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Better Data, Better Approaches: Why Data-Driven Innovation is Key to Improving Youth Mental Health
…and is taking a data and evidence-based approach to understand gaps and opportunities and to promote the exchange of new data. The goal? To help influence lasting change in programming, research and policies related to young people’s mental health and wellbeing. As an initial step, Being’s partners are conducting a landscape analysis, compiling available data…
Aakar Innovations: How a social enterprise empowers women through menstrual hygiene and health
…sanitary pads and menstrual health education to women and girls in rural India, Aakar went on to develop India’s first certified 100% compostable sanitary napkin. Women driving social change Aakar’s approach is simple: Sanitary pads are produced at local productions hubs, which are fully run and operated by women. The production hubs provide job opportunities for women,…
Grand Challenges Canada helps bring clear sight to low-income workers in India
…impaired vision[i] to the global economy has been estimated to be a whopping $202 billion[ii], and low-income individuals are disproportionately affected by this loss. It’s time we change this. Uncorrected vision impairment causes headaches, decreases productivity, and can lead to loss of income. The good news is that a pair of glasses can increase productivity…
TakaTaka Solutions: How innovation in recycling saves water and lives
…able to reach our current volume of collected waste suggests the kind of impact we are able to have at the household level. We are beginning to change behavior, giving people in low-income areas attractive and affordable alternatives to their typical waste disposal measures. Faith Njema, our recycling point manager in Githogoro, can see evidence…
Making street food in Bangladesh safer and healthier
…street vendors. Instead of attempting to apply a brand new innovation, the intervention adopted the World Health Organizations’s Five Keys to Safer Food programme and developed a behavioural change communication intervention; 100 street food vendors in Dhaka city were provided with safe food handling training and were offered a low-cost, plastic water jar made of food…
Let’s talk about global mental health
…were less likely to get infections. But the thing that seemed to make the difference was what was done with the knowledge. Instead of simply telling parents to change the diet of their children, feed them more often and wash their hands, they designed a program of behavioural change. They developed feeding sessions. But to enter, a…
Grand Challenges Canada Celebrates Appointment of Karlee Silver as CEO, Bids Farewell with Gratitude to Co-CEO Jocelyn Mackie
…Being Initiative for youth mental health with a group of international funders and partners Incubated and invested in global health impact investment funds Initiated new challenges on climate and health and the development of sustainable diagnostic labs in low- and middle-income countries Guylaine Saucier, Chair of the Board at Grand Challenges Canada, stated: "The Co-CEO…
Ukweli Test Strips: Pilot study funded by Grand Challenges Canada enables social innovation to scale their venture and save women’s lives
…receive testing in the comfort of their homes by trusted community health workers. Screening pregnant women early and often through Ukweli Test Strips can be fundamental to change. After being screened, the woman can know whether she needs to make the journey to see a doctor or if she is healthy. Currently, over half a…
Grand Challenges Canada-funded global health and humanitarian innovations reach important milestone: 10 million lives improved
…impacted women and children, rolling back progress towards the achievement of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda/Sustainable Development Goals. But we’ve also seen the power of innovation to change lives. Grand Challenges Canada estimates that the innovations it has supported to transition to scale and sustainability have the potential to improve up to 64 million lives…
A content analysis of Global Mental Health from a policy perspective
…analytical framework that will be applied and why it is challenging to characterize global mental health as a policy issue. Chapter 2 identifies the characteristics particular to mental health which necessarily change the way that researchers and practitioners go about achieving policy influence, by helping them to conceptualize how the policy challenges they face are unique. Chapter 3 reviews lessons…