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Co-funded USAID WASH for Life program — $17 million matching grant for clean water innovations
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The Gates Foundation invested $8.5 million in USAID's WASH for Life grant program, with USAID matching the commitment to create a $17 million Development Innovation Ventures fund seeking, testing, and scaling cost-effective clean water, sanitation, and hygiene delivery systems in developing countries. The program used a tiered evidence approach — funding the cheapest early-stage pilots first and scaling only those with demonstrated results — to find the most scalable innovations in household water treatment, community water supply, rural sanitation, and hygiene promotion.
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