• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

    Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life.

  • Global Affairs Canada

    Global Affairs Canada manages Canada's diplomatic and consular relations, promotes the country's international trade and leads Canada’s international development and humanitarian assistance.

  • Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    The Dutch Ministry’s development cooperation activity focuses on three key areas: preventing conflict and instability, reducing poverty and social inequality, and promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and climate action worldwide. The organisation currently operates in 70 countries, with a strong focus on 28 countries across the West African Sahel, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East and North Africa.

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ)

    GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security. As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world.

  • Global Financing Facility

    The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents (GFF) is a multi-stakeholder global partnership housed at the World Bank that is committed to ensuring all women, children and adolescents can survive and thrive. Launched in July 2015, the GFF supports 36 low and lower-middle income countries with catalytic financing and technical assistance to develop and implement prioritized national health plans to scale up access to affordable, quality care for women, children and adolescents.

  • Global Innovation Fund

    The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.

  • Grand Challenges Canada

    Grand Challenges Canada is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, Grand Challenges Canada funds innovators in low- and middle-income countries and Canada.

  • Mastercard Foundation

    The Mastercard Foundation works with visionary organizations to enable young people in Africa and in Indigenous communities in Canada to access dignified and fulfilling work.

  • Results for Development

    Results for Development (R4D) works with change agents around the globe to create self-sustaining systems that support healthy, educated people. R4D has provided Secretariat services to IDIA since its establishment in 2015.

  • Rockefeller Foundation

    The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. Together with partners and grantees it strives to catalyse and scale transformative innovations, create unlikely partnerships that span sectors, and take risks others cannot.

  • Skoll Foundation

    The Skoll Foundation catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing social entrepreneurs and other social innovators who together advance bold and equitable solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

  • Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

    The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through our work and in cooperation with others, we contribute to implementing Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGU).

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

    The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) pursues the UK’s national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. It promotes the interests of British citizens, safeguards the UK’s security, defends its values, reduces poverty and tackles global challenges with its international partners.

  • UNICEF

    The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families.

  • USAID

    The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) leads international development and humanitarian efforts to save lives, reduce poverty, strengthen democratic governance and help people progress beyond assistance.

Members

IDIA Members are those organizations which contribute to the strategic direction and financing of the alliance. Each Member is represented by two IDIA Principal Representatives who act as the main points of contact between IDIA and their broader agencies.

Strategic Partners

IDIA’s Strategic Partners provide support in broadening the reach, influence or impact of IDIA’s work, especially in terms of enabling greater participation of a more diverse range of actors.

  • World Health Organization

    Through this collaboration, IDIA and the WHO are working together in support of a shared agenda to promote and facilitate the demand, supply, assessment, and scale-up of health innovation for the benefit of low- and middle-income countries.

  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

    Through this collaboration, IDIA is working with the OECD Innovation for Development Facility (INDEF) to deepen the awareness of the purpose and roles of innovation in international development, strengthen engagement among DAC members and explore ways to collectively support innovation ecosystems in low and middle-income countries.