THE ESIN1 5 1. ION VERS CATALOG

MoneyMaker Pumps: pg 4; Photo: KickStart International Photo: Panos Pictures (UK) INTRODUCTION CONTENTS For decades, USAID and its partners have successfully tackled some of the world’s toughest Development Technologies 2-29 challenges through such pioneering efforts as the President’s Malaria Initiative, the Global Health Initiative, and Feed the Future. Many of the lessons learned and the great leaps in AGRICULTURE (3) 2-5 development from these efforts point to the catalytic and transformational potential from Photo: KickStart International The Dutyion Root Hydration System sustained investments in science, technology, innovation, and partnership. USAID’s legacy MoneyMaker Pumps of developing and implementing innovative breakthroughs—from the seeds of the green Rapid Milk Chiller revolution, to microfinance, to oral rehydration therapy—has saved lives, created economic EDUCATION (5) 6-9 opportunity, and advanced human development. Same Language Subtitling MobiLiteracy Building on this legacy, USAID established the U.S. Global Development Lab (The Lab) in early SMS Data Transmission System 2014 to lead our efforts in applying science, technology, innovation, and partnerships to solve BeLL and Ghana Reads Application global development challenges and improve our development impact. The Lab will enable USAID Total Reading Approach for Children mLearning Application to bring a diverse set of partners - entrepreneurs, world-class experts from corporations, NGOs, ENVIRONMENT (1) 10-11 universities, science and research institutions, and our Missions around the world - together to Fresh Life Toilet and Sanergy Sanitation Services discover, incubate, and scale breakthrough development innovations in sectors like water, health, Photo: Jervis Sundays, Kenya Red Cross Society food security and nutrition, energy, and climate change, among others that can reach hundreds HEALTH (11) 12-21 of millions of people. Holomic Rapid Diagnostic Reader ePartogram The Lab is an evolution of USAID’s Offices of Innovation and Development Alliances (IDEA) Prenatal Sprinkles and Science and Technology (OST), and it is designed to build off the incredible work USAID PharmaCheck is already doing, support the most promising science, technology, innovation, and partnership Photo: Nena Terrell/USAID Pratt Pouch solutions, and break down barriers to ensure the Agency’s success. PIERS on the Move Pumani Bubble CPAP This catalog presents select innovations supported by USAID and its partners through open SafeSnip development programs that form the foundation of the Lab. The catalog illustrates a range of Odón Device cost effective and potentially transformative solutions that are possible when we tap into the Bioneedle energy, commitment, and entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of people around the world. Photo: AFP/Ashraf Shazly CommCare

This is an exciting time, where now more than ever before, ending extreme poverty is HUMAN RIGHTS (1) 22-23 within reach. I invite you to take a look at some of these solutions and see what is possible. MediCapt WATER (1) 24-25 Compartment Bag Test Photo: USAID CROSSCUTTING (4) 26-29 Andrew Sisson DataWinners Acting Executive Director Mobile Money U.S. Global Development Lab Almas Line of Mobile Products Sahel Shake

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1 AGRICULTURE The Dutyion Root Hydration System AGRICULTURE Photo: Design Technology & Innovation

The Dutyion Root Hydration System (dRHS™) is a subsurface irrigation technology that works by allowing water vapor to permeate through the walls of the pipe. It is installed at root depth and made from a durable material called Dutyion.™ The water supplied to the pipes may be fresh or polluted, i.e. seawater, since only water vapor can escape through the walls of the pipe. The vapor that reaches the roots is fresh water. Gravity is all that is required, since the driving force is the vapor gradient, and the vapor release is directly correlated to level of dryness. Photo: Design Technology & Innovation Photo: Design Technology & Innovation • Makes valuable use of wastewater for plant growth where plants cannot normally be grown. • Increases carbon capture while increasing the value of desert land. • Uses water efficiently in places where water is an extremely valuable commodity.

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2 Photo: KickStart International 3 Photo: KickStart International Photo: Promethean Spenta Technologies

AGRICULTURE MoneyMaker Pumps Rapid Milk Chiller AGRICULTURE

• Widespread demand and distribution for this • Supports rural farmers, enhancing the Photo: Promethean Spenta Technologies product is demonstrated by sales of more livelihood of 6 million in alone. than 220,000 pumps across Africa to date. • Cost-effective and sustainable alternative • Increases agricultural income by an average energy source to capital-intensive of 500% for pump owners switching from diesel generators. subsistence to irrigated farming. Supported by LAUNCH • Ensures food security by increasing agricultural output and building resilience to climate-related challenges and poverty. “Running of diesel MoneyMaker Pumps in Action generators is capital- KickStart promotes low-cost irrigation pumps to help farmers grow high-value crops throughout intensive and with prices the year and sell their crops when prices are high. MoneyMaker Pumps are sold to empower climbing up, our costs poor families to climb out of poverty. However, have increased. Since despite the benefits and low cost of the pumps, they are beyond the easy reach of many poor Photo: KickStart International deregulation of diesel farmers. To meet this need, KickStart designed two financing services that are expected to will happen in the next increase access to the products and help break year, we have decided down financial barriers to technology adoption— Mobile Layaway and “Rent-to-Own” services. to go for an alternative

Supported by Development Innovation Ventures energy option.” Managing Director of Amul India’s largest cooperative dairy Photo: Promethean Spenta Technologies

The Rapid Milk Chiller uses the first industrial application of thermal storage batteries to Photo: KickStart International bridge the electricity gap that exists in rural India. Rural dairy farmers are able to chill milk without a diesel generator for the first time and sell it into the organized dairy industry without spoilage. The Rapid Milk Chiller is purchased by large dairy processors, and is “Buying a pump changed everything for my family deployed to villages where small farmers can deposit raw milk, even when there is no KickStart International is a non-profit social enterprise that designs and mass markets in a very short time. I am now the envy of the power available at the time of milking. Initially, six Rapid Milk Chillers were tested to prove low-cost, high-quality irrigation pumps that are appropriately designed for small-scale the concept in the field and India’s largest private dairy has recently ordered fifty of the farmers in Africa. KickStart educates farmers about the benefits of irrigation and enables village, thanks to this amazing pump!” Rapid Milk Chillers. This thermal battery technology can also be applied in order to chill them to purchase pumps locally through the private sector. MoneyMaker Pumps allow other agricultural and medicinal items in need of refrigeration, such as fruits and vegetables, farmers to increase their agricultural productivity and incomes, lifting their families Mama Edna as well as vaccines. Designed to be used with unreliable power supply, the battery can be out of poverty. Sotik, Kenya used with solar or intermittent power from the grid.

4 5 EDUCATION Same Language Subtitling EDUCATION

Same Language Subtitling (SLS) is the idea of subtitling the lyrics of television and video in the same language, providing viewers with both auditory and visual recognition of words to increase reading comprehension. SLS has been implemented on several popular Bollywood films’ songs on Indian television in 10 languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, and Punjabi. The subtitles are designed to change the color of every word in perfect timing with the song to provide automatic and subconscious reading practice to weak readers. Photo: PlanetRead and SLS Centre at IIM-Ahmedabad

“Same Language Subtitling • Cost and time effective means Same Language Subtitling in Action Photo: PlanetRead and SLS Centre at IIM-Ahmedabad to improve literacy that fits into SLS was first implemented on Indian national doubles the number of people’s preexisting routines. television in 1999 and currently is used for functional readers among • Large market potential 10 national languages: Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, demonstrated by the more than 300 Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, primary school children. million weak readers in India alone. Punjabi, and Oriya. SLS reaches more than 200 million weak readers every week in a A small thing that has • Government and private sector support country with 300 million weak readers and due to increased television ratings and an additional 300 million illiterates. SLS has a staggering impact levels of literacy, resulting in India’s Ministry enormous potential in India, where a booming on people’s lives.” of Information and Broadcasting calling film industry produces more than 1,000 movies for SLS as a national policy. and more than 5,000 music videos every year. President Bill Clinton September 2009 Supported by All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development

6 7 SMS Data Transmission BeLL and Ghana Total Reading Approach for MobiLiteracy Technology System Reads Application Children mLearning Application

• Easily accessible MP4 files provide parents Photo: Education Development Center Total Reading Approach for Children with daily 60-90 second long literacy lessons. The Basic e-Learning Library (BeLL) and the Ghana Reads Application use interactive mLearning Application in Action EDUCATION pedagogy to engage students and provide teachers with educational resources for use EDUCATION • Widespread use of mobile phones in World Education, Inc., in partnership with on affordable, modern technology. These technologies improve students’ literacy skills developing countries makes this technology Kampuchean Action for Primary Education, by providing tailored educational content for individual student or classroom needs. easily deployable, inexpensive, and scalable. Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth, BeLL provides teachers with lesson plan templates and professional development and Sport, and Education Technology for • Anytime and anywhere learning resources. Student performance feedback is sent to Ghana Reads coaches who Development, is implementing the Total increases accessibility of parent-child assess progress and suggest remedial lessons as needed. Reading Approach for Children mLearning learning programs. Application in eight primary schools. Each • Sustainable and cost-effective school received tablets and smartphones educational program requiring little with the mLearning application, which or no training or data costs. measures student diagnostics against the national curriculum. Literacy coaches tailor students’ practice to meet individual learning needs, and parents can check out materials for continued practice at home. The SMS Data Transmission Technology system Photo: World Education, Inc. in collaboration provides a solution for schools in the Philippines with Education Technology for Development

with limited internet connectivity to access and Photo: Open Learning Exchange assess students’ performance data for the National The Total Reading Approach for Children Parental involvement is correlated Achievement Test (NAT). This system allows mLearning Application teaches Khmer to children’s educational success. schools to receive NAT performance data language reading skills through interactive In countries with high rates of illiteracy and simple analysis from the Philippines media activities linked to skills required among adults, new solutions such as Department of Education via SMS. in the national curriculum. Literacy MobiLiteracy encourage parental games and stories employ sound,

engagement for supporting literacy Photo: Education Development Center phoneme, consonant, vowel, and acquisition among their children. • Instantaneous access to student word recognition via mobile devices. MobiLiteracy delivers daily, mother- performance data is made tongue audio lessons on mobile phones possible via SMS. for parents to share with their children. • Free, open education resources cost • Developed in collaboration with • Cost-effective access to performance data less than $5 per student per year. Photo: Urban Planet Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, at approximately $0.03 per text message. Youth, and Sport, this application • Develops local teachers through MobiLiteracy in Action • Data analysis for performance data uniquely supports students in reaching interactive teacher coaching. The pilot program is currently being is made easily accessible to teachers national reading benchmarks. conducted with 60 Ugandan parents over and administrators in order to • Learning experiences are maximized for • The widespread use of mobile phones a 91-day period modeled after the length address deficiencies. teachers, students, and administrators. makes this technology deployable, of a Ugandan school term. The curriculum inexpensive, and scalable. is divided into five short lessons with two SMS Data Transmission BeLL and Ghana Reads App in Action review lessons every seven days progressing Technology System in Action The Ghana Reads program is currently being • Accessible learning increases opportunities for parent-child through letter recognition and phonetics, This product will be tested in September Photo: Open Learning Exchange pilot tested in 10 schools, and by September vocabulary acquisition, and listening 2013 and has the potential to impact 53 2013 will be in four districts across two learning interactions. comprehension through storytelling. schools, 900 teachers, and 35,000 students regions, directly affecting 6,000 students Participants are assessed on learning in the Mindanao region of the Philippines. and 160 teachers. Supported by All Children Reading via text message. Grand Challenge for Development Supported by All Children Reading Supported by All Children Reading Photo: World Education, Inc. Supported by All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development Grand Challenge for Development in collaboration with Education Grand Challenge for Development Technology for Development

8 9 ENVIRONMENT Fresh Life Toilet and Sanergy Sanitation Services ENVIRONMENT Photo: Sanergy Photo: Sanergy

• Compact size of 3'x5' fits well in Fresh Life Toilets in Action densely-packed urban slums and its Sanergy makes sanitation sustainable in cartridges’ 30L capacity ensures easy urban slums with an innovative systems- transport of waste. based approach resulting in a sanitation • Water-free collection system captures urine value chain with three major parts: franchise, and feces in separate 30L cartridges, collect, and convert. Sanergy’s team collects reducing odor and preventing both the human waste from its network of low- human-waste contact and groundwater cost Fresh Life Toilets, takes it to a central contamination. processing facility, and then converts it into organic fertilizer and renewable energy, • Pre-fabricated, pre-cast materials are which leads to the model’s sustainability. Photo: Sanergy made in a centrally located, controlled While this product will be initially launched workshop by a trained team. in Kenya with planned expansion to urban • Ferro-cement panels are highly durable, slums across East Africa, it presents a light, and easy to maintain. These qualities valuable integrated sanitation model ensure durability, equal to or greater than for application in slums worldwide. five years, and reduce transportation costs. Fresh Life Toilets provide a holistic approach to development by addressing the critical Supported by need for reliable, hygienic sanitation services, while simultaneously generating jobs and • Cleanliness is promoted by an epoxy paint, Development Innovation Ventures renewable energy. Fresh Life Toilets are small-form, modular, hygienic toilets designed preventing unit staining, while attached hand for urban slums and sold as franchises to local residents, who run them as small washing stations promote patron hygiene. businesses with the help of Sanergy’s business support services – which includes branding, marketing and daily waste collection services.

10 Photo: Jervis Sundays, Kenya Red Cross Society 11 HEALTH Holomic Rapid Diagnostic Reader Photo: UCLA Biophotonics Lab (Inventor) and Holomic LLC Photo: UCLA Biophotonics Lab (Inventor) and Holomic LLC

• Cost-effective, lightweight, compact tool for quality screening for pathogens and bacteria. • Cutting-edge tool for telemedicine providing diagnostics in remote and low-resource areas. • Early warning of incipient epidemics allows public health agencies to

monitor spread of diseases. HEALTH

Supported by LAUNCH Photo: Nena Terrell/USAID Ethiopia

The Holomic Rapid Diagnostic Reader (HRDR) combines the features and the power of today’s smartphones with advanced optical and software design to give the user a unique lightweight, handheld, accurate, and economical reader for improved rapid diagnostics with lateral flow immunoassay devices. It captures the image of the rapid diagnostic test (RDT); performs quantitative measurements; provides accurate and robust test results independent of operator skill and external illumination conditions; displays therapeutic information; and stores results for later or real-time transfer to local or remote laboratory information systems or electronic health records. Smart RDT reader applications implemented through Holomic’s Cloud information service can provide geo-mapping and real-time monitoring of patients and populations, as well as inventory management and quality tracking.

12 Photo: Nena Terrell/USAID 13 Photo: Jhpiego Photo: Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children

ePartogram Prenatal Sprinkles

• Creates connections between different • Substantial market consisting of millions levels of healthcare providers and of women with low calcium dietary intake for Sick Children Child Health, The Hospital Photo: Centre for Global healthcare facilities. and for whom both iron and calcium supplements are recommended • Allows easy and efficient prioritization of during . patients and interpretation of clinical data. • Easy to use in-home fortification option • Reduces time and complexity of graphing that masks the unpleasant taste of iron by automating the plotting of data. and feel of calcium. ePartogram in Action Prenatal Sprinkles in Action The ePartogram is designed to be Currently the prototype is being tested in implemented district-wide so that referral Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ideally, the product centers and their periphery clinics are able would be used in populations where to share patient records when transferring a pregnant women are known to have low woman or for consultation. In addition to the dietary calcium intake, which is frequently ePartogram software, there are several core observed in low- and middle-income country components of a district-wide ePartogram settings. However, there are necessary steps implementation: tablet procurement, internet- before scaling up this innovation, such network connectivity, identification of a central Photo: Jhpiego as conducting field trials in various rural level clinician for remote support, training settings to assess the effects of Prenatal sessions for providers, program staffing, and

HEALTH Sprinkles on hemoglobin and iron status HEALTH budgeting for tablet repairs and replacements. in pregnant women and to assess its acceptability across diverse geographic Supported by Saving Lives At and cultural settings. Grand Challenge for Development Supported by Saving Lives At Birth Grand Challenge for Development The Hospital for Sick Children Photo: Centre for Global Child Health,

The ePartogram is an affordable, easy-to-use, handheld electronic decision-making tool for preventing and managing complications during labor. The ePartogram aims to decrease maternal and newborn death during labor and delivery. It accomplishes this by putting the Prenatal calcium supplementation is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) validated and data-driven World Health Organization (WHO) paper partograph into an to reduce pregnancy-induced hypertensive disease and related morbidity and mortality in easy-to-use format that uses clinical decision algorithms to predict complications and flash populations with low dietary calcium intake. However, calcium-iron interactions and the size of messages and warnings. This device will positively transform safe by enabling the recommended calcium dose have served as barriers to the implementation of this strategy. front-line providers to more rapidly assess and respond to labor complications and receive As a potential solution, Prenatal Sprinkles provides a pH-sensitive, differential time-released, Photo: Jhpiego crucial guidance to save the lives of women and newborns. microencapsulated prenatal calcium and iron powder for home-based supplementation.

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PharmaCheck Pratt Pouch PIERS on the Move Photo: Boston University Photo: University of British Columbia • Incredible accuracy of greater than 95%. Photo: Duke University • Durability makes this product ideal for remote settings. • Portable with an easy-to-use customizable, modular platform with minimal power usage. Supported by Saving Lives At Birth Grand Challenge for Development Photo: Boston University HEALTH HEALTH

The transmission of HIV from mother to child during the birthing process can be • Decreases maternal and perinatal largely prevented by the administration of anti-retroviral drugs. However, the child mortality by predicting the risk of must receive the medication within 24 hours after birth to be effective. In places complications of pre-eclampsia. where at-home are common and travel to clinics is difficult, timely delivery poses a substantial problem. The Pratt Pouch, a durable, foilized, polyethylene pouch, • Int egrates multiple innovative technologies for coordinated assessment and treatment is filled and sealed by a local pharmacist and then given to an HIV positive mother of pre-eclampsia in low-resource settings. at an antenatal visit. If the mother is unable to make it to the hospital to deliver, she can tear open the pouch and provide the drugs to the infant, preventing PIERS on the Move in Action her newborn from becoming HIV positive. PIERS on the Move integrates two previously separate successful innovations: a predictive

Photo: Duke University score, called the miniPIERS score, and a • Effective alternative to If I would have the option conventional containers, “ Phone Oximeter, to overcome barriers such such as syringes, cups, to choose between using as lack of skilled workers, distance, and and pill bottles, resources. The prediction of adverse maternal which can destroy a bottle of medicine with outcomes in pre-eclampsia is based on the medication’s a spoon or dropper or symptoms and clinical signs, including a active ingredient. low blood oxygen saturation level that can simply using the pouch, be measured with the Phone Oximeter. • Easy and safe to store By combining these innovations into one for up to 12 months. I would pick the pouch platform on a mobile phone application, Pre-eclampsia Integrated Estimate of RiSk (PIERS) on the Move is a mobile phone application Providing an accuracy of greater than 95%, PharmaCheck offers an easy-to-use, field- • Simplifies omplicated,c any day.” they will be immediately available in rural, for local, rapid, and accurate risk assessment, referral, and treatment advice for pre-eclampsia, ready, customizable platform for improving access to quality medicines in low-resource multi-drug regimens low-resource community settings. and the transmission of information to referral centers for coordination of triage, transportation, areas by verifying drug content and timed release. The system uses fluorescent probes for new mothers. and treatment. The PIERS on the Move application combines oxygen saturation spot-checks Pratt Pouch User and microfluidics to perform analysis in a reproducible, efficient manner, with results Supported by Saving Lives At Birth from the Phone Oximeter with clinical data from patient evaluations. It generates a risk score consistent with bulk assays. A medicine sample is placed in a chamber connected Supported by Saving Lives At Birth Grand Challenge for Development and provides advice to aid in decision making for triage, transport, and treatment of pregnant to the device and a simple readout provides drug information to the end user. Grand Challenge for Development women with suspected or confirmed pre-eclampsia. Photo: University of British Columbia

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Pumani Bubble CPAP SafeSnip Odón Device

• Highly effective, low-cost solution for low- Medicine, and MD Anderson are working in Photo: Novate Medical Technologies, LLC. Photo: Novate Medical Technologies, LLC. resource hospitals, which could save the lives partnership to implement use of the Pumani of 178,000 babies across Africa each year. device in all central and district hospitals in Malawi: training nurses, clinical officers, and • Low-maintenance features such as no electromedical engineers in the use and reliance on wall air source, portability, repair of this device; educating mothers and minimal consumable parts make about the safety and efficacy of the device; this a sustainable solution. and performing an economic evaluation to assess whether it is a resource-effective Pumani bCPAP in Action treatment for neonatal respiratory illness. The Pumani bCPAP device is being used in Malawi to treat infants with severe respiratory Supported by Saving Lives At Birth illness. Rice University, Queen Elizabeth Grand Challenge for Development Central Hospital, the Malawi Ministry of Health, 3rd Stone Design, Baylor College of Photo: Rice University

SafeSnip is a patented disposable and degradable plastic obstetric device SafeSnip in Action that simultaneously cuts, clamps, and SafeSnip aims to reduce neonatal mortality shields the umbilical cord from infection. in developing countries by making the HEALTH HEALTH SafeSnip’s symmetric design and birthing process more efficient, intuitive, Photo: World Health Organization multiple safety features prevent misuse and safe. The device utilizes novel locking and shorten the delivery process by mechanisms and opposing plastic blades The Odón Device is a low-cost, easy-to-use revolutionary development in transforming umbilical cord severance that rely on sheer force to clamp, cut, and used to facilitate and designed to minimize trauma to both the mother into an intuitive one-step procedure. shield the umbilical cord, and enclose the and baby. The Odón Device is made of film-like polyethylene material and may be umbilical tissue for the first 10-14 days of potentially safer and easier to apply than forceps and vacuum extractor for assisted life. These features allow SafeSnip to safely deliveries. More than ten percent of deliveries—an estimated 13.7 million births each • Ease of use and cost-effective nature of this sever the connection between mother and year—require some form of assistance during the second stage of labor. Access product make it a sustainable alternative. child while preventing reuse and reducing to appropriate care is often limited in developing countries. The Odón Device contamination between deliveries. may be a useful tool for any assisted delivery with a skilled provider: • Allows easy and efficient prioritization of patients and interpretation of clinical data. approximately 9 million deliveries each year. Supported by Saving Lives At Birth • Disposable nature of the product prevents Grand Challenge for Development infection from reuse and promotes sterility. • Reduces risk of fatal maternal and Supported by Saving Lives At Birth newborn complications due to a Grand Challenge for Development

Photo: Novate Medical Technologies, LLC. prolonged second stage of labor. • Disposable nature of the product The bCPAP device has improved survival rates for prevents infection from reuse “ and promotes sterility. premature babies in our unit. Nurses can easily Odón Device in Action initiate treatment and provide ongoing care for babies The Odón Device is being tested in a receiving CPAP. With the Ministry of Health, we are two-phased study in healthcare facilities The Pumani bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) device provides in and rural South Africa. Study respiratory support for newborns struggling with severe respiratory illness in now disseminating the device throughout Malawi.” results will inform future research to assess low-resource settings. In a clinical study at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital effectiveness of the Odón Device in reducing in Malawi, the device has been shown to significantly improve survival for Dr. Elizabeth Molyneux negative obstetrical outcomes, including neonates suffering from respiratory distress. Professor of Pediatrics, University of Malawi newborn infections acquired intrapartum. Photo: World Health Organization

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Bioneedle CommCare

• Proven to improve access to care, quality of care, and accountability of care. • Cost-effective, scalable solution to building community-based primary care. • Facilitates best practice sharing through built-in application builder in the mHealth system for community health workers.

CommCare in Action A randomized, controlled trial showed that reminders from CommCare, with eventual escalation to supervisor notification, led to 85% more timely visits compared to community health workers not receiving

Photo: Bioneedle Technologies Group reminders. In addition, CommCare dramatically improves accountability of care through real-time monitoring of Accredited Social Health Activists’ activities. A study in Madhya Pradesh observed an improvement in data completeness from HEALTH 67% to 84% after introducing CommCare, HEALTH as well as a reduction in the time it took to transfer data to a program coordinator from 45 days to 8 hours. Photo: Dimagi Supported by Development Innovation Ventures Photo: Bioneedle Technologies Group

There is an urgent need to improve access • Enables access to safe, effective and Photo: Dimagi to safe, affordable and effective vaccines. affordable vaccination anywhere in the Nozzle Muscle Skin Bioneedle Technologies Group has developed world; and because the Bioneedle does the Bioneedle as a new vaccination technology, not require a cold chain, populations in as alternative to the current Syringe/Needle/ remote and tropical areas can be reached. Vial/Cold-chain technology. A Bioneedle is a • Reduces costs of logistics: The very biodegradable mini-implant, pre-filled with small size of Bioneedles, their ease of use, CommCare replaces community health workers’ paper registers and flip charts with a thermo-stabilized vaccine. After pain free and uncomplicated logistics imply that open-source software that runs on inexpensive phones. During home visits, CommCare subcutaneous delivery, the Bioneedle begins the costs of logistics (transport, storage, aids community health workers in registering clients and provides real-time guidance absorbing body fluids within seconds and is distribution, and handling) can be through key counseling points, decision support, and simple referral algorithms. degraded within minutes, thereby releasing reduced by up to 95% compared to CommCare also supports images, audio, or video clips to be played to clients and the vaccine. the current Syringe/Needle/Vial/ to help low-literate staff use CommCare. CommCare submits visit data in real time Photo: Bioneedle Technologies Group Cold-chain technology. • Applicable to all vaccines. to a central cloud server, CommCareHQ, where it is privacy-protected and backed up. Supervisors can log onto CommCareHQ and view each community health worker’s Supported by LAUNCH A Bioneedle is a biodegradable mini implant, prefilled with a thermo-stabilized vaccine. • Biodegradable: Leaves no performance indicators, including daily activity, number of clients, length of visits, After pain-free subcutaneous delivery, the polymer starts absorbing body fluids within (contaminated) waste. and follow-up rates. By combining at scale an innovative, field-tested mHealth solution, seconds and is degraded within minutes, thereby releasing the vaccine. The loading • Eliminates wastage of vaccines. a massive health workforce, a broad base of implementation partners, and rigorous, capacity suffices for multiple vaccines in just one Bioneedle. Delivery is safe, painless, relevant, and timely research, Dimagi is helping to realize the full potential of community- and leaves no contaminated waste. based primary care as envisioned by the Government of India and globally.

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HUMAN RIGHTS MediCapt Photo: AFP/Tauseef Mustafa HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN

• A revolutionary tool to collect evidence of mass atrocities and bring perpetrators to justice. • Combines cutting-edge technology to effectively document and secure court-admissible evidence.

Supported by The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention Photo: AFP/Viktor Drachev

MediCapt is a mobile application equipping medical clinicians with critical tools for collecting, documenting, and preserving court-admissible forensic evidence of mass atrocities, including sexual violence and torture. By combining an innovative mobile data collection platform with a secure photo capture and chain of custody system, healthcare providers can effectively document and photograph medical evidence and conveniently store it in one location. Such evidence can then be securely transmitted to judicial authorities to support prosecutions and attain accountability for these crimes.

22 Photo: AFP/Ashraf Shazly 23 WATER Compartment Bag Test

• Comprehensive, easy-to-use test Compartment Bag Test in Action containing a compartmentalized bag, The CBT may be used to directly measure fecal indicator bacteria growth medium, microbially safe water access on a global scale water sampling and mixing container, in national demographic and health surveys and disinfecting material. such as the Demographic and Health Survey • Easy-to-score, visual, color-change results. (DHS) and the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), and in other drinking water • Ambient temperature incubation quality assessments. The CBT enables the from 25 to 44.5°C. validation and monitoring of existing water • Quantitative, accurate results for E. coli safety projects, supports water safety plans, is in 100 mL sample volume. The Hydrogen usable in disaster settings, and can serve as a health behavior education tool. The CBT also Sulfide version of the CBT has also been Photo by Aquagenx tested and validated. provides knowledge directly to households to empower action when unsafe water is found.

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“I found the CBT to be easy to use and I had no trouble using this test even though this is my first time. The information provided is important. People should know about their water safety.”

Mwanza Tanzania resident

Photo by Aquagenx WATER

The Aquagenx Compartment Bag Test (CBT) is an affordable, commercially available microbial water quality test developed by Dr. Mark Sobsey and Dr. Ku McMahan of the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health with support from the university and USAID. The CBT quantifies E. coli levels in a 100 mL sample, is portable and self-contained, and does not require electricity, a lab, or special training. It allows for incubation at ambient temperatures and provides built-in decontamination. The CBT can be used by anyone in virtually any setting.

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CROSSCUTTING DataWinners

• Easy-to-use data collection with a local telephone number provided for SMS, multilingual support, questionnaire builder, data visualization and export, and unlimited collection potential. • Quick collection and analysis supports better decision making and allows organizations to maximize their resources. • Cloud-based technology allows organizations to access their information in real time.

DataWinners in Action In Senegal, USAID is supporting the Ministry Photo: Human Network International of Education’s use of DataWinners to collect standardized testing results for reading and math from primary schools nationwide. Ministry of Education Data Administrators built their SMS questionnaires in DataWinners and registered more than 9,500 schools and School Directors into the system. Directors were then trained to submit data via SMS us- ing their personal mobile phones. Data is recorded in real time in DataWinners cloud-based database. The standardized DataWinners is an online, do-it-yourself data collection service that allows organizations test results are easily accessed by data to shorten the time between data collection and better decision making. Organizations administrators and regional and district use DataWinners to transform inefficient paper forms into digital questionnaires in minutes. officials for verification. Initial results are Data senders then submit their data using any combination of SMS, smartphone, and positive and data collection will be expand- web. Incoming data is instantly recorded in a cloud-based database for viewing and ed to monitor other Ministry of Education analysis. Data administrators can access and analyze data in real time and react rapidly. needs, such as quality assurance, teacher Photo: Human Network International absenteeism and student-level data.

Supported by All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development “DataWinners modernized our data collection. The Photo: Human Network International Primary School Directors now submit their data more quickly and with fewer errors using their own mobile phones. The Ministry has plans to use DataWinners CROSSCUTTING to collect other education data in Senegal.”

Amadou Lamine Ndiaye Data Administrator Ministry of Education, Senegal

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Mobile Money Almas Line of Mobile Products Sahel Shake

• Accelerate financial inclusion. Photo: Ali Al-Saadi / AFP • Freedom to choose off-peak hours. Photo: USAID • Increase safety of users and payees. • Discounts on calls longer than three minutes. • Underpin good governance. • Free service to block any number • Increase transparency. from calling or texting. • Unlock private sector initiatives. • Other female-focused services. Mobile Money in Action Almas Line of Mobile Products in Action USAID is scaling mobile money platforms Since the product’s launch in April 2011, through stand-alone technical assistance the proportion of Asiacell’s female (TA) programs; unique partnerships including customers has grown from 20% to close the Better than Cash and USAID-Citi Mobile to 40%, and about 1.8 million Iraqi women Money Accelerator Alliances; and by adopting have been connected to friends and family Mobile Money into the Agency’s work, and are becoming more socially and by promoting its use in procurements. TA financially independent, thanks to programs are currently in the Philippines, their access to mobile technology. Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malawi, Afghanistan, The GSMA mWomen Design Challenge was launched to simplify the smartphone and Haiti, with more to come. Supported by (Android) user interface to help overcome reading and technical literacy barriers GSMA mWomen to adoption. Grand prize winner “Sahel Shake” seeks to alleviate barriers to mobile Supported by phone ownership and use for women in low and middle-income markets. USAID/Mobile Solutions

Photo: STR / AFP • Gives women control over their phone resources. • Provides prominent airtime and battery management widgets. • Cost-conscious phone sharing and emergency SMS features. • Improves usability of complex phone “If the money was inside [a bag] they could features (for example, through a

have taken it from me, but if it’s on my phone text-to-voice, voice-to-text function). Photo: Sarah Fathallah you can’t take from it. It is like a safe for me.” Sahel Shake in Action Drawing from research on interface design Martine Guerda Blanc for low-literacy contexts, Sahel Shake aims Mobile Money User to improve the usability of complex phone features by offering a highly visual contact management system and integrating voice and icons into SMS entry and delivery. The

CROSSCUTTING prominent airtime and battery management CROSSCUTTING widgets give women greater control over In early 2011, Iraqi women represented less than 20% of mobile users for mobile their phone resources. operator Asiacell. A member of the USAID-supported GSMA mWomen Programme Working Group through its parent the Qtel Group (now Ooredoo), Asiacell decided Supported by Mobile Money is the delivery of financial services outside conventional bank branches to completely shift its strategy and design a new offering—the Almas line— GSMA mWomen Design Challenge using information and communications technologies and non-bank retail agents. to have unique features for Iraqi women’s needs. Customers use their mobile devices to send and receive monetary value.

28 29 Annex - Specifications Agriculture Education

The Dutyion Root Hydration System MoneyMaker Pumps Rapid Milk Chiller Same Language Subtitling MobiLiteracy SMS Data Transmission Basic e-Learning Library (BeLL) Total Reading Approach for Children Technology System and Ghana Reads Application mLearning Application Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Countries with limited supplies Subsistence farming families living in rural Rural farmers living in areas with Countries with poor literacy and a strong Uganda Target Market Target Market Target Market of fresh water. areas across Sub-Saharan Africa. high sun exposure. film industry. Schools with little or no internet access. Schools in developing countries aiming to Cambodia Current Market increase literacy and acquire basic quality of Current Market Current Market Current Market Current Market Uganda Current Market secondary education. Current Market Middle East Kenya, Tanzania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Rural India India The Philippines Cambodia Zambia, and an additional 15 African Development Stage Current Market Development Stage countries through its Global Development Stage Development Stage Pilot stage Development Stage Ghana Development Stage Pilot testing has been completed Institutional Partnerships program. Entering the market for the first time. In use since 1999 and expanding within The product is scheduled to be Pilot tested in 2013 and approaching and the product will enter the Indian market. Specifications field tested in September 2013. Development Stage market entry. Development Stage market within the next two years. Specifications • Unit Price: $3 per 91 days of lessons Market availability projected for January 2014. MoneyMaker Pumps are currently on the Specifications Specifications Specifications • Unit Price: $9,000 • MP4 for mobile phones Specifications market and new financing mechanisms Specifications • Capacity: 1,000 liters per day • Unit Price: $1 USD per year per 1,000 viewers • Unit Price: $0.03 per text message • Unit Price: Free, open-source software to increase pump affordability are in • Production Site: • Length: 100 meters • Platform: Television or film • Hardware: HP Pavilion P6-2114d PC; • Unit Price: Free, open-source software • Platform: Mobile phones and tablets the “Proof of Concept” stage. • Production Site: Mumbai, India Durham, North Carolina, USA • Production Site: Spain • Production Site: Mumbai, India APC BE500R-PH BACK-UPS ES, 500VA; • Platform: Raspberry Pi for BeLL; Projector, • Production Site: Cambodia GSM modem - iTegno 3800vvv tablet, or computer for Ghana Reads App Specifications Developer Contact Developer Contact Developer Contact Developer Contact • Platform: Linux, PHP, MYSQL, Apache, • Production Site: Ghana Developer Contact • Products: MoneyMaker Hip Pump / Promethean Spenta Technologies Urban Planet Design Technology & Innovation and Gammu MoneyMaker Max [email protected] PlanetRead and SLS Centre Catherine Oliver Smith, JD World Education, Inc. in collaboration with Mark Tonkin 617-512-8811 at IIM-Ahmedabad Chief Operating Officer • Production Site: The Philippines Developer Contact Education Technology for Development [email protected] • Unit Price: $60 / $130 Nirav Shah [email protected] Open Learning Exchange Jacole Douglas +44-1273-857222 • Materials: Plastic and steel Supported by COO, PlanetRead 323-871-1646 Developer Contact Kofi Essien Program Officer, World Education, Inc. • Weight: 4.5 kilograms / 17 kilograms LAUNCH [email protected] Education Development Center Project Manager Ghana Reads Program, [email protected] Supported by Supported by Executive Director OLE Ghana 617-482-9485 • Output: 1.25 acres in 6 hours / www.launch.org/innovators Parthibhan Amudhan William Potter LAUNCH +233 (0) 208138099 2 acres in 6 hours General Manager, PlanetRead All Children Reading Senior International Technical Advisor www.launch.org/innovators [email protected] Supported by • Suction Depth: 8 meters / 8 meters [email protected] Grand Challenge for Development [email protected] allchildrenreading.org/innovations 541-602-7200 All Children Reading • Pressure Head: 8 meters / 16 meters Supported by Grand Challenge for Development Supported by Yvette Tan • Production Site: All Children Reading allchildrenreading.org/innovations All Children Reading Technology Advisor Grand Challenge for Development Grand Challenge for Development [email protected] Developer Contact allchildrenreading.org/innovations allchildrenreading.org/innovations 541-602-7200 KickStart International Edward Chan-Lizardo Supported by Chief Development and Partnership Officer [email protected] All Children Reading +1-650-704-9133 Grand Challenge for Development allchildrenreading.org/innovations Supported by Development Innovation Ventures www.usaid.gov/div/portfolio

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Fresh Life Toilet and Holomic Rapid Diagnostic Reader ePartogram Prenatal Sprinkles PharmaCheck Pratt Pouch Pre-eclampsia Integrated Pumani Bubble CPAP Sanergy Sanitation Services Estimate of RiSk on the Move Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Pregnant women in low- and middle-income Target Market Low-resource mobile clinics Skilled birth attendants at all facilities Pharmaceutical quality control Children born at home to HIV positive Target Market Countries throughout Africa countries with low calcium dietary intake. Residents of highly populated areas in developing countries. managing labor and deliveries. in low-resource areas. mothers in places where at-home Community health workers in rural, with low-resource hospitals. with inadequate sanitation services. births are common. low-resource settings. Current Market Current Market Current Market Current Market Current Market Bangladesh (clinical testing only) Current Market Private biochemistry and Kenya and Nepal Ghana Current Market Current Market Malawi Kenya diagnostic companies Namibia, Tanzania, Ecuador, and Zambia South Africa Development Stage Development Stage Development Stage Development Stage Product is in pilot production Development Stage Development Stage Final stages of product development. Currently being prototyped. Development Stage Development Stage Product is in the pilot production for clinical trial use. Fresh Life Toilet is currently in the The product is currently being Product is in pilot production The prototype is currently stage for clinical trial use. beta testing phase, and Sanergy is commercialized and has been Specifications Specifications for clinical trial use. undergoing clinical testing. Specifications approaching completion of a 12-month in the market since July 2012. • Unit Price: < $5 for the App, • Unit Price: <$2 per test Specifications pilot test with a network of 60 low-cost • Production Site: Ontario, Canada Specifications Specifications market price for the tablet • Weight: 5–7 lbs • Production Cost: $400 latrines in a Nairobi slum. Specifications • Unit Price: $0.04 per pouch • Unit Price: $150 • Hardware: Tablet Developer Contact • Production Site: • Replacement part price: $1 per • Unit Price: Available upon request • Material: Polyethylene and • Platform: iOS and Android diaphragm pump every 2 years Specifications • Size: 7-inch tablet Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA • Weight: 2 lbs aluminum composite • Length: 16 mm • Weight: 14.2 lbs • Unit Price: $450 for Sick Children; Ontario, Canada • Production Site: Developer Contact Dr. Daniel Roth and Dr. Stanley Zlotkin Developer Contact • Size: 2" x 3" • Production Site: China • Size: 7.25" x 9.5" x 14.25" • Materials: Plastic squat pan and Los Angeles, California, USA Jhpiego Co-Principal Investigators Boston University • Production Site: China thin-shell cement superstructure • Power: 220 V Cyndi Hiner [email protected] Muhammad Zaman Developer Contact • Measurements: 3’ x 5’ Inventor and Developer Contact • Production Site: California, USA Technical Development Officer 416-813-5795 Associate Professor Developer Contact University of British Columbia • Production Site: Mukuru, Nairobi UCLA Biophotonics Lab (Inventor) [email protected] Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Mark Ansermino Developer Contact and Holomic LLC 410-537-1898 Supported by [email protected] Robert Malkin Research Team Director, LGTmedical Rice University Developer Contact Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D. Saving Lives At Birth 617-358-5881 Professor of the Practice [email protected] Rebecca Richards-Kortum Sanergy Professor, UCLA School of Engineering Supported by Grand Challenge for Development of Biomedical Engineering 604-875-2711 Stanley C. Moore Professor and David Auerbach [email protected] Saving Lives At Birth www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome Supported by [email protected] Chair of Bioengineering Department Director of Sales 310-825-0915 Grand Challenge for Development Saving Lives At Birth 919-660-8266 Supported by [email protected] [email protected] innovate.ee.ucla.edu www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome Grand Challenge for Development Saving Lives At Birth 713-348-3823 617-543-3022 www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome Supported by Grand Challenge for Development Supported by Saving Lives At Birth www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome Supported by Supported by LAUNCH Grand Challenge for Development Saving Lives At Birth Development Innovation Ventures www.launch.org/innovators www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome Grand Challenge for Development www.usaid.gov/div/portfolio (Also by NIH, NSF, ONR, and ARO) www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome

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SafeSnip Odón Device Bioneedle CommCare MediCapt Compartment Bag Test DataWinners Mobile Money

Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market Target Market For birthing attendants in both emerging Health facilities in developed People in need of vaccinations worldwide, India Worldwide, particularly conflict zones Populations seeking clean drinking Organizations interested in modernizing Approximately 2.37 billion adults in and developed markets. and developing countries. especially in low-resource settings. where crimes against humanity and water in low-resource settings. their data collection efforts in the education, developing economies who do not have Current Market mass atrocities (including sexual public health, food security, early warning, access to formal financial services. Current Market Current Market Current Market India violence and torture) may occur. Current Market agriculture, environment, water and India Argentina N/A The CBT has been used extensively sanitation, and other sectors. Current Market Development Stage Current Market throughout the world and is Those seeking access to safe, secure, Current Market Development Stage Development Stage Development Stage This program is currently being used Countries where mass atrocities (including available globally. and accessible methods of payment, Prototype is about to begin first round Safety and feasibility testing. The product is currently being prepared by nearly 50 organizations in India, with sexual violence and torture) have occurred. More than 1,000 organizations in more than including those without access to of production manufacturing. Prototype development stage. for clinical studies. ambitions to nationally scale the program. Development Stage 80 countries use DataWinners.com to formal financial services. Development Stage Currently available in the market. collect data to improve their decision- Specifications Specifications Specifications Specifications The prototype is currently being developed. making processes. Development Stage • Material: Lustran ABS 348 N/A • Unit Price: Comparable to syringe needle • Materials: Open-license software Specifications Available in several markets. There are Specifications Development Stage at least 191 live deployments of services medical grade plastic • Length: 16 mm for use on mobile phones • Unit Price: $5-$10 per test, Currently available at www.datawinners.com. around the world, many of which are • Size: 1.03 cubic inches Developer Contact • Platform: Smartphone, tablet depending on order quantity • Diameter: 1 mm in developing markets. World Health Organization Developer Contact • Production Site: Cambridge, MA • Material: Clear polyethylene, nylon, • Weight: 0.4 lbs Specifications Dr. Ana Pilar Betran, Medical Officer Dimagi E. coli growth medium and substrate, • Production Site: USA Developer Contact Specifications [email protected] [email protected] Developer Contact chlorine tablets • Unit Price: $359/month with six month Bioneedle Technologies Group subscription or $299/month with N/A 617-649-2214 Physicians for Human Rights, • Size (for a package of 10 CBT’s): Developer Contact www.bioneedle.com a one year subscription Supported by Datadyne, and InformaCam 7.5 inches by 8 inches by 4.5 inches Novate Medical Technologies, LLC. Gijsbert van de Wijdeven, DVM, MSc Developer Saving Lives At Birth Supported by Karen Naimer • Platform: SMS, smartphone, internet William Strobel, CEO [email protected] • Weight (for a package of 10 CBT’s): 2 lbs Grand Challenge for Development Development Innovation Ventures Director, Program on Sexual Violence in • Production Site: Washington, DC, USA Various [email protected] +31 62 88 45525 • Capacity: 100 mL per test www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome www.usaid.gov/div/portfolio Conflict Zones, Physicians for Human Rights 504-909-8102 • Company Location: North Carolina, USA Supported by Supported by [email protected] Developer Contact 617-301-4234 Human Network International USAID/Mobile Solutions Supported by LAUNCH Developer Contact David McAfee, CEO http://www.usaid.gov/mobile-solutions Saving Lives At Birth www.launch.org/innovators Supported by Aquagenx [email protected] Grand Challenge for Development The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention Dr. Mark D. Sobsey 1-240-838-9577 www.savinglivesatbirth.net/innovatorshome www.thetechchallenge.org/winners/capture.html Kenan Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Supported by UNC at Chapel Hill All Children Reading [email protected] Grand Challenge for Development 919-906-2740 allchildrenreading.org/innovations Website: www.aquagenx.com Twitter: @Aquagenx Sales: [email protected]

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34 35 Almas Line of Mobile Products Sahel Shake The Catalog: Version 1.5 (2014)

Target Market Target Market Iraqi women Women in the developing world PUBLISHER (particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, Current Market Middle East, and South/Southeast Asia). U.S. Agency for International Development Iraqi women Office of Science and Technology Current Market 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20523 Development Stage N/A In market Development Stage SUPERVISORY BOARD Specifications Prototype David Ferguson, Kathryn Viguerie N/A Specifications Developer • Platform: New user interface EDITORIAL BOARD Asiacell for the Android OS H. Timothy Hsiao (Editor), Abigail Casey (Assistant) Supported by Developer § GSMA mWomen Sahel Shake, in conjunction with Ooredoo DAI contributed to the editing of this document: www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/ Kristi Ragan, Bryan Gerhart, Kristen Roggemann, Supported by programmes/mwomen Edward Percarpio GSMA mWomen Design Challenge designchallenge.mwomen.org †Graphic Design: Marwan Freij, Shadin Saah ‡Copywriter: Samantha Stein

CORRESPONDENTS DCHA: Mark Goldenbaum, Emilie Yam E3: Rina Dhalla GH: Jennifer Bergeson-Lockwood, Karen Clune IDEA: Kristen Gendron, Audrey Hyland OST: Will Schmitt

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