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Cost Per Unit

Cost per Unit ranges from $20 to $99

Funding Raised

Funding Raised ranges from $150000 to $1800000

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Koe Koe Tech: maymay mHealth for Maternal and Child Health

The maymay mobile health app sends daily health information for pregnant women and parents of...

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RespiDx: Respimometer

Pneumonia is the number one killer of children under five in the developing world. The major...

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Naya Jeevan: doctHERs Telemedicine

Naya Jeevan: doctHERs Telemedicine

NAYA JEEVAN is the emerging world's first health & wellness plan dedicated to serving the...

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Esoko Mexico: Mobile Technologies for Smallholder Farmers

Esoko MX’s mission is to transform agricultural value chains in Mexico through powerful ICT to...

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Babajob: Informal Sector Jobs Marketplace

Babajob connects low-income job seekers with opportunities relevant to them, and employers with...

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Solar Sister: Women's Entrepreneurship Network for Solar Products Distribution

A network of women entrepreneurs bringing clean energy to their communities in rural Africa....

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LaborVoices: SmartLine Platform for Leveraging Worker Voices to Improve Supply Chain Transparency

LaborVoices: SmartLine Platform for Leveraging Worker Voices to Improve Supply Chain Transparency

Our mobile Symphony platform provides on-demand, ongoing visibility into labor conditions in...

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Ushahidi: Open Source Citizen Engagement Software Platform

Ushahidi is an open source software platform for crowdsourcing reports from on the ground for...

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Agriworks: Mobile Irrigation System for African Smallholders

The Agriworks Mobile Irrigation System (AMIS) is a mobile, modular system for 1 - 6 acres....

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SPOUTS of Water: Affordable, Locally-Manufactured Ceramic Water Filters

SPOUTS of Water aims to provide clean drinking water access to the millions in need through the...

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Pixatel: Tablet-based Adaptive Learning Platform

Pixatel: Tablet-based Adaptive Learning Platform

We have developed a novel tablet-based learning platform that provides children with dynamically...

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ABOUT DIV

Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is an open innovation fund at USAID that sources, supports, and scales breakthrough solutions to global development challenges. Through a year-round grant competition for innovative ideas in any sector and nearly any country, DIV invests funding and hands-on support in solutions with the potential to deliver more impact, for lower cost, at sustainable scale.

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