WB Development Marketplace

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 - 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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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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2009 Regional DM - South Asia: Innovate For Nutrition
Twenty-one civil society organizations from across South Asia won grants from an $840,000 award pool funded by the South Asia Region Development Marketplace (DM). The winners received up to $40,000 each to implement innovative ideas on how to improve nutrition in their respective countries. Development partners and others are tackling the severe malnutrition situation in South Asia. The goal of the South Asia Regional Development...

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2009 Global DM: Adaptation for Climate Change
DM2009 Global Competition: Innovations for Climate Change Adaptation Until recently, much of the focus on climate change responses has tended to be on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, or mitigation. The importance and focus on adaptation, given that many communities already face direct impacts, is not that widely accepted. Thus, there is a need to bring this focus and stimulate innovative solutions that help communities and governments...

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2011 Country DM - India: Supporting Inclusive Business Models to Scale
Jointly organized by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and the Development Marketplace Program, this competition is focused on identifying Inclusive Business Models that can scale impact in the states of Bihar, Rajasthan and Orissa. Inclusive business models are those offering goods/ services and contributing to income generation of the poor in financially sustainable and scalable ways. They productively integrate those living at the base of...

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Winners

Meet one of the winners of the 2009 Development Marketplace Global Competition!

Freddy Ramirez wanted to help Nicaragua’s Miskito communities feed their children through the droughts, storm, floods and hurricanes that they live with. Her project would create 120 hectares of Maya Nut “food forests” in 25 Miskito communities, with production potential of 5 million pounds of food per year and carbon-dioxide sequestration of 125,000 metric tons over 30 years. It would improve the nutritional status of at least 2,500 Miskito children and restore wild game populations (deer, peccaries, tapirs, and fish) and protect 30 miles of rivers from flooding and erosion.

Partners

Jurors

Typically, a Global DM competition jury is comprised of fifty percent World Bank Group staff and fifty percent from outside the World Bank. Jury members are senior level representatives of their respective institutions. From the World Bank, this is usually at the level of Sector Directors and leading Sector specialists. From outside the World Bank, the DM team has invited a range of senior-level actors from civil society, various development agencies, academia, private sector, and private foundations.

Partners

In recent years, DM forged partnerships with the Gates Foundation, Global Environment Facility, Google Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, UNAIDS and the Global Village Energy Project, among others to fund DM winners of global competitions. For country/regional marketplaces, numerous bi-lateral and multi-lateral aid agencies, embassies, local government organizations, research centers and large corporations have contributed to the Development Marketplace award pool.