A RENEWED VISION FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The DAO Powered by Ethereum Presents the Next Opportunity of Humanitarian Innovation
Incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs
Promoting effective development programming
Fostering creativity, transparency, and social impact
Focusing on rigorous evidence and impact evaluations
Core Principles
1
Social Impact
By placing importance on rigorous evidence, IDA Lab actively participates in the validation of innovative strategies for tackling development challenges. Our dedication lies in nurturing solutions that have the highest potential for impactful outcomes, while also prioritizing long-term sustainability.
2
Cost-Effectiveness
IDA Lab evaluates solutions that possess the capacity to address development challenges and generate significant impact. We prioritize cost-effective approaches that outperform alternative options in terms of efficiency, speed, cost, or overall impact.
3
Pathways to Scale
IDA Lab strikes a balance between financial incentives and the long-term goals of sustainable development, ensuring that market mechanisms align with the principles of inclusivity, social equity, and environmental sustainability.
Our Values
Sustainability
Evidence
Partnerships
Focusing on a long-term development logic that fosters resilience of local populations to improve long-term socioeconomic and psychological effects.
Developing a long-term research effort to generate rigorous evidence on the effectiveness of humanitarian programming.
Facilitating the development of long-term mutually beneficial relationships between NGOs, startups, activists, policy makers, and investors.
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The most urgent problems hold the biggest possibilities
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At IDA Lab, the impact of development efforts is amplified through the power of decentralized decision-making and transparent collaboration, enabling stakeholders to share information, resources, and best practices in a way that drives meaningful progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).