The Development Marketplace is all about bringing together social entrepreneurs to share ideas and compete against each other for funding of their projects. DM Competitions are held at the global, regional and country level. While at each type of competition has specific characteristics, all loosely follow the same structure:
1. There is a call for proposals.
2. The proposals undergo rigorous scrutiny by development experts from inside and outside the World Bank who select...
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.
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 the economic pyramid into their value chains...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 better manage risk from climate change. Against...
The objective of the South Asia DM is to identify and fund innovative approaches for how to reduce stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS in the region. Persistent stigma and discrimination throughout the region:
* Severely hamper efforts to prevent new HIV infections, especially among vulnerable groups at high risk (sex workers and their clients, injecting drug users and their partners and men having sex with men),
* Contribute to the social rejection of people...
The Lighting Africa Development Marketplace seeks to catalyze the large scale and sustainable delivery of low cost, high quality, non-fossil lighting products and services in Africa, especially for poor households, communities and businesses. The Lighting Africa DM will build upon the existing base of lighting technologies, seeking market solutions to provide an array of products with the quality, applications, costs, and/or configurations needed by this market segment.
D-MADE will focus on one major theme: ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
Diaspora members will demonstrate their ability to impact on the social welfare of local communities through profitable businesses, be it through job creation, investment in local infrastructures, technical assistance etc.
The 2008 Global Development Marketplace (DM2008) was a grant competition held in collaboration with the Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) team of the World Bank, entitled “Sustainable Agriculture for Development ” . The competition sought innovations in three sub-themes:
(i) linking small-scale farmers to input-output markets;
(ii) improving land access and tenure for the poor; and
(iii) promoting the environmental services of agriculture in...
Tingim Yut Kompetisen is a nationwide competition aimed at finding and funding good ideas that address the major challenges facing PNG’s young people in their communities. The competition is an initiative of the World Bank in partnership with Air Niugini, Airlines PNG, Bank South Pacific, Coral Sea Hotels, the Department of Community Development, Divine Word University, NASFUND, Pacific Enterprise Development Facility, Port Moresby Grammar School, UNDP and UNICEF
In Bolivia and Ecuador, despite the increasing attention that migration and remittances are receiving currently, the policy debate is still looking at unforeseen impacts on the communities where international migration has been exponentially growing. Migration policies and development policy have still a lot of questions to be resolved. However, it can be said that the issues faced by international migration and remittances in the two countries are broadly similar. ...
There were two main objectives of the Ukraine-Belarus-Moldova Youth DM:
* Identifying and supporting small-scale innovative ideas at the grassroots level targeting youth through an open, transparent and competitive process,
* Creating a platform for engaging civil society groups especially those engaged in issues on youth in development
Poverty is both a consequence and cause of poor health, nutrition, and high fertility. The illness of the family breadwinner leads to loss of income and unaffordable health care costs, sinking poor families further into poverty. Conversely, people living in poverty lack access to basic health services, medicines, vaccines, clean water, sanitation, adequate nutrition, knowledge about disease prevention and birth control -- all essential inputs to help produce and maintain good health. ...
The goal of this competition was to create a culture of peace through rural radio to clarification of water sources in remote villages and pumping water to reservoirs by using solar energy.
Kosti Manibe, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs in the Government of National Unity, presented the awards and said that “civil society is instrumental in energizing” the country’s peace process.
The goal of this competition was the development and support of small projects introducing technological, social and ecological innovations at a local level.
The goals of this competition were to: stimulate and encourage creativity and innovation in finding solutions to support economic development; increase awareness about ICT and support related innovations in winning project proposals; engage a diverse range of people, groups, and institutions whose ideas and activities can contribute to the development of communities and society at large, but many of whom may not normally have access to financing or the opportunity to interface with formal...
The goal of this competition was to engage youth in development projects. Project coordinators had to be 29 and under and be proposing efforts aimed at youth.
The goals of this competition were to create employment for youth; improve the relevance of skills of labor market entrants at all levels; and promote education for a knowledge economy by creating a deeper information and cooperative link between pupils and students, private businesses and educational institutions.
