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The new awards will pilot, test, or scale breakthrough solutions to global development challenges in Bangladesh, Botswana, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia,
and Zambia. Among the award winners, DIV will fund five new USAID partners, including
Ampersand in Rwanda, Avanti
Fellows and
Good Business Lab Foundation in India, Laboratory
for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies in Somalia, and
Young 1love in Botswana.
USAID accepts applications to DIV from anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Learn more here.
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USAID’s Innovation Incentive Award Authority enables USAID to use a pay-for-results prize competition approach where a one-time cash award acts as an incentive for
participants to compete toward achieving a specific outcome.
Join us at this virtual event where Meredith Perry, Senior Advisor for Open Innovation Competitions, and Smruti Desai, Financial Management Analyst, will answer your questions about this exciting approach.
Date: Thursday, October 15
Join USAID Data Services in M/CIO for a walk through of
International Data & Economic Analysis (IDEA). IDEA brings together data and tools for Agency initiatives so you can successfully locate and use high-quality data in your everyday work, regardless
of previous data experience.
Date: Thursday, October 22
Time: 08:30 AM EST
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The Challenge invites organizations worldwide to submit proposals with effective strategies, adaptable to the COVID-19 reality, to prevent and respond to GBV experienced
by Venezuelan migrants and the communities that host them, especially in Guyana, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago. Learn more and apply at
https://juntosesmejorve.org/gbv
Applications for several scientific fellowship programs are now open. These fellowships offer participants firsthand experience working in government while providing
USAID the opportunity to source staff with technical knowledge and a desire to work in development. Fellows can work across the USAID Program Cycle to apply analytic rigor, increase adaptive management and evidence, support program management and policy implementation,
and use their diverse backgrounds to new approaches.
Please share these opportunities with scientists across all disciplines. Information on how to host these Fellows will be provided to USAID operating units in late
2020 and early 2021. Please direct any questions to
stfellowships@usaid.gov
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This self-paced training, now available on the
USAID
University platform, provides concrete strategies and resources for finding, evaluating, and using high-quality research evidence in development programs.
Findings from the DECA pilot in Kenya, conducted between November 2019 and April 2020. With a focus on devolution, digital divides, the youth bulge, corruption
mitigation, economic growth, and private sector engagement, the report outlines key aspects of Kenya’s digital ecosystem to help inform and shape future USAID/KEA programming.
An online training on fairness in machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence where software learns how to perform a task based on experience instead
of being explicitly programmed. This course, developed by MIT’s D-Lab under USAID’s Higher Education Solutions Network Development Labs, is open to all learners.
Explore two webinars focused on education delivery using digital technologies: “Digital Strategies in Education: Evidence from the Field’ and “Digital Strategies
for Offline Communities: Cases and Lessons from the Field.”
Lessons learned on how enterprise accelerators can effectively scale innovative ventures. SEAD, an interdisciplinary hub at Duke University, is part of USAID’s Higher
Education Solutions Network Development Labs, a partnership with seven top universities designed to channel the ingenuity of university students, researchers, and faculty towards global development.
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