Competition Details

The World Bank is pleased to announce the launch of the 2013 India DM grant competition, focused on the low-income states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The DM India 2013 program will apply the experience and learning from the 2011 India competition and will focus on supporting high impact development solutions to scale.

Eligibility Guidelines
All Registered Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Organizations are welcome to apply.

Organizations/ projects led by women or working towards directly impacting the lives of women and the girl child are strongly encouraged to apply.

Projects should be operational for at least 2 years in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh or Jharkhand and be able to demonstrate a track record of successful project implementation.

Projects operational for 2 years in any other State – and proposing to replicate or scale in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand are also invited to apply. These projects must demonstrate a track record of successful project implementation and an ability to replicate their model into more than one geographic region within India.

Individual applicants without any affiliation to a registered organization are not eligible to apply. Organizations and projects with a primary output for research or knowledge, such as publications, formal education institutions and related consultants are not eligible to apply.

The Award
Proposals will undergo a rigourous assessment process involving development experts from the World Bank Group, the Government, social enterprise community and investors across India. 30 proposals will be shortlisted and invited to present their projects at the India DM event to be held in Bhopal, India, in April 2013.

The India DM will award upto 15 winners, selected by a Jury of experts. Winning projects already working within the target States of Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh will receive USD 50,000 as a grant award. Projects operational in any other States and proposing to replicate or scale in these target States could receive upto USD 100,000 based on evaluating their proposed plan for scale & financial sustainability.

In addition, the Development Marketplace and its collaborative partners in India will support the winning projects with need-based technical assistance over a 15 month period following the award. Specific aspects of the capacity building support will also be accessible by the finalists of the 2013 India DM.

Assessment Guidelines

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Case Studies

Rangsutra

Envisaged as a bridge between artisans and consumers, Rangsutra works with small producer groups based in remote villages and towns in around 9 locations across the Indian states of Rajasthan, Uttaranchal and Assam. It strengthens economic security in vulnerable communities by empowering members to create top quality hand made products which are then sourced and marketed to urban consumers through leading retailers.

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    We feel honoured, we are a young enterprise and being recognized by an institution like World Bank is a great feeling. We are pretty enthused to move ahead in a comparatively faster manner...we are looking forward to the coming 24 months when we are going to get various kind of inputs.
    Devendra Shukla, Chief Operating Officer, Educate Girls
    Basically a start-up needs to use the grant for the costs of capacity building of community, mobilization etc. Then there is the technical, research and development cost for doing the innovation part. The third necessity is providing the market linkage to the producer groups. These are the 3 core things that social entrepreneurs [look for] and for these, funds are not available. This will be the greatest benefit of the DM.
    Ravi Chandra, Managing Trustee, Bihar Development Trust
    We are looking at this money more as in investment in infrastructure development as well as human resource development. We believe that the results of this will be seen very soon.
    Sumita Ghose, Managing Director, Rangsutra Crafts India Ltd.
    Through DM we have proposed to scale it up to different areas covering another 44,000 households where we can monitor the social security scheme. I am definitely thrilled and excited because this money will [make] us think in a different way, to upgrade our technology, our HR and streamlining our processes from a certain level to a different level. We need to build our capacity through DM.
    Mansingh Durga Prasad Nayak, Programme Director, (WOSCA)
    In the last 3 years we have trained and placed 10,000 people [in jobs]. In this World Bank sponsored project we are trying to train and place 10,000 people in Bihar alone.
    Nishant Saxena, CEO Elements Akademia Pvt. Ltd.
    DM is the beginning...it definitely feels good. It has taken a lot of thought process as to how we take reliable lighting sources to Bihar...Winning DM matters a lot...the financial support will help us to build infrastructure, develop capacity of people to implement the program [of providing quality lighting to the poor] properly in Bihar.
    Prasanta Biswal, Sr. Manager – Mission Projects, Selco Solar Lights (P) Ltd.
    As far as scale is concerned, we have understood that a lot of capacity building is required for that. Resourcing and networking [with] other agencies is also important.
    Prabitra Mishra, Programme Director, Adhikar

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