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Development MarketplaceTurning Ideas Into Action
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Development Marketplace
1. Identify and support field testing of INNOVATIVE, early stage ideas with potential for high development impact.
2. Forge strategic partnerships to execute and scale-up these ideas.
3. Serve as a source of skill building and knowledge of best practices for social entrepreneurs.
Program objectives
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Key Client: Social Entrepreneurs
Pioneers aiming to create transformational change for disadvantaged communities
and ultimately for society at large.
DM2006 Project: Mexican students drinking clean water from a UV-filter bucket.
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2. Project Monitoring and Evaluation
Core Activities
1. Competitions for GrantsGlobal (one per year)Regional and Country level (~4 per year)
3. Knowledge Sharing
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3. Marketplace Events
Networking (peer-to-peer; with TA providers)
Training (stakeholder communication; M&E; fundraising)
Sector Dialogues on sub-themes of the competition
Knowledge Sharing Activities
1. DM WebsiteResources Available (TA; upcoming Awards)DM Success Stories
2. DM Blog (just started in August)
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Key Features of Competitions
$55,000,000 Disbursed in Grants (2000-2008)
$33,000,0007 Competitions
234 Projects
~ $200,000 grant size2 years implementation
Outcomes expected
60% 40%
$22,000,000 56 Competitions
1190 Projects
~ $20,000 grant size1 year implementation
Outputs expected
Global DMs: Country DMs:
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DM Grant Portfolio Among Competitors
49.0
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Draper Richards Fnd.
Echoing Green
New Profit
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Development M
arketplace
Verde Ventures
Ashoka
GEF Small Grant Program
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Global DM2003-2008: Theme, Award Pool and Number of Projects
31 Projects
30 Projects
22 Projects 22 Projects
DM2005SustainableLivelihoods
DM2006 Water,Sanitation and
Energy
DM2007 Health,Nutrition and
Population
DM2008SustainableAgriculture
$3.9M $4.9M $4M $4.1M
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DM2009: Climate Change Adaptation
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Global Competition Contributors(Cumulative Award Pool 2003-2008 )
World Bank $10.1M
42%
IFC$1.4M
5%
Global Environment
Facility$5.6M 24%
Gates Foundation $3.7M
16%
Others$2.9M13%
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Event/KXPrep
Identifying Innovative Projects
Full Proposal TA
Outreach and Call for Props
Assessment
Months
120 1 114 62 53
Competition Design and Fundraising
Identify Sector
DM Event
Launch DM
Close Call
7 8
AnnounceFinalist
9 10
Proposals
Ready
~25 winners identified
100 finalistsidentified
~35 Jurors (dev. experts)
2000-3000proposals submitted
Two rounds of assessmentwith ~200 assessors in 65 meetings
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Assessment Criteria To Select Winning Proposals
Innovation: Does the idea differ from existing approaches?
Realism: Is the implementation time frame and budget realistic? Does the organization have the capacity to implement the project?
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Results: Will the idea have clear and measurable results that will have a direct development impact on-the-ground?
Sustainability: Does the idea have a financing strategy beyond the life of the DM project?
Growth Potential: Is there potential for expansion? Can the project be implemented elsewhere?
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Global DM2009: Climate Change Adaptation
• 1. To increase the resilience of local indigenous communities to climate threats
• 2. To encourage new approaches to community-based climate risk management with multiple environmental and social benefits for vulnerable communities with little capacity to adapt to environmental hazards, changes in natural resources, and further degradation in livelihoods.
• 3. To reduce climate-related disaster risks and to help households and communities adapt to climate change through tools and methodologies to identify climate-related hazards at the community level.
Proposed Sub-themes:
Call for proposal: End of January 2009
Marketplace event: November 3-5, 2009 (tbc)
World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC
Objectives:• Fund 25-30 innovative projects• Reach out to and support local civil society organizations and other institutions; and• Facilitate knowledge exchange across regions and stakeholders
Crowded marketplaceCrowded marketplace
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Scojo: Low-cost Reading Glasses for the Poor, IndiaDM2003, $118,210
Project idea
• To lengthen the working life of people with close vision problems
• To create livelihoods by supporting the poor to start businesses, or micro-franchises, selling ready-made reading glasses
Development Potential
• Creates new distribution channels to sell glasses
• Improves incomes for entrepreneurs and clients
• Improves the working ability of people with poor vision
Progress to date
• Trained 83 rural entrepreneurs and sold 4,000 frames during DM implementation
• Went on to replicate in six countries in three continents, selling more than 80,000 pairs of reading glasses and creating jobs for some 1,000 “vision entrepreneurs”
• Scojo has raised more than $1 million from USAID, the Acumen Fund, Draper Richards Foundation, Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Open Society Institute, and the Yale School of Management/Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures and others
• In 2007, Scojo began distributing glasses through Population Services International’s distribution network of urban pharmacy stores in 30 sub-Saharan countries
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Roundabout Outdoor and HIV/AIDS Initiative, South Africa DM2000, $165,000
Project idea
• To install children’s merry-go-rounds (“roundabouts”) that double as water pumps near rural schools
• To store clean water in tanks that display HIV/AIDS awareness messages and commercial advertising to pay for the pumps
Development Potential
• Brings water to rural communities
• Raises HIV/AIDS awareness
• Promotes play/ social skills• Increases opportunities for
girls and women
Progress to date
• 700 play pumps installed throughout South Africa—original target was 50
• The project expanded to Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland
• In 2006, Roundabout raised nearly $20 million from USAID, the US Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, IFC, UNICEF, MCJ Foundation, Case Foundation, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, ClearWater Project, Coca-Cola, Eskom and the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry
• By 2010, the project expects to serve 10 million people through 4,000 systems across Sub-Saharan Africa
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E-Commerce for Farmers, Philippines, DM2002 - $118,039
Project idea
• To create a free electronic bulletin board designed to bring relevant market information directly to farmers, primarily through cooperatives
• To minimize middlemen's fees, enabling farmers to reap the gains of lower costs and broader market reach
Development Potential
• Enables farmers to negotiate better prices using awareness of prevailing market prices
• Increases access of farmers to trading partners
• Minimizes intermediation enables farmers to price more competitively
Progress to date
• Now operating sustainably at more than 24 agricultural cooperatives
• Website expanded to allow online transactions
• Online transactions for 2007 forecasted at $2 million
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Thank you!
For more information, visit: www.developmentmarketplace.org
You can also contact: Theresa Bradley, team leader
Buzz at the marketplace floor, DM2008