The main purpose of I2I’s evaluations is to find out for what purposes and in which settings IIPs are particularly useful in development, and what their strengths and weaknesses are, compared with other funding modalities available to funders.
In 2013, the Department for International Development (DFID) proposed creating a new innovative programme, that would launch a number of innovation prizes to encourage research to develop and deploy technologies that would improve poor people’s access to affordable clean energy, safe drinking water and other climate/environmental services. Now known as Ideas to Impact (I2I), the programme is an action-research programme designing, implementing and testing innovation prizes, to induce innovative solutions to development challenges in Climate Change Adaptation, Energy Access and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene).
