest and 4 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
India, Ghana, Uganda and 1 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$1,000,000 Funds Raised
Project SankalpUPDATED JAN 2021
Avanti Fellows designed Project Sankalp, a low-cost blended learning innovation that combines a structured curriculum, peer learning, teacher support, and video instruction.
FOCUS AREAS
Curriculum, Education
IMPLEMENTED IN
India
TO DATE$301,090 Funds Raised
Beacon Emergency Dispatch PlatformUPDATED JAN 2021
Text message-based emergency medical dispatching for resource-limited settings and austere environments ("911 where there is none")
FOCUS AREAS
Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, Response Technologies and 4 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Argentina and 8 moreSEE ALL
TO DATE$575,000 Funds Raised
Agriworks UgandaUPDATED DEC 2020
Irrigation For Hire for African Smallholders
FOCUS AREAS
Climate Change and Resilience, Technology, Agriculture and 2 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Uganda
TO DATE$142,516 Funds Raised
Zuri Health Mobile Insurance for Informal Sector Workers. UPDATED NOV 2020
FOCUS AREAS
Economic Growth and Trade, Health, Social & Micro Finance
IMPLEMENTED IN
Kenya
TO DATE$100,000 Funds Raised
Building Bridges Between Herders and Farmers in the Middle Belt UPDATED NOV 2020
In collaboration with Search for Common Ground, IPA will conduct an RCT that convenes inter-dialogues with farmers and herders to test whether contact can reduce conflict even when the underlying conflict is economic in nature.
FOCUS AREAS
Conflict Response
IMPLEMENTED IN
Nigeria
TO DATE$811,840 Funds Raised
Hermetic Grain Storage BagsUPDATED NOV 2020
FOCUS AREAS
Agriculture, Economic Growth and Trade, Private Sector Competitiveness and 1 moreSEE ALL
IMPLEMENTED IN
Afghanistan
TO DATE$88,400 Funds Raised
Pedestrian Footbridges in RwandaUPDATED OCT 2020
A randomized control trial to evaluate the impacts of a nationwide footbridge-building campaign in Rwanda.
FOCUS AREAS
Economic Growth and Trade
IMPLEMENTED IN
Rwanda
TO DATE$1,499,798 Funds Raised
Returns to Secondary Schooling in GhanaUPDATED OCT 2020
IPA with Harvard University, Stanford Univerity, and MIT, will provide evidence on how free secondary school education might improve early childhood development in the next generation.
FOCUS AREAS
Pre-primary/Pre-school/ECD Education, Secondary Education
IMPLEMENTED IN
Ghana
TO DATE$973,460 Funds Raised
PROSPER - Promoting skills and productivity enhancement for resilienceUPDATED OCT 2020
BRAC'S PROSPER participants receive classroom and hands-on training where they are matched to an employer in a high-demand trade.
FOCUS AREAS
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Youth
IMPLEMENTED IN
Bangladesh
TO DATE$985,896 Funds Raised
Natural resource based production to develop rural economiesUPDATED OCT 2020
Surging demand for Himalayan nettle fabric needs fibre extracts that can only be collected manually and processed in village level industry and the innovation has the potential at scale to create wealth in many village economies in fragile mountain areas; the collection process also leads to better regeneration of the resource thus contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
FOCUS AREAS
Economic Empowerment, Gender Equity
IMPLEMENTED IN
India
TO DATE$111,627 Funds Raised
Seasonal hunger in Zambia: Better smoothing through better planning?UPDATED OCT 2020
FOCUS AREAS
Nutrition, Aquaculture
IMPLEMENTED IN
Zambia
TO DATE$426,175 Funds Raised
Testing an Information and Coordination Tool to Reduce Female Genital CuttingUPDATED OCT 2020
FOCUS AREAS
Gender-based Violence
IMPLEMENTED IN
Somalia
TO DATE$199,200 Funds Raised
Every Child Counts! UPDATED OCT 2020
Testing and Positioning a Successful Games-Based Pre-School Math Curriculum for Scale
FOCUS AREAS
Pre-primary/Pre-school/ECD Education
IMPLEMENTED IN
India
TO DATE$1,500,000 Funds Raised
