Application forms are out for this year's World
Bank Group/Wharton Ideas for Action Competition
(I4A) focused on financing sustainable
development for youth in Africa and beyond.
Application Deadline: January 31st, 2016
Ideas for Action is an ideas competition on
financing for sustainable development for youth
sponsored by the World Bank Group and the Zicklin
Center,Wharton School.
Today's youth will be responsible for delivering the
post-2015 development agenda, also known as the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will
replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
when they expire at the end of 2015. The SDGs will
be more ambitious than the MDGs, covering a broad
range of interconnected issues, from sustainable
economic growth, to social issues, to global public
goods. To realize this vision, a just-as-ambitious
plan for financing and implementation is needed.
Youth engagement throughout the design and
implementation process is critical for success. The
Ideas for Action (I4A) competition engages young
people around the world to encourage them to
develop and share their ideas for financing
solutions to deliver the post-2015 development
agenda.
Submission Requirements
Submissions that do not meet the format
requirements listed below will be disqualified.
Format:
Proposals should be between 1,500 and 3,000
words, with proper citations and references. The
word count does not include the appendix,
footnotes/citations, or any charts/graphs. Teams
should use the template at the end of this
document and include a 200-word abstract
summarizing the key points of the proposal.
The submission must be in Times New Roman, 12 pt
font.
All appropriate information must be cited.
The submission should be sent in PDF or Microsoft
Word format in English
Solution Areas:
The expectation for teams is to focus on one of the
issues below and develop a creative yet
realistic and implementable solution that will
increase the financing available and/or improve
the efficiency and effectiveness of existing funds.
Another possibility is to select more than one
issue, and develop a solution that is based on
blended sources of finance
Domestic Resource Mobilization: improving the
ability of countries to collect and
direct public resources generated from taxes and/
or improve efficiency of public
spending.
Better and Smarter Aid: improving how aid is
structured and disbursed in light of a
rapidly changing donor environment.
International Private Finance: improving business
environments to attract investment.
Domestic Private Sector: mobilizing domestic
private capital
Business and Development Innovations: improving
business environments in developing economies via
innovative private/public partnership models.
Awards
Winners of the competition will be given an
opportunity to influence the post-2015 financing
discussions and its implementation, including:
Present winning proposal at the IMF/World Bank
Spring and/or Annual Meetings in April and October
2016, respectively.
Engagement with experts from development
organizations, academia, and business on finance
for development post-2015.
Participation in a boot camp, where the winners
will visit a company, organization or university to
take part in specific project implementation and
get hands on experience.
Participation in the Wharton School Knowledge
Exchange Activities and Global Classroom.
Timeline:
Informational session: January 8, 2016; 2:00–3:00
PM EST at World Bank Headquarters. The session
can also be accessed online. Details will be sent
out through the distribution list.
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2016
Announcement of submissions selected for final
round: February 22, 2016*
Deadline for final submissions (incl. comments
received, if applicable): March 20, 2016
Announcement of winner(s): April 5, 2016
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