This grant is aimed at designing a stand-alone activity focused on open innovation prize and challenge events to address various development objectives in Indonesia. USAID seeks inputs for a five-year mechanism that will engage participants from higher education, civil society, and the private sector to tackle core development challenges. The initiative will leverage the expertise and creativity of problem solvers through an open innovation approach involving challenges, prizes, and crowdsourcing. Proposed challenges include solutions for delinking palm oil production from deforestation, enhancing workforce opportunities, improving maternal and child health outcomes, and addressing democratic governance issues. Deadline for submissions is Dec 05, 2014.
Opportunity ID: 269708
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | RFI-CHALLENGE-INDO |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Request for Information – USAID/Indonesia: Challenge and Prize Platform in Development |
| Opportunity Category: | Other |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | Request for Information |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Other |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Other (see text field entitled “Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity” for clarification) |
| Category Explanation: | Support the delivery of multiple open innovation prize and challenge events across a broad range of development objectives (DO). |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 98.001 — USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Nov 19, 2014 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Dec 05, 2014 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Dec 05, 2014 |
| Archive Date: | Jan 04, 2015 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | – |
| Award Floor: | – |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | This RFI is issued to obtain information, therefore, this RFI is open for all interested organizations/NGOs/firms/institutions, both US and non-US organizations, Indonesian local entity, profit or non-profit, as well as from any current implementing partners that have on-going projects with USAID/Indonesia. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Indonesia USAID-Jakarta |
| Description: | USAID/Indonesia is seeking inputs for designing a new stand-alone activity to support the delivery of multiple open innovation prize and challenge events across a broad range of development objectives. The mechanism, with an expected period of performance of five years, will provide a means of involvement and collaborative ideation by a wide spectrum of participants from higher education, civil society and the private sector around core development challenges faced by Indonesia. USAID wishes to harness the expertise, ingenuity, and creativity of problem solvers in Indonesia and worldwide through an open innovation approach that involves challenges, prizes and crowdsourcing.
It is anticipated that these challenges will address (but will not be limited to) novel approaches involving science and technology to delink palm oil production from deforestation; provide better access to workforce opportunities for poor and vulnerable populations in Indonesia; address challenges in the health sector related to infectious disease and improving maternal child health outcomes; and novel solutions to address democratic governance issues such as effective service delivery, more open and accessible government data, and protection of citizen rights. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Johanna Gardjito
Acquisition Specialist Phone 62-21-3435-9497 Email:jgardjito@usaid.gov |
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Related Documents
Folder 269708 Other Supporting Documents-Request for Information (RFI) USAIDIndonesia Challenge-INDO 1 -> RFI CHALLENGE-INDO.pdf
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