Awarded Grants

Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact. Individual challenges address some of the same problems, but from differing perspectives.

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Ensure Year-Wise Nutritional Food Security to Indian Women Through Community Level Implementation of Domestic Solar Conduction Dryer

Vaibhav TidkeScience for SocietyAurangabad, Maharashtra, India
Grand Challenges India
Agriculture and Nutrition
15 Dec 2015

The project aims to ensure food-security throughout the entire year in a rural district by storing food through an innovative technology known as the Solar Conduction Dryer. It also aims to add extra income to women farmers from the sale of the dehydrated products of this technology, while providing valuable lessons in post-harvest losses.

Field Testing of Off-grid, Self-sustained, Modular, Electronic Toilet for Slums, with Solar Energy for Indian Weather and Integrated with Mixed Waste Processing Unit, with Water, Energy/Fertilizer Recovery

Midhu SVEram Scientific Solutions Pvt LtdTrivandrum, Kerala, India
Grand Challenges India
Reinvent the Toilet
25 May 2015

This project, undertaken in collaboration with the University of South Florida, U.S., aims to develop and demonstrate an innovative sanitation and resource recovery solution for the slum areas in India.

Designing On-Farm Participatory Models of Integrated Farming Systems for Enhancement of Household Diet Diversity and Livelihoods of Women Smallholder Farmers

Ramanathan KathiresanAnnamalai UniversityAnnamalai Nagar, Tamil Nadu, India
Grand Challenges India
Agriculture and Nutrition
23 Jan 2015

The project intends to promote the adoption of an innovative model of farming - the Integrated Farming System (IFS) - in the Chidambaram region. It aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of this model of farming in improving agricultural productivity and create avenues for empowerment of women as well as augment household diet diversity and improve nutritional standards of 150 poor women farmers.

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