Grand Challenges for Development Implementation Services

$18.97M USD

Funder	U.S. Agency for International Development
Recipient Organization	Development Alternatives, Inc.
Country	World
Start Date	May 05, 2012
End Date	Jul 21, 2015
Duration	1,172 days
Number of Grantees	65
Roles	Recipient
Data Source	US Foreign Aid
Grant ID	`194583-76`

Grant Description

Grand Challenges for Development has given people around the world a way to apply their scientific and technological know-how to solving global development problems in areas such as hunger, water, and literacy. In this new approach, the U.S.

Agency for International Development (USAID) articulates a specific problem and invites a broad range of actorsincluding foundations, corporations, groups, and individualsto engage in solving it.

For example, the first Grand Challenge for Development, called Savings Lives at Birth, attracted nearly 500 submissions on how to help mothers and newborns in poor countries during their most vulnerable hours.

An invention submitted by a car mechanic in Argentinaa device to extract babies during difficult childbirthsis now being developed by a major American medical supply company.