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Stories List
The competition will support social enterprises that address job creation, poverty alleviation and rural development in Egypt. The focus will be on the agriculture supply chain and handicrafts sectors. Stay tuned for more information and details coming in the next few weeks.
The Egypt DM...
The Wildlife Conservation Society was awarded a DM grant in 2008 to pilot Cambodia's first market for payment for environmental services generated from agriculture using a "wildlife-friendly" branding and marketing strategy. Here is an update after 4 seasons.
In early 2009, when...
A relic cacao tree nestles deep in the valleys of the Northern Range of the island of Trinidad in a sleepy cacao village called Brasso Seco. Moss hangs from this tree creating an eerie effect; its ripe, rough, “lagarta” (alligator) shaped pods only hint at their fascinating contents of...
We begin 2012 with an overview of key developments in social entrepreneurship in 2011. As we scan the landscape we note four key findings of 2011 as the field continues to mature. The underlying trends continue to point to the idea that everyone can be responsible for advancing change and impact....
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...
October 4, 2011, 10:00 AM EST
Arvind Gupta, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank Institute will argue, based on examples and data, that social entrepreneurs and the social enterprise sector are now ready to share center stage with the public sector and the private sector in...
To highlight the work of social entrepreneurs, this animated video tells the story of a relationship between an Indian householder and a young social entrepreneur. In the story, the householder, Neeraj, is given the opportunity to pull himself out of poverty through the intervention of Amit, a...
In mid-may Bill Drayton of Ashoka visited the World Bank to present his thinking on Hybrid Value Chains (HVC). In a recent article published in the Harvard Business Review, Drayton and Ashoka-colleague Valeria Budinich warned that “if you are not thinking about HVC collaboration, you’ll...
A U.S. congresswoman from Arizona was shot. The Hollywood Foreign Press was handing out Golden Globes to the entertainment industry. The White House was preparing for a visit from China’s president. The people of Southern Sudan were announcing preliminary results of a vote for independence...
How can one go to scale? This is the continuous challenge that confronts all successful social entrepreneurs. For Grupo EOZ in Mexico, there were a few key elements behind their answer: a combination of funding, partnerships and publicity, much of it due to its participation in a national TV...
In 2008 Development Marketplace competition, Helvetas was among the 22 winners with its proposal on Riverbed Farming for Landless and Land-Poor. The project has now entered its third season of cultivation.
Cultivation is done on large tracks of dry riverbeds in the Tarai region of Nepal,...
Development Marketplace winner Pachamama Coffee Cooperative (PCC) was featured in the New York Times not too long ago. Its newest initiative CoffeeCSA.org found its roots in humble beginnings. Springing from the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement which began in the 1960’s in...
Drishtee is a network of over 14,000 rural enterprises that provides villages in India with access to internet connections, consumer products and critical community services.
Brainchild of Indian national Satyan Mishra, the Drishtee model is perfecting a “last mile delivery system...
The WB team were welcomed to Boromo (a province of Bales located two hours from Ouagadogou) by a team from Association La Voute Nubienne; a French non-governmental organization(NGO) with field offices in Burkina Faso. Their team is composed of 11 Burkinabes and a French...
The Rural Milk Collection project of DM2006 has been running successfully for two years. The project was to demonstrate the ISAAC Solar icemaker as a method of providing ice and refrigeration to rural farmers. The main findings of the project are that 1) the system is an appropriate technology for...
After months of careful planning, we’ve finally arrived at the International Institute of Medical Health Research (IIMHR) in Jaipur for the 2011 India Development Marketplace. Today marks Day One and participants have come from all over India to pitch their projects to a panel of high-...
The Zonal Indigenous Organization of Putumayo (OZIP), was one of the 26 the winning institutions that were part of the 2009 Development Marketplace Competition on Climate Adaptation.
They have recently developed their blog to keep us posted! We encourage you to seek more information...
7 weeks of outreach, 50 days of meeting, engaging, dialoguing with some of the brightest, most committed minds involved in creating social impact across India. An overwhelming 264 proposals received from organizations seeking funding to scale their projects with support from the India Development...
Traveling with the India DM 2011 team, meeting social enterprises that were trying to breakthrough the traditional mould of development, I was struck by the way technology was being leveraged. It came through as such a critical tool – an enabler that could single handedly shift the equation...
The Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation recognizes individuals whose technological innovations improve the lives of impoverished people in the developing world. The Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation celebrates outstanding technology-focused innovators who have improved quality of life...
Hanoi, 15 June 2011 - About 425,000 USD was awarded to 16 community projects, to be implemented in different areas of Vietnam toward the goal of social equity and sustainable growth.
Sponsored by the Vietnam Innovation Day 2011 "Innovation for Social Equity and Sustainable Growth...
Wednesday, June 8, 10 –11:30 AM EST
World Bank Headquarters 1818 H St. NW, Washington DC Room MC2-800
Live webstream available
Public goods can and are being provided by non-public actors, such as entrepreneurs and businesses. Leaders in philanthropy and impact investing...
What Does It Take to Get an Innovation from Inception to Market?
September 16, 2010
Two-time Development Marketplace winner BP Agrawal talked about his project, River from the Sky, and discuss the challenges of earning the cooperation of communities, local authorities, and the national...
Increasing Cacao Farmers' Ability to Meet Market Demands
Development Marketplace Project Empowers Smallholder Farmers in Ecuador to Increase Chocolate Making Skills and Tasting Know-How
October 21, 2010
Farmers who understand fine chocolate and the value of positioning it in the global...
Democratizing Information and Education in Developing Countries
December 9, 2010
Development Marketplace winner Kristine Pearson talked about her latest innovation, the Lifeplayer – the first MP3-enabled radio designed to deliver educational and informational content to groups...