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The “Missing Middle” and the Growth of Social Enterprises
Every fall at Social Capital Markets (SOCAP), the who’s who of impact investing and social enterprise convene in San Francisco to network and share stories about topics like market-based solutions to poverty, social stock exchanges, and just how much capital is waiting to be deployed to solve the world’s toughest problems. It’s inspiring to be sure, especially the growth in the number and diversity of participation. It’s...

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Innovative Pilot Scheme Would Match Seeds to the Needs of Women Farmers
In Ethiopia, climate change is behind crop failures, posing a threat to food security. A DM grant will enable Bioversity International to protect the livelihoods of some 200 vulnerable women farmers, by providing access to seeds for locally-adapted varieties of crops. The project draws from gene banks, indigenous know ledge and farmer know-how, as well as traditional ways of adapting to climate variability.

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2011 Country DM - Cameroon: Strengthening Community Participation for a Better Local Governance in...
The overarching objective of the Cameroon Development Marketplace is to stimulate the demand from civil society for better governance and service delivery within the following sectors: health, education and forest resources management. The winners have been announced. Click here for a full list of the winners. The competition attracted ideas from a range of innovators within non-profit civil society organizations (Associations,...

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2010 Regional DM - Latin America and the Caribbean: Youth Development Opportunities
The Development Marketplace for Latin America and the Caribbean Region (DM LAC) is a competitive grant program administered by the World Bank and supported by various partners such as the Organization of American States- Young Americas Business Trust (OAS-YABT) and the Inter-American Development Bank-Multilateral Investment Fund (IDB-MIF), among others. This years regional competition focused on youth entrepreneurship. There...

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2011 Country DM - Vietnam: Innovation for Social Equity and Sustainable Growth
Vietnam’s GDP grew at an average of over 7 percent annually during the past 10 years (GDP per capita in 2009 was approximately US$1,052). Vietnam is now a middle income country and is on-track to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Vietnam’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which account for almost 85 percent of the 471,000 registered enterprises in Vietnam, have made a substantial contribution to the country...

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2011 Country DM - Albania: Better Governance and Accountability with Innovative Ideas
Albania Development Marketplace is a competitive grant programme, administered by the World Bank Office in Tirana and the British Council Albania that identifies and funds innovative projects with high potential for development impact. The competition attracts projects from a range of innovators, including grass-roots civil society groups and academic institutions. Its main focus is on good governance and accountability. This competition...

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Development Marketplace: A New Call to Action
The Development Marketplace Program (DM) is now ten years old. It started at a time when the power and promise of Social Entrepreneurship was only barely considered by the Development Community. A movement was just starting to take shape. This movement is founded on the belief that social entrepreneurs, with their passion for equitable growth, with their “out of the box” thinking, with their business skills and with their deep...

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Social Entrepreneurship as a Bottom-Up Model of Socio-Economic Development
In most parts of the world, if conventional hierarchic organizations and risk averse bureaucracies fail, they lose their reputation. By contrast, fail often and fail fast is part of the innovation ethos in Silicon Valley where failure is associated with learning. Rapid prototyping involves learning through iterative stages of disciplined failure—each characterized by an effort to surface design errors. In this context, engineering design...

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Helping the Q’eqchi Maya Thrive with Sustainable Forest Management
Uncontrolled development, climate change, and social marginalization are threatening the livelihoods of the Q’eqchi people of southern Belize as well as the existence of several animal species. A DM grant will help the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management set up a community-based enterprise to manage forest resources so that the logging is sustainable. Protecting the forest will mitigate climate change, support biodiversity...

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Adaptive Natural Resources Management Will Bolster Cabécar Communities
About 10 tropical storms hit the Cabécar communities in Costa Rica every year, often flooding the area. A project by a local NGO, Ixacavaa, has been selected for a DM award to rescue ancestral knowledge and combine it with new technologies to ensure that local production systems and resource management is climate-resilient.

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