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Bold Ideas with Big Impact®

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This project raised awareness & understanding of adolescent depression and how it can be identified and treated in Malawi and Tanzania
The Friendship Bench has the potential to make mental health care accessible to an entire African nation
The Friendship Bench project has screened 2,960 individuals for depression to date
Jana Care has reached 5,000+ diabetic patients with their low-cost blood glucose monitor
The flocked swab is 16% more likely to reveal leading bacterial pathogens that cause diarrhea
A Point-of-Care Diagnostics project contributed to the accelerated roll-out of rotavirus vaccine by the Government of Botswana
LegWorks expects to sell 37,000 durable, affordable prosthetic knee joints in five years
Kidogo is running two best-practice community baby care centres, serving 100 children
Almost 400 new fathers are receiving small group counselling through the Father's Clubs project
This street food safety project contributed to the implementation of the Safe Food Act in Bangladesh to fight adulteration and protect …

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Note that some innovations are implemented in multiple countries.

First Steps (Intera za Mbere)


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Save the Children, Canada
Implementation Country
Rwanda
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Using mobile phones to deliver stage-based maternal and child health messages, reducing barriers in access to care in South Africa


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Praekelt Foundation
Implementation Country
Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda
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Early Childhood Hearing Loss Program


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earAccess
Implementation Country
Philippines
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Providing education to young girls on the risks of dating older, HIV-positive men


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Young 1ove
Implementation Country
Botswana
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Mental Health Beyond Facilities Project (mhBeF)


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Makerere University
Implementation Country
Uganda
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MomConnect: A mobile health platform improving the health of mothers and newborns at national scale


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Praekelt Foundation
Implementation Country
South Africa
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Improving dignity, health, and the environment through clean, safe, and efficient sanitation services


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Sanivation
Implementation Country
Kenya
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A hospital-to-home healthcare model, with surveillance during pregnancy and for children to age two, leading to maternal and child health


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Nyaya Health Nepal
Implementation Country
Nepal
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earAccess: Helping People with Hearing Loss in the Developing World


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earAccess
Implementation Country
Philippines
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Be Girl Inc. provides vulnerable girls and women with high-performance menstrual products to promote their health, education and empowerment


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Be Girl
Implementation Country
Mozambique
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Be Girl: Beautifully designed, affordable, high-performance, and reusable menstrual products


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Be Girl
Implementation Country
Mozambique
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A community-based mental health intervention for maternal mental health in Rwanda


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York University
Implementation Country
Rwanda
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Providing reproductive health, skilled delivery, post-natal care and non-communicable disease services to rural communities through co-owned medical centres


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Afya Research Africa
Implementation Country
Kenya
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HappyTap: Scaling up commercial distribution of an innovative hygiene solution


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WaterSHED-Cambodia
Implementation Country
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam
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Delivery of market-led solutions in toilet installation to address mortality and morbidity of children under five by reducing open defecation


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Population Services International (PSI)
Implementation Country
India
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KadAfrica: Empowering school girls in Western Uganda through passion fruit farming


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KadAfrica
Implementation Country
Uganda
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Scaling up of the BasicNeeds Mental Health and Development Model through a social franchise approach


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BasicNeeds UK
Implementation Country
Ghana
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Addressing maternal and neonatal mortality through increased antenatal care in impoverished and remote regions


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Cayetano Heredia University
Implementation Country
Peru
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New cervical cancer screening model with molecular testing for HPV


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Cayetano Heredia University
Implementation Country
Peru
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Social, emotional and economic empowerment through Group Support Psychotherapy


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Makerere University
Implementation Country
Uganda
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Grand Challenges Canada’s programs are primarily undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada provided through Global Affairs Canada.

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