Global Development Marketplace

May 23, 2007 - Twenty two projects won grants from a $4 million award pool co-funded by the World Bank's Development Marketplace (DM) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The 2007 Global competition called for proposals improving results in health, nutrition, and population for poor people in developing countries. Educating deaf youth about sex and HIV in Vietnam; creating a network of secondary health science schools in Southern Sudan; and deploying novel mosquito traps to suppress dengue fever transmission in Brazil are among the winning ideas. Using Development Marketplace's funds, they will now have up to two years to carry out their projects and bring concrete benefits to local communities.