Following my post on the Tingim Yut Kompetisen on a national level, https://yutok.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/world-bank-launched-grant-competition/, the global competition is also calling for applications. It’s theme is on sustainable agriculture. I have copied and paste the information for you all to read.
The 2008 Global Development Marketplace competition (DM2008) seeks proposals on the theme of Sustainable Agriculture for Development.Applications are accepted through March 21, 2008 and will undergo rigorous review by more than 200 development experts. About 100 finalists will be announced in June and will be invited to World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC in late September to vie for grants in person at the DM2008 Marketplace event.
This competition offers a unique opportunity to turn your innovative idea for sustainable agriculture in developing countries into reality. If selected, your idea could receive up to US$200,000 in grant funding for implementation over two years. Click here to review the competition brochure. Proposals are welcome from all development innovators—civil society groups, social entrepreneurs, private foundations, government agencies, academia and the private sector. See the eligibility criteria for more details. Proposals must address one of the following three sub-themes: 1. Linking Small-Scale Farmers to Input-Output Markets Linking small-scale farmers to better markets requires productivity-enhancing change at the farm level that will make their products more attractive to buyers in terms of quality, consistency of supply and price. It also requires institutional innovation in the marketing system that will reduce delays, costs, service gaps, information asymmetries that prevent both availing of opportunities and achieving better market trust and reputation. Ultimately such changes reduce risk. Under DM2008, proposals for institutional and organizational innovation in marketing systems are sought primarily for: (i) financial and business development services that expand opportunities for more efficient technology adoption and resource allocation by small-scale producers and market agents; (ii) effective producer organizations that can reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency in the marketing chain; (iii) innovations that improve the access of small-scale producers and market agents to transport services, physical markets, telecommunications and electricity in ways that improve supply chain logistics; and (iv) improved sourcing and selling arrangements such as contract farming that will increase access to more lucrative value chains. 2. Improving Land Access and Tenure for the Poor This sub-theme seeks out innovative, low-cost and scalable ways to strengthen access to and improve productive use of land by the poor, especially women. These include: (i) legal aid/awareness campaigns and increasing access to records of land and aquatic rights through private-public partnerships to enhance transparency and reduce corruption; (ii) local resource mapping and registration to develop and codify arrangements for effective use of common property resources in a way that benefits the poor; (iii) decentralized settlement of conflicting land claims in post-conflict settings; (iv) local negotiation to allow regularization of existing occupation by marginal or poor populations or access to land through implementation of reform legislation for land and aquatic rights, or through land markets; and (v) technical and other support to enable those received land through such mechanisms to make the most productive use of it. 3. Promoting the Environmental Services of Agriculture in Addressing Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation Agricultural development and environmental protection are closely intertwined. The reliance of agriculture, forestry and fisheries on natural resources means that they can create beneficial and detrimental environmental outcomes. The impact of these activities can be local (agriculture is often the largest water user, for example) as well as global (contributing, for example, up to 30 percent of greenhouse gases). Improvements in agricultural and forestry practices can thus have beneficial impacts at multiple levels: agriculture’s large environmental footprint can be reduced, farming systems made less vulnerable to climate change and agriculture harnessed to promote more global environmental improvement and produce gains locally as well. However, there are often trade-offs between local incentives and global goals. This sub-theme seeks to elicit innovative systems that ensure local gains to battling the global environmental problems of climate change and biodiversity conservation. Innovations are sought in the following areas: (i) development and production of sustainable biofuels; (ii) methods to scale up payments to ecosystem services; (iii) increased local incentives and benefits to the poor in payment for environmental services schemes; (iv) enhancement of community-level adaptation to climate change in rural areas; (v) reducing the contribution of agriculture and fisheries to greenhouse gases; and (vi) sustainable use and promotion of biodiversity at the local level.
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PLEASE KEEP ME UPDATED ON CURRENT CALLS FOR PROPOSALS ESPECIALLY ON:
-NATURAL REOSURCES MANAGEMENT;
-ORGANIC AGRICULTURE/ ORGANIC FARMING;
-POVERTY ERADICATION;
-ORGANIC/AGRI-ENTERPRISES CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN CONTEXT;
I LIVE IN EMBU TOWN-KENYA, EAST AFRICA. I CONSULT IN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE/ EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL MANAGEMENT.
THANK YOU.
JOSEPH WANYOIKE NJOROGE
please inform us when next they call for proposals .we are into sustainble development and empowerment of rural people especially women in areas of agriculture,health and democratic involvement.We also have project for young entreprenures in Nigeria
We are working in Can Tho Unversity – Vietnam where is a center of the southern part of Vietnam namely Mekong Delta. We have a team working on agricultural area, and have been doing some projects funded by donors (e.g. Ausaid) and government budgets. Programs implemented are relative to poverty reduction, building capacity, livelihood improvement of rural community.
If you don’t mind, please give us a chance to take competition for Calls for Proposals. Areas concerned as follows
– Rural market development
– Poverty reduction
– Health of community
– Rural labour market
We are working in Can Tho Unversity – Vietnam where is a center of the southern part of Vietnam namely Mekong Delta. We have a team working on agricultural area, and have been doing some projects funded by donors (e.g. Ausaid) and government budgets. Programs implemented are relative to poverty reduction, building capacity, livelihood improvement of rural community.