World Bank Development Marketplace Award
The World Bank 'Development Marketplace Award' is a competitive grant program administered by the World Bank. Since 1998, the DM has awarded more than $46 million to some 1,000 early-stage, innovative projects worldwide.
Projects are selected based on:
- Innovation
- Potential for Growth
- Visible benefits
- Realism
- Sustainability
Development Marketplace Award winners
- 2000: Roundabout PlayPump.
- 2003: "HotPot" solar oven by Solar Household Energy, Inc. and Fondo Mexicano para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza.
- 2003: Kanchan Arsenic Filter Project for Rural Nepal. See also Amy B. Smith.
- 2004: Scojo Foundation for Reading Glasses for the Poor in India.
- 2005: Solar Tuki
- 2007: Small portable "Weza" electric generator for rural Rwanda.
- 2008: UV Bucket for killing bacteria in water in rural Mexico, by Florence Cassassuce.