Development MarketplaceTurning Ideas Into Action

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

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.

2. Project Monitoring and Evaluation

Core Activities

1. Competitions for GrantsGlobal (one per year)Regional and Country level (~4 per year)

3. Knowledge Sharing

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)

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:

DM Grant Portfolio Among Competitors

49.0

19.5

7.05.93.12.52.41.31.1

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

US

D$ M

illion

s per year

Draper Richards Fnd.

Echoing Green

New Profit

E+CoAcum

en

Development M

arketplace

Verde Ventures

Ashoka

GEF Small Grant Program

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

Aw

ard

Po

ol

(US

D,

Mil

lio

n)

DM2009: Climate Change Adaptation

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%

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

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?

1

2

3

4

5

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?

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

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

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

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

Thank you!

For more information, visit: www.developmentmarketplace.org

You can also contact: Theresa Bradley, team leader

tbradley@worldbank.org

Buzz at the marketplace floor, DM2008