BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/11/2007

Ukraine-Belarus-Moldova Youth Development Marketplace 2008: Grants Competition

Development Marketplace is a competitive grant program of the World Bank that funds innovative, small-scale development projects through an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process. DM's primary objective is to identify and support creative cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing social and economic concerns of our time, ideas that deliver results and have the potential to be expanded or replicated elsewhere. In this way, the World Bank gains insight from grassroots practitioners who have important contributions to make in its fight against poverty, and can share their experience with the broader development community.

There are two main objectives of the Ukraine-Belarus-Moldova Youth DM: i) Identifying and supporting small-scale innovative ideas at the grassroots level targeting youth through an open, transparent and competitive process, ii) Creating a platform for engaging civil society groups especially those engaged in issues on youth in development.

Proposals are now solicited from entities that work on youth-related development issues.

More details can be downloaded here:

Guidelines DMP08guidelines_en.pdf(21kb)

Application form application_en.doc (184kb)

Important Dates for the Competition

November 12, 2007: Competition Launch in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova

January 18, 2008: Deadline for all proposals (Proposals will be accepted in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Romanian, Russian, and English).

February - March, 2008: Semifinalists announced within the countries. International experts will select the finalists.

April 3-4, 2008: All finalists are invited to the Development Marketplace event in Ukraine.

Source:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ACCUEILEXTN/NEWSFRENCH/0,,contentMDK:21544966~pagePK:145897~piPK:147055~theSitePK:1074931,00.html