Development Innovations

In November 2008, SEDI launched the Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy, a first of its kind in the country. The Centre seeks to partner with businesses, governments and communities across Canada to achieve its goal of increasing the financial literacy of over 230,000 lower-income Canadians by 2013. According to Statistics Canada, more than 4.7 million Canadians live on a low income.


The included the creation of a financial literacy task force, a measure recommended by SEDI to the government. The independent, multi-sectoral task force will make recommendations to the minister of finance on a national strategy for financial literacy. With this initiative, Canada will join a growing list of countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand that have developed national strategies to improve the financial literacy of their citizens.

We are here to support you. SERVICES We’ve built our service offering to help Cambodian organizations understand how technology can help their projects. Working with technology is difficult. We can help. Our advisory team offers one-on-one consultations on project design, video production, and technology strategy to help you in your work. Meet our consultants and book a free consultation. Technology project funding to test your ideas. We provide grant funding for technology-enabled projects that help solve development challenges in Cambodia. Explore our dashboard of projects we’ve funded. A civil society focused innovation lab. The Lab @ Development Innovations is our innovation lab focused on helping organizations design, build and deploy technology to solve development challenges in Cambodia. Learn more about our innovation lab.

Jobs La Mano del Mono Is Now Hiring! Are you interested in sustainable development? Are you passionate about the inclusion of local and indigenous communities in sustainable development policy and initiatives? La Mano del Mono, an organization focused on preventing environmental degradation through environmental education and ecotourism, is looking for a Community Manager and Impact Measurement Intern. Learn more and fill out the application for the Community Manager position here. Learn more and apply for the Impact Measurement position here.  Please note that these positions are unpaid, but IDIN may be able to contribute a minimal amount of financial support should a successful match be made. JobsDevelopmentEnvironment

Twende is Now Hiring! Are you interested in working with local entrepreneurs and community members to develop innovations based on the co-creation design process? Twende, an IDIN-affiliated Innovation Center that incubates local entrepreneurs and community members’ projects, is hiring for multiple positions! Brief internship descriptions are as follows: Go-To-Market Strategists will help Twende scale-up their low-cost drip irrigation kit for wide distribution. Curriculum Builders will help create additional sessions for their secondary school electronics workshop, which emphasizes experimentation and application of physics principles. Documentation Interns will create and manage a website that Twende innovators can use to record information abut their projects.  Communication Interns will help increase communications between diverse individual innovators to strengthen a collaborative entrepreneurial community. Monitoring and Evaluation Fellows will study the impact of Twende products and educational programs to help Twende offer the best services possible to its community. Learn more about each position here! Innovation CenterJobsStudent Matching Initiative

This is the first Development Innovations’ video blog, which is done by Sotheavy, our Video Advisor. She is sharing her passion and experience in making video to inspire and encourage young Cambodian to do the same. Is it difficult or easy to make a video? Listen to what our video advisor has to say…

This program enables Cambodian-led technology products to be designed and built to meet CSO and user demands and trigger changes in the ways CSOs conduct programs, largely through small grants and public-private partnerships. This strengthened and more informed civil society community will result in CSOs’ increased ability to access and use tools such as mobile technologies, the Internet, and social media. Ultimately, this will help the CSOs take steps to make their own programs more efficient, amplify their programmatic results, and support civic change.

Are you interested in sustainable development? Are you passionate about the inclusion of local and indigenous communities in sustainable development policy and initiatives? La Mano del Mono, an organization focused on preventing environmental degradation through environmental education and ecotourism, is looking for a Community Manager and Impact Measurement Intern. Learn more and fill out the application for the Community Manager position here. Learn more and apply for the Impact Measurement position here.  Please note that these positions are unpaid, but IDIN may be able to contribute a minimal amount of financial support should a successful match be made.

Technology—when carefully adapted to the context and users it serves—has the potential to empower civil society organizations (CSOs) to tackle development challenges in new and innovative ways with increased reach and results. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Development Innovations project helps connect Cambodia’s civil society and technology communities to design and use information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to address Cambodia’s development challenges. The project toolkit includes public-private sector partnerships, ICT4D advisory and tech coaching services, tech training, small grants, and the Innovation Lab, a hands-on space where Cambodians can meet with tech coaches, try out new technology tools, and attend training courses.

Welcome The Development Innovations Group (DIG) is a private, international firm committed to expanding the frontiers of finance and development. DIG strives to improve the lives of the poor in developing and transitioning economies by enhancing the inherent strengths of national and local governments, communities, and the private sector. We foster innovative, locally-driven solutions in the fields of financial services for the poor; urban, water, and infrastructure services; as well as fund management. Dedicated to excellence, our staff members design and manage programs, deliver customized training, and provide advisory services. DIG has worked in over 35 countries, spanning a variety of development contexts, including post-disaster and post-conflict settings. We freely disseminate our findings to enrich the practices of development stakeholders worldwide.

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