Transcript Development Marketplace 2008

Development
Marketplace
Turning Ideas Into Action
Development Marketplace
Program objectives
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.
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.
Core Activities
1. Competitions for Grants
Global (one per year)
Regional and Country level (~4 per year)
2. Project Monitoring and Evaluation
3. Knowledge Sharing
Knowledge Sharing Activities
1. DM Website
Resources Available (TA; upcoming Awards)
DM Success Stories
2. DM Blog (just started in August)
3. Marketplace Events
Networking (peer-to-peer; with TA providers)
Training (stakeholder communication; M&E;
fundraising)
Sector Dialogues on sub-themes of the competition
Key Features of Competitions
$55,000,000
Disbursed in Grants (2000-2008)
60%
40%
Global DMs:
$33,000,000
7 Competitions
234 Projects
Country DMs:
$22,000,000
56 Competitions
1190 Projects
~ $200,000 grant size
2 years implementation
Outcomes expected
~ $20,000 grant size
1 year implementation
Outputs expected
DM Grant Portfolio Among Competitors
49.0
50
45
35
30
19.5
25
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15
5.9
1.1
1.3
2.4
2.5
3.1
7.0
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USD$ Millions per year
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Global DM2003-2008: Theme, Award Pool and Number of Projects
30 Projects
Award Pool (USD, Million)
31 Projects
$3.9M
DM2005
Sustainable
Livelihoods
22 Projects
$4.9M
DM2006 Water,
Sanitation and
Energy
$4M
DM2007 Health,
Nutrition and
Population
22 Projects
$4.1M
DM2008
Sustainable
Agriculture
DM2009: Climate Change Adaptation
Global Competition Contributors
(Cumulative Award Pool 2003-2008 )
Gates
Foundation $3.7M
16%
Others
$2.9M
13%
Global
Environment
Facility
$5.6M
24%
World Bank
$10.1M
42%
IFC
$1.4M
5%
Identifying Innovative Projects
Identify
Sector
Competition Design
and Fundraising
Launch
DM
Outreach
and Call for Props
Close
Call
Assessment
Announce
Finalist
Full Proposal
TA
Proposals
Ready
Event/KX
DM
Prep
Event
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Months
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2000-3000
proposals submitted
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100 finalists
identified
Two rounds of assessment
with ~200 assessors in 65 meetings
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~25 winners
identified
~35 Jurors
(dev. experts)
Assessment Criteria To Select Winning Proposals
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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?
4
Sustainability: Does the idea have a financing strategy
beyond the life of the DM project?
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Growth Potential: Is there potential for expansion? Can
the project be implemented elsewhere?
Global DM2009: Climate Change Adaptation
Objectives:
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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
Proposed Sub-themes:
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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.
Call for proposal: End of January 2009
Marketplace event: November 3-5, 2009 (tbc)
World Bank Headquarters, Washington, DC
Crowded marketplace
Scojo: Low-cost Reading Glasses for the Poor, India
DM2003, $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
Progress to
date
• Creates new
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distribution channels
to sell glasses
•
• Improves incomes for
entrepreneurs and
clients
• Improves the working
ability of people with •
poor vision
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 subSaharan countries
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 SubSaharan Africa
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
Buzz at the marketplace floor, DM2008
Thank you!
For more information, visit:
www.developmentmarketplace.org
You can also contact:
Theresa Bradley, team leader
[email protected]