FINANCING PLAN (IN US$):
Medium-sized Project proposal
Request for GEF Funding
|Financing Plan (US$) |
|GEF Project/Component |
|Project | 1,000,000 |
|PDF A* | |
|Sub-Total GEF | |
|Co-financing** |
|IBRD/IDA/IFC | 1,000,000 |
|Government | |
|Bilateral | |
|NGOs | |
|Others |1,340,000 |
|Sub-Total Co-financing: | 2,340,000 |
|Total Project Financing: | |
|Financing for Associated Activity If Any: |
* Indicate approval date of PDFA
** Details provided in the Financing Section
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Agency’s Project ID: P095674
Country: Global
Project Title: Development Marketplace
GEF Agency: World Bank
Other Executing Agency(ies): None
Duration: 2 years
GEF Focal Area: Biodiversity, Climate Change, International Waters, Land Degradation, and Persistent Organic Pollutants
GEF Operational Program: OP-1, OP-2, OP-3, OP-4, OP- 5, OP-6, OP- 7, OP-8, OP-9, OP-10, OP-11, OP-12, OP-13, OP-14, OP-15
GEF Strategic Priority: BD -1, BD-2, BD-3, BD-4, CC-1, CC-2, CC-3, CC4, CC5, CC6 CC-7, IW-1, IW-2, IW-3, SLM-1, SLM-2, POPs-1
Estimated Starting Date: May 2005
Implementing Agency Fee: US$146,000
|This proposal has been prepared in accordance with GEF policies and procedures and meets the standards of the GEF Project Review Criteria for a|
|Medium-sized Project. |
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|Steve Gorman [pic] |For Global DM |
|GEF Executive Coordinator, World Bank |Warren Evans |
| |Director, Environment Department |
| |World Bank |
| |Tel: (202) 473-7095, e-mail:wevans@ |
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| |For Southern Cone DM |
| |Jocelyn Albert |
| |Project Contact Person |
| |Tel. and email: 202-473-3458, jalbert@ |
PART I - Project Concept
A - Summary
Background:
This GEF MSP package proposes a partnership between the GEF and the Development Marketplace (DM) at two levels. The DM is a World Bank program that holds competitions every 18-24 months, to foster innovative ways to combat poverty. Since its 1997 inception as an internal mechanism to encourage staff to “think outside the box,” the DM has invested more than $25 million in seed money for more than 500 projects in over 60 countries through 4 global competitions and 21 Country Development Marketplace. A Country-level DM differs from the Global DM in that it is tailored to address regional or country-specific issues and present opportunities for very small, locally-based projects to benefit from the DM approach. To date, the DM has awarded over $4.8 million in grant awards to 288 diverse and innovative Country-level DM projects.
The primary purpose of proposing GEF support at both levels is to innovatively expand the award pool for 2005 DM initiatives at both the global and a regional/ country level. The MSP proposal includes:
1. The Global World Bank Development Marketplace- “Innovations for Livelihoods in a Sustainable Environment”, which is the first thematic DM focus entirely on the environment. Its theme reflects the World Bank efforts to promote global, national and local leadership to manage natural resources in a sustainable manner and minimize environmental degradation. The idea behind this approach is to incubate solutions to the most demanding challenges in a particular sector and to use the results to inform and promote knowledge sharing within the World Bank and in the development community at large. The World Bank Development Marketplace program, in co-operation with the Environment sector of the World Bank will hold the Global Marketplace on May 24-25, 2005.
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2. The Regional/ Country Southern Cone Development Marketplace- “Youth and Values: Believing in Your Future”, that is designed to help identify, or generate, innovative ideas that contribute to the strengthening of civic values among poor and vulnerable youth. The Southern Cone DM includes an Environment Window that is dedicated to establishing and strengthening environmental values amongst youth by providing young people with the opportunity to influence and actively engage in local and global sustainable development decision-making through programs that address global environmental priorities in Biodiversity, Climate Change, International Waters and Land Degradation. The Country- level Development Market, led by the World Bank Southern Cone Unit, will be held on May 30-31, 2005. Both these initiatives share objectives to:
• Help fund projects that provide local innovative solutions to development problems.
• Expand the pool of funding available for bottom-up innovative projects with global environment benefits applying to DM for funding;
• Assist GEF in meeting its own project objectives by providing a way to reach grassroots social and environmental groups cost-effectively and by finding new ideas with the potential to make a substantial difference in GEF focal areas.
Implementation to date:
The Global Development Marketplace closed its call for proposals at the end of January 2005, and has a total of 2,638 applications. This number represents a tremendous response, given that the 2003 Global DM received 2700 proposals for 9 sectors. The proposals have been divided into 6 sub-sectors including biodiversity conservation, innovative application of clean technologies, protecting environmental health (air and water pollution, water supply and sanitation, POPs), sustainable use of natural resources (land, agriculture, water, forest), renewable energy and energy efficiency and environmental education and awareness. Currently the assessment of these proposals is under way.
The DM and ENV teams are also approaching other funders to solicit their financial contributions to the DM 2005 award pool. These funders include: MacArthur Foundation (confirmed), the International Finance Corporation (to be confirmed), among others.
The call for proposals for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace, under the Country- Level DM framework, will be launched on February 1, 2005 and stay open until March 15, 2005. Distinct to the Global Development Marketplace, this Country-level DM primary focus is on young people in the Southern Cone and includes an Environment Window that is dedicated to strengthen global environmental responsibility and engagement in youth. The Environment window is managed out of the World Bank regional office in Buenos Aires, and will provide 20 GEF funded grants, that would not exceed $US 10,000, to recipients in three out of the four countries involved in the overall Country- DM. These countries are: Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. In addition, the Environment window will also provide grants for at least 6 additional projects to recipients in these countries from other donors.
The Southern Cone DM – (Environment Window) also counts on the collaboration of other funding and technical assistance agencies like the International Finance Corporation (amount to be confirmed), the YPF Foundation (amount to be confirmed) and others which are supporting NGO environmental initiatives in the Southern Cone.
Total Financing Plan/ GEF Allocation
| |Global DM |Southern Cone DM* -(Environment |Total |
| | |Window) | |
|GEF |US$ 800,000 |US$ 200,000 |US$ 1,000,000 |
|Co-Financing: | | | |
|1. The World Bank |US$ 700,000 | US$ 50,000 |US$ 750,000 |
|2. MacArthur |US$ 500,000 | |US$ 500,000 |
|3. IFC |US$ 250,000 (TBC) | (amount TBC) |US$ 250,000 (TBC) |
|4. Others |US$ 550,000 (TBC) |Beneficiaries: US$ 50,000, |US$ 840,000 |
| | |Sweden: US$ 30,000, various | |
| | |others: US$ 210,000 | |
|Co-Financing Subtotal |US$ 2,000,000 |US$ 340,000 |US $2,340,000 |
|Total |US$ 2,800,000 |US$ 540,000 |US $3,340,000 |
* The Southern Cone Development Marketplace has co-financing for Awards outside Environment focused projects (see implementation section below) that will total US$ 540,000. With the Environment Window totals, the overall budget for the DM will equal $US 1,080,000.
B - Country ownership
1. Country Eligibility
Country ratification of the relevant convention will be an eligibility criterion for all DM applications and GEF focal point endorsement will be a condition of disbursement of GEF funds.
All three Southern Cone countries of implementation have ratified the conventions pertinent to Biodiversity and Climate Change. All three countries have signed the conventions for Land Degradation and adhere to the relevant treaties on International Waters.
2. Country Drivenness
DM projects are proposed by individual social entrepreneurs, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), NGOs, academics, and others based on their own ideas for how to achieve development and conservation results. Thus, projects are not explicitly aligned to national priorities and programs because they are bottom-up projects proposed by those on the ground closest to the problem(s) being addressed.
Nonetheless, to ensure that projects are not contradictory to national priorities, DM subjects each potential project to a review by World Bank Country Office staff (as designated by the country director) to (1) validate the legitimacy of the executing team, (2) comment on the implementing group’s implementation record, and (3) identify any potential conflict with relevant World Bank strategies and programs (whether stated government priorities, PRSP, CAS, lending operations, etc.). DM jurors are not required to reject those rare projects that conflict with country strategies, but jurors are instructed of the poor success rate of past projects where such a conflict has existed. In the very rare cases where direct synergies have not been identified, the Development Marketplace acts as a catalyst for linking successful winning projects back into World Bank knowledge management and strategies.
C – Program and Policy Conformity
1. Program Designation and Conformity
• Climate Change: DM2005 will address Renewable energy and energy efficiency at the community level as well as projects with innovative application of clean technologies in small enterprises. Mitigating climate change through productive uses of renewable energy (e.g., water pumping, lighting for schools and clinics, power for agro-industries, etc.)
• Biodiversity: DM2005 will focus on Biodiversity conservation and Sustainable use of Natural Resources (land, agriculture, water, forests). Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in production landscapes and sectors. Experience from these demonstration projects can help informed development of market incentive measures and other metrics of market-based approaches to sustainability in threatened biodiversity areas. Helping catalyze sustainability of protected areas by funding initiatives targeting community or indigenous groups, removing barriers to public-private partnerships, and ensuring preservation of livelihoods in areas adjacent to protected biodiversity areas in order to reduce conflict over land use.
• Multifocal Area: DM2005 will focus on the global benefits from environmental education and awareness.
• POPs: DM2005 will address global benefits from protecting environmental health (air and water pollution)
• Land Degradation: DM2005 will focus on global benefits from projects that address sustainable land management. This will also include land and water projects.
• International Waters: DM2005 will address water resource management and if appropriate, may also include sanitation projects.
The aim of this proposed MSP project is to expand the pool of funding available for bottom-up innovative projects with global environmental benefits applying to DM for funding. This can assist GEF in meeting its program objectives by providing a way to reach grassroots social innovators cost-effectively and by finding new ideas with potential to make a substantial difference in the efforts to achieve global environmental benefits. In addition to providing seed funding for these pilot projects, DM works with each grantee to ensure that success stories and lessons learned are linked back to World Bank operations as well as other donor agencies in an effort to cross-fertilize promising ideas in other countries.
2. Project Design
The primary objective of the DM program is to help the development community at large to meet the Millennium Development Goals by generating new approaches to poverty reduction from a variety of stakeholders outside the usual sources in the development agencies. The secondary objective is to attract more funds for development, allowing the concept of “venture development” —providing seed money for development projects that would otherwise be too risky for traditional Bank operations and other investors —to flourish while highlighting innovative ways to reduce poverty and promote conservation. The tertiary objective is to complement and expand the Bank’s emphasis on partnerships, effectively creating space for funding partnerships that in turn allow for a greater number of implementation partnerships to take place on the ground. In past competitions, the DM supported similarly successful projects including the Millenium Gelfuel – a renewable energy initiative that now has fully-operational commercial plants in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Malawi with interest for replication from over 20 countries. Another example is the Mongolian Flyfishing for Conservation Project that which one a DM award at the last Development Marketplace Competition and in which GEF has recently invested $1,000,000. (See Annex 2 for more details on replication and scaling-up)
At the program level, the proposed GEF contribution would add up to US$ 800,000 to the overall global award pool, and help fund another 5 - 10 grants dedicated to the GEF focal areas, plus $200,000 to the Southern Cone DM award pool for an additional 20 grants dedicated to the GEF focal areas. At the project level, exact outcomes will vary based on the projects selected by the final jury. DM typically funds projects to test an innovative idea in pilot stage; if past results are a predictor, about 40 percent of these projects will prove worthy of investment in scaling up and replicating. This will have a potentially large benefit in terms of (a) environmental sustainability and protection, (b) demonstration effect for other funders and projects on how to address difficult global environmental challenges, (c) mainstreaming of good ideas to protect the global environment, and (d) building on DM as an effective vehicle for knowledge sharing and dissemination on biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, POPs, natural resource management and climate change.
Component 1: Global DM
This year, together with the Environment sector of the World Bank, the DM team will hold the next Global Marketplace on May 24-25, 2005. The theme of DM2005, Innovations for Livelihoods in a Sustainable Environment, seeks to support and incubate ideas and innovations that demonstrate local leadership in promoting environmentally sound economic development. The Bank is accepting proposals testing new approaches to renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, air and water pollution, sanitation and water supply, clean technologies for SMEs, biodiversity conservation, and environmental education and awareness-- all through grassroots-oriented initiatives. Development Marketplace seeks co-funding for a very high-quality pool of projects that generate global environmental benefits related to biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, POPS, and climate change mitigation. At present, the Bank expects to have approximately $2 million available in grant funding through DM’s base award pool and the partnership with MacArthur Foundation, the IFC, and other sources. These funding sources – taken as a whole – would constitute the source of co-financing for the proposed GEF MSP.
The primary purpose of the DM is to help fund projects that provide local innovative solutions to development problems that have the potential to expand from a local level to address the problem on a global scale. The aim of this proposed MSP project is to expand the pool of funding available for bottom-up innovative projects with global environmental benefits applying to DM for funding.
More specifically, using the proceeds of the MSP to fund these sub- projects would contribute to GEF’s strategic priorities in a number of ways:
1. Mainstreaming biodiversity conservation in production landscapes and sectors. Experience from these demonstration projects can help informed development of market incentive measures and other metrics of market-based approaches to sustainability in threatened biodiversity areas.
2. Helping catalyze sustainability of protected areas by funding initiatives targeting community or indigenous groups, removing barriers to public-private partnerships, and ensuring preservation of livelihoods in areas adjacent to protected biodiversity areas in order to reduce conflict over land use.
3. Mitigating climate change through productive uses of renewable energy (e.g., water pumping, lighting for schools and clinics, power for agro-industries, etc.)
4. In addition to providing seed funding for these pilot projects, DM works with each grantee to ensure that success stories and lessons learned are linked back to World Bank operations as well as other donor agencies in an effort to cross-fertilize promising ideas in other countries .
The DM jury will select the winning proposals and identify those to be funded from the GEF MSP. The selection criteria for DM awards are the following:
• Sustainability of use, management, or protection of the environment and natural resources
• Innovation
• Realism and Results
• Sustainability (organizational, financial, economic as relevant) and
• Replicability and Scaling up (See annex 1 for definition of criteria).
Additional selection criteria for GEF-financed awards would include: global benefits, not already receiving GEF funding, and must be located in a GEF-eligible country. These sub-projects will be asked to develop a monitoring plan that demonstrates impact for biodiversity, sustainable land management, POPS and climate change, etc. in addition to meeting project milestones. This will be handled primarily through their final report. Furthermore, projects to be funded from the GEF portion of the pool will be pre-qualified as category C vis-a-vis World Bank environmental and social safeguards, and those that do not prequalify are not eligible for GEF funding. However, DM has no criteria for geographic balance, and it is assumed that the best projects will be selected regardless of country of implementation. Projects, where the recipients already have GEF co-financing, will not be eligible for the proposed GEF financing. World Bank Group staff and units will also not be eligible. The jury will also review sub-projects for overlap, linkages or coordination with other GEF co-financed activities in the recipient countries, including the GEF/UNDP Small Grants Program.
Development Marketplace is unusual in that funds are awarded outside the traditional Bank-Government lending relationship; as such, the DM team has developed a process that seeks to simplify project processing and minimize the number of risks throughout the project life cycle. Each project is given two years to implement their work (plus a six month grace period, if necessary, to account for start-up difficulties and any delays in DM payment). Projects receive funding in tranches tied to performance goals as agreed upon in the award contract signed between the DM and award recipient. Risks such as corruption, poor management, local politics, and lack of capacity are mitigated through the appointment and compensation of a Project Liaison, who is a World Bank staff member – typically located in the appropriate country office -- to provide oversight and lend technical support to projects during the year-long implementation phase. These staff members are actively involved in the project life cycle, serving as a project liaison between the award winners and the DM team. Grantees are required by contract to provide periodic progress reports, which help DM team assess performance measured against jointly agreed benchmarks, with decisions on tranche disbursements suitably aligned with satisfactory progress. These progress reports are also shared with donors as well as posted publicly on the DM website.
Since the DM projects will often provide examples of innovative institutional and technical models to incorporate biodiversity conservation, POPS, land degradation, natural resource management and climate change concerns in development, a major component of this partnership with DM will be to ensure that the project successes and failures are disseminated through the GEF system and the Bank.
The DM carries out periodic evaluations of completed projects (successful and unsuccessful) and incorporates such lessons learned into future competitions, as well as the World Bank community, for replication and knowledge sharing. This knowledge and dissemination function enables DM to publicize successful approaches and get the ideas into broad circulation in the development community. DM would do this in a variety of ways: hosting brown-bag lunches with targeted World Bank sector specialists who have an interest in knowing about innovations in development; publicizing new approaches via the DM website and program publications as well as via Development Gateway; providing information on selected projects to other sources of onward funding; nominating successful projects for other award programs; and working with the overall World Bank external affairs unit to publicize projects to an internal and external audience through various media; clinics for GEF project teams in the Bank; project results report preparation and dissemination to GEF Secretariat and other interested parties; and inputs to the GEF knowledge-management activities, both in the Bank and through the GEF Secretariat.
Project Implementation Plan (Global DM)
|Duration of Project (in months): |
|Activities |Project-months |
|Completion of project activities |1 (June) 3 6 12 18 24 30 36 |
|Select 5-10 sub-projects at Global DM, | |
|Focal point endorsement |Jun. 7 |
|Negotiate sub-grant agreements |====== |
|Begin sub-project implementation |===== |
|Complete sub-project implementation |== |
|Submit final sub-project reports |============= |
|Evaluation of completed projects |=========== |
|Dissemination of success stories |=== |
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The primary outcome of the GEF funding for DM will be to augment available seed funding for (1) demonstration effect for innovative projects, and (2) mainstreaming of successful projects that have already proven themselves in a pilot stage. In addition, one key outcome will be the emergence of DM as a high-profile vehicle for knowledge sharing and dissemination of useful ideas concerning biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. In many ways, DM projects will provide useful pilot and R&D function to field test promising biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental education and awareness, sustainable land management and water resource management ideas on the ground on behalf of a range of interested donors and practitioners. DM’s partnership with the MacArthur Foundation’s Conservation Program in this dimension will serve to reinforce the dissemination function by amplifying and expanding the interested audience for the results of the projects.
Component 2: Southern Cone Country DM
The Southern Cone Development Marketplace. The World Bank Regional office for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay has been selected to host a Country DM entitled: “Youth and Values: Believing in Your Future”, in 2005, dealing with the creation of values in poor and vulnerable youth. This is a Country-Level initiative under the World Bank Development Marketplace (DM) Program. The principal purpose of all World Bank Country-Level Development Marketplace initiatives is to help fund projects that provide local innovative solutions to development problems that have the potential to expand from a local level to address the problem on a national or regional level by (i) identifying innovative approaches to alleviate poverty at the very grassroots level, (ii) mobilizing public opinion around key development issues, (iii) enhancing World Bank engagement with civil society in the country or countries, (iv) engaging NGOs, government, private sector, and development agencies in new ideas through partnerships, and (v) leveraging other resources to broaden partnerships for supporting social entrepreneurs in fighting poverty.
The goal of the Southern Cone DM 2005 is to help identify, or generate, innovative ideas that contribute to the strengthening of civic values among poor and vulnerable youth. The Regional World Bank office in Argentina is seeking as partners a wide range of institutions, including UN-agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), academia, private sector firms, and governments which have an interest in contributing with funding and/or administrative support related to the program. As this initiative is being launched with the explicit objective of seeking collaboration of other partners, the exact process by which the Southern Cone Development Marketplace will be carried out will remain flexible so as to meet the requirements and expectations of a broad range of organizations and collaborators.
The Environment Window of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace. Recognizing the potential positive impact on poor and vulnerable youth who engage in innovative development ideas that benefit the global environment, the governments of Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile have decided to establish an environment window under the Southern Cone Development Marketplace.
In view of the need to call on present generations to join in efforts to better manage the environment for the benefit of future generations, the goal of this activity is to create an environment window for youth-targeted, bottom-up, innovative projects that will work to raise the level of civic and environmental values amongst young people by specifically calling attention to how youth can address existing and future global environmental challenges. As the leaders of tomorrow, young people are increasingly voicing their opinions and constructive views on international development and environmental issues. Strengthening their knowledge on the global environmental agenda is essential for the GEF’s core mission to help developing countries support projects and programs that protect the global environment for generations to come.
This component aims to establish a partnership between GEF and the upcoming Southern Cone Development Marketplace by allowing for the provision of 20 grants to environmental programs designed by NGOs and civil society organizations (CSOs) that engage in innovative environmental endeavors and work to mainstream global environmental awareness, values and action into the youth agenda in these three Southern Cone Countries[1]. It will be a vehicle for learning and promoting GEF Strategic Priorities in the areas of Biodiversity, Climate Change, International Waters and Land Degradation. More specifically, using the proceeds of this MSP to fund grants in these focal areas will contribute to the GEF’s strategic priorities in the following ways: (i) mainstreaming global environmental issues in education and awareness programs directed to youth, (ii) promoting the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices, (iii) promoting conservation in production and natural landscapes, and (iv) supporting the adoption of energy efficient practices. All of these will employ youth as catalysts or target them as main stakeholders.
The proposal will provide a way to reach youth-targeting grassroots organizations cost-effectively and to make a difference in promoting collective and innovative actions to support young people’s efforts to address GEF strategic priorities in the four focal areas selected. In this sense, the proposal will contribute to the following processes: i) Civic Engagement: Fostering a coalition of equally committed partners – including other donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, private sector firms, and Governments - that recognize the need to support the education of youth in civic values as their own corporate responsibility. To encourage the participation of youth in the public sphere, by (a) influencing decision making and identifying and pursuing common goals addressing the global environment; (b) engaging youth and youth’s organizations in public policy debates on the global environment as a critical factor in making sustainable development policy and action responsive to the needs and aspirations of the youth and the poor; ii) Strengthening of Social Capital: to support the creation of networks among youth that enable collective action to address challenges in areas of global environmental significance; and iii) Empowerment: to expand the assets and capabilities of youth to participate in, negotiate with, influence, and hold accountable institutions that affect their lives and the environment they live in. Finally, the Southern Cone DM would disseminate success stories and experiences through knowledge sharing events and ensure lessons learned are linked back to the World Bank operations in an effort to cross-fertilize promising ideas to allow a broader audience to understand the possibilities of such activities and how they might be replicated and scaled up.
The Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) component will have two sub-components, the Competition of Innovative Projects and the Knowledge Forum, that converge in a two-day event to be held in Buenos Aires in late May 2005 (See Annex 3).
Competition of Innovative Global Environment Projects:
Grants to Southern Cone Development Marketplace award winners: (US$ 200,000 from GEF; US$ 60,000 from other donors; with US$ 50,000 of cost sharing from beneficiaries) This proposal will hold a competition of innovative grants to which pre-selected finalists will bring their projects for exhibition and competition[2]. The component will grant Civil Society organizations in Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay[3] with approximately US $10,000 each to implement grants that promote the strengthening of civic and environment values in youth. The Jury will select the winning proposals according to the following selection criteria:
• Focus,
• Innovation,
• Feasibility & Results,
Replicability, and Sustainability (See Annex 1 for definition of criteria and to see how criteria apply to proposals addressing Biodiversity, Climate Change, International Waters and Land Degradation)
Under no circumstances the grant will support proposals that are linked to formal political activities, such as political campaigns or political parties’ institutional strengthening.
In order to ensure that program objectives which strengthen environmental values amongst youth correspond with potential benefits related to GEF project guidelines, all applicants for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) will be provided with a checklist of GEF environment Strategic Priorities and existing environmental initiatives that can benefit from youth involvement. This checklist, distributed as a Southern Cone Development Marketplace- (Env. Window) Guideline brochure, will expand on guideline information for the four GEF focal areas supported.
Knowledge Sharing[4]: (US$ 50,000 from the WB DM and US$ 150,000 from other additional donor contributions). This activity includes two sub-activities: a knowledge forum and knowledge dissemination. They are described below:
i. Knowledge Forum (KF): Pre-selected finalists from the competition will participate in a knowledge sharing event called the Knowledge Forum that will ensure that the value of the finalists’ initiatives extends beyond the competition. The KF will bring together different keynote actors from MERCOSUR + Chile (NGOs the media, academia, think-tanks, government officials and grassroots organizations) to discuss the design and execution of shared strategies to promote the inclusion youth in society. Specifically, the KF will allow stakeholders and potential beneficiaries to:
o Explore possibilities of replication of their initiatives in the Southern Cone countries, and beyond, of the ideas and technologies identified in any of the winning projects;
o Share different experiences in community-driven projects dealing with youth;
o Discuss Government policies and programs to promote the empowerment of youth;
o Brainstorm on new strategies that can create new partnerships among CSOs, governments and multilateral agencies of the Southern Cone to actively promote the inclusion of youth in the public sphere and development and sustainable development agenda; and
o Disseminate information of the activities carried out by the finalist organizations.
The KF will also include a GEF capacity- building workshop to discuss GEF operational objectives in context to current local, regional and global environment challenges and share ideas on how young people can contribute to current and future GEF endeavors.
ii. World Bank Knowledge Dissemination: This sub-activity forms part of the core Development Marketplace program, which encourages de knowledge sharing between successful and unsuccessful proposals supported by it, to incorporate lessons into further competitions. Being the second time that the GEF co-finances the DM through the World Bank (the first being the 2003 Development Marketplace (DM) Global Competition )[5], the dissemination of this experience will be shared among the GEF community within the Bank through presentations, brown bag lunches, WB website and program publications and other mechanisms with the purpose of establishing best practices for any other future potential co-financing. In addition, the World Bank supervision of this particular MSP will include periodic evaluations of completed grants for replication and knowledge sharing on any other program on youth and the environment.
Program Implementation Plan. The implementation plan for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) will follow the same timeline as the one for the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace. This timeline is shown below .
Timeline for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace
Program Implementation Team. Specific in-country responsibilities for implementation of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace will be carried out by the supervision of a Civil Society and Social Development Task Team leader, four World Bank country focal points and a team of 8 support staff based in the World Bank Buenos Aires country office and the World Bank office in Paraguay. In addition, for the implementation of the Environment Window a full time staff with experience on GEF will be hired (using co-financing resources), which will work under the guidance of an experienced GEF TTL from LCSES, and with the support of a JPA staff.
Finalist Selection Process. The Finalist Selection Process for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) will follow the selection process of the overall Southern Cone DM. It will comprise of two main steps: (i) The Eligibility Review and (ii) The Assessment Process. Annex 4 and 5 provide more details on these steps.
3. Sustainability (including financial sustainability)
The DM takes a three-pronged approach to sustainability in the evaluation of applicants, looking for (a) financial sustainability, (b) organizational sustainability, and (c) environmental sustainability in its review of projects. This will be reinforced at all stages of project implementation through the inclusion of ‘sustainability’ as one of the grant evaluation criteria (see Annex 1).
To ensure organizational sustainability, the Global DM requires that applicants submit proposals in partnership with other groups. For DM2005, these guidelines even require a local partner on the ground in the country of implementation. This requirement serves to ensure that small, low-capacity groups have access to an institutional partner that can provide everything from advice to operational support to – in cases – a financial umbrella to enable the smaller group to achieve project objectives. DM’s recent evaluation of projects funded in the 2000 round suggested that projects with local partners outperformed projects where neither partner was resident in the country of implementation.
In looking for financial sustainability, the DM instructs jurors and assessors to look for projects that are either sustainable commercially within 3-4 years, or are financially sustainable in other ways for non-commercial projects. This includes an evaluation of the likelihood of finding other grant funding if the project pilot proves successful, and, for projects with social purposes, DM jurors look to see if there is a possibility of receiving support or mainstreaming by a relevant government agency over the medium term should the pilot prove to be useful and successful. In the Southern Cone DM, it is recommended that applications provide co-financing that adds up to at least 25 percent of cost sharing of total project cost.
The program will foster linkages of its most innovative proposals into other WB or donor funded operations which will be used as mechanism to scale up these innovations. In addition, the DM is expected to contribute to the institutional strengthening of NGOs in managing environmental issues, and also enhance communication among the various stakeholders involved in their efforts. By strengthening their capacity to design, implement, and monitor grant projects and manage funds from the DM, the NGO community will be better prepared to attract resources from other international donors besides the World Bank in order to grow or expand the scope of their projects and provide the opportunity to sustain activities beyond a one-year phase.
4. Replicability
The projects funded through the DM would illustrate new and innovative pilots which could provide learning for the design of subsequent MSPs and FSPs by the Bank and other GEF Implementing and Executing Agencies. The innovations could be institutional (how can various groups, organizations and businesses can be brought together to share the risks involved in doing innovative projects that address climate change and biodiversity concerns in development), or technical (trying out new technical models or equipment which support development while addressing climate change and biodiversity as well). Consequently, it is expected that the selected projects would be high risk, but the successful projects would yield high rewards in terms of their replicability.
The DM program will work with each beneficiary group to ensure that success stories and lessons learned are linked back to World Bank or other donor operations, in an effort to cross-fertilize promising ideas in these and other countries.
In the case of the Southern Cone DM, these cross-fertilization efforts of the Development Marketplace will specifically ensure knowledge dissemination with other GEF-funded activities, such as the UNDP/ GEF Small Grants Programme in Chile. The success of small-size GEF funded projects until now in the Southern Cone has been in providing strategic Technical Assistance to public sectors in rural areas. Due to challenges caused by demographic trends (i.e. urban migration) in Southern Cone countries there are no GEF funded projects that only target youth as direct beneficiaries in the region. Consequentially, by introducing the Development Marketplace to the Southern Cone there is a great potential to expand the number of partnerships with organizations working with young people and environment awareness efforts through GEF funding. By involving such organizations in GEF related activities in the region and securing an exchange of lessons learned and best practices with other GEF funding mechanisms in the Southern Cone, this Environment window will complement and help support the continuation of possible future innovative GEF initiatives that directly target youth in the four proposed focal areas.
5. Stakeholder Involvement
Because DM funds bottom-up projects proposed by grassroots actors and NGOs, most projects begin with a high level of stakeholder involvement. Many projects assert that the innovation in their project is not so much the idea but the community-based nature of the way that they choose to implement the idea. In addition, for DM2005, all applicants for biodiversity funding were required to have a local partner for implementation, which was another measure taken to ensure that local stakeholders are involved and consulted. DM’s final round application also requires each project team to detail both the number of intended beneficiaries and the proposed plan for involving them in the activities.
The overall DM jury is constituted of development and conservation experts from the World Bank Group and over 20 outside institutions, ranging from IADB and USAID to The Nature Conservancy and Africare. At the sub-project level, public involvement will vary by sub-project type and plan. Each project has answered a question on the application for how they intend to involve and/or consult beneficiaries. DM does not require a public involvement plan as a matter of policy, given that (a) all of the projects are proposed by groups working on the ground in the affected country, and so come to DM from a bottom-up perspective; and (b) most projects are small and in pilot mode, so lack the resources to engage in extensive public consultation.
6. Monitoring and Evaluation
Each project that receives a DM award signs an individual award contract with DM. These contracts stipulate major implementation milestones, each of which is tied to release of the next tranche of payment. The payments are a percentage of the overall award tied to the specific deliverables at each milestone. DM projects typically have 4-5 payments during the 24 month implementation period. Before a project can receive a payment, the team must submit a report to the World Bank project liaison (usually in-country Bank staff), who then verify that the milestones have been met and provide advice to the project team. After the Project Liaison signs off on the request, the DM team does another check before releasing funds. This system ensures that teams are achieving their objectives during the course of implementation. In addition to these interim progress reports, each DM awardee is required to submit a final report upon completion of activities, no later than three months after the final DM disbursement.
Because the range of activities funded varies so broadly across DM, indicators for execution progress are quite varied – in some cases indicators relate to construction of buildings or installation of capital equipment (e.g. computers), and in other cases indicators refer to number of beneficiaries trained, etc. There is no single indicator that captures all DM project activity; with the exception of a “percent complete” that DM tracks to follow project progress.
INDICATORS
Program Level:
▪ # of new approaches funded, of which:
o % which are successful and worthy of onward investment and funding
o % which are not successful but have important lessons for biodiversity conservation
o % of which have received or leveraged additional funding to continue pilot
o % of which are mainstreamed in other WB operations
▪ number of organizations to which results are disseminated
▪ # of projects addressing global environmental objectives in the selected focal areas (in Southern Cone, with youth participation, fostering civic engagement in youth)
▪ Number of projects evaluated and lessons learned through evaluation of funded projects
▪ Number of organizations to which results are disseminated
▪ Percent of projects that provide valuable demonstration effects and learning with potential for scale-up of innovative approaches
▪ For Southern Cone DM, number of youth directly benefited with the MSP
Sub-Project Level:
Each project will have specific indicators germane to that project only. Examples of project-level indicators could include:
▪ market incentive measures
▪ successful piloting of alternative sources of renewable energy
▪ Physical indicators:, hectares of forest preserved; rates of deforestation; water quality; area of critical systems under improved management; reductions in emissions or pollutants; # of jobs or level of income generated; increases in production/sanitation/etc due to new energy sources
▪ Participation indicators, number of young people which participated in design/implementation of environment projects of global significance.
▪ Information Flow indicators, such as community-based media, availability and use of meeting places for youth, number of publications on the environment targeted to youth, # of environmental education awareness programs.
▪ Indicators of youth communities’ patterns of relationship with the environment, e.g. adherence to litter/vandalism control programs, use of unleaded fuels, solar water heaters, recycling patterns, etc.
N.B., specific sub-project indicators will not be known until winning projects are chosen during the selection process.
RISKS
Primary risks are as follows:
A. Organization risk: It is possible that through a broad outreach and selection process, the DM jury would make a final award to a project team that is from an organization that is not legitimate and/or could cause political/reputational risk to the Bank and GEF. DM mitigates this risk by having three layers of review of projects by Bank staff and other assessors who are development specialists from outside the Bank. In addition, before announcing finalists DM circulates the list to country offices and Country Directors to get their feedback on whether a group poses a particularly undue risk or is in bad financial standing with the Bank. The country offices also provide comments on the track record of each applicant in that country, and how innovative their idea is within the country context. As such, by the time a project is selected, it has been reviewed by 10 – 14 different individuals within the Bank Group, so this extensive review process has, so far, kept DM from making awards to illegitimate organizations.
B. Misuse of Funds risk: Given that many of the projects are innovative startups managed by small NGOs and other local organizations, there is some risk that funds would be misused for purposes other than those for which they won the awards. DM mitigates this risk through its detailed project payment process (using tranches for contracts, etc.) and this ensures that funds are being spent as intended. This tranching arrangement also significantly mitigates most project execution risk.
C. Project design risk: The projects selected for DM support focus on pilot innovative institutional and technical models. Many of these could be "first-of-a-kind" projects which would spearhead new transactional arrangements (so as to enable that risks are taken up by the organizations who are best suited to address them) or new technical approaches (to test their effectiveness under real-life conditions). These risks would be addressed in the project selection process through an assessment of the capacity of the partners who are proposing the project; and through support during project implementation for management and redesign of project as difficulties arise. This is a role frequently played by the WB in-country project liaison.
D. Sustainability risks: DM requires groups to apply in partnership to help mitigate sustainability risk – strong partners often help mitigate issues of organizational sustainability. Finally, DM actively tracks projects and their implementation – if projects appear to be generating successful results but are facing sustainability issues, DM will become involved in early dissemination of project results to a variety of audiences in order to catalyze action around continued operation.
At the same time, there needs to be recognition that these sub-projects are primarily pilot projects, meant to display relatively quick results against their implementation plans. Some effects will not be known until many years later, especially with harder to measure conservation indicators and poverty indicators. For a more detailed discussion of how DM manages the sustainability issue and attendant risks, please see the section below on sustainability.
D - Financing
1) Financing Plan
The Global DM program incurs three categories of costs: program costs, event-specific costs and incremental costs for awards. The fixed costs are independent of the amount of awards provided or number of projects funded, and therefore are not affected by the proposed GEF MSP. These are detailed below, as are the incremental costs that would be driven by the proposed GEF grant.
a) Program Costs:
There is a fixed average annual cost of managing the Global Development Marketplace program, estimated at approximately $550,000 per year, financed from the Bank’s budget. This amount is needed regardless of the number of projects funded by the DM in that particular year, or regardless of any contributions coming into DM from outside the core budget. This funding enables the organization of global competitions (every 12 months), technical support to 10 or more country-level marketplaces per fiscal year, managing donor and trust fund relations, tracking project progress and executing payments, evaluation and monitoring of funded projects, and dissemination of project results both within and outside the World Bank Group.
Cost Driver: Program Scope
b) Event-Specific Costs:
DM also incurs costs related to hosting and organizing Global DM events such as the 2005 competition scheduled for June 6-7, 2005. These costs are estimated at approximately $400,000 per event, financed from the Bank’s budget.
Cost driver:
# of finalists participating in the Marketplace
c) Incremental Costs
Without GEF contribution, the baseline Global DM activities would include the funding of some 20 - 25 projects, each averaging ~ $100,000. The GEF contribution would allow the funding of an additional 5-10 projects under the Global DM.
Cost drivers:
- value of individual projects estimated at ~ $100,000/project
- any required audit costs per GEF-funded project, since these are not currently required under DM’s grant agreement
The Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) incurs the below detailed costs:
a) Costs of awards:
The Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window): This will include the support to 26 environmental proposals, at a unit cost of US$10,000 each. From this, 20 will be financed by the GEF and an estimate of 6 from DM co-financing funds. The total cost of each of these proposals is expected to be of at least US$ 12,500 each, as a minimum of 25% cost-sharing will be required as eligibility criteria. This will give a final financing cost for the awards of US$ 310,000, from which US$ 200,000 will be GEF, US$ 60,000 will be co-finance from the Southern Cone DM, and US$ 50,000 will be co-financed by the beneficiaries themselves.
The overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace: In addition to the cost of awards for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window), other potential partnerships for co-financing are expected to result in an additional US$ 540,000 (US$ 140,000 from the Southern Cone DM and US$ 400,000 from other donors) that will allow for a total of at least US$ 800,000 for the overall Southern Cone DM Awards pool[6] .
b) Knowledge Forum:
The cost of these activities will be entirely co-financed, and no GEF funds will be required. Total costs for the Knowledge Forum are US$ 200,000, from which US$ 50,000 are from the World Bank DM window and US$ 150,000 from additional donor partners (see list of co-financiers in section below). This will cover costs to host and organize the Competition and the Knowledge Forum scheduled for May 2005 and related administrative costs.
c) Administration:
In addition of the administrative costs described above for the organization of the KF and the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace, US$ 30,000 will be co financed by a Swedish Trust fund for a full time Environment Specialist to work on the daily activities of the implementation of this program.
2) Co-financing
|Co-financing Sources |
|Name of Co-financier |Classification |Type |Amount (US$) | |
|(source) | | | |Status* |
|The World Bank | |Cash |750,000 |Confirmed |
|MacArthur Foundation | |Cash |500,000 |Confirmed |
|IFC | |Cash |250,000 |To be confirmed |
|Beneficiaries | |Cash/In-kind |50,000 |To be confirmed |
|Sweden | |Cash |30,000 |Confirmed |
|Others | |Cash |210,000 |Confirmed |
| | | | | |
|Sub-Total Co-financing | 2,340,000 | |
The following are the co-finance partners for the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace, which will contribute with the cost-sharing arrangements described above:
• Govt. Uruguay
• Govt. Chile
• UNDP Chile, Uruguay, Argentina
• UNICEF Chile, Uruguay, Argentina
• FAO Paraguay
• GTZ (German Technical Cooperation Agency)
• British Council
• USAID
• IFC
• YPF Foundation
• World Bank Small Grants Program
The co-finance agreement for the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace’s awards pool portion will be based on the breakdown found in Annex 6.
E - Institutional Coordination and Support
1) Core Commitments and Linkages (Global DM)
The World Bank Development Marketplace program has evolved from its roots in the Strategic Compact, where DM was established to fund internal innovations in World Bank products and services. DM opened up to outside groups in the 2000 Global Competition, and since 1998 has funded over 500 projects in over 50 countries through 4 global competitions (1998, 2000, 2002, 2003) and 21 country-level Development Marketplace events. The country-level DMs are replicas of the global competition but are implemented by WB country offices in line with key development themes and CAS priorities in each country.
DM is located in the Strategy, Finance, and Risk Management (SFRM) Vice Presidency within the World Bank. The DM team is a subgroup within the Corporate Strategy Group within SFRM. DM operates within the overall management structure of SFRM and has two primary sources of funding:
• Annual WB budget allocation which is used to seed and leverage the award pool for global competitions and country-level DMs, and
• Operating costs (staff, travel, supplies, etc.) as a part of the overall corporate strategy group administrative budget.
The DM team operates with four full-time staff, and is augmented by several JPAs, and 2-5 short term consultants during peak periods to manage the intricate project selection and event management processes. All of the work of project assessment and screening is not performed by the DM team – rather, DM engages over 150 development professionals from inside and outside the World Bank to participate in the project selection process. DM manages this process and sets guidelines and criteria for judging.
Core Commitments and Linkages (Southern Cone DM)
The task manager for the GEF-funded part of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace will be located in the World Bank ESSD division in Washington, but will be a full member of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace team, who sits in the World Bank regional office in Argentina. This Task Manager will have overall responsibility for the preparations, administrative support and execution of the above mentioned procedures. To the highest extent possible GEF-funded proposals will be mainstreamed within Southern Cone Development Marketplace operations to utilize available resources most efficiently, as well as arriving at a uniform Country- Level DM that is not made up of two separate parts with differing objectives. Therefore it is anticipated that the procedures in terms of the call for projects (guidelines and application forms etc.), the dissemination, receiving the project proposals, the Assessment process and the Jury process, regarding these projects, should be integrated in that of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace. This will be done while simultaneously assuring that specific requirements are complied with.
Furthermore, all GEF funded proposals will be consistent with country CASs, complementing all GEF initiatives in Paraguay Uruguay and Chile.[7]
To support public awareness of the Environment Window at the public and national level, the Southern Cone Development Marketplace will encourage the impact, scaling up and replication of activities that are funded be the Environment Window by engaging personalities that represent the media, academia, NGOs think-tanks and government officials in Knowledge Sharing activities such as the Knowledge Forum. To date, Foreign Ministers and ministers for Social Development, Health and Education in the Southern Cone countries, have shown an interest in attending this event, as well as the local representatives of UN-bodies (UNICEF, UNDP), Ambassadors and other government agencies in the region. The World Bank Southern Cone Regional Office will also invite leading GEF representatives to endorse the Development Marketplace- (Env. Window) by assisting in planned events. Specifically, GEFSEC staff will be invited to participate in the jury process.
2) Consultation, Coordination and Collaboration between and among Implementing Agencies, Executing Agencies, and the GEF Secretariat, if appropriate.
In addition to co-financing arrangements amongst contributing partners, the Southern Cone Development Marketplace will seek and collaborate with partners that can offer guidance in both the Competition of Innovative Projects and the Knowledge Forum. The local the Southern Cone country offices of the UNDP, in particular, have been approached to assist in offering technical support and professional services to the competition (i.e. acting Assessor and Jury members for the Assessment and Jury processes.)
Annex 1
Global DM 2005 Evaluation Criteria and Definition
Sustainability of use, management, or protection of the environment and natural resources
DM2005 seeks new approaches to improving the lives of poor people that promote long-term conservation of natural resources and do not damage the natural environment. Each project proposal should demonstrate a clear impact on reducing environmental damage, increasing efficiency of resource use and global environmental benefit for the use of GEF resources. Depending on the project, the proposal should provide evidence of the scientific feasibility of the project idea.
Innovation
The DM supports innovation in a broad sense. An innovation should, ideally, offer new products, processes or models to achieve development goals. An idea should vary from the current approaches or practices currently in place in that particular region or country. Innovation can address process or end result so long as the ultimate goal of success is improving a service for poor people. To be considered innovative, an idea does not have to be brand-new, but some element of it must be. For example, a DM2003 winner, Chili as a tool for Conservation and Development in Zimbabwe, puts an existing practice — cultivating chili pepper as a cash crop — toward a new purpose — namely as a deterrent for wildlife that often destroy the crops of small farmers. As a result, farmers no longer hunt and kill the elephants and other wildlife to defend their crops. This novel approach uses an existing process to address the problem of wild animals and crop protection in a fundamentally different way from conventional methods (traps, fires, drums, etc.).
The following list reflects some of the types of innovation common to DM projects:
• New beneficiary group targeted
• New geographic area for implementation
• New technology used
• New combination of existing processes or technologies used
• Old technologies used for a new purpose
• New delivery method or support process employed
• New financing method used
• New partners or entities delivering services or producing goods
Realism and Results
The project’s concept/design should produce tangible outputs and outcomes which are in alignment with the project’s financial resources, team/organizational capability, and partnerships. The proposal should clearly identify the problem that the project is seeking to resolve and demonstrate how the proposed activities can realistically achieve the intended objectives/outcomes. Although implementation plans will be brief due to proposal length, they must nonetheless convey a sense of solid organizational underpinning with the capacity to implement the idea in the two-year implementation period. The budget should be sufficient to support all proposed activities.
Sustainability (organizational, financial/economic)
Sustainability could consist of two main factors:
1) Organizational sustainability. Implementing organizations should demonstrate a track record or experience in the field/sub-theme of their project idea. They should also display a capacity to grow and continue their operations, and
2) Financial/Economic sustainability. The organization or the project idea should demonstrate the potential to be self-perpetuating in the medium- to long-term. This strategy will differ depending on the type of project.
a) For revenue-generating projects, a realistic path to revenue breakeven should be included. If breakeven is not expected by the end of DM support, the strategy for external donor or investor support should be stated.
b) For projects that do not generate any income or revenue, the proposal should provide a realistic strategy for funding project activities after completion of DM support from sources such as other donors, private foundations, government agencies, etc.
Replicability and Scalability
DM’s philosophy is that outstanding development concepts should make a broader impact beyond the immediate area of the project. A project idea must have an element of or the potential for transferability to other situations or to elsewhere. This impact can be achieved in several ways, including:
Replicability – refers to whether a concept or idea can be adopted by other groups. For example, a project that treats the problem of waste water management in an urban slum in City X could be used to address the same problem in other cities within that country or in other countries.
Scalability - refers to whether a concept or idea can be applied to benefit more people, more quickly. DM places a premium on projects that have the potential to be implemented on a large scale. For example, a local project that can be expanded or taken to a provincial, regional, or national level.
DM 2005 Qualification Criteria
1. All projects must apply in partnership with another entity that is distinct from the proposing group. DM is particularly interested in proposals from local organizations working in developing countries. Proposals from international organizations will be considered eligible only if their implementing partner is a local organization.
2. Any private firms applying to DM must apply in partnership with a public-purpose organization, which can be an NGO, CBO, university, development agency, government agency, etc.
3. All applications must propose to provide benefits in developing countries
4. All projects must address the theme of “Innovations for Livelihoods in a Sustainable Environment.”
Annex 2
Several of the past Global DM winners have been successful in replicating and/or scaling up their projects and ideas to the next level. DM assists these projects by disseminating information on successful projects to targeted audiences with the ability to fund, publicize, mainstream, or provide technical assistance to projects. DM does this in a variety of ways:
• targeted meetings and brown-bag lunches with specific sector and country staff internally in the World Bank,
• introductions to other grant programs, both inside and outside the World Bank Group
• nominations for other award programs,
• direct advice and networking opportunities, and
• publicity in DM publications, website, press releases, and other vehicles
An external evaluation of the 28 projects that received $3.8 million in grants at the 2002 Development Marketplace found that as a group these projects received a total of $13.4 million in funding beyond the DM phase. This impressive leverage ratio confirms that both the DM program and the projects it funds are steadily gaining recognition. Below are highlights of a few projects that were funded last December in the 2003 Global DM:
Locally-Made Paper & Craft to Preserve Rainforests, Brazil
Action Nucleus for Sustainable Development (POEMAR), a Brazilian NGO, won a DM award for their idea to support biodiversity management by creating value for the plants in the Amazon forest. They have combined Japanese paper-making techniques with traditional Amazon fiber and dye processing techniques to establish a production chain for art paper and craft products. POEMAR’s approach to create economic opportunities for poor communities in Brazil’s Para state while simultaneously helping conserve the Amazon forest has caught the attention of several donors (Brazil Bank Foundation, IFC’s GBO Initiative, JICA, Novib-Oxfam Netherlands) who have provided roughly half a million dollars in follow-on support.
Protecting the Environment, Profiting from Garbage, Burkina Faso
Twenty thousand tons of plastic trash is chaotically spread about Ouagadougou and its environs each year, Burkina Faso’s capital city, creating an environmental and agricultural nightmare. LVIA, an Italian NGO, received an award in DM2003 to solve this problem by establishing a market-oriented, self-sustaining plastic recycling operation. Ouagadougou’s first Plastic Recycling Center (PRC) has been established along with a complementary public awareness and mobilization campaign that urges the public to collect plastic refuse and sell it to the PRC for a profit. In this way, the project has created a source of revenue for the poor and an incentive to clean up the city. The recycled materials will be used to produce goods for the local markets such as street panels and waste baskets. LVIA has forged a partnership with the Municipality of Ouagadougou, and the National Urban Park of Bangr-Weoogo to better reach the local population, especially through schools. The project has also received international acclamation, including the Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment (2004) and a partnership with the Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association.
Power to the Poor, Ghana
Rural Energy & Environment Systems (REES), Ghanian NGO, together with EnterpriseWorks Ghana, won a DM2003 award to establish a local production for wind turbines that can provide affordable, reliable electricity to "off-grid" communities. The grant from DM has helped design and pilot a 500 watt wind turbine prototype that uses local materials and is suited to local conditions. Not only does the project provide a much-needed reliable source of electricity in these remote communities, but it does so in an environmentally sound way. The project has picked up support from CSIR, Africa’s largest R&D, technology, and innovation institution. After completion of the pilot-phase and proof of viability, the project team aims to train more local manufacturers and eventually market the new Ghanaian-made wind turbines on a mass scale.
Wild Silk Helps Conserve Himalayan Oak Forests, India
Appropriate Technology India (ATI), an Indian NGO, won an award in DM2003 for its innovative private sector approach to link a community’s economic survival to that of the old growth oak forests in the region, thereby making the community part of the solution rather than the problem. Today, over 700 families are benefiting from participating in silk worm rearing, cocoon production and silk production. In an area where over 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, these activities are raising incomes significantly. Conservation goals are also being realized—over 500,000 saplings were raised and over 5,000 mature oak trees were protected during this year alone. "The DM grant came at a pivotal time for our project and has been instrumental in securing subsequent funding.” said Sharmila Riberio, Project team leader, ATI as they anticipate additional funding from the Ford Foundation, IFAD, and USAID.
Drishtee: Connecting India Village by Village - India
Toughly two-thirds of India’s roughly one billion people live in villages. But these villagers have little access important documents and information such as land records, grievance processing, loan applications, land sales, marriage licenses, and papers for health, social, and employment services. They also lack access to a range of crucial services from education to health care. Drishtee, a for-profit company based in India, won an award in DM2003 for its unique method of delivering government and other services to rural areas through the empowerment and enterprise of local entrepreneurs using an information technology-based platform. At the moment there are 309 of these information ‘kiosks” operating across six states in India. The project has recently received funding from Microsoft Corporation to further expand its operations. They hope to create approximately 50,000 kiosks all over India in the next six years.
The HotPot Initiative - Mexico
Poor people worldwide can spend 30-40 percent of their income on fuel, usually firewood harvested from forests. But forests are declining everywhere, particularly in developing countries. While, historically, people have always used wood to cook, this practice is no longer sustainable as the world’s population growth outstrips the ability of forests to rejuvenate themselves. The HotPot Initiative, a DM2003 winner, has developed and introduced solar cooking pots that not only reduce environmental stresses but also save time and labor women and girls' spent harvesting firewood; in addition, these pots dramatically lower smoke inhalation and its harmful effects to the respiratory systems among women who previously cooked with firewood. To date, the project has sold over 200 "HotPots" and expanding both production and distribution in Mexico. They have also received a modest but significant amount of funding from the US Environmental Protecting Agency to support their efforts.
VillageReach: Health Care for Remote Communities - Mozambique
VillageReach is a non-profit organization working to improve health and quality of life in the most remote areas of developing countries. The team won an award at DM2003 for their idea to expand the quality and reach of heath services in rural Mozambique by upgrading the healthcare infrastructure and introducing new distribution tools and technologies. Early results show that voluntary immunization rates in the districts where VillageReach’s 42 clinics operate have increased by 40 percent. Shortly after receiving the DM award, the project received additional funding from the Gates Foundation of US$3.3 million to expand the project. With 3 million children dying each year from vaccine-preventable diseases, this project holds enormous potential to bring healthcare and other essential services to those who most desperately need them: the rural poor.
Seismic Performance Improvement of Masonry Houses - Turkey
By transforming unsightly garbage to vital house stabilizers, this DM2003 winner is making housing structures safer for poor people. Funding from Development Marketplace is enabling the project team to test the use of discarded car tires to reinforce housing masonry thereby improving their seismic performance during earthquakes. Recent tests conducted by the project team found that the tires increase wall strength tenfold. The team has just received follow-on funding and support from the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TUBITAK), a government agency that promotes research in science and technology. From Turkey, where 95 of the population lives in earthquake-prone regions, to China to South America, car tires could be used to reinforce homes wherever earthquakes are frequent and people live in masonry houses. Recycling scrap tires is also an environment-friendly approach, converting litter into a life-saving tool.
Annex 3
Southern Cone Development Marketplace Activities Chart
The following chart exemplifies funding for Grants to the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace and the Environment Window according to the two parallel components, the Competition of Innovative Projects and the Knowledge Forum. In addition, the Environment Window also includes US$ 30,000 of Swedish Trust Fund co-financing for the administration of activity implementation (see paragraph (c) of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window) Financing Plan Section)
Not part of Environment window. Supported by overall DMP.
Annex 4
Finalist Selection and Jury Process for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace Finalist
For the Environment Window, these processes will in addition include the following:
I. The Eligibility Review - The proposals applying for GEF earmarked funding will require to meet two GEF key criteria (in addition to the Eligibility Criteria found in Annex 1): (1) it must reflect national /regional environmental priorities and have the support of the country or countries involved, and (2) it must improve the global environment or advance the prospect of reducing risks to it. In addition to these terms the proposed project design, implementation, and coordination of each project will be required to follow one of thirteen Operational Programs that are set out in the GEF Operational Strategy for the purpose of achieving global environmental objectives in the four focal areas. In doing so projects will require potential beneficiaries have experience with working on any of the focal areas proposed. The Eligibility Criteria will also require that individual project co-financing sums up to at least 25% of cost sharing of total project cost by its counterpart.
II. The Assessment Process - The proposals designated for potential GEF earmarked funding will be subject to the following three tailored evaluation criteria:
Evaluation Criteria (tailored for Southern Cone Development Marketplace- (Env. Window))
|Focus |Extent to which project clearly identifies problems in areas |
| |pertaining to the four focal areas selected; particularly by (i)|
| |mainstreaming global environmental issues in education and |
| |awareness programs directed to youth, (ii) promoting the adoption|
| |of environmentally sustainable practices, (iii) promoting |
| |conservation in production and natural landscapes, and (iv) |
| |supporting the adoption of energy efficient practices. |
|Innovation |Extent to which idea varies from current approaches to address |
| |GEF Strategic Priorities in the four focal areas selected. It |
| |will include institutional innovation (i.e. new partnerships), |
| |and/or technical innovation (technical models and/or equipment) |
|Feasibility and Results |Extent to which project outputs results for Bio-diversity, |
| |Climate Change, Land Degradation and International Waters |
| |conservation are clear, and have a direct impact. (i.e. |
| |realistic implementation time frame and budget; replication and |
| |scaling up in WB other donor projects; direct contribution to |
| |results on the field; expedited delivery of project results; and |
| |quantification of results.) |
These criteria set out to ensure that the projects selected for the Environment Window contribute to GEF Strategic Priorities by promoting ways in which youth can participate in the (a) mitigation of causes and negative impacts on the environment through relevant sustainable practices, (b) setting of indicators and targets that have resulted from lessons learned in GEF programming into innovative youth-led projects, and (c) sustainability and replication of results of these projects that focus on the four selected GEF focal areas.
The distribution of the Southern Cone Development Marketplace Brochure (Env. Window) Guideline brochure will aid to provide further explanation of how youth led projects the focus on GEF Strategic Priorities can contribute to long-term global environmental benefits within the context of sustainable development.
Jury Process. The Jury Process, in which the Jury will determine a list of winners based on individual interviews at the Competition with the project proponents. The Jurors have different profiles than the Assessors. While the Assessors come from technical or sector backgrounds, the Jury members are generally people with broader experiences, often with high public profile, who are assisted by technicians and sector specialists. In addition, the GEF Secretariat will be invited to participate in the Environment Window Jury Process.
The required number of Jurors is estimated to be 24 people + 1 chair (assuming the idea of 160 finalists is maintained). Each Juror will evaluate 20 proposals, and each proposal will be evaluated by at least 3 Jurors. The Jury will spend 10 minutes per project holding a direct conversation with the competitors. The winners will be decided upon in a closed plenary, facilitated by the chair. The chair will not evaluate any proposals.
This last phase of the evaluation should almost exclusively concentrate on innovation. Ideas can be judged as innovative in a variety of ways:
• New beneficiary group[8]
• New geographic area[9]
• New combination of education and public awareness strategies[10]
• New integration of working sectors[11]
• New technology
The profile of a winner project is of one that combines several forms of innovation.
Country Quotas and Representation. GEF contributions will be directed to three out of the four countries participating in the Southern Cone Development Marketplace. However, there will be no country quotas for allocation and proposals will be evaluated based on their own merit to support GEF objectives.
The following chart summarizes the steps of the Assessment Process and offers a standardized timeline, with mid-March 2005 as a target date to receive proposal submissions:
| | |Weeks |
| | |
|Civil Society Organizations |Open to non-profit oriented organizations, such as: faith based |
| |organizations, consumer associations, peasant associations, |
| |neighborhood associations, parent associations, student unions, |
| |labor unions, ethnic communities, interest groups, sport clubs, |
| |non-governmental organizations, and others. |
|Based in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay or Uruguay |With physical address in one or more of the mentioned countries. |
| |The competition is not open to international non-governmental |
| |organizations that do not have legal address in any of these |
| |countries. |
|Poor and Vulnerable Youth as Beneficiaries |Poor and Vulnerable Youth must be the primary target population |
| |of the project, though the age of the project proponents or |
| |managers is not a relevant criteria. |
|Partnerships |Each proposal must be implemented in partnership with other |
| |contributing organizations-- stakeholders. |
|Counterpart |The proposal must clearly identify the contributions that the |
| |signing organization and each of its partners will make toward |
| |implementation of the project. In kind and cash contributions |
| |should be clearly identified. |
|Legally Registered |The signing organizations must be legally registered in one of |
| |the four countries, or be sponsored by a eligible legally |
| |registered organization. The second condition needs to be |
| |evidenced by an original copy of a written agreement between the|
| |two parties. |
B. Evaluation Criteria
|Criteria |Description |
|Focus |Extent to which the project identifies the problem that the |
| |project is seeking to resolve or alleviate. |
|Innovation |Extent to which idea varies from current approaches – e.g. in a |
| |new country/region, or a novel approach to implement an idea. |
|Feasibility and Results |Extent to which project outputs or results are identified, and |
| |have a direct impact. Realistic implementation time frame and |
| |budget. |
|Sustainability |Extent to which plan and organization are able to sustain |
|(i)Financial |activities beyond DM funding phase. The ability to grow or expand|
|(ii)Organization |the scope and/or leverage funds from elsewhere. |
|(iii)Environment | |
|Replicability |Extent to which project could be transferred or replicated |
| |elsewhere (internally or another country). |
Annex 6
Breakdown of Funds for the Southern Cone Development Marketplace
The Southern Cone Development Marketplace is mobilizing US$1,080,000. This amount would cover the awards themselves, as well as the administration of the entire program. The administration includes costs associated with the Competition, the Knowledge Forum, and the monitoring and supervision of resulting projects. Using lessons learned and economies of scale from previous exercises, overhead costs will be relatively small, in the 20% range. This implies that with US$1,080,000, 80 proposals will be funded. The following chart reflects the expected breakdown of funds pertaining to the Southern Cone Development Marketplace awards pool, based on the estimate of a total granting of 80 awards.
Annex 7
Southern Cone Development Marketplace (Env. Window)‘Call for Proposal’
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Jóvenes y Valores: Creyendo en tu Futuro
Formulario de Solicitud(
( El Banco Mundial y sus socios podrán agregar secciones si surgieran requisitos adicionalesen base a la creación de nuevas ventanillas.
Sección 1 – Presentación de la Organización y del Proyecto
|CATEGORÍA SOLICITADA FERIA DEL DESARROLLO PEQUEÑAS DONACIONES MEDIO AMBIENTE |
|NOMBRE DE LA ORGANIZACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL (OSC) SOLICITANTE |
|¿QUE TIPO DE ORGANIZACIÓN ES? |
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|ONG Fundación Asociación Vecinal/Gremial/Estudiantil Otra (especifique) |
|Dirección, Código postal, Localidad, Provincia/Departamento, País |
|Teléfono, Correo electrónico, Página Web (si la tiene) |
|Principales actividades de la organización enumere 3 actividades llevadas a acabo en el presente y las 3 actividades con el mayor impacto en |
|la organización en los últimos 5 años, mostrando experiencia pertinente para la propuesta |
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|Persona responsable de la ejecución |
|Educación: (último grado académico) |
|Experiencia en ejecución de proyectos: (cite máximo 3 proyectos) |
|Financiamiento previamente recibido (por Banco Mundial, Agencias Internacionales o el Gobierno): ¿cuándo y qué monto? 3 ejemplos como máximo |
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|Alianzas previas enumere 3 organizaciones con quienes ha trabajado en alianza |
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| |Rol y Contribución (infraestructura, tecnología, financiamiento, recursos humanos|
|Miembros de la Alianza |etc.) |
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|Personería Jurídica (qué organización posee la personería jurídica) |
|Título del Proyecto y Breve Descripción (máximo 5 líneas) |
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|Grupo Beneficiario (número y tipo de beneficiarios) |
|Lugar de Intervención (urbano/rural) |
|Contrapartida (monto en especie y/o efectivo) |
Justificación
1.Descripción del problema que se aborda sus causas y consecuencias (máximo 5 líneas)
2. Solución propuesta para mejorar la situación descrita arriba (máximo 5 líneas)
3. Pertinencia de la solución ¿por qué la solución planteada es la adecuada? ¿qué antecedentes tiene la OSC para solucionar el problema? (máximo 5 línea)
4. Programa Operacional Cuales de los siguientes programas operacionales (relacionado con las esferas de 1. Biodiversidad 2. Cambio Climático 3. Aguas Internacionales y 4. la Degradación de Tierras) refleja la orientación del proyecto?
Programas operacionales:
Programa operacional no. 1
Ecosistemas áridos y semiáridos (biodiversidad)
Programa operacional no. 2
Ecosistemas costeros, marinos y de agua dulce, incluidas tierras húmedas (biodiversidad)
Programa operacional no. 3
Ecosistemas forestales (biodiversidad)
Programa operacional no. 4
Ecosistemas montañosos (biodiversidad)
Programa operacional no. 5
Eliminación de los obstáculos al uso eficiente y la conservación de energía (cambio climático)
Programa operacional no. 6
Promoción de la utilización de energía renovable mediante la eliminación de obstáculos y la reducción de los costos de ejecución (cambio climático)
Programa operacional no. 7
Reducción de los costos a largo plazo de las tecnologías de aprovechamiento de energías que producen escasas emisiones de gases efecto invernadero (cambio climático)
Programa operacional no. 8
Programas basados en masas de agua (aguas internacionales)
Programa operacional no. 9
Programa operacional integrado sobre tierras y aguas que abarca esferas de actividad múltiples (aguas internacionales)
Programa operacional no. 10
Contaminantes (aguas internacionales)
Programa operacional no. 11
Conservación y uso sustentable de la diversidad biológica relevante a la agricultura (biodiversidad)
Programa Operacional no. 12
Manejo integrado de ecosistemas (área operacional multi-focal)
Programa Operacional no. 13
Ordenación Sostenible de Tierras (la Degradación de Tierras)
** Para mayor información sobre los criterios específicos relacionado con programas operacionales requeridos, AQUÍ (Link)
4. Medio ambiente global ¿De qué manera contribuye el proyecto a mejorar el medio ambiente mundial? (explique en máximo 5 líneas)
5. Fortalecimiento de valores ¿cuáles de los siguientes valores contribuye a fortalecer el proyecto?
Uso sustentable de recursos Solidaridad Liderazgo Comprometido
Cuidado ambiental Respeto Auto-estima Otro (especifique).........................
6. Explique la relación de las actividades del proyecto con el fortalecimiento de valores cívicos (máximo 5 líneas)
7. Innovación del Proyecto ¿qué componente innovador propone el proyecto?
Tecnología nueva Nueva área geográfica Nuevo grupo beneficiario Nueva combinación de estrategia de educación y concientización Otros (especifique)............................
8. Explique en un máximo de 5 líneas por qué el proyecto es innovador:
Implementación
1. Plan de Implementación lista de actividades en orden cronológico
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|2. Alguna de las actividades propuestas: |
|a) incluye asuntos del medio ambiente global en programas de educación o concientización de jóvenes Sí (...) NO (...) |
|b) promociona la adaptación de prácticas del medio ambiente sustentable Sí (...) NO (...) |
|c) fomenta el cuidado de la producción y de paisajes naturales Sí (...) NO (...) |
|d) apoya la adaptación de prácticas de energía eficiente Sí (...) NO (...) |
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|3. Resultados esperados basados en las actividades enumeradas en el plan de implementación arriba |
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Sección 3 - Impacto y posibilidades de replicar
1. Impacto esperado enumere 5 cambios directos que provoque la propuesta en cuanto a la situación de los jóvenes y del medio ambiente
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2. ¿Una vez terminado el monto del premio, cómo creen Uds. que se puede seguir con el proyecto? ¿Qué características del proyecto se destacarían como sustentables?
3.¿Son las actividades replicables en otros lugares? ¿Por qué y dónde, expliquen?
Sección 4 - Presupuesto
Hay que respetar las restricciones de financiamiento de la categoría solicitada, ver ‘Bases y Condiciones’ - algunas categorías no financian todos los rubros.
| |En guaraníes/pesos |
|COMPONENTES | |
| |PREMIO |CONTRA-PARTIDA OSC|Contra-partida |TOTAL |
| | | |Alianza | |
|1. Infraestructura | | | | |
|Rubro 1 | | | | |
|Rubro 2 | | | | |
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|2. Tecnología | | | | |
|Rubro 1 | | | | |
|Rubro 2 | | | | |
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|3. Insumos de oficina | | | | |
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|4. Alquileres | | | | |
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|5. Transportes | | | | |
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|6. Salarios | | | | |
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|7. Otros | | | | |
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|Evaluación | | | | |
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|TOTAL | | | | |
Solamente si su proyecto resulte seleccionado, se solicitará documentación que respalde todo lo declarado en la presente propuesta
Toda la información suministrada tendrá carácter de declaración jurada y confidencial
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[1] Although the country of Argentina will also be participating in the Southern Cone Development Marketplace on “Youth and Values: Believing in Your Future”, GEF funds would not be used to finance projects in this country. This is due to the potential implementation of an alternative UNDP/ UNEP/ World Bank proposal to GEF that would work to pilot a decentralized GEF-MSP program in Argentina.
[2] This competition will take place together with the overall Southern Cone Development Marketplace competition, and it will follow similar processes and procedures (found in this proposal’s Annexes).
[3] Regional projects in more than one Southern Cone country will also be eligible.
[4] This activity will be totally co- financed from the overall Southern Cone DM budget, therefore no funding from the GEF- MSP, with the exception of US$4,000 for eligible Environment Window finalists’ travel and lodging expenses to the KF, will be requested for this activity.
[5] The GEF Small Grants Programme has also co-financed the Lithuania Country-level Development Marketplace (June 2004) through the UNDP.
[6] This figure does not include the estimated $US 50,000 beneficiary co-financing for awards for the Development Marketplace (Env. Window) and beneficiary co-financing for awards outside this window.
[7] GEF focal areas for the Southern Cone Region , according to the current IBRD’s GEF project portfolio for Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, are Biodiversity and Climate Change.
[8] e.g isolated indigenous groups, disabled , imprisoned young women, victims of violence, homosexuals, migrants, etc
[9] e.g. global environment initiative that worked in Sri Lanka being tried in Paraguay that frontiers areas projects
[10] e.g. student events that focus on learning about GEF Strategic Priorities in Bio-Diversity, Climate Change, International waters and Land Degradation using games, TV shows, songs and stories and other creative mediums, as well as the elaboration of didactic materials and other material for dissemination
[11] e.g. experiential training programs trainings for youth that focus on the integration of global environmental protection efforts and micro-enterprise development
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Beneficiaries $50 K
DM $60 K
GEF
$200 K
DM $50 K
DM
$140 K
Environment
Window
Total of 20 GEF + 6 DM Proposals = 26
Competition of Innovative Projects
Knowledge Forum
Other Donors
$400 K
Other Donors
$150 K
Southern Cone
Development Marketplace
Total of 80 proposals
Recommend
no more than
50% of finalists granted Award
1. Expected # of applications
2000 Applicants
160 Finalists
2. Budget for the 160 finalist (travel)
US$200/trip to
event
$200k
Southern Cone Development Marketplace
20 Awards from Southern Cone Development Marketplace funding + 40 Co-financing resources + 20 Awards from GEF Funding =
80 Awards
$800k pool
$400k
from Additional Partner Resources
3. Award funds
$200k
GEF
$10k/award
4. Amount needed for award
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