Design and Implementation of Innovations Knowledge Exchange Facility for Agri-Food and Health Sectors between India and Low-Income Countries

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The Department for International Development awarded a contract to IMC Worldwide Ltd for the design and implementation of the Innovations Knowledge Exchange Facility (IKEF) in the agri-food and health sectors between India and low-income countries.

The contract, valued at £3,293,656, aimed to build partnerships to facilitate the diffusion of Indian innovations in select low-income countries in Ethiopia, East Africa, and South Asia based on demand identified in the health and agri-food sectors for impact on those at the bottom of the pyramid.

It also involved establishing a baseline on the impact of such diffusion under INVENT in the two sectors, monitoring and assessing the performance of the IKEF over the programme period, and building an evidence base through support to evaluation studies and case studies to demonstrate what works and under what conditions, documenting best practices, gaps, and emerging areas of demand, and identifying successful business models for exchanging innovative ideas.