The goals of this competition are to

* support services to poor people

* align key issues of country development and country program/CAS

* meet stakeholders’ interests

* make a difference and bring impacts in area of small scale projects

The projects supported public services to poor and vulnerable groups:

* Service delivery in education:

  - Improve quality of services and accesses to the services

  - Curriculum development   

  - New approach for skill development etc

* Environment issues in UB, the secondary cities and rural areas

* Community based renewable energy operation in rural areas (soums)

* Service delivery in health and other areas such as water, basic consumption etc

* Governance in public services in all sectors in general:

  - Empower poor and vulnerable groups in accessing to service delivery

  - Community participation in quality control of service delivery to public including poor and vulnerable groups

The Mongolia DM winning projects met the following criteria:

* Innovative ideas - value added

* Realism

* Impact/result on poor and vulnerable groups- better service delivery to poor and vulnerable groups  

* Sustainability and scale up potential

* Community participation and their leadership

* Partnership: partnership with private and public sector