Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) is USAID’s open innovation program that tests and scales creative solutions to any global development challenge. This programme inspires new solutions to the critical challenges affecting millions around the world.
Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) supports groundbreaking ideas to transform lives by providing flexible, tiered grant funding to test new ideas and models, take strategic risks, build evidence of what works, and advance the best solutions.
Eligibility:
- Organization Type – DIV accepts applications from anyone, including businesses, social
entrepreneurs, individuals, nonprofit organizations, researchers, and governments.
- Geography – DIV supports innovations across all countries where USAID operates. A full list of countries in which USAID operates can be found at www.usaid.gov/where-wework.
- Sector – DIV accepts applications across all development sectors, including education, environment, energy, democracy, economic development, and others.
Grant size: $200,000 – $15,000,000
Deadline: October 31, 2022