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Amplifying Local Voices for Equitable Development (ALVED) We work to amplify local voices, especially those of marginalised groups, in support of equitable development. We work with our partners to:

ensure non-majority communities in Serbia and Kosovo are better aware of – and able to advocate for – municipal services to which they are entitled
strengthen participatory approaches to service delivery at the local level to ensure inclusivity and partnership between civil society and municipalities in Serbia and Kosovo
convene traditional and new media partners in Serbia and Kosovo to challenge conflict-generating narratives and disseminate positive messages of peace
enable cooperation among prominent people from Serbia and Kosovo to inform strategic approaches to building tolerance and countering division
Our approach seeks to ensure that citizens in Serbia and Kosovo are better able to empathise with one another’s perspectives, play active civic roles in society, and celebrate diversity.
Social Peace and Local Development in Libya Through rolling out the Social Peace and Local Development methodology, PCi has established over 40 Social Peace Partnerships in towns and cities across the country. Through the regular provision of mentoring and training in community level peacebuilding, these Social Peace Partnerships have, over time, developed strong community relationships and bonds, which are based on trust and resilient to conflict. Capacity-building support has enabled partnerships to:

- understand the historic and current drivers of community conflict and how this impacts on community relations and resilience
- analyse local conflicts, with a specific focus on analysing community tensions and responding before tensions escalate into violence
- build local action plans that identify the development needs and social cohesion aspirations of residents and communities
- through the delivery of Social Peace Actions, improve and nurture community relationships – by developing specific activities that foster social cohesion and peaceful co-existence, which work across different identity groups
- develop a communication plan that conveys positive messages of community cooperation to a wide range of audiences and that challenge the prevailing conflict and/or divisive narratives
- establish relationships and structures that support a robust crisis management mechanism and promote the adoption of new habits for addressing conflict through dialogue, collaboration and inclusion of marginalised groups including women and youth
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA), Commitment to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation Provides support to the CEC which facilitates collaboration and public participation to foster conservation, protection and enhancement of the North American environment for the benefit of present and future generations, in the context of increasing economic, trade, and social links among Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA): MOD In the U.S., EPA plays a role in ensuring trade related activities sustain environmental protection. Growing U.S. global trade underscores the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental consequences. To foster the protection and improvement of the environment in the region, NAAECs creation represented a commitment by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to integrate environmental protection considerations into their trade negotiations.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA) In the U.S., EPA plays a role in ensuring trade related activities sustain environmental protection. Growing U.S. global trade underscores the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental consequences. To foster the protection and improvement of the environment in the region, NAAECs creation represented a commitment by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to integrate environmental protection considerations into their trade negotiations.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA): North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) In the U.S., EPA plays a role in ensuring trade related activities sustain environmental protection. Growing U.S. global trade underscores the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental consequences. To foster the protection and improvement of the environment in the region, NAAECs creation represented a commitment by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to integrate environmental protection considerations into their trade negotiations.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA): United Nations Environment Program Agreement Overarching Statement of Implementing Agent
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA): Northa American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation In the U.S., EPA plays a role in ensuring trade related activities sustain environmental protection. Growing U.S. global trade underscores the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental consequences.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Regional Offices: Binational Stakeholder Engagement for Nutrients in the Lake Erie Basin This project will support binational efforts to engage farmers, lake shoreline residents, and urban residents to implement Best Management Practices to reduce nutrient runoff to Lake Erie. It will analyze barriers and incentives for participation in nutrient runnoff reduction initiatives, and use a social marketing strategy to encourage implementation of Best Management Practices for nutrients.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA), Commitment to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation Commitment to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), Support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) work on the Environmenal Health and Safety Programme. The objective of this grant is to provide financial support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) work on the Environmenal Health and Safety Programme. The effort will support work on test guidelines; the assessment of chemicals and nanomaterials; capacity building; facilitation of risk reduction; chemical accidents and pollutant release and transfer registers.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA): Miscella In the U.S., EPA plays a role in ensuring trade related activities sustain environmental protection. Growing U.S. global trade underscores the importance of addressing potential adverse environmental consequences. To foster the protection and improvement of the environment in the region, NAAECs creation represented a commitment by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to integrate environmental protection considerations into their trade negotiations.
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), Support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) work on the Environmenal Health and Safety Programme. The Objective of this grant is to provide financial support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD's) work on the Environmenal Health and Safety Programme. The effort will support work on test guidelines; the assessment of chemicals and nanomaterials; capacity building; facilitation of risk reduction; chemical accidents and pollutant release and transfer registers.
StrongMinds Mental health programme for women in Uganda (potentially Zambia). StrongMinds uses its own unique depression intervention, which is based on Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy. The StrongMinds approach is a low-cost, proven methodology that has reduced depression symptoms for over 80% of the women treated in Uganda
Balloon Ventures Balloon Ventures offers a service that combines intensive, on-site training and capacity building support on management best practices (300 hours over 3 years per enterprise), with long term flexible loans, to the largely overlooked segment of opportunity-driven formalising micro-enterprises (with 5-20 staff and revenues of less than USD 25,000 per annum) in East Africa.
IdInsight (Nano MI5) Nano Information Systems is a ‘process innovation’ that improves state capacity through changing the approach to building information systems. Nano uses fast, cheap, and flexible design, concentrating on a limited number of priority outcomes, on issues immediately and directly relevant to citizens, and emerges in a bottom-up manner reflecting the needs of frontline functionaries.
S4S Technologies S4S have patented a solar powered Fruits and vegetables drying micro-unit which they install with village level entrepreneurs and procure dehydrated fresh produce for sale to B2B clients as well as through B2C retail.
CrimeRadar: crime prediction for improved police response CrimeRadar is a low-cost, open-source, and machine-learning driven, crime prediction software that tracks crime and retrospective crime trends, allowing law enforcement authorities to use it as decision-support tool to improve resource allocation, reduce police response times, monitor more effectively across different levels, and prevent crime.
Family Planning Burkina Faso This grant will enable DMI to produce radio content that promotes the use of modern contraceptives, and work with radio stations to integrate the into their programming. The saturation campaign will last 39 months and reach approximately 3.5 million people, about 18.9% of the Burkina Faso population.
CityTaps SAS CityTaps has developed a solution that bridges the gap between water utilities and the urban poor: a prepayment service that comprises a smart and prepaid water meter, and billing software.
One Acre Fund One Acre Fund drives smallholder farmer income improvements through accelerating One Acre Fund’s testing and scale up of new farming innovations.
Chrysalis Chrysalis (formerly EZVidya) builds curriculum solutions for the formative years of education (pre-k to Grade 6), aiming to evolve from standardization to personalization. Currently working with nearly 700 schools in 4 states in India.
BORN Project We are funding a study on whether screening newborns for their blood oxygen levels can help reduce deaths by allowing for earlier diagnosis of pneumonia, sepsis and congenital heart defects. The Newborn foundation is screening  approximately 90,000 newborns in China and the Philippines as part of this study (note: this is not an RCT)
No Lean Season Increasing food consumption and income of poor rural households in Bangladesh by ofering small travel subsidies to low-income agricultural workers, enabling them to migrate during the period of the year when the demand for agricultural wage labour falls and prices rise in rural areas.
Talent Beyond Boundaries Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) is an organisation which seeks to demonstrate that the hidden refugee talent pool offers a resource that employers can use to fill global skill gaps.
Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) A series of randomised controlled, behavioural-based trials focused on improved tax compliance, and corresponding capacity building of local civil servants, in Bangladesh, Guatemala and Indonesia.
Valid Nutrition Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) are energy-dense fortified pastes that combat malnutrition, and that can be deployed in an outpatient setting. Valid and its partner Ajinomoto have created an alternative product that uses amino acids, soy, maize and sorghum. The partners aspire to source ingredients in the same markets where RUTFs are deployed, and to manufacture locally.
Simprints Development of low-cost, rugged biometric tools designed for developing countries that radically improve the ability of NGOs and governments to fight poverty with mobile services.
Agritask Agritask is a holistic ag-operations platform, designed to enable fact-based decision making for agricultural businesses. To fulfill this vision, Agritask integrates a wide array of agronomic technologies, tools and data sources into one brain that analyzes the data, quantifies the risks and produces alerts, recommendations, and actionable insights. Data sources vary from sensors and machinery, aerial images, forecast data, and more.
Viamo Viamo is a global, impact driven mobile phone communications company, specializing in mobile engagement, and operating in 25 countries across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. The company offers mass communication solutions to mission aligned organizations and businesses to help them design, implement and measure their mobile engagement campaigns that target populations in emerging markets.
Labelled Remittances A labeled remittance product can encourage migrant workers to direct remittances to educational uses, and to potentially send more remittances.
Isizwe Isizwe provides uncapped WiFi at a cost of 5 ZAR (c. $0.30) per day per user to low income communities in South Africa, using funding from corporate partnerships to directly or indirectly finance the WiFi infrastructure creating last mile access.
mClinica mClinica is growing a digital network of pharmacies, which through mobile technology provides patients with discounts and health advice, in return for collecting prescription data.
CCTs for Immunizations Three-year randomised controlled trial to find the optimal incentive amount, schedule, and design, to achieve a higher immunisation rate in the most cost-effective way in Karachi, Pakistan
BRAC COVID-19 Response BRAC Sierra Leone’s focus is on emergency response work, in the form of behavioural change messaging reinforced by in-person support from community health workers. BRAC Uganda’s work focuses on health system strengthening.
Drinkwell Drinkwell (WIST Inc) is a nano-technology water filtration operating and management company helping deliver safe, efficient, and affordable water to underserved communities. Drinkwell’s nanotechnology resin-based system is a simple to operate, full-service tech platform requiring 50% less Capex than competitors, achieving 99% water recovery, 6x lower energy costs & lasting up to 10x longer than competitors.
PoaPower Poa Power is a social-enterprise which provides clean and affordable electricity to off-grid, low income consumers in Kenya through a unique a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) business model. This business model allows Poa Power to sell energy on a metered PAYG basis with no upfront equipment costs.
Bandebereho Bandebereho promotes positive fatherhood and gender equality amongst expectant fathers and fathers of children under five years, and their partners, in order to shift gender-power imbalances and reduce intimate partner violence in the home.
MTV Staying Alive Foundation MTV Staying Alive Foundation is aiming to leverage its brand and experience of working on gender issues, especially among adolescent, to create gender transformative programming across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
Aquaculture Prize Design Grant to Nesta to design a challenge prize to improve nutrition outcomes and support smallholder farmers by accelerating innovations in aquaculture in Bangladesh and India.
Mr. Green Mr. Green Africa formalises the informal waste picking community by setting up collection hubs across greater Nairobi to buy post-consumer plastic waste. Mr Green aggregates and recycles the plastic at their own facility, and then sells the plastic on to buyers who incorporate the recycled plastic into their new plastic products.
PATH Path is working with Gates Foundation to undertake research programs for detection of SARS COV-2 in wastewater and fecal sludge in emerging markets to complement limited diagnostic and clinical testing.
PLACE Grant / returnable grant for developing city mapping data available through a club-model for public and private sector derivatives, to enable urban climate adaptation and resilience
Afrimarket Afrimarket is a cash-to-goods remittance company servicing West Africa.
Reducing Anemia RCT to test impact of anemia of delivering fortified rice through the Public Distribution System in Tamil Nadu.
Breakthrough Breakthrough's innovation is Taaron ki Toli, a school based program which reshapes gender attitudes through discussion and persuasion. It is a 20 hours curriculum delivered over 2-3 years and which has been shown to make gender attitudes more progressive and lead to more gender-equal behaviour.
Lively Minds Improving early childhood care and education in Ghana by setting up and evaluating community-run play schemes with a view to scale up through the Ghana Education Service.
Kamatan Kamatan is seeking to build efficient supply chains for all farm produce - by professionalising farmer producer collectives, leveraging technology to reduce wastage and inefficiencies, while linking producers and bulk buyers in a seamless, transparent and value-driven relationship. They are looking to raise a $4M Series B round by Q2 2019 and GIF has the opportunity to participate with up to $2.3M in the round.
Hut Decoration A customary rural home re-decoration turned home mosquito-proofing could result in sustainable malaria eradication
Babban Gona The Babban Gona model is an innovative and comprehensive agriculture franchise model that seeks to sustainably improve the lives of smallholder farmers through the provision of end-to-end farming services.
SmartStart SmartStart uses social franchising model involving 3000 practitioners and 35000 students in the network to deliver ECD services. The target is the more than 50% of those 3-4 year olds who are not in any formal ECD centres. It leverages ongoing community programs/facilities and existing subsistence entrepreneurs to deliver this without any direct expenditure by SmartStart itself. SmartStart provides the brand, network of coaches/leaders, and manages a high fidelity execution.

A data management system that can be used to improve both operational efficiency (in benchmarking franchisees and their centres, managing the coaching of the franchisees etc) as well as the quality of ECD instruction given by the franchisees would be very useful as SmartStart begins to scale. And it has replicability value that goes beyond just SmartStart.
EM3 EM3 provides farm mechanization services from land preparation to crop harvesting on a pay-per-acre basis. These services help small hold farmers improve productivity by over 20% and gain access to technologies that were out of reach due to the high capital investments required.
Educational Initiatives A personalized, adaptive learning program in English and mother-tongue languages, that is based on 15 years of research on student misconceptions and iterated from 7 years of deployment in elite private and low-income government schools to help improve learning outcomes in language and math at scale.
Buildher Buildher seeks to advance gender equality in the construction sector in Kenya and improve the livelihoods of low-income women through its innovative work placement programme and by directly supporting construction firms to create more gender-inclusive workplaces.
Segovia Technology Co. Segovia is a modern enterprise software company with a first-of-its-kind technology product to improve cash transfer services, aiming to increase the money received by poor beneficiaries by 20-30% by reducing diversions, transfer costs and inefficiencies.
Ideas42 and World Bank (Behavioural Insights for Cash Transfers) This is a joint proposal between ideas42 and the World Bank’s Social Protection and Labor Global Practice (SP&L GP) to design and implement innovative behavioral additions to early childhood-and productive inclusion-focused CT programs at various stages of implementation in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Impact(Ed) - My Better World My better world – a life skills media series, delivered as part of an in-and-out of school hybrid model. Aiming to incorporate in Kenya’s Mentorship Policy for Basic Education.
Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) The LINEA intervention is an evidence-based, co-produced and feasibility tested intervention that aims to prevent age-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) at the individual and social norms level targeting both girls and men.
International Care Ministries (ICM) Engagement with ICM to identify and support one promising graduation deal that focuses exclusively on figuring out the most cost-effective training/coaching model for scale up.
myAgro - VSLA Pilot myAgro provides smallhold farmers a way to save for improved inputs, and trains them on how to improve their yields. We are funding a 1 year pilot offering the myagro product to Village Savings and Loans Groups in Mali. Results will be out in December 2016
Simpa Series C Simpa sells solar-as-a-service to energy-poor households and micro-enterprises in rural India through a pay-as-you-go technology.
GiveDirectly This project aims to transform the impact of aid in refugee settings through the delivery of large cash transfers to refugees and host communities.
Pagatech Pagatech is Nigeria's largest & fastest growing mobile payments and digital financial services platform that is driving financial access and usage for the mass market.
PayGo Energy Debt investment in company providing affordable access to LPG using pay-as-you-go technology to low-income households in Nairobi.
TAG Africa By introducing a market linkage innovation in Africa for water utilities, technology providers, and regulators to convene, Isle hopes to introduce step-change water technologies to water utilities during meetings of the TAG model in an ongoing, self-sustaining format.
Developing Youth Groups in Bangladesh to Support Peers at Risk of Early Marriage BLAST will train youth groups in Bangladesh to support to peers at risk of early marriage via counselling, mediation, contact with formal authorities. To be digitally supported through app and evaluated through an RCT (Uni of Ken and Uni of Malaya)
City Nudges Pay-for-performance model for nudges to improve a) revenue from tax collection and b) cost savings for electricity utilities, conducted in partnership with BIT and ideas42
J-PAL Health Insurance Project The IDEA Lab at J-PAL SA proposes to collaborate with health departments in up to three states in India, where it has existing policy research partnerships, such as (but not limited to) Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan or Odisha, for developing and demonstrating use cases of systematic analysis of
administrative data for decisions in implementation of health insurance programs. A use case for strengthening program monitoring,
implementation and enforcement of health insurance
schemes.
HealthConnect for COVID The innovation is HealthAlert. It is a whatsapp based 2-way communication system for information that collects insights from and disseminates information to users. It was developed using turn.io by Praekelt, the South African non-profit, using and building upon a previous product which was used as part of their MomConnect programme. Praekelt have approached IDinsight's South Africa office to support their work on HealthAlert, and IDinsight have in turn approached GIF.
Educate! Skills Based Education Educate! seeks to improve the income of the poor through skills based secondary education in Africa. Educate primarily achieves this through the direct implementation of entrepreneurship training, mentorship programmes and business clubs. This leads to improved incomes through improved employment or entrepreneurship opportunities.
OnlinePajak OnlinePajak offers Indonesian enterprises free online tax-filing software that enables them to prepare, pay and file their corporate taxes. Having worked closely with the Indonesian Tax Office for three years, OnlinePajak has been appointed the official application service provider under a ministerial decree. To sustain this free service, OnlinePajak charges for optional value-added services (payroll, commercial invoicing, online wallet) and is exploring secondary markets for the data.