GKI was brought in as an advisor to USAID’s STI strategy articulation process. GKI first helped USAID focus its efforts on the development challenges that most warrant STI investments, and then helped USAID source hundreds of such challenges from its home and field offices, as well as from the general public. GKI then organized a high-level, two-day stakeholder workshop, using these challenges as key inputs into workshop design.  Entitled “Transforming Development through Science, Technology, and Innovation,” the workshop asked tough questions about how USAID should orient its STI support.  Leaders from industry, academia, government, civil society, and philanthropy gathered in Washington, DC to provide advice.  The process resulted in dozens of synthetic recommendations that informed the structure of the new Office of Science and Technology at USAID and its programming.