[Reader-list] Grants from World Bank -- Health, Nutrition & Population -- by Nov 17

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1. It seems that the Echoing Green Fellowship email got truncated for
some recipients.

One has to apply online by December 1, 2006, for the $90,000 in seed
funding and support to launch a new organization 

Watch the video: http://www.echoinggreen.org/video
<http://www.echoinggreen.org/video>  

Find out whether you qualify: http://www.echoinggreen.org/shouldyouapply
<http://www.echoinggreen.org/shouldyouapply>  

Questions? Contact Jeremy at jeremy at echoinggreen.org
<mailto:jeremy at echoinggreen.org>  .

2. The World Bank also gives grants e.g. via The Development Marketplace
(DM) which funds innovative, small-scale development projects. The DM's
primary objective is to identify and support creative ideas that deliver
results and have the potential to be expanded or replicated. In addition
to supporting hundreds of grassroots initiatives, the program allows the
Bank to learn and gain insight from local practitioners who have
important contributions to make in the fight against poverty. DM
competitions are designed to attract ideas from a range of innovators:
civil society groups, social entrepreneurs, local governments,
universities, and private companies.
  
Development Market Place announces grants for NGOs every year. This year
the topic for Development Market place is Health, Population and
Nutrition. The last date for submission of the proposal is 17 November,
2006. The proposal should be submitted on-line. Sample of winning
proposal for last year and guidelines to submit the proposal is
available at website www.developmentmarketplace.org
<http://www.developmentmarketplace.org>  

Some past projects in India that have received grants:
 
Same Language Sub-titling on TV for Mass Literacy
Rs. 1.2 crores to raise the literacy skills of all early literates on a
large scale, through a low-cost, already entrenched, popular
entertainment method-television programming with subtitles
 
Low-Cost Reading Glasses
Rs. 56 lakhs to give the gift of sight to near-sighted poor by getting
low-cost reading glasses into their hands, and also to provide jobs to
sellers of reading glasses
 
Affordable Hearing Aids
Rs. 47 lakhs to design, manufacture, and distribute an affordable,
high-quality hearing aid for developing country markets, and to empower
the disabled
 
Well Being of the Disabled
Rs. 37 lakhs to provide all services for disabled persons of all age
groups in Delhi
 
Rat Catcher Tribals
Rs. 45 lakhs to remove the health hazards associated with ridding farms
of rats and improve the rate of extermination, by introducing an
improved prototype of a traditional rat catching device at an affordable
price in Tamil Nadu
 
Empowerment of Rural Communities to Export
Rs. 1.20 crores to raise incomes and create job opportunities by testing
the use of Export Production Villages as a way to organize small-holder
spice producers and access higher value export markets.
 
Mentoring At-risk Children
Rs. 28 lakhs to impart critical life skills to at-risk youth in Mumbai,
helping them reintegrate into mainstream society.
 
BioDiesel Fueled Energy System
Rs. 1.1 crores to deliver energy and safe water supplies to remote
tribal villages in Orissa using a renewable, carbon-neutral, bio-diesel
energy system.
 
Village Employment & Power Partnerships
Rs. 95 lakhs to provide rural villages in India with affordable access
to electricity by constructing a decentralized supply mechanism
integrated with an enterprise promotion initiative and service delivery
system.
 
LED Lighting for Tribal Homes
Rs. 84 lakhs to provide clean and reliable lighting to 10,000 tribal
households in Orissa using LED light units and a community-based
maintenance plan
 
Alternative Fuel Sources
Rs. 50 lakhs to provide an alternative fuel source and generate
environmental benefits for Rajasthan villagers by implementing a
comprehensive plan to utilize the Jatropha plant
 
Livelihoods by Conserving Biodiversity
Rs. 29 lakhs to enhance the incomes of forest dwelling communities and
reverse destruction of wild bamboo stocks by promoting the use of the
Lantana weed as a substitute for bamboo in weaving baskets and other
products.
 
Ground-Source Systems for Hot Arid Regions
Rs. 66 lakhs to introduce more productive and stable agriculture in
areas with harsh climatic conditions by introducing Earth Tube Heat
Exchanger technology in Kutch
 
Eco-Friendly Farm Pest Management
Rs. 70 lakhs to provide farmers with a cheaper and eco-friendly pest
management alternative to costly pesticides
 
Silk Production to Save Oak Trees
Rs. 80 lakhs to provide alternatives to subsistence agriculture through
oak-based silk production, or sericulture, a unique enterprise that
allows forest resources to be used without chopping down trees
 
Computers on Wheels
Rs. 12 lakhs to close the information gap by providing villagers in
rural Mahboobnagar with expanded access to information and exposure to
technology
 
Connecting India Village by Village
Rs. 32 lakhs to tap the power of the digital economy by using electronic
kiosks to develop market-based solutions that benefit India's poor
 
Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting
Rs. 93 lakhs to increase rural water access in drought-prone desert
Rajasthan by introducing rooftop rainwater harvesting and encouraging
the government to expand the program. 

For other info, please contact Ms. Sunita Malhotra --
smalhotra at worldbank.org <mailto:--smalhotra at worldbank.org>  

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