- Agriculture and Food Security
- Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
- Economic Growth and Trade
- Education
- Environment and Global Climate Change
- Frontiers in Development
- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
- Global Health
- Science, Technology and Innovation
- Water and Sanitation
- Working in Crises and Conflict
Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN)
USAID has created a constellation of seven Development Labs that harness the intellectual power of great American and international academic institutions and that catalyze the development and application of new science, technology, and engineering approaches and tools to solve some of the world’s most challenging development problems.
These Labs will help USAID and the development community to discover more innovative, results-driven, efficient, cost effective and accessible solutions to global development challenges in areas such as global health, food security and chronic conflict. The HESN will create a novel constellation of seven Development Labs that will enable USAID to:
- Improve its understanding of development problems and solutions through better data and analytics
- Test, evaluate, and catalyze technologies for development
- Design, create, and incubate revolutionary approaches in addressing development problems including the incubation of new low-cost technologies and innovations
- Promote entrepreneurship to sustain and scale these tools and approaches; and harness the enthusiasm and interest of students for development.
Outcomes
These Development Labs will enable USAID to enhance the Agency’s ability to create revolutionary approaches in addressing development problems; test and catalyze new tools within science, technology, and engineering; and, promote entrepreneurship to sustain and scale these tools and approaches. USAID’s investments in pioneering scientific, technological and innovative approaches to development challenges can produce new solutions, attract new solvers to the Agency, including from the developing world, and help countries grow past aid.
Inaugural USAID Development Labs
University of California, Berkeley | Duke University | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The College of William and Mary | Texas A&M University | Makerere University (Uganda) |
Michigan State University |
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