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At the end of 2015, the Lab announced $5 million in follow-on funding to this company. With this latest DIV award, they will power 200,000 Tanzanian households, a significant contribution toward its goal to reach 1 million households by 2017.
What is Off-Grid: Electric
100
In billions, this many people have benefited from USAID's food assistance programs.
What is 3?
100
Which prize was designed to harness innovative technologies to create environmentally sustainable small-scale systems to provide potable water for humans?
What is the Desal Prize?
100
USAID, partnering with the White House and the Department of Defense initiated an open call for proposals to find a better design for the protective equipment health workers were wearing to battle an epidemic in West Africa. USAID received over 1,500 ideas from all around the world. Name this epidemic.
What is Ebola?
100
By 2012, this initiative had provided drugs to help save the lives of over 50 million from the effects of a certain tropical disease.
What is the President's Malaria Initiative?
200
Off Grid Electric became the first company to receive all three rounds of funding ($5 million), the first beginning in 2012-from Lab program that is based on a Silicon Valley Venture Capital model.
What is Development Innovation Venture?
200
Feed the Future, led by USAID, contributed to a 33% decrease in stunting between 2008 and 2015 in this West African country.
What is Ghana?
200
This Lab program brings seven universities together with 400 unique partners and produced 163 new innovations last year.
What is the Higher Education Solutions Network?
200
In the past four years alone, Lab programs have attracted over 10,000 applicants, with this % of the applicants coming from developing countries.
What is 65%?
200
This program within E3 has assisted 100,000 entrepreneurs from 1999 to the present.
What is the Development Credit Authority?
300
Since its launch this Grand Challenge for Development has saved over 500 million liters of water, produced nearly 2,000 tons of food, and served more than 300,000 farmers and other customers in more than 20 low-resource countries.
What is Securing Water for Food (SWFF)?
300
Of 5%, 15%, or 55%, average incomes of Feed the Future beneficiaries in Honduras increased by this much.
What is 55%?
300
This service launched in 2007 for network operators in Kenya and Tanzania which allows users to deposit, withdraw, and transfer money easily.
What is a mPesa mobile-phone?
300
Together with partners and USAID who have provided $125 million in funding, the Lab supports what main tool that is used to define a problem and call upon the global community of solvers to propose solutions.
What is Grand Challenges for Development?
300
In 2012, USAID treated 1.5 million people afflicted by this lung-based illness.
What is tuberculosis?
400
This center in the Lab established "Mapping for Resilience" which brings mapping to college campuses--here and in developing countries.
What is The GeoCenter?
400
In Uganda, USAID is partnering with farmers to make this tasty starch more widely available in order to reduce Vitamin A deficiency.
What are orange-fleshed sweet potatoes?
400
USAID implementing partners are switching from cash to what new technology?
What are E-Payments?
400
In 2014, USAID estimated a value for this amount of money because of public and private partnerships.
What is 3 billion?
400
This multilateral donor is also USAID's largest vendor.
What is the World Bank Group?
500
The Securing Water for Food (SWFF) grantee provided a convenient, water-saving way for families, schools, and communities co-ops to grow their own vegetables.
What is Reel Gardening?
500
USAID's 2005 post-earthquake response in this Asian country was considered to be uniquely effective at the time due to the Agency's efforts to bring in the voices of community stakeholders.
What is Pakistan?
500
In the past year, the Lab received over 2,000 applications and has funded 86 solutions. This % of the applications came from developing countries.
What is 1/3 %?
500
USAID recently participated in a variety of events in New York City where leaders from 193 countries around the world came together at the UN General Assembly to adopt this shared vision for the future.
What are The Sustainable Development Goals?
500
USAID is collaborating with this government agency on SERVIR, which is helping people in more than 30 countries access and use satellite imagery to improve their lives.
What is NASA?
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