Civil Society Outreach Bureau for Food Security May 5, 2011 Wendy - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Civil Society Outreach Bureau for Food Security May 5, 2011 Wendy Taylor Senior Advisor, Innovative Finance USAID

The Problem A woman dies from childbirth every 2 minutes • The onset of labor marks start of high-risk period for mother and baby until at least 48 hours after birth. Each year –  150,000 maternal deaths  1.6 million neonatal deaths  1.2 million stillbirths • Majority of deaths in low and middle income countries – less than half of these mothers deliver in hospitals

The Saving Lives at Birth Partnership CHALLENGE To develop groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings around the time of birth This partnership will spark revolutionary advances that can dramatically reduce maternal and newborn deaths around the world. - Secretary Hillary Clinton

We seek groundbreaking ideas The Challenge that can LEAPFROG conventional approaches in three areas… technologies. Roadblock: lack of medical technologies appropriate for the community or clinic setting Target : bold ideas for science and technology advances that prevent, detect or treat maternal and newborn problems at the time of birth. service delivery. demand. Roadblock : mothers in resource-poor settings Roadblock : too few trained, often lack information about services they need, motivated, equipped and properly what they can do, and benefits from accessing located health staff and caregivers health care or adopting healthy behaviors. Target : bold ideas for new Target : bold ideas for empowering and engaging approaches to high-quality care at pregnant women and their families the time of birth

What We’re Looking For • Be "off the beaten track,” daring in premise, and CLEARLY SOLUTIONS DIFFERENTIATED from standard practice SHOULD • Enhance uptake, acceptability and provide for SUSTAINED USE of service Enable or provide for LOW-COST solutions • • Have a strong likelihood of achieving a SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT on one or more important adverse maternal, fetal, or neonatal health conditions • Be SCALABLE in resource-poor settings Be able to be MONITORED, MEASURED and EVALUATED •

Funding GRANTS $14M to support grants in the first round • SEED GRANTS to demonstrate proof of concept  Funding: $250K  Length of Award: Up to 2 years  Number of Awards: Up to 25 • TRANSITION GRANTS to transition successful innovations toward scale up  Funding: $2Million  Length of Award: Up to 4 years  Number of Awards: Up to 5 $50M to support multiple rounds over 5 years

Timeline Mar-11 May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Sep-11 6/20 – 6/24 May 9 7/26-7/28 Tech Panel Apps Due DevEx Round 1 3/9 Grant awards Tech Panel VIP Launch made by Round 2 5/9 – 5/30 6/27 9/30 Issue RFA Eligibility and Awards Finalists Innovation Announced Announced screens Award Negotiation Application Period Review Period 8

Time and again, specific scientific, technological and operational breakthroughs have transformed insurmountable development challenges into solvable problems. - Administrator Rajiv Shah, USAID SavingLivesAtBirth.net