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Latest Press Release

USAID and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announce Seven New Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) Grantees

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Yesterday, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced seven new winners in the Agency’s open competition for development ideas. These projects are co-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures WASH for Life Partnership – an initiative to support DIV grantees improving water, sanitation, and hygiene in developing countries. These seven grantees are testing new and cost-effective solutions to water challenges around the world.

Task Shifting to End Preventable Maternal/Child Death in Kenya and Zambia

May 25, 2013 -- Anna Maria Speciale

The American College of Nurse-Midwives’ (ACNM) Department of Global Outreach is embarking upon a collaborative project with the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) program at Columbia University and the Chainama College of Health Sciences in Lusaka, Zambia to review, identify, and...

Youth Win in Central America

May 25, 2013 -- Stefanie Fabrico, Presidential Management Fellow in USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau

Through the A Ganar program, USAID targets at-risk youth like Eddie in fifteen countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, using soccer as a powerful motivator and tool to teach young people important values like respect and responsibility, as well as other vital skills that will help them...

Congressional Testimony

Testimony of Elizabeth Hogan, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Statement of Nancy Lindborg, Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance

Testimony of Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations

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If you are a member of the press, you may contact our press relations office at:

U.S. Agency for International Development
Office of Press Relations
Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, D.C. 20523-0016
Telephone: 202-712-4320
FAX: 202-216-3524

Last updated: April 30, 2013