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SUBMITTED: OCTOBER 30, 2016
REPORTING PERIOD: FY 2016
This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development.
It was prepared by the Development Impact Lab.
HIGHER EDUCATION SOLUTIONS
NETWORK - ANNUAL REPORT (FY 2016)
University of California, Berkeley Development Impact Lab AGREEMENT NO. AID-OAA-A-13-00002
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Contents Acronyms ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
1. Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................... 4
2. Major Milestones and Events Completed ............................................................................................. 6
3. Key Activities ........................................................................................................................................ 8
4. Engagement of Partners and Other Actors ........................................................................................ 12
4.1. Interdisciplinary Collaboration ................................................................................................... 12
4.1.2. Partner Engagement ...................................................................................................................... 13
4.2. Summary of Collaboration Across HESN ........................................................................................ 13
4.2.1. Data ......................................................................................................................................... 15
4.2.2. Solutions (Creation, Testing, Scaling) ..................................................................................... 15
4.2.3. Student Engagement ................................................................................................................ 15
5. USAID Engagement ................................................................................................................................. 16
5.1. USAID/LAB Interactions .................................................................................................................. 16
5.1.2. Other (Non-LAB) USAID/Washington Interactions .................................................................... 17
5.2. USAID Mission Interactions ............................................................................................................. 18
6. Monitoring & Evaluation ........................................................................................................................ 19
6.1. M&E Updates .................................................................................................................................... 19
6.2. Deviance from M&E Targets ............................................................................................................ 19
7. Lessons Learned / Best Practices ........................................................................................................ 20
8. Future Activities .................................................................................................................................. 20
9. Risks and Mitigation Plans ................................................................................................................... 21
10. Environmental Monitoring (if applicable) ........................................................................................ 21
11. Other .............................................................................................................................................. 22
APPENDIX……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….i
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Acronyms DIL Development Impact Lab
REPP Rural Electric Power Project
ECAR Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation
CAFE Collective Assessment and Feedback Engine
RCT Randomized Controlled Trial
TB Tuberculosis
BEO Bureau Environmental Officer
IRB Institutional Review Board
ICT Information & Communication Technology
ODK Open Data Kit
TIER Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
UC University of California
UCB University of California, Berkeley
UW University of Washington
DevEng Development Engineering
R&D Research and Development
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
IPA Innovations for Poverty Action
HESN Higher Education Solutions Network
REA Rural Electrification Authority
KPLC Kenya Power and Lighting Company
PCARI Philippines California Advances Research institutes
LIGTT Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies
J-PAL Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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1. Executive Summary
The Development Impact Lab (DIL) is an international consortium of universities and research
institutes working to accelerate global development through advances in science and engineering.
Headquartered at the University of California Berkeley (UCB), DIL was launched in 2012 with
support from the Global Development Lab at the US Agency for International
Development (USAID). The programming and activities outlined in this report are supported by two
USAID-funded Cooperative Agreements: the “DIL” cooperative agreement and another cooperative
agreement, titled “Sustainable Development Solutions” (SDS).
Co-led by the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global
Action (CEGA), DIL leverages the innovative capacity of world-class universities to design
“development solutions” that couple technological advances with novel economic and behavioral
interventions. These solutions are rigorously evaluated in the real world and iteratively redesigned based
on field results. Ultimately, proven solutions are transitioned to partners outside the university
(including governments, firms, and non-profits) for scale-up and dissemination. To formalize this
approach, DIL has established a new field of development engineering (Dev Eng), which is helping to train
new generations of development innovators to more efficiently and effectively solve challenges
associated with poverty.
In the last year, DIL has continued to build the ecosystem for Dev Eng, incorporating findings from a
performance evaluation (completed last year) into the design of ongoing activities. In 2015, a small
number of new research projects was added to the DIL pipeline of solutions, and several existing
projects received “top-up” grants to accelerate their development and hand-off to partners. We
furthered the training of new “development engineers” and shared successes, learnings and failures with
the broader development community. For example, DIL researchers led multiple sessions at the 2016
UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact.
DIL also hosted the 2016 State of the Science Conference: The Science of Scaling: Building Evidence to
Advance Anti-Poverty Innovation, which featured six panels with leading experts in the scale-up of
development interventions. The DIL conference was covered by the international development-focused
media outlet DevEx.
Looking back across 4 years, the DIL pipeline of solutions now includes more than 135 projects in 35
countries. Each of these projects has received funding and staff support from DIL, and they in turn have
contributed to articulating the new field of Dev Eng. To identify new solutions, we have offered research
grant competitions, translational top-up awards for more established projects, travel and exploratory
grants, and student prizes like Big Ideas@Berkeley. To improve our sourcing over time, we have
added new questions to our requests for applications, encouraging university investigators to carry out
more careful market analysis. We have also further emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary
teams as part of our application process and peer review process.
DIL continues to experiment with novel ways to transform our work into actionable intelligence for
governments and NGOs– including a pilot “data visualization” competition launched in Spring 2016. This
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new activity reflects DIL’s ongoing commitment to experimentation as it translates university-led
research into action. DIL is now entering its third year of offering a cross-disciplinary degree program
for doctoral students, called the Dev Eng Designated Emphasis at UC Berkeley. The program serves
as a minor for PhD students in engineering, natural sciences, and quantitative social sciences; current
enrollees include students in Architecture, Public Health, and Social Welfare, as well as Economics and
Engineering. Universities across the globe are incubating their own Dev Eng programs, inspired by the
work at UC Berkeley. This growing list now includes Iowa State University, University of Waterloo in
Ontario, Canada, and University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
To build capacity for high quality data collection among Dev Eng students and faculty, we hosted a
webinar series this year on technology-enhanced data collection techniques, watched by over 200
individuals. Additionally, in September 2016 UC Berkeley was awarded a National Science Foundation
Research Traineeship award, “Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems: STEM
Training for Actionable Research and Global Impact.” This new program directly recognizes the joint
work of UC Berkeley and USAID in training the next generation of development practitioners, and
builds on the Dev Eng minor by creating a new emphasis in food, energy, and water.
Finally, in May 2016 DIL launched the first issue of the new peer-reviewed journal, Development
Engineering: The Journal of Engineering in Development Economics. A journal launch event was
held at the 2016 UNESCO Chair Conference on Technologies for Development at École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Published by Elsevier, this open-access journal showcases
influential, collaborative work from engineering and the social sciences. It will create a lasting legacy for
DIL’s investment in the new field of Dev Eng.
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2. Major Milestones and Events Completed
This year, DIL has continued to focus on institutionalizing the Dev Eng approach—through support for
demonstration research, the launch of the Journal of Development Engineering, and enhancements to
the Designated Emphasis in Dev Eng at UC Berkeley.
DIL draws many of its achievements from the individual research projects that make up our portfolio.
These efforts are creating scientific breakthroughs, generating evidence, and enabling changes in policy
and development programming, globally. This past year, several DIL teams generated data that have
been made accessible. The Rural Electricity and Power Project in India conducted and published its
baseline survey of households in Muzaffarpur District, Bihar. The Bombay Realtime Air Sensing (BRAS)
project has built a real-time air quality monitoring network at IIT Bombay, with the data available
through social media and mobile applications. The BRAS deployment was intended to spark discussions
around establishing an air quality index (AQI), building a model to predict future AQI, and establishing
mitigation policies for poor air quality.
Several other DIL research projects reached major milestones:
Community Cellular Network (PI: Eric Brewer): In the last year, the CCN team has adapted its
core technology, the community-scale cell tower, to the Philippine context. They have added
functionality to the towers to make it possible to target promotions to individuals and
households. In January 2016, the team successfully installed a CCN in the Philippine province of
Rizal, to ensure that the technology works and can interface with the network owned and
operated by local telco Globe. They also confirmed that SIM cards can be deployed to
customers and managed by the community. The tower has been running successfully with
hundreds of regular users. A tagalog survey instrument was developed through extensive focus
groups and piloting, and the team began baseline surveys of CCN users in July 2016. In each
village sample, the team conducted a complete census of all households. The baseline focuses on
social network structure, and core social and economic outcomes. As of mid-September, 1,500
households had been surveyed.
Cool Joule (PI: Duncan Callaway): During this reporting period, the research team has
developed a novel SMS energy alert system that allows Nicaraguan energy consumers to set and
monitor monthly household energy limits (cost and amount) via SMS. They also designed and
implemented a cheap home energy monitor with different visualizations for low- and low-
middle-income urban households (LUZERO). To accelerate this work, a strong partnership has
developed with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and conversations have begun
with the electric utility about different policies for energy efficiency and demand response that
could create win-win situations for the country, the utility, and end-consumers. The research
team has developed a business model for low- and low-middle-income urban households (who
are rarely engaged in smart grid pilots) to participate in a micro-level demand response pilot,
allowing users to exchange full control of their refrigerator/freezer for “hard energy efficiency”
implementations and detailed end-user tailored information.
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In May 2016, DIL reached another milestone with the launch of Development Engineering: The Journal of
Engineering in Economic Development. The publication’s debut was marked with a panel and reception at
the 2016 International Technologies for Development (Tech4Dev) Conference at École Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne, sponsored by Elsevier. The first issue features six articles authored by 15 DIL-
funded researchers and faculty members, including multiple authors based in developing countries. The
journal provides a channel for academic recognition for faculty and students who engage in high-risk
research that advances international development. All articles from the journal are available for free on
ScienceDirect. Additionally, at the writing of this report, three additional articles had been accepted (“in
press”) and will be incorporated in the journal’s second issue, releasing in Spring 2017.
Over the last year, the Dev Eng training program has continued to evolve, with faculty members at UC
Berkeley using a combination of experiential learning and coursework to shape the next generation of
development problem solvers. In September 2016, UC Berkeley was awarded a prestigious National
Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT), titled: “Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and
Water Systems: STEM Training for Actionable Research and Global Impact.” This new five-year program
explicitly builds on the Dev Eng graduate program seeded as part of DIL and will support students with
tuition, stipend, and fieldwork expenses, creating a new concentration area in Dev Eng at the nexus of
food, water, and energy systems.
Another milestone is DIL’s annual State of the Science conference, held September 26, 2016 in Berkeley.
“The Science of Scaling: Building Evidence to Advance Anti-Poverty Innovations” brought together more
than 100 academic researchers, development practitioners, technology developers, and investors to
review the evidence on scaling successful anti-poverty innovations - particularly those developed at
universities - with the goal of helping to articulate a research agenda for the “Science of Scaling”. DIL’s
leadership is drawing from the event’s presentations and discussions to develop a literature review for
publication in Year 5. Some of the event’s conclusions were highlighted in a DevEx article by journalist
Catherine Cheney after the event. DIL will also present the findings from this conference at USAID’s
TechCon 2016 (on a panel to include leaders from JPAL and USAID) to ensure the larger GDL and
HESN communities benefit from the knowledge shared and created at the event.
Finally, DIL continues to help its researchers and their partners obtain external funding, prizes and
recognition as part of our innovator support strategy. Several DIL teams have secured additional funding
in the past year, including:
We Care Solar was awarded the first-ever United Nations Department for Economic and Social
Affairs “Power the Future We Want Award,” receiving USD 1M in Fall 2015. This year the team
began to operationalize this funding, creating regional trainings, replicating programs in additional
countries and promoting best practices.
Open Data Kit (ODK) received a major award from the Gates Foundation, supporting the DIL
team at University of Washington. The award will enable ODK to continue refining its mobile
data collection platform, to improve international development work around the globe.
Specifically, the award will facilitate integration of ODK with agricultural projects, supporting the
general development of open source tools for global development.
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3. Key Activities
Objective 1: Improve data quality, access and analytics to advance evidence-based
development decision-making
In Year 4, DIL invested in data generation and analytics through two activities: a data visualization pilot,
built on our portfolio of research projects (many of which generate high-quality data and rigorous
evidence for decision-makers); and the Mezuri platform, a cloud-based infrastructure for aggregating and
analyzing digital data from interventions in the field. Each of these activities is intended to improve the
quality and use of data by development actors.
Data Visualization Pilot: Policymakers, researchers and development actors alike are increasingly
calling for the more efficient translation of research findings into policy guidance. High-quality data
visualizations are gaining momentum as an effective mechanism for this translation process. DIL is
supporting a data visualization pilot, identifying existing projects that—with additional support for data
analytics—might generate more actionable evidence for scale-up. With support from staff data scientist
Ofir Reich, DIL is creating high-quality outputs such as visualizations, interactives, and dashboards using
data from ongoing studies in the portfolio. Three projects selected for the initial round of the data vis
pilot include eWarehousing, High-Resolution Development Indicators, and the Rural Electric Power
Project (GridWatch). Summaries for each project are as follows:
Led by Craig McIntosh at UC San Diego, the DIL-funded eWarehousing project is deploying and
evaluating an online platform to match Ugandan smallholder farmers who want to sell small lots
of maize with buyers (traders) from surrounding cities. For the data viz pilot, DIL first
prototyped an interactive map interface for manually matching farmers with buyers, to improve
on current data collection tools. The second deliverable was a road analysis to estimate travel
costs for buyers, to be used by the project’s partner company AgriNet Ltd. Both products were
piloted in the field in August 2016.
Led by Joshua Blumenstock at UC Berkeley, High-Resolution Development Indicators is a DIL
project leveraging call detail records in Afghanistan to develop reliable measures of welfare and
income (complementing more costly sources of data, like surveys and censuses). A prototype of
a dashboard map that integrates project data has been completed, with the goal of being
informing policy-makers in Afghanistan about where pockets of poverty currently exist. The
dashboard will display indicators for household welfare and consumption at a granular, sub-
district level—extremely valuable data for a country like Afghanistan that has not fielded a
national census in decades.
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Led by Eric Brewer, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram, the Rural Electricity and Power
Project in Kenya is monitoring the impacts of access to grid electricity on rural households in
Kenya. A prototype of an animation showing monthly electricity consumption data, by
household, has been developed through the DIL data viz pilot. The longer term goal is to use
this visualization of electricity consumption to demonstrate how connecting to the electric
power grid affects the lives of rural Kenyans.
Led by UC Berkeley doctoral student Noah Klugman and professor Prabal Dutta, GridWatch is
a smartphone app to crowd-source the monitoring of power outages. The app was developed in
partnership with IBM Research Africa and the Kenya Power and Lighting Company, both in
Nairobi, Kenya. As part of the DIL data viz pilot, staff scientist Ofir Reich is developing
additional customer-facing features for the app, including visualizations and communications with
the local power utility.
In addition to these data viz products, the pilot has included the development of several short animated
videos of DIL projects – including a water processing plant for Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation
(ECAR), a communications protocol that uses GSM white spaces to deliver voice and SMS to remote
communities, and the Gridwatch phone app. These videos, which explain some of the science behind the
innovations, will be released in Year 5.
Mezuri: During this period the Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER) group at UC
Berkeley and the Open Data Kit (ODK) group at the University of Washington continued active
development of the Mezuri Data Platform and version 2 of ODK. Simultaneously, they worked closely
with DIL projects in furthering their data collection and analysis processes. ODK development highlights
include the ODK 2.0 tool restructuring, with regular alpha releases and testing with external partners
such as UCSF in Kenya and VillageReach in Pakistan. The team also undertook a significant restructuring
of the mobile client, documentation and tool upgrades, an ODK Scan field trial in Malawi, and extension
of the mobile client with the addition of new row-level database permissions. Mezuri development
activities included an in-depth evaluation of current cloud services offerings from the major providers,
which led to an investigation of Azure’s changing user authentication and authorization mechanisms and
exploration of how it can be mapped to the Mezuri use case requirements of user roles and
responsibilities.
Additional prototyping efforts for Mezuri also focused on integration with Docker containers, Jupyter
Hub, and visualization platforms. Applied project support included the addition of communications
hardware to the the TIER-developed FlexBox/Cool Joule project sensors for measuring and controlling
energy consumption in Nicaragua; development of a lightweight data platform to streamline
microcontroller based implementation of the Mezuri metadata schema and enable the continuous
tracking of metadata from Arduino-based off-the-shelf systems to a micro-service in the cloud, suitable
for stove use monitoring system (SUMS) iButton sensor data collection and processing; development of
a design for a frequency model to enable distributed demand response; and a collaboration with
Partners in Health to examine and address their needs of reconciling data from many sources, locations
and collaborating organizations as well as test and provide feedback on existing infrastructure. The team
also initiated efforts to find a long term home for the ODK and Mezuri software projects to ensure
their sustainability.
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Objective 2: Accelerate the creation, testing, and scaling up of transformative innovations,
technologies and approaches in development solutions
During this period, DIL hosted three distinct research competitions open to the DIL consortium.
The first competition, hosted in Fall 2015, was a “top-up” competition designed in response to an
internal assessment of the DIL portfolio conducted in Spring 2015. The mid-term self assessment
suggested that a few existing projects, with modest further investment, could quickly achieve larger-scale
impact—either through further development of an initial product, or through replication of the original
study in a new context. We therefore invited a small group of existing DIL research teams to apply for
"top-up" support, to help them strengthen evidence for scale-up. Of the seven invited DIL projects,
three were selected for “top-up” funding of $45,000 to $55,000 over one year. Funding will allow these
ongoing projects to expand their study samples, create new uses for the data, and introduce impact
evaluation into tech deployments. Projects receiving top-up awards include: High Resolution
Development Indicators (PI: Joshua Blumenstock, University of Washington); Information & Intermittent
Water (PI: Alison Post & Isha Ray, UC Berkeley); and Community Cellular Networks (PI: Eric Brewer,
UC Berkeley).
Second, we completed our fifth DIL Explore Travel Grant competition, which funds early-stage
exploratory work and partnership development. The competition attracted 25 applications from 5
universities in the DIL consortium, with funding awarded to 7 teams of researchers at UC Berkeley,
Makerere University, and University of Washington. These DIL “explorers” will conduct early-stage fact
finding, needs assessments, and partnership development in South Africa, India, Tanzania, Nepal,
Cameroon, and Uganda.
Lastly, we ran a DIL Innovate seed grant competition in Spring 2016 to source new technologies and
approaches for the DIL pipeline. This represented DIL’s final competition for new projects; in Year 5,
DIL will only support projects already in its portfolio. DIL received 26 applications from 7 consortium
universities and we were able to fund 5 projects including: StreamDev: Low Cost Hydroinformatic
Sensing (PI: Joshua Viers, UC Merced); Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts (PI: Travis Lybbert, UC Davis);
Haqdarshak: Accessing Public Services (PI: Jennifer Bussell, UC Berkeley); Low-cost Air Pollution
Monitoring (PI: Engineer Bainomugisha, Makerere University); and Matching Job-Seekers to Employers
(PI: Jeremy Magruder, UC Berkeley).
In addition to these three research competitions, as previously mentioned, we facilitated a first-time
Data Visualization competition to leverage research findings and datasets to generate products that can
be more readily digested, and therefore used, by policy- and decision-makers. This new effort reflects
DIL’s commitment to experimentation as it relates to university research and the translation of field
research into actionable evidence for policy-makers.
For each of these competitions, DIL has documented the lessons learned from sourcing, derisking, and
advancing new ideas from the university community. Our team has also conducted portfolio analyses to
continuously evaluate our investments and make course corrections. The aim is to distill these lessons
into a document that others can use. In Year 5, DIL will publish a blog post or report with lessons
learned.
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Objective 3: Catalyze a global interdisciplinary ecosystem of individuals & individuals that
shares knowledge, promotes learning, & builds mutual capacity
DE in Dev Eng: One of the early goals of DIL has been to improve and formalize the training of
university development innovators, through the launch of a minor degree for PhD students interested in
technology and international development. In Spring 2016, the first cohort of doctoral students
graduated from UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in Development Engineering. They include: Dr.
Angeli Kirk, Agricultural and Resource Economics (Dissertation: Health, Human Capital, and Behavior
Change: Essays in Development Microeconomics); Dr. Ajay Pillarisetti, Environmental Health Sciences
(Dissertation: Inspecting What You Expect: Applying modern tools and techniques to evaluate the
effectiveness of household energy interventions); Dr. Jessica Vechakul, Mechanical Engineering
(Dissertation: Human-Centered Design for Social Impact: Case Studies of IDEO.org and the
International Development); Dr. Daniel Wilson, Mechanical Engineering (Dissertation: Quantifying the
Crisis of Cooking: Next-Generation Monitoring and Evaluation of a Global Health and Environmental
Disaster). This group epitomizes the diverse disciplines and research interests of students in the Dev
Eng program.
Postdoctoral Fellows: In December 2015 our Dev Eng postdoctoral fellows, Syed Imran Ali and Kweku
Opoku-Agyemang, completed their tenure with DIL. In their last semester at UC Berkeley, both Fellows
taught undergraduate courses at UC Berkeley and participated in multiple conferences and events. Dr.
Ali taught a new undergraduate course on Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Emergencies and
delivered guest lectures to multiple undergraduate and graduate classes, and graduate seminars. Dr.
Opoku-Agyemang taught Ethics, Methods, and Pragmatics of Global Practice and presented his research
at a number of venues around the country. In their final week as Fellows, both delivered a public
research presentation and shared their reflections about the importance and relevance of Development
Engineering in international development. Drs. Opoku-Agyemang and Ali summarized their reflections as
DIL Fellows in blog posts here and here.
DIL Ecosystem Events and Activities: DIL has continued to expand and nurture the global Development
Engineering community through a series of high-touch events and innovator support programs offered
each semester. For example, in December 2015 DIL held a “Tech Salon” event featuring a presentation
by UC Berkeley economist Catherine Wolfram, on the Rural Electricity and Power Project (REPP). Tech
Salons bring together an intimate group of experts to share industry and policy insights for specific areas
of research and development. The event brought together 25 invited technology experts and
development practitioners to share experiences measuring energy reliability in developing countries.
Attendees included representatives from Silver Spring Networks, the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (LBNL), Bechtel Infrastructure North America, and Pacific Gas & Electric.
In May 2016, DIL hosted its annual DIL Research Scientist Meeting. This one-day symposium provides a
unique opportunity for DIL-funded researchers, students, and faculty from the entire consortium—
including UC San Diego, University of Washington, Portland State University, and other campuses—to
connect and provide feedback on specific projects, while also sharing challenges and opportunities for
future work. The meeting is intentionally capped at approximately 70 participants, to facilitate detailed
feedback and networking; it was also a ‘closed’ working meeting, meaning that presentations were not
redistributed (since all presented research findings are preliminary). Researchers noted they appreciated
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the rare opportunity to meet and identify points of collaboration with other faculty. Of note, as a direct
result of this convening, WE CARE Solar is beginning to collaborate with Prof. Evan Thomas of Portland
State University to begin to leverage sensors to measure the Solar Suitcase’s use and impact.
In September 2016, DIL hosted its third annual State of the Science event titled, “The Science of Scaling:
Building Evidence to Advance Anti-Poverty Innovation.” The event brought together over 100
researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and academics to exchange the latest findings about scaling
anti-poverty interventions, particularly those developed at universities. Dr. Ticora Jones, Division Chief
of the Higher Education Solutions Network, provided opening remarks on the role of universities in
accelerating global development. Research presentations were provided by the following institutions: the
Center for Effective Global Action, Innovations for Poverty Action, the Jameel Poverty Action Lab at
MIT, Evidence in Governance and Politics, Portland State University, UC Irvine, IBM Research Africa,
Evidence Action, the Osprey Foundation, the Brookings Institution, PATH, the Palm Center, Population
Services International, and Makerere University.
4. Engagement of Partners and Other Actors
4.1. Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Today’s greatest challenges require the expertise and collaboration of diverse fields and perspectives. At
the core of DIL’s portfolio of innovations and training programs is a strong belief in the power of
multidisciplinary collaboration as a key input for achieving global social impact.
Our Dev Eng courses at UC Berkeley have been a natural venue for interdisciplinary collaboration. In
the core course “Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies”, the breakdown of students is
one-third MBA students, one-third PhD students (in social science and engineering disciplines), and one-
third masters students from programs such as public policy and public health. This program is also
attracting more women than the average STEM programs and courses. Dev Eng courses consistently
have over 50% female enrollment, with 60% female enrollment in “Design for Sustainable communities”,
and 50% female enrollment in “Design, Evaluate and Scale Development Technologies.”
Additionally, in Spring 2016, to address a growing need for resources on mobile data collection, DIL
launched a webinar series with six monthly broadcasts attended by nearly 200 people in 23 countries
around the world, including Afghanistan, Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The series
featured one-hour talks with industry experts, demonstrating a range of digital data capture tools and
platforms that can be leveraged for field research. It kicked off in December 2015 with an introductory
panel discussion moderated by Dav Clark, a data scientist with the UC Berkeley D-Lab. Subsequent
webinars provided participants with a deep-dive on a number of leading platforms including:
engageSPARK, KoBoToolbox, SurveyCTO, VOTO Mobile, Premise, and Open Data Kit at the
University of Washington. This webinar series allowed DIL to respond to social science researchers that
were in need of digital data collection technology and expertise. The webinar recordings are now freely
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available on Youtube, and DIL researchers are able to incorporate these training tools into their
research design.
4.1.2. Partner Engagement
In this period, DIL’s ecosystem activities and portfolio of innovations have engaged more than 85 diverse
partners, including other academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, consulting firms, and industry.
For example, the Dev Eng courses at UC Berkeley have attracted guest speakers across disciplines.
Throughout the Spring 2016 Dev Eng 210 course, the following organizations were represented: IBM
Research Africa, Po Paraguay, the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, GE Healthcare, Autodesk,
the Rainforest Alliance. During the Fall 2016 course, students worked directly with partner
organizations to address global development challenges the organizations are facing in global
development. These organizations include: Lead Genius, Smart Meters, CellScope, Aakar Innovations,
LegWorks, Infant Warmer, NextDrop, and Fuel Efficient Stove. The course also had a number of guest
speakers to provide insights on their experience launching social ventures. Organizations represented in
the speaker series include the Miller Center for Global Challenges, Sanergy, SPZ Legal, Embrace,
Aravind Eye Care, Dow Chemical, M34 Capital, Lead Genius, and Better Ventures.
Lastly, as mentioned earlier, the National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to UC Berkeley’s
Development Engineering program, creating new models for training graduate students to find
innovative solutions to food, energy and water challenges in developing countries. The grant, which
follows on USAID’s seeding of the Dev Eng DE, depends on partners for mentorship and internship
opportunities. Letters of partnership were written by the following organizations: Gobee Group, IBM
Research Africa, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Natel Energy, Rockman et al, UC Davis,
Bechtel Engineering, and Pinoleville Pomo Nation. As the grant launches, more partnerships will be
developed.
4.2. Summary of Collaboration Across HESN
The Big Ideas@Berkeley student innovation contest continues to serve as our primary vehicle for
collaboration across the HESN. Note that this reporting period overlaps both the 2015-2016 and 2016-
2017 contest cycles. 2016 also marks the ten-year anniversary of Big Ideas at UC Berkeley.
During the 2015-2016 cycle, the contest attracted 266 applications from 902 students across 16
campuses with 7 campuses being from HESN. HESN supported categories included: Financial Inclusion,
Food Systems Innovation (with support from GCFSI), Global Health, Mobiles for Reading (with support
from the All Children Reading Grand Challenge), and Scaling Up Big Ideas. We received 204 applications
from across the HESN, with 43 (all seven universities were represented) going on to the final round of
the contest, and 30 receiving awards. Two notable winners from HESN include: Safi Organics (MIT) and
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PedalTap (Makerere University). Safi Organics produces a carbon-negative soil conditioner derived from
biomass (farm) waste which leads to a 30% increase in crop yield and 50% increase in income by
reversing soil degradation for smallholder farmers in Kenya. The PedalTap prevents the spread of
infection at communal hand washing facilities in rural areas in Uganda by using a foot-operated bicycle
brake handle and system connected to a spring-loaded water cut off, avoiding the need for touch.
In August 2016, the 2016 - 2017 contest launched. In Y5, The following categories will be open to
students across HESN: Financial Inclusion, Food Systems, Global Health, Scaling Up and Hardware for
Good. To sustain the level of engagement across the HESN Network, the Big Ideas team has developed
(and routinely updates) a comprehensive listserv to facilitate outreach efforts across the 7 primary
HESN campuses. The team has developed HESN specific outreach materials, made these available
online, and is collaborating with HESN points of contact to disseminate this information across their
Universities. Information about the Contest has been distributed throughout these channels via email
campaigns and social media efforts, including: Contest launch announcement, webinar resources (info
sessions, workshops), weekly news & resource bulletins, deadline reminders, advising opportunities.
For the current contest year (2016-2017) Grace Nakibaala, co-founder of PedalTap a 2016 Big Ideas
winner in the Global Health category, is working in an official capacity as a Big Ideas Ambassador on
Makerere’s campus. In this role she provides assistance with outreach efforts, organizes events and
workshops and assists with student/applicant advising. During this period, the Big Ideas team also began
co-developing a white paper with Deborah and RAN colleagues to document the lessons learned from
launching the Big Ideas Contest at Makerere University. The paper will include a review of the
competition landscape available to students at Makerere, a quantitative and qualitative analysis of
Makerere’s participation in Big Ideas and recommendations on how to improve and scale this
collaboration.
In addition to Big Ideas, DIL continues to knowledge share across HESN including:
October 2015 - September 2016: Heather Lofthouse worked with MIT’s TechCon committee
to share lessons learned and offer insights into planning the annual HESN Technical Convening
to ensure highly-effective and knowledge-driven panels.
March 2016: Matt Nash of Duke’s Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator, Heather Lofthouse and
Duke masters student Preeti Prabhu met and strategized about ecosystem enablers in the
United States, with a focus on university-run social innovation incubators, and how they might
be applied to other countries such as India.
April 2016: Heather Lofthouse met with Cathy Clark of Duke’s Social Entrepreneurship
Accelerator (SEAD) at the Skoll World Forum to exchange updates from DIL and SEAD.
August 2016: Researchers from MIT’s IDIN and CITE teams and Makerere University submitted
abstracts for the Science of Scaling conference. DIL received 7 proposals from non-UC Berkeley
HESN campuses.
September 2016: Debora Naatujuna, Engagement Manager at the ResilientAfrica Network
(RANLab), participated in the biannual DIL State of the Science Conference. In addition to
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serving on a panel on “Mixed Methods and Qualitative Research for Scaling DevEng
Innovations”, Deborah met with Ticora Jones; collaborated with Max Aaronson (Big Ideas
Graduate Student Researcher), Phillip Denny (Big Ideas Manager), and Heather Lofthouse
regarding the Big Ideas-Makerere Expansion White Paper; toured UC Berkeley innovation
spaces; and participated in the Big Ideas kick off.
4.2.1. Data
DIL professional staff continued their participation within the HESN Data Working Group, joining the
regular conference calls and providing feedback on the Data Management Plan and the Open Data
Initiative. DIL staff and students from UCB TIER and UW’s ODK group also engaged in open data and
security discussions with GDL’s Shubha Chandrasekharan during the ICTD 2016 conference in June.
4.2.2. Solutions (Creation, Testing, Scaling)
Expanding Big Ideas at Makerere University: With support from HESN, the Big Ideas Contest has
forged a very strong partnership with Makerere University. Since launching the Big Ideas Contest across
HESN in 2014, the Big Ideas team has worked closely with ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) colleagues,
most notably Deborah Naatujuna (Engagement Manager, RAN), to initiate and expand participation from
students across the campus. Due to the high level of engagement from Makerere partners, applications
from Makerere have steadily increased each year (2104 : 14 applications, 2015 : 19 applications, 2016 :
35 applications). Deborah and the DIL professional staff are conducting an analysis and producing a
white paper on this social impact contest replication experience. The paper will include a first-ever
depiction of the social innovation ecosystem at Makerere University, in/around Kampala, and within
Uganda, and will includes lessons learned - including failures and key differences such as the fact that a
volunteer community does not exist to drive mentors and judges in the Uganda context.
We Care Solar: We Care Solar continues to represent a DIL/HESN innovation receiving financial and
in-kind support from both DIL and SEAD. The Labs provide different but complementary services to
ensure this social enterprise is expanding and scaling as efficiently - and strategically - as possible.
Dev Eng Journal: MIT CITE lead, Prof. Bish Sanyal serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of
Development Engineering helping to oversee and participate in peer review of relevant manuscripts.
CITE and DIL continue to bolster each other’s work around advocating for the use of this journal as a
“push” mechanism in academia to ensure multidisciplinary work continues, and is incentivized.
4.2.3. Student Engagement
Students are engaged in all of the research projects that DIL funds; they also are the primary recipients
of DIL Explore travel grants. They can enroll in online webinars and, at the Berkeley campus, in courses
devoted to Dev Eng. So they are involved closely in every facet of our work as an HESN Lab.
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In addition, in Fall 2015, DIL developed a Dev Eng student working group to meet at the end of each
semester to provide candid feedback about DIL’s programming. To promote frank discussion and the
sharing of ideas, these meetings follow Chatham House Rules. This feedback is then shared with staff
and faculty in the Development Engineering graduate group.
While DIL did not have student representation in the 2016 HESN Summer Internship Program, at the
writing of this annual report, DIL provided 14 letters of support for students in the 2017 Summer
Internship and we hope to continue increasing HESN student engagement. Additionally, during this
period, four Dev Eng PhD students were selected to participate in the 2016 HESN Technical Convening
(TechCon) Innovation Marketplace.
In advance of the May 2016 Big Ideas Award Celebration, Dr. Ticora Jones led a student roundtable
which included Dev Eng students as well as postdocs at UC Berkeley. Students shared project and
career updates, and DIL professional staff took notes to incorporate into a forthcoming Dev Eng toolkit.
In September 2016, Ticora held a meeting with two Dev Eng students to reflect on the progress of the
program and what students perceive as the highest value-adds of interactive with USAID through the
program. In Year 5, these and other learnings will be incorporated into a forthcoming Dev Eng toolkit.
5. USAID Engagement
5.1. USAID/LAB Interactions
DIL professional staff and faculty from throughout the DIL consortium continue to liaise and collaborate
with USAID colleagues, on campus, in Washington DC and in the field.
November 2015: Ticora Jones, USAID Division Chief, visited UC Berkeley and met with DIL
Leadership, including Heather Lofthouse and Maryanne McCormick. She also met with DIL
researchers and faculty including Robin Wolaner, Interim COO, and Christina Briegleb, Program
Manager, of WE CARE Solar; Dr. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang, DIL postdoc; Kate Jastram,
Lecturer, Development Engineering; Shashi Buluswar, CEO, Institute Global Transformative
Technologies; William Tarpeh, PhD Candidate, Environmental Engineering; Clay Reber, Staff
Scientist, Fletcher Lab; Alice Agogino, Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Chair of the
Development Engineering Program; Phillip Denny, Program Director, Big Ideas@Berkeley; and
Kurtis Heimerl, Co-Founder, Endaga.
January 2016: Evan Thomas, Assistant Professor at Portland State University, met with Dave
Ferguson in Washington D.C. to discuss his work on behavioral sensors. February 2016: Kay
McGowan (Director, Digital Finance Team) and Emmanuella Delva (International Program
Specialist, HESN) participated as peer reviewers in DIL’s Spring 2016 Innovate competition. Each
were assigned up to three applications according to their areas of expertise and provided
detailed comments on each application according to DIL’s review criteria.
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February 2016: DIL staff, with the UC Office of the President liaised with Danielle Cass about
the Global Entrepreneurship Summit to explore possibilities to highlight DIL work and
researchers at the June 2016 event.
March 2016: Ann Mei Chang visited UC Berkeley and met with Catherine Wolfram (Professor
of Business Administration), Dan Fletcher (Chair and Professor in Bioengineering), Shashi
Buluswar (CEO, Institute for Transformative Technologies), and Maryanne McCormick
(Executive Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies). Wolfram discussed the latest
developed in the REPP project, Fletcher shared extensions of the CellScope, and Buluswar met
with Ann Mei on the 50 Breakthrough Technologies project.
April 2016: Danielle Cass, Tech Sector Liaison for the Global Development Lab, served as a
judge for the Big Ideas Contest’s annual Pitch Day.
May 2016: Paul Nelson of the GDL Digital Finance team joined the Center for Effective Global
Action for a conference on “Evidence to Action: Fintech for Global Development.” Nelson met
with several DIL staff members to discuss possible collaboration on financial inclusion research.
May 2016: Ticora Jones provided brief remarks at the 10-year Anniversary Celebration and
Awards ceremony for the 2015-2016 Big Ideas Contest.
June 2016: DIL director Temina Madon and Carson Christiano met with Matt Homer, Kay
McGowan, and other members of the GDL Digital Finance team to discuss opportunities in
Regulatory Technology. McGowan also participated in a June 2016 conference on digital financial
inclusion at the World Bank, organized by the Center for Effective Global Action.
September 2016: DIL Staff coordinated with Zvika Krieger and Danielle Cass for a DOE event
"Accelerating Access to Clean Energy Around the World".
September 2016: Ticora Jones provided opening remarks at DIL’s annual State of the Science
Conference on the Science of Scaling. Also in attendance from the Global Development Lab
were Ashley Heiber, Senior Analyst, and Jessica Lucas, STIP Impact Assessment Advisor for the
Global Development Lab.
September 2016: DIL staff and researchers, including Temina Madon, Ofir Reich, and Maryanne
McCormick met with Dave Ferguson at UC Berkeley to discuss DIL’s experience with HESN
and to provide insights on future university programming.
September 2016: Emmanuella Delva (Program Manager for the Higher Education Solutions
Network) and Robert Baker (Lead Technologist for the Global Development Lab’s Center for
Digital Development) served reviewers for the Fall 2016 DIL Top-Up Competition.
5.1.2. Other (Non-LAB) USAID/Washington Interactions
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September 2015: For the second year in a row, the Big Ideas Contest partnered with the All
Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development to offer a "Mobiles for Reading" category.
Open to all UC campuses, HESN universities, and two additional universities in Australia, this
category challenged university students to develop novel, mobile technology-based innovations
or methods that can improve reading outcomes for children in developing countries. Innovative
topics proposed may focus on the enhancement of and/or the development and creation of new
tools/methods.
October 2015: DIL Program Coordinator Anh-Thi Le attended the fifth annual mEducation
Alliance Symposium in Washington, D.C.
February 2016: Kyriacos Koupparis (STIP Senior Advisor, Asia Bureau) and Daniel Handel
(Mission Economist and Deputy Director, USAID Rwanda Mission) served as a peer reviewer
for DIL’s Spring 2016 Innovate competition.
March 2016: DIL Staff Sarah White and Sophi Martin traveled to Washington, DC to meet with
California congressional staff to highlight the accomplishments of the HESN and DIL programs,
including a demonstration of the CellScope Loa loa device and progress updates on the Rural
Electric Power Project (REPP), the Village Base Station (VBTS), and the Information &
Intermittent Water Project.
September 2016: Daniel Handel (Mission Economist and Deputy Director for the Office of
Economic Growth with USAID Rwanda) served as a reviewer for the Fall 2016 DIL Top-Up
Competition.
5.2. USAID Mission Interactions
During the first half of the reporting period, DIL staff held targeted phone conversations with other
HESN Labs to glean insights on how to effectively interact with USAID Missions. Conversations revealed
a number of lessons and best practices that were distilled into a knowledge piece and shared with the
HESN team. In addition, the team held multiple conference calls and meetings with USAID missions to
identify opportunities for collaboration.
Bangladesh Mission: DIL initiated conversations with the Bangladesh Mission to discuss the
Mission’s interest in migration and labor rights programs and potential synergies.
Uganda Mission: DIL has begun outreach and preliminary conversations with the Uganda Mission
regarding partnerships on specific projects in the DIL portfolio that match the Uganda Mission’s
core priorities. These include the Collective Assessment and Feedback Engine (led by Berkeley
computer scientist Ken Goldberg and funded by SDS) and the E-warehousing project led by UC
San Diego economist Craig McIntosh.
India Mission: DIL Managing Director Temina Madon met with Katherine Nichols and Sheila
Desai in March 2016 to discuss potential research collaborations, with a focus on impact
evaluation. In addition, DIL Faculty Director Ashok Gadgil visited the India Mission during a field
visit to provide updates on the Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) drinking water
project.
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Indonesia Mission: DIL director Temina Madon discussed potential exchange between UC
Berkeley and Universitas Gadjah Mada to train and support Indonesian researchers to conduct
rigorous evaluations. The Mission encouraged Berkeley to pursue the “university partnerships”
grant (called SHERA).
Philippines Mission: DIL researchers are actively engaging with partners in the Philippines as a
part of the Village Base Station Project (VBTS), which is now being funded by PCARI, a multi-
million dollar STEM initiative funded by the Philippines Government to support exchange with
California universities. The project is funding a deployment of VBTS technology in the Philippines
and serves as success coup for DIL, since the Philippines project would never have launched
without early support from HESN in Indonesia.
Afghanistan Mission: DIL faculty members Eli Berman (UC San Diego), Josh Blumenstock
(University of Washington) and co-authors received “buy-in” support from the Afghanistan
Mission for their project, “Mobile Phone-Based Defined Contribution Accounts.” Conversations
with the mission have continued to provide research updates and explore further collaboration.
Rwanda Mission: DIL finalized a buy-in from DIV and the Rwanda Mission to fund a randomized
evaluation of household grants in Rwanda. The project is led by UCSD researcher Craig
McIntosh who will work in close collaboration with the Rwanda Mission, Google.org and
GiveDirectly to carry out the proposed work. Separately, Daniel Handel (Economist, Rwanda
Mission) participated as a peer reviewer for DIL’s Spring 2016 Innovate competition.
Kenya Mission: DIL’s REPP team continues to keep the Kenya Mission briefed on their rural
electrification work in the region.
6. Monitoring & Evaluation
6.1. M&E Updates
DIL has met its FY 2016 monitoring and evaluation (M&E) targets. The DIL management team continues
to actively integrate M&E into calls for grant applications, award letters, and onboarding activities for
affiliated researchers. This has helped to train DIL’s very decentralized research teams in reporting on
outcomes. Additionally, in September 2016, DIL hired a new M&E specialist to support with the
transition when a key staff member (Sarah White) unexpectedly left at the end of the annual reporting
period.
6.2. Deviance from M&E Targets
Not applicable
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7. Lessons Learned / Best Practices
In FY 2016, DIL refocused its investment from seeding new research, to instead accelerating top
projects in the pipeline, and also translating existing DIL-sponsored research into policy action. This
year’s grants were intended to support a) data collection for evaluations of DIL-sponsored technology
interventions, including evaluation of business models for delivery/scale-up of innovations; b) support for
adaptation and replication of proven approaches in new contexts; c) linkages and an action plan for
outside partners to implement findings at a broader scale. These changes in our strategy were heavily
influenced by conversations with GDL Director Ann Mei Chang and other Lab leadership.
In addition, DIL expanded the number of $5k Explore grants for exploratory work in Spring 2016. This
decision was made based on DIL’s observation that travel to the field early in the design process can
greatly boost the ability of students and faculty to design interventions in developing country contexts.
The Dev Eng students taking advantage of these awards report that they were invaluable for learning the
importance of understanding the overall system in assessing what technologies can have an impact, and
in particular the challenges of supply chains and logistics in bringing care, innovations, etc. to
underserved regions.
Finally, DIL has continued to hold meetings with other like-minded organizations trying to incentivize
and support novel technologies and approaches for end-users in developing countries. For example, DIL
leadership staff met with the Global Innovation Fund in April 2016 to exchange notes about the barriers
both initiatives face in driving individuals and teams to achieve scale. The learnings from this meeting
informed continued conversations with academics working on these same issues, including at DIL’s 2016
State of the Science event on scaling.
Not enough evidence exists to explain why certain poverty-alleviating innovations scale better than
others, or what steps can be taken – by innovators, investors, academics, policy makers or otherwise –
to improve the likelihood of an innovation going to scale. The goal of the Science of Scale event, and
DIL’s ongoing strategy, is to address the difficulties faced in scaling pro-poor interventions. The
development community is looking for people who are developing broadly applicable techniques for
scaling pro-poor interventions, not just one-off experiences from individual products or services.
8. Future Activities
In the coming year, DIL will continue investing in “top-up” support to accelerate a select number of
existing DIL projects towards scale. These projects will have a demonstrated commitment from in-
country partners and decision-makers to support the translation and sustainability of the proposed
work. In addition, DIL’s Data Visualization pilot will have a number of outputs in FY 2017 for evaluation
by policy-makers and other stakeholders.
DIL is also committed to conducting wider-scale outreach around the field of Dev Eng, as well as its new
concentration at the nexus of food, water and energy systems. DIL will actively share lessons learned
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from its approach, including syllabi, problem sets, presentations, and other materials. We will work with
well-known outlets such as the Impact Design Hub and Engineering for Change to ensure that the field
of Dev Eng continues its momentum. DIL anticipates that over the next year, at least two universities
will launch new academic programs informed by UC Berkeley’s Dev Eng program. Additionally, DIL will
participate in and host conferences to expand Development Engineering’s reach.
As a final culmination to the HESN work, DIL plans to host a final State of the Science Conference in
Spring 2017, likely to be held in Washington DC to ensure as many USAID staff and collaborators can
participate and attend. It is anticipated that this event will mark the launch of several summary outputs
from DIL including a revised Big Ideas Toolkit, a lessons learned document from expanding Big Ideas to
Makerere University, and a lessons learned document on Dev Eng.
Lastly, in an effort to strengthen USAID partnerships with higher education and specific research efforts,
DIL will explore new partnerships with the Agency including deeper engagement with the Missions
where many of DIL projects are working. DIL researchers are eager to begin engaging in new projects
with specific Missions where there are closely aligned synergies around a given technology, process or
output sought.
9. Risks and Mitigation Plans
The major risk to the DIL program is loss of core funding from USAID after our fifth year, resulting in
staff layoffs, discontinued courses, loss of contact with USAID missions and bureaus, and reduced
momentum on the research and training activities that we have seed funded. DIL’s leadership has
developed a set of mitigation strategies to deal with these contingencies. These include active
investment of staff and faculty time in the identification of new funding partners and proposal
development; enhanced outreach to select USAID missions to generate project ideas before the end of
the cooperative agreement (which could lead to sustained engagements); development of spreadsheets
and databases logging USAID contacts for future outreach; identification of faculty instructors and
funding sources for future years of the Dev Eng designated emphasis (including the new NSF award
mentioned earlier); formalization of editorial process for the Dev Eng journal, hosted by Elsevier,
including increased communication between the journal’s editors and the Elsevier publication manager;
and an increased focus on dissemination of research results, which will create a greater legacy for the
research we have funded to date (and allow for future generations of scientists and engineers to build
on our innovations).
10. Environmental Monitoring (if applicable)
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DIL’s FY 2016 workplan was reviewed by the U.S. Global Development Lab’s Bureau Environmental
Officer (BEO) for potential environmental impacts and received a categorical exclusion for each included
activity pursuant to 22 CFR 216.2(c)(2).
11. Other
N/A
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APPENDIX I. HESN Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Indicators - FY16 Annual
Code Indicator Name Target Value
Reached Value
%
HESN_0in01 $ Total dollar value of outside (non-USAID) resources utilized 4594026 2000000 43.5%
HESN_0in06 # transformative innovations, technologies, or approaches evaluated with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
5 18 360.0%
HESN_0in07 # US students via HESN partners serving as fellows in developing countries (for more than one month) 12 0.0%
HESN_0in08 # innovations, technologies or approaches in the innovation pipeline 30 42 140.0%
HESN_0in08-total
Cumulative number of innovations HESN has supported 122 ---
HESN_0in10 # beneficiaries reached 40000 26072 65.2%
HESN_1.0in1 # new data-related technologies, tools, approaches, and best practices supported or applied with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
15 25 166.7%
HESN_1.0in2_new
# new data sets provided to or made accessible to USAID operating units and programs, HESN partners, and the broader development community with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
5 4 80.0%
HESN_1.0in3 # data-related analyses, mapping activities, and expert consultations provided for USAID operating units and programs, HESN partners, and the broader development community with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
12 7 58.3%
HESN_1.3in2 # development professionals proficient in data management and use due to human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
5 0.0%
HESN_2.0zDIL-in1
# transformative ideas directly sourced by DIL 200 323 161.5%
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Code Indicator Name Target Value
Reached Value
%
HESN_2.2in1
# white papers, articles, assessments, analyses, and evaluations on development challenges, innovations, technologies, approaches, and contexts (drafted with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Developments Labs) published in targeted fora and publications OR provided to USAID operating units, HESN partners, and the broader development community
0 ---
HESN_2.3in1 # MOUs or other agreements signed with public sector, private sector, local community partners, and one HESN Development Lab
12 16 133.3%
HESN_2.3in2 # stakeholders engaged in problem solving with one HESN Development Lab 170 12 7.1%
HESN_3.0in2 # MOUs or other agreements signed with public sector, private sector, and local community partners and more than one HESN Development Lab
1 2 200.0%
HESN_3.0in3 # new development related classes or disciplines created by university departments with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
2 1 50.0%
HESN_3.1in1 # development programs/projects/efforts undertaken collaboratively by Network members 14 4 28.6%
HESN_3.2in1 # visitors to Network knowledge-sharing platforms 47000 37680 80.2%
HESN_3.3in2 # collaborative platforms created by the HESN or with human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
5 8 160.0%
HESN_3.4in1 # students participating in short term practica or other field experiences through human, financial, or institutional resources contributed by HESN Development Labs
15 163 1086.7%
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APPENDIX II.A. Innovations: Technologies and Approaches - FY16 Annual
Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology WE CARE Solar Evaluation of We Care Solar Suitcase programs Nepal
Approach Incentivizing the safe disposal of human feces in urban areas
implementation and evaluation of chosen carbonization method at scale
Kenya Agriculture and Food Security
5 Planned Organizations/Enterprises
Technology
Collective Assessment & Feedback Engine (CAFÉ) - Mexico Participa
Mexico Participa, an online platform that encourages civic engagement and voter registration in Mexico in the lead up to important June 2015 mid-term elections has been developed. The platform is available at http://mxparticipa.org
Mexico
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
0 Complete
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Matatu Monitoring in Kenya - minibus technology
Minibus Monitoring Technology Kenya Economic Growth and Trade
10 Complete
Organizations/Enterprises
Approach Matching Job Seekers - provided skills test to firm using a job portal
Provided skills test to firms using a job portal in the informal sector
India Economic Growth and Trade
150 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Technology Matutu Monitoring in Kenya
Minibus Monitoring Technology Kenya Economic Growth and Trade
125 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Approach Scaling of Peer Education
Impact evaluation of Khedut Saathi voice-based mobile surveys to understand how to scale up peer education among smal-scale Indian farmers
India Education 0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Approach Randomized Evaluation of Household Grants in Rwanda
Rigorous evaluation of household grants delivered electronically as a benchmark for development assistance. The study compares household grants with the Integrated Nutrition and Sanitation committee (INWA) and the SPEED Program.
Rwanda Ending Extreme Poverty
3000 Ongoing Households/Individuals
4
Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Approach
Randomized Evaluation of the Youth Sustainable Partnerships for Education and Economic Development Activity, Benchmarked against Household Grants in Rwanda
Evaluates the Youth Employment Activity (YEA) that extends an earlier study titled " A randomized evaluation of household grants in rwanda"
Rwanda Ending Extreme Poverty
0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge Management
Productive and Sustainable Arsenic-Bearing Sludge Management
India
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Technology
Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge Management - Analysis (IS / EPA standard followed) of Leachate
Analysis (IS / EPA standard followed) of Leachate generated from alum-based arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge embedded in concrete
India
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Complete
Organizations/Enterprises
Technology
Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge Management - Embedding Alum based Arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge
Embedding Alum based Arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge in Concrete used in Indian environment
India
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Complete
Organizations/Enterprises
Approach
Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge Management - Social Embedding of the Technology-
Social Embedding of the Technology- Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge Management
India
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Planned Organizations/Enterprises
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology
Cool Joule - Technology that collects parameters for the design of an optimal control algorithm including temperature, refrigerator energy consumption, and total household energy consumption.
Technology that collects parameters for the design of an optimal control algorithm including temperature, refrigerator energy consumption, and total household energy consumption.
Nicaragua
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing Researchers
Technology
Cool Joule - Technology that collects parameters for the design of an optimal control algorithm including temperature, refrigerator energy consumption, and total household energy consumption.
Technology that collects parameters for the design of an optimal control algorithm including temperature, refrigerator energy consumption, and total household energy consumption.
Nicaragua
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing Researchers
Approach Cool Joule - Business model
Business model Nicaragua
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Cool Joule & Flexbox
Technology that collects parameters for the design of an optimal control algorithm including temperature, refrigerator energy consumption, and total household energy consumption.
Nicaragua
Environment and Global Climate Change
30 Ongoing Researchers
6
Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Approach StreamDev - series of flow monitoring systems
During early phase project implementation, we have successfully deployed a series of flow monitoring systems in the Roshi River, a one-hour jeep ride away from Kathmandu University (KU) in Dhulikhel, Nepal.
Nepal
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Approach Sustainable Arsenic-Bearing Sludge Management
1. Productive and Sustainable Arsenic-Bearing Sludge Management. 2. Embedding Alum based Arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge in Concrete used in Indian environment. 3. Analysis (IS / EPA standard followed) of Leachate generated from alum-based arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge embedded in concrete
India
Environment and Global Climate Change
0 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Approach TriSan TriSan seeks to address the full sanitation needs of both and male and female bodies.
India
Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter
Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter Mexico Global Health 0 Complete
Households/Individuals
Technology Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter
Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter India Global Health 0 Complete
Households/Individuals
Technology Cellscope-Tuberculosis
CellScope hardware and software tools under development; Accuracy Validation of next-generation hardware and software though analysis of stored sputum smears; Field evaluation in Hanoi, Vietnam
Vietnam Global Health 0 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Air Pollution Monitoring - prototype
Prototype of the air pollution monitoring sensor Uganda Global Health 1000 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Cellscope - 2nd gen Loa We are developing a second generation prototype of the CellScope Loa for deployment this fall
Cameroon Global Health 300 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology Cellscope-LoaLoa We began a large-scale test of the CellScope Loa technology in Cameroon
Cameroon Global Health 20000 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Collective Assessment & Feedback Engine (CAFÉ) - "DevCAFE"
CAFE version 3.0 was developed and implemented in Kamuli, District, Uganda. Version 3.0 integrates CAFE with feature phones, allowing interactive voice response integration into CAFE.
Uganda Global Health 0 Complete
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter
mobile phone-based pulse oximeter Mexico Global Health 0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter
mobile phone-based pulse oximeter India Global Health 0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring - algorithm
Proposed algorithm for automatic pothole detection in highly uneven road surfaces
Uganda
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
0 Complete
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring - mobile app
Prototype mobile app for automatic pothole detection Uganda
Democracy, Human Rights and Governance
0 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Technology
Mezuri : Gridwatch - Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER)
Ongoing development of GridWatch United States
Other 0 Ongoing Other
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology
Mezuri: Cloud Platform - Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER)
Ongoing development of Mezuri Cloud Platform United States
Other 0 Ongoing Researchers
Approach
REPP - Evaluate interventions related to grid expansion, billing and theft deterrence.
Evaluate interventions related to grid expansion, billing and theft deterrence.
India Other 0 Planned Households/Individuals
Technology
Mezuri: Flexbox - Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER)
Ongoing development and initial piloting of the FlexBox, a hardware and software sensor and controller technology that is measuring and controlling refrigeration loads.
United States
Other 0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Mod Roofs - A low cost antimicrobial additive
A low cost antimicrobial additive that is significantly safer for human health than existing additives for building materials has been identified
India Other 0 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Technology Affordable Recycled Modular Roofs
1. A modular water-proof roofing tile and modular roofing system made of recycled compressed cardboard and a proprietary coating. 2. A "green" additive for ModRoof tiles that adds water resistence to the core. 3. Low energy drying method for ModRoof tile manufacturing cardboard based material, even when the water proof coating is compromised. 4. Novel low cost methods of waterproofing between ModRoofs tiles. 5. An low cost antimicrobial additive.
India Other 0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
Technology Mezuri: Open Data Kit (ODK) - University of Washingotn (UW)
Ongoing Development of Open Data Kit United States
Other 0 Ongoing Other
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring
Proposed algorithm for automatic pothole detection in highly uneven road surfaces. Prototype mobile app for automatic pothole detection.
Uganda Other 0 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Approach PhoneBased Defined Contribution Accounts
Novel mobile-based and salary-linked savings product. This provides a means of retirement savings where the brick and motar facilities to support such products are absent
Afghanistan Other 949 Complete
Organizations/Enterprises
Approach Rural Electric Power Project (REPP)
Evaluate interventions related to grid expansion, billing and theft deterrence.
India Other 0 Planned Households/Individuals
Technology Treating Brackish Drinking Water
1. Creation of a uniquely designed CDI prototype capable of operating in traditional mode and now in pulse-charged mode. 2. Method for reducing IER bead size; Optimization of bead sizes; Selection of milling techonology. 3. Developing a method for coating surfaces of IERs with carbon, via pyrolyis or other methods; Simple deposition methods; Plasma carbon coating method; Analytical characterization of plasma-derived carbon. 4. eveloping a method for froming an electrode bulk material; Optimization of forming bulk electrode; Identifying suitable components; Build a CDI prototype to test inks; Test perfomance of our electrodes in prototype.
India Water and Sanitation
0 Complete
Households/Individuals
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology Treating Brackish Drinking Water
1. Creation of a uniquely designed CDI prototype capable of operating in traditional mode and now in pulse-charged mode. 2. Method for reducing IER bead size; Optimization of bead sizes; Selection of milling techonology. 3. Developing a method for coating surfaces of IERs with carbon, via pyrolyis or other methods; Simple deposition methods; Plasma carbon coating method; Analytical characterization of plasma-derived carbon. 4. eveloping a method for froming an electrode bulk material; Optimization of forming bulk electrode; Identifying suitable components; Build a CDI prototype to test inks; Test perfomance of our electrodes in prototype.
India Water and Sanitation
0 Complete
Households/Individuals
Technology Treating Brackish Drinking Water
1. Creation of a uniquely designed CDI prototype capable of operating in traditional mode and now in pulse-charged mode. 2. Method for reducing IER bead size; Optimization of bead sizes; Selection of milling techonology. 3. Developing a method for coating surfaces of IERs with carbon, via pyrolyis or other methods; Simple deposition methods; Plasma carbon coating method; Analytical characterization of plasma-derived carbon. 4. eveloping a method for froming an electrode bulk material; Optimization of forming bulk electrode; Identifying suitable components; Build a CDI prototype to test inks; Test perfomance of our electrodes in prototype.
India Water and Sanitation
0 Complete
Households/Individuals
Technology
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Operation of CDI prototype wih 0V desalination
Operation of CDI prototype wih 0V desalination India Water and Sanitation
0 Ongoing Researchers
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Technology Incentivizing the safe disposal of human feces in urban areas
heat treatment method for feces from over 1000 households
Kenya Water and Sanitation
2 Complete
Organizations/Enterprises
Technology ECAR - automatic water distribution units
Automatic distribution units installed to distribute water to students and staff
India Water and Sanitation
500 Complete
Households/Individuals
Technology Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR)
1. A highly effective method to remove arsenic from real groundwater at a locally affordable cost using ECAR. The team continues to itereate ECAR prototype design based on solving technical challenges that are apparent only at larger scales and long term operation, as well as identified opportunities for cost savings. 2. ECAR special brush and maintenance plan to extend the life and performance of ECAR electrodes
India Water and Sanitation
0 Ongoing
Local Communities/Governments
Technology Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR): Data logger
ECAR data logger to record and log voltages on ECAR electrodes for ECAR systems to assess performance and potentially send performance to engineers via the cell network to reduce down time
India Water and Sanitation
1 Ongoing Organizations/Enterprises
Technology Treating Brackish Drinking Water
1. Creation of a uniquely designed CDI prototype capable of operating in traditional mode and now in pulse-charged mode. 2. Method for reducing IER bead size; Optimization of bead sizes; Selection of milling techonology. 3. Developing a method for coating surfaces of IERs with carbon, via pyrolyis or other methods; Simple deposition methods; Plasma carbon coating method; Analytical characterization of plasma-derived carbon. 4. eveloping a method for froming an electrode bulk material; Optimization of forming bulk electrode; Identifying suitable components; Build a CDI prototype to test inks; Test perfomance of our electrodes in prototype.
India Water and Sanitation
0 Ongoing Households/Individuals
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Innovation Type
Name of Innovation Description Country Sector # Bene. Status Primary
users/beneficiaries
Approach
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Electrode processing unit for scale-up
Electrode processing unit for scale-up India 0 Ongoing Researchers
Technology WE CARE Solar Evaluation of We Care Solar Suitcase programs Nepal 0
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APPENDIX II.B. Evaluations - FY16 Annual Output
Type Name of Output
Description/Abstract Country Status
Evaluation
PhoneBased Defined Contribution Accounts Impact Evaluation
A baseline, monthly phone surveys, and an endline were completed. Afghanistan
Evaluation Cellscope TB - prototype testing
CellScope TB prototypes are being tested in Hanoi, Vietnam to evaluate their ability to automatically identify TB from sputum smears.
Vietnam
Compare automated detection to standard smear microscopy
Evaluation CellScope-LoaLoa Field Test
We began a large-scale test of the CellScope Loa technology in Cameroon Cameroon
Evaluation
Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) - Evaluation of demo
Evaluation of ECAR performance long term, including arsenic removal performance measurements over months of operation of a 10,000 liter per day capacity treatment plant.
India
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Output Type
Name of Output
Description/Abstract Country Status
Evaluation
REPP: Planned Evaluation related to grid expansion, billing and theft deterrence.
Evaluate interventions related to grid expansion, billing and theft deterrence. India
Evaluation
Scaling of Peer Education - Impact Evaluation
Impact evaluation of Khedut Saathi voice-based mobile surveys to understand how to scale up peer education among smal-scale Indian farmers
India
Evaluation
Scaling of Peer Education Impact Evaluation
Impact evaluation of Khedut Saathi voice-based mobile surveys to understand how to scale up peer education among smal-scale Indian farmers
India
Evaluation Matching job seekers - evaluation
Conducted a pilot impact evaluation study seeking to measure the benefits of services provided by online job portals the use of services provided by a job portal
India
Evaluation
Incentivizing safe disposal feces - Cost Benefit Analysis
Evaluation of output 2.1. Cost benefit analysis Kenya
This will begin after output 2.1 is completed
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Output Type
Name of Output
Description/Abstract Country Status
Evaluation
Incentivizing safe disposal feces - Cost Benefit Analysis
Evaluation of output 2.1. Cost benefit analysis Kenya
Verified that purchasing pre-carbonized charcoal dust is more cost effective
Evaluation
Incentivizing safe disposal feces - Design Comparison
Comparison of carbonization designs Kenya
Evaluation
Incentivizing safe disposal feces -Carbonization Cost Benefit Analysis
implementation and evaluation of chosen carbonization method at scale Kenya
Evaluation
Participatory Road Infrastructure - evaluation workshop with key users
An evaluation workshop with key users was conducted so as to inform improvements to the current tools
Uganda
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APPENDIX II.C. Data-Related Approaches, Tools, Best Practices - FY16 Annual Output Type Name of Output Description/Abstract Country Status
Data-Related Technology
eWarehousing - Survey App
Uganda
Data-Related Technology
Mezuri - U of Washington: Open Data Kit
United States
Data-Related Technology
Mezuri - U of Washington: Open Data Kit
United States
Data-Related Approach
Matatu Monitoring in Kenya - Data related appraoch
Kenya
Final stages of piloting the data collection tools for 1) a small pilot RCT scheduled to being in April 2016 and 2) a larger RCT planned for June
Data-Related Technology
Mezuri - U of Washington: Open Data Kit
United States
Data-Related Approach
Lotto linked savings - data related approach
Haiti
Data-Related Technology
Bombay Real Air-Time Sensors
India
Data-Related Approach
Counterfeit Seed Kenya
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Output Type Name of Output Description/Abstract Country Status
Data-Related Approach
Matutu Monitoring in Kenya
Kenya
Data-Related Approach
StreamDev - curriculum for tech transfer of streamdev
Nepal Modeling Applications
Data-Related Approach
High Resolution Development Indicators (HRDI) - Metadata Approach
Rwanda
Data-Related Tool
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring Mobile App
Uganda
Data-Related Technology
Mezuri - U of Washington: Mezuri Cloud
United States
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APPENDIX II.D. Publications or Reports - FY16 Annual
Name Description/Abstract Country URL
ECAR - Household survey in Dhapdhapi
1,003 household survey in Dhapdhapi analyzing willingness-to-pay and desire for clean water within the community
India
Information and Intermittent Water - impact evaluation of nextdrop
Impact Evaluation of NextDrop Program India
Dev Eng Journal Article: The pursuit of balance in sequential randomized trials
Dev Eng Journal Article: The pursuit of balance in sequential randomized trials Bangladesh doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2015.11.001
Affordable Recycled Modular Roofs
A peer reviewed manuscript submitted to Journal of Renewable Materials India not yet accepted/published
ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) Ongoing Manuscript
- Peer review journal manuscript on survey data India
Improving Job Search Efficiency Project Summary
Produce a summary report from the baseline survey that investigates which demographic and geographic characteristics are associated with higher reservation wages.
India
http://www.theigc.org/blog/click-to-apply-the-impact-of-online-job-portals-on-job-search-outcomes/
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Information and Intermittent Water - analysis of valveman compliance
Analysis of Valveman compliance with NextDrop Intervention India
Information and Intermittent Water - methodological paper on working with crowd-sourced data
Methodological paper on working with crowd-sourced data India
REPP Report on Solar MicroGrid Sites
Report based on data from solar micro-grid sites India
Treating Brackish Drinking Water Paper
Paper on method of characterizating prototype- and water- timescales, requisite for pulse parameters. India
Modular Roofs - peer reviewed manuscript
Manuscript has been accepted. Available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.7569/JRM.2016.634109; A peer reviewed manuscript submitted to Journal of Renewable Materials
India
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Paper
Paper on Electrically regenerated ion-exchange for brackish water desalination India
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Report at the end of ITRI-Rosenfeld Fellowship
Report at the end of ITRI-Rosenfeld Fellowship India
Dev Eng Journal: REPP "UnderGrid" Article
REPP DevEng Journal "Under Grid" Article Kenya doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2015.12.001
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Rural Electric Power Project (REPP) NBER Working Paper: Appliances Ownership
Drafted papers on electrical appliances ownership in Kenya, and on the economics of "last mile" connections. Kenya
http://www.nber.org/papers/w21949
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Cool Joule - publication
The increased penetration of uncertain and variable
renewable energy presents various resource and operational
electric grid challenges. Micro-level (household and small
commercial) demand-side grid flexibility could be a cost-effective
strategy to integrate high penetrations of wind and solar energy,
but literature and field deployments exploring the necessary
information and communication technologies (ICTs) are scant.
This paper presents an exploratory framework for enabling
information driven grid flexibility through the Internet of Things
(IoT), and a proof-of-concept wireless sensor gateway (FlexBox)
to collect the necessary parameters for adequately monitoring
and actuating the micro-level demand-side. In the summer of
2015, thirty sensor gateways were deployed in the city of
Managua (Nicaragua) to develop a baseline for a near future
small-scale demand response pilot implementation. FlexBox field
data has begun shedding light on relationships between ambient
temperature and load energy consumption, load and building
envelope energy efficiency challenges, latency communication
network challenges, and opportunities to engage existing
demand-side user behavioral patterns. Information driven grid
flexibility strategies present great opportunity to develop new
technologies, system architectures, and implementation
approaches that can easily scale across regions, incomes, and
levels of development
Nicaragua
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Cool Joule - publication
In January 2015 we used the Open Data Kit platform to survey 230 microenterprises with large cooling loads in Managua. A pilot survey was tested with a small group of 20 micro-enterprises, adjustments were made, and a full implementation was performed immediately afterwards. Our surveys and conversations with micro-enterprises with large-cooling loads (for example: butcheries, chicken shops, mom & shops, milk and cheese hops) attempted to assess whether a microlevel demand response implementation could be feasible in the country and touched upon different aspects of a micro-enterprise’s business model: income and cost structures, energy related expenditures, daily, monthly and seasonal variations in consumption, perceptions on electric service reliability, perceptions on the quality of service provided by the utility, relationship with loads and appliances, and perceptions on income and micro-enterprise expenditures. The survey results elucidated many themes including behavioral patterns related to the use thermostatically controlled loads, which is essential for demand response, insights on micro-enterprise’s perceptions on the use of technology, prices, and service quality and reliability, seasonal variations in consumption, and insights into the accuracy of self reported cost and energy expenditure estimates.
Nicaragua
High-Resolution Development Indicators Publication: Rwanda Study
Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata Rwanda
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6264/1073
Dev Eng Journal Article: Radio frequency (un)identification
Dev Eng Journal Article: Radio frequency (un)identification: Results from a proof-of-concept trial of the use of RFID technology to measure microenterprise turnover in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2015.06.001
Dev Eng Journal Article: Avoided emissions of a fuel-efficient biomass cookstove dwarf embodied emissions
Dev Eng Journal Article: Avoided emissions of a fuel-efficient biomass cookstove dwarf embodied emissions Sudan doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2016.01.001
Air Pollution Monitoring - requirements document
Requirements document that informs the initial design of the air pollution sensor Uganda
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring Design Document
Design document of the pothole detection tool Uganda
Participatory Road Infrastructure - media coverage
Media coverage of the Evaluation and Dissemination workshop http://cis.mak.ac.ug/index.php/news-events/latest-news/item/372-participatory-road-infrastructure-monitoring-in-kampala
Uganda
Participatory Road Infrastructure - workshop report and final project report
Workshop report and final project report Uganda
Participatory Road Infrastructure -manuscript
Manuscript titled "Using Mobile Phone Sensors for Automatic Detection of Road Anomalies in Highly Uneven roads"
Uganda
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Mezuri - Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Regions: Springer Chapter
Book Chapter in Springer Volume with TIER co-author and covering the work that included TIER / Mezuri contributions to sensor and survey data collection and processing
United States
Wilson, D. L., Adam, M. I., Abbas, O., Coyle, J., Kirk, A., Rosa, J., & Gadgil, A. J. (2015). Comparing cookstove usage measured with sensors versus cell phone-based surveys in darfur, sudan. In Technologies for Development (pp. 211-221). Springer International Publishing.
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Mezuri - University of Washington Publicaiton: Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies
Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies United States
Cobb C., Sudar, S. et al., Computer Security for Data Collection Technologies. ICTD 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~anderson/papers/2016/cobb_ictd2016.pdf
Mezuri TIER - Draft of submission to IEEE IoT
Draft of submission to IEEE IoT published in Cornell Systems and Control and Berkeley eScholarhip. United States
Modular Roofs - Manuscript Submitted to RSC journal "Green Chemistry" on safer alternative preservatives
Manuscript Submitted to RSC journal "Green Chemistry" on safer alternative preservatives United States
Dev Eng Journal Introductory Editorial
Introductory Article to first Issue of Development Engineering doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2016.03.001
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Name Description/Abstract Country URL
Dev Eng Journal: Mezuri Article
Journal of Development Engineering Mezuri Article doi:10.1016/j.deveng.2015.12.002
ECAR: Planned Manuscript
Peer reviewed manuscript in preparation
ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) Publication: Formation of macroscopic surface layers…
Peer reviewed publication: Formation of macroscopic surface layers on Fe(0) electrocoagulation electrodes during an extended field trial of arsenic treatment. C.M. van Genuchten, S.R.S. Bandaru, E. Surorova, S.E.Amrose, A.J. Gadgil, J. Pena. Chemosphere. 153:270-279 (2016).
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653516303332
Trisan Discussion paper for Un Women
Discussion paper on Gender and Sanitation Access for UN Women
http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2016/3/towards-gender-equality-through-sanitation-access
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APPENDIX II.E. Hubs - FY16 Annual
Name Description Country # of
Participants
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APPENDIX II.F. Knowledge Sharing/Collaborative Platforms - FY16 Annual
Name Description Country Status
ECAR - Presentation and panel at World Water Day Seminar
Presentation and panel at World Water Day Seminar, Kolkata, India, March 22, 2016 on Dhapdhapi field trial India
ECAR - Presentation at Dhapdhapi
Presentation at Dhapdhapi, India explaining ECAR to the students and families of the village India
ECAR - site visit and presentation to Tata Trust
Site visit and presentation to Prabhat Pani and Priya Iyer from Tata Trust on May 4th 2016 India
ECAR - site visit and presentation to US Consul General
Site visit and presentation to US Consul General on July 12th 2016 India
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring Project Website
Project website to raise awareness about the project and share information with the Uganda
Modular Roofs Conference Presentation on "green" waterproofing and antimicrobial additives at American Chemical Society Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference
United States
Modular Roofs - Guest Lecture on ModRoofs for CE209
Guest Lecture on ModRoofs for CE209, Design for Sustainable Communities, Apr 2016 United States
ECAR - video explaining ECAR
Video explaining our novel technology ECAR through an animation story
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APPENDIX II.G. Major Events - FY16 Annual
Name Description Country # of
Participants
Big Ideas Award Celebration
Big Ideas contest winners will celebrate with friends, family, judges, mentors, and Big Ideas affiliates United States 150
Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day
Select finalist teams are invited to pitch their project ideas to a panel of judges to possibly receive an additional award
United States 100
DIL State of the Science: Science of Scaling
A full day event on scaling anti-poverty interventions around the world United States 120
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APPENDIX II.H. Workshops/Trainings/Capacity Building - FY16 Annual
Name Description Country # of
Participants
Cellscope = Loa Training Sessions
We have trained multiple groups beyond our initial colllaborators in the use of the CellScope Loa Cameroon 25
Trisan: Presentation to UN Commission on Status of Women
Presentation to the UN Commission on the Status of Women United States 100
Affordable Recycled Modular Roofs Presentation to IndoUS Science & Tech Forum
Presentation to Board of IndoUS Science and Technology Forum, Mar 11, 2016 India 25
ECAR: Local Capacity Building
Building local capacity and technical know-how of ECAR systems at a local Indian University by involving local engineering professors in collaborative work related to ECAR and sludge management
India 0
Information and Intermittent Water
GPS training for Indian survey team India 0
Matching job Seekers - workshop/training/presentation
Developed a presentation based on the results of our study India 0
Sustainable Arsenic Sludge Bearing - knowledge shearing through organized workshop
Knowledge Shearing through organized workshop and Conference India 20
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Name Description Country # of
Participants
Participatory Road Infrastructure - workshop with key users
Workshop with key users to understand the effectiveness of the developed tools Uganda 22
Big Ideas Hardware for Good Launch event and infosession
Kick off event for the Big Ideas Hardware for Good category & an infosession giving an overview of the resources available to support socially-focused hardware products
United States 100
Big Ideas Info session Event for students to learn more about the goals, categories, timeline, and requirements of this year’s contest United States 50
Big Ideas Launch and Infosession
Event for students to learn more about the goals, categories, timeline, and requirements of this year’s contest United States 50
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Approval
Facilitated by an IRB Coordinator at the UC Berkeley Office for the Protection of Human Subjects, this workshop includes an in-depth overview of the IRB Process and how to get approval for international research that includes human subjects. IRB staff will discuss what types of research requires review and answer any questions researchers may have.
United States 10
Rural Electric Power Project Tech Salon
DIL Tech Salon: The event brought together 25 invited technology experts and development practitioners to share insights on measuring energy reliability in developing countries.
United States 25
Trisan: TedX Talk TEDx Berkeley Talk United States 2000
DIL Mobile Data Collection Webinars
DIL launched a webinar series focused on mobile data collection. The objective of these webinars was to share and demonstrate a range of mobile data collection tools and platforms that can be leveraged for field research in hopes of encouraging incorporation of these tools into future work.
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APPENDIX II.I. Other Outputs - FY16 Annual
Name Description Country Status
Improving Job Search Efficiency Midline Data Collection
Collecting midline data on job seekers after the intervention India
Data Vis - map of high-resolution development indicators
Map of High-Resolution Development Indicators Afghanistan
incorporate real data, engage stakeholders
CellScope-LoaLoa Field Test Data
We are collecting data from the large-scale test in Cameroon Cameroon
Lotto linked savings - data related analysis
Our analysis of this dataset is ongoing. We find that linking savings to lotto credit as the form of interest increases savings by 26% relative to standard savings products with standard interest.
Haiti
Lotto linked savings - data set
We conducted the experiment described aboved along with a simple survey to understand more about the participants. This constitues the dataset we use for analysis.
Haiti
Bombay Real Air-Time Sensors Historical Data from Indian Gov't SAFR sensors
Historical data generated by the Indian Government SAFAR sensors. There is no official API, so the data is scraped from the SAFAR website. Scraping scripts are inherently fragile, so this will require low-effort ongoing maintenance.
India
Bombay Real Air-Time Sensors Historical Data from Sensors
Historical data generated by sensors commercial sensors purchased through the grant. The sensors are currently being calibrated in conjuction with the Environmental Engineering Department at IITB. Once calibration is complete, they will be deployed, and the results visualized using the same portal
India
ECAR - Arsenic removal data
Data confirming ECARs ability to remove Arsenic in the field India
Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) - ECAR Demo Data
Demonstration of ECAR performance long term, including arsenic removal performance measurements over months of operation of a 10,000 liter per day capacity treatment plant.
India
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Name Description Country Status
Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) - Sludge Management Best Practice
Sludge management best practice and regulatory setup in India - currently, there is no clear regulation governing the handling and disposal of arsenic-laden sludge in India by a private enterprise, but this is being developed by our project in partnership with local government institutions and our private licensee, using our demonstration as a basis.
India
ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation Models
Using various model scenarios to understand ECAR performance India
ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation Survey Data Analysis
Analysis of survey data to better understand the behavioral and microeconomic context of market-viable arsenic remediation and+D38 to inform a viable business model that also has a broad positive societal impact.
India
Haqdarshak - partner contract
Contract with partner organization in India to oversee day-to-day operations for our pilot evaluation India
Haqdarshak - selection of local RA
Selection of locally-based research assistant India
Improving Job Search Efficiency - Endline Data Collection
Collecting Endline data on Job Seekers India
Improving Job Search Efficiency Dataset of Job Seekers
Compiling a database of job seekers. Information includes: demographic characteristics, employment history, skills and training, job search behavior, occupational network, and reservation wages. Under Chemical characterization the following parameters have been determined and recorded : pH, Arsenic Content, Iron Content, Aluminium Content, Mercury Content, Chloride Content , Sulphate Content, Nitrate Content. Results will be submitted with the 1st deliverable report.
India
Improving Job Search Efficiency Midline Data Collection
Collecting midline data on job seekers after the intervention India
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Name Description Country Status
Information and Intermittent Water - household survey responses
Household survey responses collected for impact evaluation: relate to water access, demographics, etc. India
We are preparing an anonymized version of the dataset to be published at the same time as the impact evaluation
Pink Key - Commitment of interest from India Oil Company
Commitment of interest from India Oil Company India Grant application
Pink Key - Meet with SustainTech India Private, Limited
Meet with SustainTech India Private, Limited India
Pursue approval for a household cooking survey from the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects
REPP - Rural Electric Power Project - Baseline Survey
Baseline Survey of HH in Muzzaffarpur India
Survey Completed. Preliminary Analysis ongoing.
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Name Description Country Status
Rural Electric Power Project (REPP) - Dataset: India Energy Consumption
Data collection (on energy consumption and meter tampering) from grid connected households in Bihar. India
Rural Electric Power Project (REPP) - Dataset: India Energy Consumption 2
Data collection (on energy consumption and meter tampering) from grid connected households in Muzaffarpur.
India
Rural Electric Power Project: Data collection on energy consumption
Ground truthing survey to collect information on household's appliance holdings conducted in June/July 2015. Data collection from household meters will be ongoing for at least a year since microgrid installation. Once all data have been collected, UCB team will conduct analyses of these data.
India
Treating Brackish Water - Dataset CDI Prototype Performance
Performance characterization of CDI prototype India
Dataset is not yet considered complete, as data taken for comparisons can be added to this set, making it more robust.
Affordable Tractors for Smallholder Farmers
Obtained results from previous in-house evaluations of the product and business strategy India
Matching Job Seekers - Dataset
Collected two rounds of data from firms in a pilot study we conducted India
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Name Description Country Status
Modular Roofs - Demonstrated demand and business model for modular roofs
Demonstrated demand and business model for modular roofs; now 40+ roofs installed, contracts for 200+ additional. Business model with seven saleswomen on the ground who regularly check back in with customers (especially after rainstorms) is having great success and spreading awareness of the positive experience of ModRoofs by word of mouth. ; Re-Materials has sold 17 roofs so far, and is continuing to develop their business model.
India
Modular Roofs - Demonstration and evaluation of roofs on low-income homes in Ahmedabad, India
Demonstration and evaluation of roofs on low-income homes in Ahmedabad, India > 40 Roofs are installed (previously 20), roofs successfully survived monsoon season. Contracts secured for 200+ additional roofs with a government school
India
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Name Description Country Status
Sustainable Arsenic Sludge Bearing - chemical characterization
Chemical Characterization of Alum based Arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge (IS / EPA standard followed) India
Under Chemical characterization the following parameters have been determined and recorded : pH, Arsenic Content, Iron Content, Aluminium Content, Mercury Content, Chloride Content , Sulphate Content, Nitrate Content. Results has been submitted in the 1st deliverable report.
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Name Description Country Status
Sustainable Arsenic Sludge Bearing - physical characterization
Physical Characterization of Alum based Arsenic-bearing ECAR sludge (IS / EPA standard followed) India
Under Physical characterization the following parameters have been determined and recorded: Bulk Density, Specific Gravity, Hydraulic Conductivity at optimum moisture content and at moisture content near 15%, shear strength,Atterberg limits ( Liquid limit and Plastic limit), Optimum Moisture Content, Swelling Property, Particle Size Distribution. Results has been submitted in the 1st deliverable report
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Name Description Country Status
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Cycling of prototype
Cycling of prototype with reproducible performance for over 10 hours India
Longer cycling studies to test durability
Treating Brackish Drinking Water - Modeled characterization of double-layer formation in tradtional and pulsing regimes
Modeled characterization of double-layer formation in tradtional and pulsing regimes India
With the recent stabilization of the modeling tool, we have begun simulations, but most regimes have yet to be modeled.
Counterfeit Seed - sampling frame dataset
We used the supply-chain sampling frame to collect samples of maize seeds from various agro-dealers. At the time of purchasing these samples, we also recorded some basic information about the agro-dealers, including other products they stock. We took photos of all the bags of seed we purchased and recorded other details about the purchase. We then conducted germination tests of samples of these purchased bags of seed in Kenya. The planned dataset is nearly complete; only the lab results remain.
Kenya
The dataset will soon include the results of the DNA fingerprinting tests.
Data Vis - GridWatch work
GridWatch work Kenya
Improve the app with insights from feedback from users. Go viral.
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Name Description Country Status
Data Vis - rural electrification data visualization
Rural Electrification data visualization Kenya disseminate
Refugee Renumeration Large n survey; enumeration slated to begin within the next 6 months. Kenya
Rural Electric Power Project Data on Connection Dates, Take-up, Use
Dataset of connection timeline dates and take-up & energy use. Performing analyses, and prepare a report for publication, before the data is fully available.
Kenya
StreamDev - data analysis
Our partners in KU are now the stewards of the stream monitoring tools. A Masters student is incorporating results from our monitoring systems into both his graduate thesis and his work for the local water development authority. He stores data locally and periodically sends to researchers at UC Merced.
Nepal Analyze for Management Targets
Cool Joule High resolution dataset for 29 micro-enterprises and households with the parameters that have been described above. First regional micro-level data set.
Nicaragua
Cool Joule - high resolution dataset
High resolution dataset for 29 micro-enterprises and households with the parameters that have been described above. First regional micro-level data set.
Nicaragua
Div Buy-in - Dataset Baseline survey for Gikuriro Benchmarking Study Rwanda
Impacts of Electricity Reliability
Exploratory power monitoring data Tanzania
Collective Assessment and Feedback Engine Statistical Analysis
We continue to evaluate the effectiveness of the statistical analysis tools and algorithms used in CAFE Uganda
Data Vis - eWarehouse matching interface
eWarehouse interactive visual matching interface for deal coordinators Uganda Future needs may require this
Data Vis - eWarehouse road travel analysis
eWarehouse road travel analysis Uganda Awaits better data
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Name Description Country Status
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring
Training datasets for the algorithm Uganda
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring
Training datasets for the algorithm Uganda
Participatory Road Infrastructure - map and data visualization
Map and data visualization of >1000 road anomalies in Kampala city Uganda
Mezuri ODK - Maintenance and support of previous ODK 1.0
Maintenance and support of previous ODK 1.0 United States
Treating Brackish Water - Dataset CDI Prototype Performance
Performance characterization of CDI prototype United States
Treating Brackish Water - Dataset Prototype Performance
Comparison of performance between pulsing and traditional operation of prototype United States
Data Vis - child mortality map
Africa child mortality interactive map
Publish to accompany paper, disseminate
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APPENDIX III. Partners - FY16 Annual
Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Unitus Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in Social Innovator OnRamp
Roshan Telecommunications
Medium Commercial Enterprise
Afghanistan Providing mobile phone data necessary for research; Research Partner
Center for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Cameroon Research partner
Akshay Modley Medium Commercial Enterprise
India independent engineer in Mumbai who partnered with our project to develop a data logger
ESSEL High Commercial Enterprise
India
ESSEL is implementing the installation of smart meters at some of their sites by a contract with Gram Power. ESSEL is interested in working with Gram Power and the research team to determine ways to identify and reduce theft.
Gram Power High Commercial Enterprise
India Implementing Partner: Gram Power is a private company based in India that installs solar microgrids in rural areas. Several microgrids have been in installed in Rajasthan as part of our project.
NextDrop High Commercial Enterprise
India Organization providing service the research team is evaluating
Ramky Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
Medium Commercial Enterprise
India Developing a contract and procedure to collect sludge
Vishwakarma wood works
High Commercial Enterprise
India Provides sanding for the tiles
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India consortium member
Jadavpur University High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Implementing partner
Awaaz.De High NGO India Data collection
Mahila Housing SEWA Trust - Microfinance
Medium NGO India Provides microfinance to consumers for purchase of ModRoofs
Public Affairs Foundation High NGO India Organization assisting us with surveys for impact evaluation
Saath - Microfinance Group
Medium NGO India Provides microfinance to consumers for purchase of ModRoofs
WaterLife-India Low NGO India Advisory
Jharkhand Public Health and Engineering Department, Gov of Jharkhand State
Low Non-US government
India Issued tender based on ECAR design and working with Luminous to respond
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India
Low Non-US government
India Support and advice, mobilizing funds and agency alignment
West Bengal Pollution Control Board
Low Non-US government
India Developing regulations and permissions for sludge collection
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
West Bengal Public Health and Engineering Department, Gov of West Bengal State
Low Non-US government
India Certification to serve potable water to public
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
Low Other development actor
India Engaged to develop and implement political strategy
Luminous Water Technologies Ltd
High Commercial Enterprise
India Licensee of ECAR, scaling up and commercializing technology
Mahindra & Mahindra Medium Commercial Enterprise
India We would collaborate on the design and implementation of an RCT evaluating their product
Dhapdhapi High School High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Hosting field trial for ECAR and coordinating with community
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
Low Multi-lateral institution
India Advising and monetary support
Arsenic Task Force Medium Other development actor
India Local government collaborator and advisory group in West Bengal
IBM Research Africa High Commercial Enterprise
Kenya GridWatch potential pilot deployment partner which has adopted and further developed the open source pilot code.
Kenya Power Medium Commercial Enterprise
Kenya Kenya Power Utility
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Rural Electrification Authority (Kenya)
Medium Non-US government
Kenya We partnered with REA to implement a randomized evaluation of electricity connections in Western Kenya.
Kenya Power – (electric utility)
High Other development actor
Kenya Kenya Power Utility – a public-private joint venture. Can be seen as policymaker
UC Merced School of Social Sciences
Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States consortium member
Tribhuvan University Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Nepal University
ICIMOD Low Multi-lateral institution
Nepal International Organization
USAID Medium USAID operating unit or program
Nepal USG Operating Unit
Pelican, SA Medium Commercial Enterprise
Nicaragua FlexBox implementation and local management partner
Nicaraguan National Engineering University
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Nicaragua Research Partner
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
IEEE Nicaragua Medium NGO Nicaragua
International Federation of Red Cross
Medium Multi-lateral institution
Panama Deployment partner for technology prototyping
AgriNet Medium NGO Uganda Independent contractor who will be implementing the intervention as a part of the e-warehousing project (large-scale randomized expansion of their market linkage services through their trader alert system)
Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA)
High Non-US government
Uganda KCCA is the legal entity that is mandated to repair and maintain roads in Kampala. The are the target beneficiaries, funders, and a channel of distribution/deployment for our technology
Ministry of Works Low Non-US government
Uganda Potential funder and user of our technology
National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U)
Low Non-US government
Uganda
NITA-U is a national IT regulatory agency. NITA-U have provided us with the necessary contacts in different government agencies e.g., the Uganda police. Our ongoing collaboration with NITA-U provides an environment to provide solutions to pressing challenges in different government agencies.
Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA)
Low Non-US government
Uganda Potential funder and user of our technology
Resilient Africa Network (RAN)
Low USAID operating unit or program
Uganda HESN collaborator
Embrace Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in DevEng 200
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
University of California, Berkeley
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States host university Leverage (other than cost-share)
University of Florida Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States The lab will conduct the DNA fingerprinting analysis on our sample of maize hybrid seed.
PATH Medium NGO United States Deployment partner for technology prototyping
Gates Foundation Low Private Philanthropy/Foundation
United States Funder and deployment matchmaker
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High
US government (other than USAID)
United States Research implementing partner
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High
US government (other than USAID)
United States Research implementing partner
Ministry of Health (Vietnam)
Medium Non-US government
Vietnam Involved in development, clinical, and field testing
Aspiring Minds High Commercial Enterprise
India Aspiring Minds is a private skill assessment company in India. They have agreed to provide skill assessments to all job-seekers in our sample.
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Babajob Private Ltd High Commercial Enterprise
India Babajob is a private job portal in India. They have agreed to collaborate with a team of researchers at UC Berkeley to determine whether the services they provide help firms overcome labor market frictions
Digicel Medium Commercial Enterprise
Haiti Our partner mobile phone company to facilitate mobile money transfers.
KDP Microsystems Medium Commercial Enterprise
India Fabrication of PCB board for data logger
LISA Medium Commercial Enterprise
Haiti Our partner SMS-based lotto company to facilitate the transfer of lotto credit.
Livpure India Private Limited
Medium Commercial Enterprise
India Industrial support primarily tasked with operation, maintenance, water sales and distribution
SEFIS Medium Commercial Enterprise
Haiti A survey firm that we contracted to conduct the experiment.
Global Change Programme at Jadavpur University
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Leading social and political strategy, providing local logistical support
Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Engineers consulted in the design of the data logger
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Rutgers University Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States Rutgers University will provide expertise in understanding the linkage of air pollution to health complications. They will also provide access to calibration data.
University of Sheffield Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United Kingdom
Shieffield University will provide expertise in data analysis of the data
University of the Philippines
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Philippines Technology and implementing partner
Universtiy of Massachusetts - Amherst
Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States Engaged with incoming faculty and former IBMRA researcher Jay Taneja on GridWatch
Girl Guides Low NGO India Implementing Partner
Innovations for Poverty Action
High NGO United States Implementing partner
SustainTech India Private Low NGO India Informal MOU
Village Reach Medium NGO United States Deployment partner for technology prototyping
India Oil Company, Limited
Low Non-US government
India Informal MOU
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Kampala Capital City Authority
Medium Non-US government
Uganda
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) is an equivalent of a municipality in other cities. It is responsible for the management and governance of the city. KCCA will provide deployment stations for static pollution monitors. KCCA is also interested in pollution data.
Thin Void Ltd Medium Non-US government
Uganda
Thin Void is a startup in Kampala for building tracking devices. They will provide expertise in packing and deployment of devices on motor bikes. They have experience in deploying tracking sensors on motor bikes in Kampala
Tugende Ltd Medium Non-US government
Uganda Tugende organization provides credit to boda-boda drivers in Uganda on a lease-to-own arrangement. Tugende currently has over 1700 active motorcycles.
Eliminate Dengue Medium Other development actor
Australia Deployment partner for technology prototyping
Jim Keller Medium Other development actor
United States consultant/advisory
SPZ Legal Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in DIL-supported courses: Social Innovator OnRamp, DevEng200
SPZ Legal Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in DIL-supported courses: Social Innovator OnRamp, DevEng200
LocalWise Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in Social Innovator OnRamp
Sanergy Medium Commercial Enterprise
Kenya Guest speaker in DevEng 200
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Bridges Ventures Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in DevEng 200
Dept of State Medium
US government (other than USAID)
United States Guest speaker in Social Innovator OnRamp
Back to the Roots Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in Social Innovator OnRamp
Human Needs Project Medium NGO Kenya Guest speaker in DevEng 210
Microsoft Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States Guest speaker in DevEng 210
VOTO Mobile Medium NGO Ghana DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
engageSPARK Medium Commercial Enterprise
Philippines DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Switzerland Dev Eng Journal Launch Event Partner
Elsevier Medium Commercial Enterprise
United Kingdom
Dev Eng Journal Publishing Partner
Elevate Law & Strategy Low Commercial Enterprise
United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
LeadGenius Low Commercial Enterprise
United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Premise Data Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
SurveyCTO Medium Commercial Enterprise
United States DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
D-Lab Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
KoBoToolbox Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series Participant/Contributor
National Defense University
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States Knowledge Exchange Collaborator
UCSF Global Health Sciences
Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
Catholic Relief Services Low NGO United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
KQED Science Low NGO United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Milken Institute Financial Innovation Lab
Low NGO United States Practitioners in Residence Participant
Engineering for Change High Other development actor
United States DIL-E4C Spring Mobile Data Collection Webinar Series partner
All Children Reading Grand Challenge for Development
High USAID operating unit or program
United States Sponsor - Big Ideas Contest Mobile for Reading Category
Roshan Telecommunications
High Commercial Enterprise
Afghanistan Providing mobile phone data necessary for research; Research Partner
USAID Afghanistan Mission
High USAID operating unit or program
Afghanistan Afghanistan Mission has supported UCSD led project through a Buy-in
Center for Research on Filariasis and other Tropical Diseases
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Cameroon Research partner
KDP Microsystems Low Commercial Enterprise
India Fabrication of PCB board for data logger
Luminous Water Technologies Ltd
High Commercial Enterprise
India Licensee of ECAR, scaling up and commercializing technology
SGS India Pvt. Ltd Medium Commercial Enterprise
India NABL lab for performance measurements
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Abhinav Saxena and Advait Kumar (IIT Delhi)
Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Engineers consulted in the design of the data logger as a part of the ECAR project
Dhapdhapi High School High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
India Hosting field trial for ECAR and coordinating with community
Indo-US Science and Technology Forum
Low NGO India Advising and monetary support
Mana Organics Medium NGO India Mana Organics is a nonprofit devoted to bringing organic foods to the Indian market.
Arsenic Task Force Medium Other development actor
India Local government collaborator and advisory group in West Bengal
IBM Research Africa High Commercial Enterprise
Kenya GridWatch potential pilot deployment partner which has adopted and further developed the open source pilot code.
Tecnologico de Monterrey
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Mexico Assist in the creation of content for Mexico Participa and field implementation (e.g., identify translators, coordinate meetings and recruit participants)
National Mexico Electoral Institute
High Non-US government
Mexico Assist in the creation of content for Mexico Participa and field implementation (e.g., identify translators, coordinate meetings and recruit participants)
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Low
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Nicaragua FlexBox training and technical services.
National University, Philippines
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Philippines Assist in the creation of content for disaster preparedness focused CAFE implementation in the Philippines (e.g., formulate content, identify translators, coordinate meetings and recruit participants)
Philippines Government High Non-US government
Philippines Funding Philippines deployment of CCN in coastal villages Leverage (other than cost-share)
USAID Rwanda Misison High USAID operating unit or program
Rwanda Rwanda Mission is supporting UCSD led project through a Buy-In
The State University of Zanzibar
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Tanzania Research Partner
The Zanzibar Electricity Corporation
Medium Non-US government
Tanzania Implementing Partner
Agrinet High Commercial Enterprise
Uganda Independent contractor who will be implementing the intervention as a part of the e-warehousing project (large-scale randomized expansion of their market linkage services through their trader alert system)
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
Makerere Department of Computer and Information Science
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Uganda Makerere Department of Computer and Information Science
Makerere University High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
Uganda PI Engineer Bainomugisha was awarded a DIL Innovate award in Spring 2015 for his work on automated pothole detection. A subaward was issued to Makerere University for him to carry out this work.
Innovations for Poverty Action
High NGO Uganda Implementing partner
Iowa State University, Uganda Program (This is a registered NGO in Uganda)
High NGO Uganda Assist in implementing the Uganda project in the field (e.g., identify translators, coordinate meetings and recruit participants)
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United Kingdom
Involved in lab testing
University of California, San Diego
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States consortium member
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Partner Name Level of Engagement
Partner Type
Partner Location Country
Partner Description Support
Type
University of California, San Diego
High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States consortium member
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Medium
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States consortium member
University of Washington High
Higher Education Institution/Research Organization
United States The University of Washington supports development of DIL's Mezuri Platform in coorindation with the Technology & Infrastructure for Emerging Markets (TIER) at UC Berkeley.
Gates Foundation Medium Private Philanthropy/Foundation
United States Funder and deployment matchmaker
Siebel Energy Institute Medium Private Philanthropy/Foundation
United States Funder and future grant matcher.
Siebel Energy Institute Medium Private Philanthropy/Foundation
United States Funder and future grant matcher.
Ministry of Health (Vietnam)
Medium Non-US government
Vietnam Involved in development, clinical, and field testing
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APPENDIX IV. Classes & Disciplines - FY16 Annual
Name Description Institution
Spring 2016: CEE 209 Design for Sustainable Communities
This course provides conceptual and hands-on experience in design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-constrained communities (mostly poor ones in the developing countries). Teams of students will take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts.
UC Berkeley
Spring 2016: Design for Social Impact Research and Practice Seminar
This seminar, to be offered in alternate terms, will focus on work-in-progress presentations by students enrolled in the designated emphasis, as well as faculty and guest lecturers. Students are required to take at least one semester of the seminar.
UC Berkeley
Fall 2015: Ethics, Methods, and Pragmatics of Global Practice
This course is intended to provide students with the necessary background and knowledge to undertake projects and work experience of a global scope. Students will be exposed to a diversity of methodological frameworks, introduced to the basic skills needed to effectively participate in organizations, and to understand the ethics of global service and practice. Students will be required to complete a literature review and a major project proposal.
UC Berkeley
Fall 2015: International & Area Studies: Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Emergencies
This course will introduce public health engineering in acute and stabilizing emergencies. With an emphasis on problem-based learning, students will engage with technical methods for water supply, emergency sanitation, and hygiene promotion, as well as the principles of field assessment and project management. Critical issues relating to sustainability, logistics, behavior change, and compliance will also be discussed. Contemporary structures and challenges of the global humanitarian system will be foregrounded throughout the course. Case studies will be used to ground the course in the real world.
UC Berkeley
Fall 2015: Design, Evaluate, & Scale Development Technologies
Co-taught by technologist and social scientist and core requirement of the Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering. The course is organized around the analysis and application of case studies by multidisciplinary student teams according to three thematic modules.
UC Berkeley
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Name Description Institution
Development Engineering Designated Emphasis
A new interdisciplinary training program for UC Berkeley doctoral students whose dissertation research includes topics related to the application of technology to address the needs of people living in poverty. The Dev Eng in particular serves students across engineering disciplines, quantitative social science disciplines, business programs, information sciences, and natural sciences.
UC Berkeley
Hacking Measurement
Project-Based Course on Mobile Devices, the Internet of Things, & Remote Sensing UC Berkeley
Spring 2016: CEE 209 Design for Sustainable Communities
This course provides conceptual and hands-on experience in design and implementation of innovative products or processes for improving the sustainability of resource-constrained communities (mostly poor ones in the developing countries). Teams of students will take on practical projects, with guidance from subject experts.
UC Berkeley
Spring 2016: Design for Social Impact Research and Practice Seminar
This seminar, to be offered in alternate terms, will focus on work-in-progress presentations by students enrolled in the designated emphasis, as well as faculty and guest lecturers. Students are required to take at least one semester of the seminar.
UC Berkeley
Fall 2016: Design, Evaluate, & Scale Development Technologies
Co-taught by technologist and social scientist and core requirement of the Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering. The course is organized around the analysis and application of case studies by multidisciplinary student teams according to three thematic modules.
UC Berkeley
Fall 2016: Social Innovator OnRamp
Co-taught by a technologist and a social business expert, the purpose of the OnRamp is provide resources and support to undergraduate and graduate students who have new ideas or early-stage social impact initiatives. The OnRamp class introduces students to a scaffold of theory, best practices, and tools necessary to design and implement social change initiatives, social enterprises, and start-ups. Throughout the class, students further shape, evaluate and grow their own early-stage projects and ideas with support from OnRamp instructors and invited experts.
UC Berkeley
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APPENDIX V. Fellowships & Practica - FY16 Annual
Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
Mezuri - Open Data Kit
3 United States
Rural Electric Power PRoject
2 United States
StreamDev2.0 2 United States
Counterfeit Seed
1 United States
Information and Intermittant Water
4 United States
Community Cellular Networks
2 United States
Lotto linked savings in Haiti
1 United States
Lotto linked savings in Haiti
1 United States
Air Pollution Monitoring
Student developers 2 Kenya
Matatu Monitoring
3 United States
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
Matching Job Seekers
2 United States
Treating Brackish Drinking Water
3 India
Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring
Student Developers 4 United States
Affordable Tractors for Smallholder Farmers
1 United States
Mobile Phone-based Pulse Oximeter
5 United States
Modular Roofs
3 United States
Cool Joule 2 United States
Sustainable Arsenic Bearing Sludge
3 India
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
High Resolution Development Indicators (HRDI)
1 United States
Mezuri - TIER 4 United States
DIL Innvoate: Improving Job Search Efficiency
1 United States
DIL Innovate: Incentivizing the safe disposal of human feces in urban areas
5 United States
DIL Innovate: CellScope-Tuberculosis
3 United States
Demo: CellScope-LoaLoa
3 United States
Demo: ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation
15 India
DIL Explore: India's Smart Meter Rollout
2 India
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
DIL Explore: Datay
1 Pakistan
DIL Innovate: Tea Harvesting
3 United States
DIL Innovate: Participatory Road Infrastructure Monitoring
2 Uganda
DIL Innovate: Cool Joule
2 Nicaragua
DIL Innovate: Mobile Phone-Based Pulse Oximeter
2 United States
DIL Innovate: Matutu Monitoring
3 United States
Mezuri - UW 3 United States
Mezuri - TIER 3 United States
DIL Innovate: Counterfeit Seed
1 United States
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
DIL Explore: Impacts of Electricity Reliability
1 United States
DIL Innovate: High-Resolution Development Indicators
1 United States
DIL Innovate Information and Intermittent Water
5 United States
DIL Innvoate: Sustainable Arsenic-Bearing Sludge Management
2 India
DIL Innovate: Affordable Recycled Modular Roofs
21 United States
Demo: ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation
12 India
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
DIL Explore: Bombay Real Air-Time Sensors
1 India
DIL Innovate: Incentivizing the safe disposal of human feces in urban areas
4 United States
Demo: Collective Assessment and Feedback Engine (CAFE)
4 United States
DIL Innovate: CellScope-Tuberculosis
3 United States
Demo: CellScope-LoaLoa
2 United States
Demo Project: Rural Electric Power Project (REPP)
1 Kenya
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Name Short Description Host Organization Total #
Students Country
DIL Innovate: Treating Brackish Drinking Water
4 United States
PhoneBased Defined Contribution Account
1 United States
DIL Ecosystem Graduate Student Reseacres
3 United States
DIL Ecosystem Graduate Student Reseacres
1 United States
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APPENDIX VI. Communications - FY16 Annual Communication Title Description URL
Founders of Endaga to Join Facebook Development Impact Lab http://dil.berkeley.edu/founders-of-endaga-to-join-facebook/
Facebook absorbs Endaga, partners with Eutelsat to boost internet.org
Mobile World Live
http://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/home-banner/facebook-absorbs-endaga-partners-with-eutelsat-to-boost-internet-org/
Facebook Hires Founders Of Cellular-Network-In-A-Box Company Endaga
TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/05/facebook-hires-founders-of-cellular-network-in-a-box-company-endaga/
Enabling air quality analysis using Berkeley software
amplab UC Berkeley https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/enabling-air-quality-analysis-using-berkeley-software/
"Solar Suitcases" in Uganda are Improve the State of Maternal-Fetal Care in An Area That really Needs It
Bustle
http://www.bustle.com/articles/118201-solar-suitcases-in-uganda-are-improving-the-state-of-maternal-fetal-care-in-an-area-that-really
Teachers as Agents of Conflict Resolution in Chile: Big Ideas Winners Kuy Kuitin
Big Ideas@Berkeley
http://bigideas.berkeley.edu/2015/10/21/teachers-as-agents-of-conflict-resolution-in-chile-big-ideas-winners-kuy-kuitin/
Solar Suitcase' Helps Women Give Birth In Africa, Treats Medical Emergencies In The Dark
Medical Daily
http://www.medicaldaily.com/pulse/solar-suitcase-helps-women-give-birth-africa-treats-medical-emergencies-dark-358702
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Communication Title Description URL
Undergraduate Research on the Rise at Cal Development Impact Lab http://dil.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-research-on-the-rise-at-cal/
CellScope Loa Berkeley Engineer http://engineering.berkeley.edu/magazine/fall-2015/cellscope-loa
Fortifying breast milk Berkeley Engineer http://engineering.berkeley.edu/magazine/fall-2015/fortifying-breast-milk
Poverty & Technology with Dr. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang
Story Punch
http://storypunchpodcast.com/2015/11/09/poverty-technology-with-dr-kweku-opoku-agyemang/
How To Keep The Peace In An Age Of Water Wars
Reuters http://www.trust.org/item/20151110095702-4lyf3/
Tech Infrastructure In The Developing World TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/13/tech-infrastructure-in-the-developing-world/
Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation
Berkeley NewsCenter
http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/11/16/celebrating-world-toilet-day-reinventing-sanitation/
Going 'Beyond the Bowl" to Achieve Gender Equity in Sanitation
Development Impact Lab http://dil.berkeley.edu/going-beyond-the-bowl-to-achieve-gender-equity-in-sanitation/
DevCAFE CITRIS (Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyiSUKNhKPM
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Communication Title Description URL
Alice M. Agogino Honored by ASME for Furthering Engineering Design Education
ASME
https://www.asme.org/about-asme/news/press-releases/alice-agogino-honored-furthering-design-education
Mobile Phone Data Predicts Poverty in Rwanda IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/mobile-phone-data-predicts-poverty-in-rwanda
Daniel Fletcher: For Using a Cell Phone to Find Disease
Foreign Policy
http://2015globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com/?utm_content=buffere40a0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#!innovators/detail/fletcher
Meet the Makerere University Big Ideas Winners 2014-15
ResilientAfrica Network
http://www.ranlab.org/makerere-university-telecom-engineering-students-received-a-cash-prize-after-winning-the-2014-15-big-ideas-contest-by-uc-berkeley
NextDrop: An Innovative Solution to a Critical Problem
TechChange
https://www.techchange.org/2015/12/21/nextdrop-an-innovative-solution-to-a-critical-problem/
How to Supercharge Your Generosity Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gleb-tsipursky/multiply-your-generosity-_b_8872250.html
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Communication Title Description URL
Making every drop count The Asian Age http://www.asianage.com/people/making-every-drop-count-998
Development Engineering: Reflections from a Development Impact Lab Postdoctoral Fellow
Development Impact Lab
http://dil.berkeley.edu/development-engineering-reflections-from-a-development-impact-lab-postdoctoral-fellow/
Five Questions for Development Engineer Rachel Gerver
Development Impact Lab http://dil.berkeley.edu/five-questions-for-development-engineer-rachel-gerver/
This Is a Proven Way to Get Women Excited About Engineering
Fortune http://fortune.com/2016/01/06/women-excited-engineering/
Harnessing the Internet of Things for Global Development
CISCO
http://www.itu.int/en/action/broadband/Documents/Harnessing-IoT-Global-Development.pdf
BRAS update: Air quality graphs and twitter feed amplab UC Berkeley https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/bras-update-air-quality-graphs-and-twitter-feed/
The wages of sin The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21689642-theory-higher-pay-cuts-corruption-practice-opposite-happens-wages
Dow Prize: A New Strategy to Provide Safer Groundwater for Millions
Redefining Business, Haas Center for Responsible Business
http://redefiningbusiness.org/dow-prize-a-new-strategy-to-provide-safer-groundwater-for-millions/
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Communication Title Description URL
Dr. Kweku Opoku-Agyemang on Poverty & Technology
This is Berkeley
http://thisisberkeley.com/2016/02/06/dr-kweku-opoku-agyemang-on-poverty-technology/
New CellScope Device Enables Safe Treatment for River Blindness
Today at Berkeley Lab
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://today.lbl.gov/2016/02/08/new-cellscope-device-enables-safe-treatment-for-river-blindness/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoUMTAxMDM3MjgzMDA0NjU1NDUyMDIyGjYyNTcxMjg3OTQzM2Q4MTk6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AFQjCNFBP3TbqGdNJPNwQkObAN0KMCs1xA
Random Access ASME Demand https://medium.com/@DemandASME/random-access-5da28cdf6ba7#.3dt5j8sqb
Waste Not: Addressing the Sanitation and Fuel Need
ASME Demand
https://medium.com/@DemandASME/waste-not-addressing-the-sanitation-and-fuel-need-235f09b45696#.4x07yydki
How the 'solar suitcase' makes childbirth safer BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03nmfdw
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APPENDIX VII. Travel - FY16 Annual
Country #
Travelers Partner(s)
Engaged Purpose Outcome(s) Next Steps
Pakistan 2
Information Technology University and Shimshal Nature Trust
DIL Explore: During the proposed trip the research team will survey the site, assess potential challenges, hold initial meetings with partners at Information Technology University and Shimshal Nature Trust, review and gain feedback on the proposed in-depth interview questions, finalize interview content, train local partners on administration of the interviews, and map out a timeline for execution of the upcoming interviews in Shimshal (upon IRB approval).
Forthcoming, students are still in field
Germany 1
ElectroChemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) PhD student ECAR-related abstract accepted to conference. Traveled to give an oral presentation at the Capacitive deionization and electrosorption (CDI&E) conference in Saarbrucken, Germany.
Oral presentation of ECAR work
India 1
DIL Explore: Student team traveled to study the impact of Bangalore’s recent smart meter rollout on electricity consumption patterns and response to power outages.
Team conducted meetings with the agencies in charge of conducting smart meter rollout project.
India 1
DIL Explore: Student team traveled to study the impact of Bangalore’s recent smart meter rollout on electricity consumption patterns and response to power outages.
Team conducted meetings with the agencies in charge of conducting smart meter rollout project.
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Country #
Travelers Partner(s)
Engaged Purpose Outcome(s) Next Steps
India 1
ECAR student visited field site of the 10,000 liter per day capacity ECAR system to conduct experiments to measure and monitor prototype performance.
Student reported on and fixed ongoing problems and trained next field specialist to do the same.
Pakistan 1 DIL Explore: Student traveled to meet with stakeholders in NGOs, government and academia.
Kenya 1
DIL Innovate: Project team member traveled to implement prototype for continual flow heat treatment system (Project: Incentivizing the Safe Disposal of Human Feces In Urban Areas)
Tanzania 1
DIL Explore: Grudate student traveled to explore the impacts of unreliable electricity on the island of Unguja, Tanzania.
Student met with utility officials as well as local village leaders and community members.
Student is continuing work with another DIL Explore project awarded in Spring 2016
India 3
DIL Explore: Student team designed a rainwater harvesting, storage, and irrigation system for small tea growers in India in order to combat the effects of climate change on local weather patterns and tea production.
Student team tested system on a plot on a tea plantation.
Nicaragua 1 DIL Innovate: To deploy communications on devices that were implemented during a previous trip.
Allow team to collect data more effectively and provide an additional method of control for the devices. Team also collected and analyzed data that has been stored on the devices over the previous few months.
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Country #
Travelers Partner(s)
Engaged Purpose Outcome(s) Next Steps
Nicaragua 1 DIL Innovate: To deploy communications on devices that were implemented during a previous trip.
Allow team to collect data more effectively and provide an additional method of control for the devices. Team also collected and analyzed data that has been stored on the devices over the previous few months.
United States 1
DIL Management staff traveled to Washington, DC as part of annual UC delegation to meet with California Congressional offices and offer progress updates on USAID/DIL-funded projects.
Improved congressional awareness of UC federal research programs and USAID partnerships