USAID development innovations ventures WSH collaboration To support a collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development to support the identification, testing, and sustained uptake of evidence-based approaches to delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services to the poor

Development Innovation Ventures:

DIV holds a year-round grant competition for innovative ideas, pilots and tests them using cutting-edge analytical methods, and scales solutions that demonstrate widespread impact and cost-effectiveness.

DIV’s tiered-funding model, inspired by the venture capital experience, invests comparatively small amounts in relatively unproven concepts, and continues to support only those that prove they work. Visit the DIV portfolio to see the evidence-gathering and scale-up activities of DIV winners around around the world.

Project example: Household Handwashing Device - Commercial Scale-Up in Vietnam (WaterSHED Asia)
Project example: Soapy Water Handwashing Stations in Kenya (IPA)
Project example: Field evaluation of an affordable, effective on-site sanitation system - Testing the Tiger Toilet (Bear Valley Ventures Ltd.)

Approach

Some example projects that have been introduced on the forum so far: - Soapy Water Handwashing Stations in Kenya (2013-2016) - Household Handwashing Device - Commercial Scale-Up in Vietnam (2012-2016) - Chlorine Dispensers: Bringing Safe Water to Scale (2012-2016) - The Cholera Hospital Based Intervention for 7 days (CHoBI 7) Trial in Bangladesh (2015-2018) - Field evaluation of an affordable, effective on-site sanitation system - Testing the "Tiger Toilet" (2013-2015)

Discussion on forum

Development Innovations Ventures (DIV) website with portfolio list

Project example: Household Handwashing Device - Commercial Scale-Up in Vietnam (WaterSHED Asia)

Project example: Soapy Water Handwashing Stations in Kenya (IPA)

Project example: Field evaluation of an affordable, effective on-site sanitation system - Testing the Tiger Toilet (Bear Valley Ventures Ltd.)

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Community sanitationPublic awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Behaviour changeHealth and hygieneProduct design and engineeringGlobalToilets or urinals (user interface)Enabling environment and institutional strengtheningOtherVermifilters, vermifilter toiletsOtherUnited States governmentBill & Melinda Gates FoundationPeri-urbanRuralGovernment-owned entity (not university or research)

Related Countries

GhanaHaitiIndiaKenyaMyanmarRwandaTanzania United Republic ofUgandaViet nam