For your information:
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Grants Notice
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER:
7200AA20APS00013
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY TITLE:
Annual Program Statement for Development Innovation Ventures
OPPORTUNITY CATEGORY:
Discretionary
OPPORTUNITY CATEGORY EXPLANATION:
FUNDING INSTRUMENT TYPE:
Grant
CATEGORY OF FUNDING ACTIVITY:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
CATEGORY EXPLANATION:
EXPECTED NUMBER OF AWARDS:
CFDA NUMBER(S):
98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
COST SHARING OR MATCHING REQUIREMENT:
No
VERSION:
Synopsis 1
POSTED DATE:
Apr 01, 2020
LAST UPDATED DATE:
Apr 01, 2020
ORIGINAL CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Mar 31, 2021
CURRENT CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Mar 31, 2021
ARCHIVE DATE:
Apr 30, 2021
ESTIMATED TOTAL PROGRAM FUNDING:
AWARD CEILING:
$5,000,000
AWARD FLOOR:
$25,000
visit Grants.gov [1].
(https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325929)
Thanks
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_Research & Advisory Services Thematic Coordinator,_
_Center for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for
Southern Africa (CCARDESA) Secretariat_
_Plot 4701 Station Exit Road_
_Private Bag 00357, Gaborone_
_Botswana. _
Tel: +267 3914991/7
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SUBJECT:
[web2icm] USAID seeking Applications for Development Innovation
Ventures (DIV) Program
DATE:
2020-05-14 00:56
FROM:
Robert Kibaya <robkib@gmail.com>
TO:
web2icm@googlegroups.com
REPLY-TO:
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Global
Development Lab, invites applications for the Development Innovation
Ventures (DIV) program.
-------------------------
Through a year-round grant competition, Development Innovation Ventures
(DIV) sources proposals for development innovations that improve the
lives of people living in poverty in the developing world. DIV provides
tiered funding to pilot, test, and transition to scale those innovations
that demonstrate evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and the
potential to scale.
DIV accepts applications from anyone, including businesses,
not-for-profit organizations, researchers, faith-based entities, and
governments. DIV supports innovations across all countries and
development sectors in which USAID operates, including health,
education, water, energy, economic development, and other sectors.
DIV recognizes that innovation can take multiple forms. Some examples of
development innovations that DIV may support include the following:
* New technologies;
* New ways of delivering or financing goods or services;
* More cost-effective adaptations to existing solutions;
* New ways of increasing uptake of existing proven solutions and
scaling to new geographies;
* Policy changes or shifts based on insights from behavioral
economics;
* Social or behavioral innovations; and
* Data collection and rigorous evaluation to measure the social
impacts of promising innovations.
Stages of Financing
* STAGE 1: Pilot ≤ $200,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 1 awards to support the piloting of
innovations in a developing country context. DIV supports only those
innovations that are at the post-prototype-stage and are ready to be
field-tested. Examples of activities that Stage 1 awards may support
include assessment of the demand from the public or private sector for
the innovation, exploration of different delivery models, conducting
further user testing on an existing prototype, and documenting social
outcomes and real world costs to implement the solution. While not
required, applications for innovations with some existing piloting or
that have a theory of change that is backed by rigorous evidence of
causal impact (e.g., randomized controlled trials (RCTs), etc.) are
stronger.
* STAGE 2: Testing & Positioning for Scale ≤ $1,500,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 2 awards to support the further testing and
expansion of innovations beyond the piloting stage. Applicants for Stage
2 awards will have already conducted successful pilot testing and are
now ready to rigorously test an innovation's impact or market viability.
* For innovations that are designed to scale publicly, successful
applicants must either already have rigorous evidence of causal impact
or conduct a rigorous evaluation of causal impact during the award.
Applicants may also use award funds to simultaneously expand operations
in ways that would position the innovation to transition to scale, e.g.,
by testing alternative approaches to implementation or by finding ways
to satisfy requirements for scaling that are likely to be imposed by
long-run funders.
* STAGE 3: Transitioning to Scale ≤ $5,000,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 3 awards to transition proven approaches
from piloting and testing to widespread scaling in new contexts or new
geographies. Applicants should have completed the activities for Stage 2
innovations, with or without prior DIV support. Specifically, applicants
should have already demonstrated either rigorous evidence of causal
impact and a convincing case based on this impact measurement that the
intervention would be cost-effective at scale (for public scaling) or
market viability (for commercial scaling) at the time of their Stage 3
application. Successful Stage 3 applicants must collect data on costs
and social outcomes during the award and may use award funds to adapt
the innovation to new contexts, to prepare the innovation for scaling,
to conduct further testing of the extent to which the evidence of an
innovation's impact is applicable in new geographies or settings, and to
kickstart the scaling process.
* EVIDENCE GENERATION ≤ $1,500,000
* DIV is committed to generating evidence on the causal impact of
widely implemented development approaches that still lack sufficient
rigorous evidence of impact and cost effectiveness. DIV accepts
applications for Evidence Generation grants for evaluations of
development approaches that are widely used but do not already have
sufficient evidence from rigorous evaluations of causal impact, even if
those development approaches are not innovative. Evidence Generation
grants fit within the larger DIV mission because if an approach that is
evaluated under an Evidence Generation grant is found to be ineffective,
then development implementers could innovate by not using the approach
or by trying a modified version of the approach. Applicants for Evidence
Generation grants are invited to apply on their own or in partnership
with an implementer (e.g., a host country government, social enterprise,
nonprofit, etc.), and applicants should note such partnerships in
response to the application question on key partner organizations.
Duration
DIV awards are typically grants with a maximum of three (3) years in
length.
Eligibility Criteria
* DIV welcomes applications from individuals; public, private,
for-profit, and nonprofit organizations; institutions of higher
education; faith-based organizations; public international
organizations; non-governmental organizations; U.S. and non-U.S.
governmental organizations; multilateral and international donor
organizations. To be eligible under this APS, applicants must be
responsive to this APS and must be sufficiently responsible to perform
or participate in the final award.
* Awards are also contingent on DIV's ability to obtain concurrence
from the responsible USAID Mission.
* Applicants that are organizational entities must be legally
recognized under applicable law. Local organizations are eligible and
encouraged to apply, as well as consortia of local organizations.
* Participation of foreign government entities is possible only
through an approved subaward agreement with a prime recipient.
* USAID encourages applications from new partners. Awards to new
partners may require USAID to undertake necessary pre-award reviews of
these organizations to determine "responsibility" with respect to
fiduciary and other oversight responsibilities of the award.
For more information, visit Grants.gov [1].
(https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325929)
-------------------------
Kibaya Robert
Executive Director/ Founder
Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization - KIRUCODO,
Organization in Special status with the Economic and Social Council of
the UN since 2011 [6]
P.O.BOX 705, Kikandwa Village, Mukono, Uganda.
Phone: +256-712-848448, +256-414-670686
NPO Reg. No. 109960
www.kruralcommunities.org [7] web2icm Blog [8] Bees [9] Who I am
[10] Rural [11]Blog [11] Organization Twitter [12]
NetSquared-Uganda [13] Personal Twitter [14] Organization
Facebook [15] LinkedIn [16]
Chairman
Mukono District NGO Network/Forum
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/mudinfo [17]
2015 NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa [18] &
NetSquared-Mukono Lead Tech Meetups [19] Local Organizer
Director; Youths In Technology and Development Uganda [20]
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DOCUMENT TYPE:
Grants Notice
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY NUMBER:
7200AA20APS00013
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY TITLE:
Annual Program Statement for Development Innovation Ventures
OPPORTUNITY CATEGORY:
Discretionary
OPPORTUNITY CATEGORY EXPLANATION:
FUNDING INSTRUMENT TYPE:
Grant
CATEGORY OF FUNDING ACTIVITY:
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
CATEGORY EXPLANATION:
EXPECTED NUMBER OF AWARDS:
CFDA NUMBER(S):
98.001 -- USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas
COST SHARING OR MATCHING REQUIREMENT:
No
VERSION:
Synopsis 1
POSTED DATE:
Apr 01, 2020
LAST UPDATED DATE:
Apr 01, 2020
ORIGINAL CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Mar 31, 2021
CURRENT CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Mar 31, 2021
ARCHIVE DATE:
Apr 30, 2021
ESTIMATED TOTAL PROGRAM FUNDING:
AWARD CEILING:
$5,000,000
AWARD FLOOR:
$25,000
visit Grants.gov [1].
(https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325929)
Thanks
---
Baitsi K. Podisi(PhD)
_Research & Advisory Services Thematic Coordinator,_
_Center for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for
Southern Africa (CCARDESA) Secretariat_
_Plot 4701 Station Exit Road_
_Private Bag 00357, Gaborone_
_Botswana. _
Tel: +267 3914991/7
_Email: bpodisi__@ccardesa.org_
[2]| [3]| [4] | [5]
_For sharing and accessing regional agricultural information, visit the
CCARDESA Southern African Agricultural Information and Knowledge System
(SAAIKS) http://www.ccardesa.org/saaiks-knowledge-hub_ +267 3914997 Ext
211
Fax +267 316 7211
-------- Original Message --------
SUBJECT:
[web2icm] USAID seeking Applications for Development Innovation
Ventures (DIV) Program
DATE:
2020-05-14 00:56
FROM:
Robert Kibaya <robkib@gmail.com>
TO:
web2icm@googlegroups.com
REPLY-TO:
web2icm@googlegroups.com
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Global
Development Lab, invites applications for the Development Innovation
Ventures (DIV) program.
-------------------------
Through a year-round grant competition, Development Innovation Ventures
(DIV) sources proposals for development innovations that improve the
lives of people living in poverty in the developing world. DIV provides
tiered funding to pilot, test, and transition to scale those innovations
that demonstrate evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and the
potential to scale.
DIV accepts applications from anyone, including businesses,
not-for-profit organizations, researchers, faith-based entities, and
governments. DIV supports innovations across all countries and
development sectors in which USAID operates, including health,
education, water, energy, economic development, and other sectors.
DIV recognizes that innovation can take multiple forms. Some examples of
development innovations that DIV may support include the following:
* New technologies;
* New ways of delivering or financing goods or services;
* More cost-effective adaptations to existing solutions;
* New ways of increasing uptake of existing proven solutions and
scaling to new geographies;
* Policy changes or shifts based on insights from behavioral
economics;
* Social or behavioral innovations; and
* Data collection and rigorous evaluation to measure the social
impacts of promising innovations.
Stages of Financing
* STAGE 1: Pilot ≤ $200,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 1 awards to support the piloting of
innovations in a developing country context. DIV supports only those
innovations that are at the post-prototype-stage and are ready to be
field-tested. Examples of activities that Stage 1 awards may support
include assessment of the demand from the public or private sector for
the innovation, exploration of different delivery models, conducting
further user testing on an existing prototype, and documenting social
outcomes and real world costs to implement the solution. While not
required, applications for innovations with some existing piloting or
that have a theory of change that is backed by rigorous evidence of
causal impact (e.g., randomized controlled trials (RCTs), etc.) are
stronger.
* STAGE 2: Testing & Positioning for Scale ≤ $1,500,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 2 awards to support the further testing and
expansion of innovations beyond the piloting stage. Applicants for Stage
2 awards will have already conducted successful pilot testing and are
now ready to rigorously test an innovation's impact or market viability.
* For innovations that are designed to scale publicly, successful
applicants must either already have rigorous evidence of causal impact
or conduct a rigorous evaluation of causal impact during the award.
Applicants may also use award funds to simultaneously expand operations
in ways that would position the innovation to transition to scale, e.g.,
by testing alternative approaches to implementation or by finding ways
to satisfy requirements for scaling that are likely to be imposed by
long-run funders.
* STAGE 3: Transitioning to Scale ≤ $5,000,000
* Purpose: DIV funds Stage 3 awards to transition proven approaches
from piloting and testing to widespread scaling in new contexts or new
geographies. Applicants should have completed the activities for Stage 2
innovations, with or without prior DIV support. Specifically, applicants
should have already demonstrated either rigorous evidence of causal
impact and a convincing case based on this impact measurement that the
intervention would be cost-effective at scale (for public scaling) or
market viability (for commercial scaling) at the time of their Stage 3
application. Successful Stage 3 applicants must collect data on costs
and social outcomes during the award and may use award funds to adapt
the innovation to new contexts, to prepare the innovation for scaling,
to conduct further testing of the extent to which the evidence of an
innovation's impact is applicable in new geographies or settings, and to
kickstart the scaling process.
* EVIDENCE GENERATION ≤ $1,500,000
* DIV is committed to generating evidence on the causal impact of
widely implemented development approaches that still lack sufficient
rigorous evidence of impact and cost effectiveness. DIV accepts
applications for Evidence Generation grants for evaluations of
development approaches that are widely used but do not already have
sufficient evidence from rigorous evaluations of causal impact, even if
those development approaches are not innovative. Evidence Generation
grants fit within the larger DIV mission because if an approach that is
evaluated under an Evidence Generation grant is found to be ineffective,
then development implementers could innovate by not using the approach
or by trying a modified version of the approach. Applicants for Evidence
Generation grants are invited to apply on their own or in partnership
with an implementer (e.g., a host country government, social enterprise,
nonprofit, etc.), and applicants should note such partnerships in
response to the application question on key partner organizations.
Duration
DIV awards are typically grants with a maximum of three (3) years in
length.
Eligibility Criteria
* DIV welcomes applications from individuals; public, private,
for-profit, and nonprofit organizations; institutions of higher
education; faith-based organizations; public international
organizations; non-governmental organizations; U.S. and non-U.S.
governmental organizations; multilateral and international donor
organizations. To be eligible under this APS, applicants must be
responsive to this APS and must be sufficiently responsible to perform
or participate in the final award.
* Awards are also contingent on DIV's ability to obtain concurrence
from the responsible USAID Mission.
* Applicants that are organizational entities must be legally
recognized under applicable law. Local organizations are eligible and
encouraged to apply, as well as consortia of local organizations.
* Participation of foreign government entities is possible only
through an approved subaward agreement with a prime recipient.
* USAID encourages applications from new partners. Awards to new
partners may require USAID to undertake necessary pre-award reviews of
these organizations to determine "responsibility" with respect to
fiduciary and other oversight responsibilities of the award.
For more information, visit Grants.gov [1].
(https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=325929)
-------------------------
Kibaya Robert
Executive Director/ Founder
Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization - KIRUCODO,
Organization in Special status with the Economic and Social Council of
the UN since 2011 [6]
P.O.BOX 705, Kikandwa Village, Mukono, Uganda.
Phone: +256-712-848448, +256-414-670686
NPO Reg. No. 109960
www.kruralcommunities.org [7] web2icm Blog [8] Bees [9] Who I am
[10] Rural [11]Blog [11] Organization Twitter [12]
NetSquared-Uganda [13] Personal Twitter [14] Organization
Facebook [15] LinkedIn [16]
Chairman
Mukono District NGO Network/Forum
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/mudinfo [17]
2015 NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa [18] &
NetSquared-Mukono Lead Tech Meetups [19] Local Organizer
Director; Youths In Technology and Development Uganda [20]
Join our WEB2ICM [21] Group for Opportunities
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[11] http://ruralafricafacts.wordpress.com/
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[13]
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[15] http://www.facebook.com/kruralcommunitiesdevorg
[16] http://ug.linkedin.com/pub/kikandwa-rural/29/513/622
[17] http://www.facebook.com/mudinfo
[18]
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[19] https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Mukono/
[20] http://yitedev.org
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