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USAID's Grand Challenges for Development

Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development invites innovators to identify and scale up transformative prevention and treatment solutions and approaches for pregnant women and newborns in underserved, low-resource settings at the critical time of childbirth.  Learn more...All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development brings global attention and partners to the problem of childhood illiteracy, articulates the barriers to success, and will fund the design and implementation of solutions through the All Children Reading competition, which offers grants to improve early grade reading outcomes. Learn more...About Grand Challenges for Development

Your Solutions. Our Progress.

Grand Challenges for Development offer innovators everywhere opportunities to apply their scientific and technological know-how to develop solutions to clearly defined, intractable development problems. USAID seeks partners, solvers, and scalable solutions to foster a movement to solve these problems for good and improve lives.

Act Now:

USAID and partners invite global problem solvers to answer a second call for innovative solutions to dramatically reduce maternal and newborn deaths and stillbirths with Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development. Applications will be accepted until April 2nd. Learn more and check out the request for applications at www.SavingLivesatBirth.net.

Inspiration:

Check out innovators from Saving Lives at Birth’s first round in 2011:


The USAID office of Science and Technology offer Grand Challenges for Development to drive the USAID Forward agenda, enabling better development results.

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