Tag: USAID

• Want To Mentor Women In Science?

  

  PEER is happy to announce a new initiative aimed at supporting the career development of women in science: the Women in Science Mentoring Program. This program is designed in response to established studies showing that women are underrepresented in higher education and academia, in part due to a disproportionate number of female researchers leaving science…

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  February 19, 2018

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• Innovation and Health: Grand Challenge to Help Health Care Workers Fight Ebola

  The Grand Challenge for Development aims to generate pioneering solutions to help healthcare workers provide better care in the midst of the Ebola epidemic. This challenge will unite the global community in the quest for ingenious ideas that deliver practical and cost-effective innovations in a matter of months. USAID needs new ideas to help ensure that…

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  October 7, 2014

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  Africa, African youths, AWP, AWP Network, business, business support, challenge, change, collaboration, competition, development, Ebola, Ebola Grand Challenge, education, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, growth, Guinea, healthcare, idea, ideas, Innovation, leadership, Liberia, marketing, Mary Olushoga, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, small business, solutions, support, sustainability, technology, The AWP Network, USAID, women, women and girls, women entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneurs, Youths

• $25 Million for Entrepreneurial Solutions

  The USAID is asking entrepreneurs to come up with solutions to the looming water and food scarcity crisis. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) put out a call to innovators for its annual Grand Challenge, and this year, the theme of the challenge is “Securing Water for Food.” In partnership with the Swedish International Development…

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  November 6, 2013

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  Africa, AWP Network, business, competition, development, emerging countries, Entrepreneurs, Food and Water, growth, Innovation, Innovators, Mary Olushoga, solutions, USAID