Welcome

Turning Ideas into Posts

The Development Marketplace (DM) is a competitive grant program administered by the World Bank and funded by various partners that identifies and funds innovative early stage development projects with high potential for development impact and replication. Each year, the DM organizes global and regional competitions focused on a specific theme or sector: since 1998 it has awarded more than $54 million to over 1000 projects.

The DM blog is a collective blog seeking to explore the knowledge, experiences and partnerships accumulated by the program in these years. The DM Blog brings together experts and practitioners from around the world with different backgrounds and fields of expertise but with a common interest and commitment to early stage development, innovation and social entrepreneurship.

This platform aims to become a virtual space to

Connect ideas, projects, people and countries;

Share knowledge, opinions, opportunities, tools and resources;

Discuss trends, lessons learned, good practices and news;

Follow global and regional competitions;

Meet World Bank specialists, DM participants and friend, funders and peers.

We hope you will join the discussion.

For more information, visit our website at www.developmentmarketplace.org.