USAID and DFID Announce Global Development Innovation Ventures to Invest in Breakthrough Solutions to World Poverty

For Immediate Release

Thursday, June 6, 2013

USAID Press Office

202-712-4320

Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.K.’s Department for International Development (DFID) announced plans today to build a global investment platform that reimagines how to support breakthrough solutions to the world’s most intractable development challenges.

Innovation has yielded dramatic gains in global prosperity. The mission of Global Development Innovation Ventures (GDIV) will be to focus resources in international development towards innovative approaches with proven, radically successful results. 

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