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  • A car mechanic's invention to deliver babies is finally coming to market

    October 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    OdonAssist is an inflatable device designed to help better perform assisted vaginal births (AVB). Several organizations, including the WHO, have been working to get the device on the market, especially in areas with high maternal and infant mortality rates. AVBs are proven to reduce risks during birth, like excessive bleeding, and clinical studies have shown that the OdonAssist device is both safe and effective in performing AVBs, as 88.5% of uses have been successful.

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  • How to integrate community leaders into pandemic preparedness

    September 01, 2021 |

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    Response Location: India

    Community-based organizations have been key to reaching historically marginalized populations with COVID-19 information. Grassroots leaders and community workers are effective because they have built trust among communities over many years and they have first-hand knowledge of community needs and barriers. The pandemic shifted the priorities of many organizations. For example, the Self Employed Women’s Association now supplies members with PPE kits, food, and handmade masks to address the pandemic’s health and economic impacts. Proper mask usage increased significantly in the villages where they are based.

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  • It Takes a Teenager to Help a Teenager in Crisis

    September 24, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Connecting to peers makes coping with emotional distress easier for youth. Youthline, a youth suicide crisis intervention service operated by Lines for Life puts those struggling in touch with volunteers their own age via call, text, or email. The youth volunteers are supervised by a clinician and are trained in SafeTALK and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).

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  • The women's health advocates pitching the end of cervical cancer

    May 22, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Uttar Pradesh

    90 percent of cervical cancer deaths occur in countries where preventative care is unavailable. An organization called TogetHER is leading the charge to eradicate cervical cancer deaths by raising funds to distribute HPV vaccinations worldwide and integrating cervical cancer screenings into women's health clinics as part of routine care.

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  • The rise of the mega-donors

    April 27, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Ultra high net worth individuals are giving money to philanthropic causes in new ways. The international development community can engage these potential donors by approaching them as partners, using data to demonstrate impact, and drawing on the donors’ personal experiences.

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  • Can these 'stovers' finally crack the clean cooking problem?

    October 26, 2017 |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    It's been proven within the cookstove industry that providing free cleaner-energy stoves to those cooking with traditional stoves or over open flame does not work as planned. Inyenyeri, a Rwandan cookstove company however, is adding a twist to that method by giving away their cookstoves that reduce emissions by 98 to 99 percent compared to wood or charcoal stoves for free, as long as the consumer agrees to buying their wood fuel pellets.

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  • What can the sharing economy bring to emerging markets?

    March 09, 2017 |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    April Rinne, a sharing economy adviser in Portland, believes that new technology and the emergence of the sharing economy has massive potential to connect talent, resources, and ideas around the globe, particularly in the context of advancing international development initiatives. She works with clients around the world to "help the sharing economy realize its full potential" and challenge the assumptions surrounding poverty.

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  • Lessons from Sri Lanka on malaria elimination

    December 15, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka

    Efforts to eliminate malaria from Sri Lanka led to only 17 cases one year, but failure to continue health safety practice allowed the number of cases to rise again to over 200,000 in 1999. In 2016 Sri Lanka celebrates it’s 5th year of being malaria free, thanks to consistent vector control, access, surveillance and treatment.

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  • What is driving Uber's global impact?

    August 05, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    At the San Francisco headquarters of Uber, three televisions greet visitors and employees just past the check in desk. The central screen plays a video on repeat: “Moving riders, moving partners, moving newlyweds, moving ice cream, moving Kenya, moving China, moving Australia, moving anywhere.” On the opposite wall, bright green dots are plotted on a black world map, demonstrating the spread of this ride hailing company that just completed its 2 billionth ride.

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  • Unleashing the power of positive deviance

    July 20, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The growing emphasis on data driven development presents an opportunity for global development professionals to learn from and perhaps even replicate the successes of the best performers within a data set. But that can only happen once they learn how to take a positive deviance approach, identifying the people or policies that defy the norm and achieve better outcomes as result, as a starting point to determine what is working.

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