We had an email from Yvonna Tan alerting us to the Ashoka Changemakers competition for innovative solutions to improve nutrition. Yvonna wanted us to recommend her project to our readers, but we’re uncomfortable doing that. There are lots of great-sounding projects in the list, from fake goats to vegetable gardens. So while we’re greatful to Yvonna for poking us, we’ll leave you to choose the projects you want to support. You have to register, and that requires responding to an email, so it is a bit time-consuming. But the winning project gets $5000 so you might consider it time well spent. You have till 8 February.
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The Interamerican Development Bank used one of the Ashoka Changemakers competitions to come up with creative proposals for development projects.
http://geotourism.changemakers.com/en-us/idbopportunity?
It sees it as a more democratic, bottom-up way to get new projects. A very interesting experiment, that could be expanded to other areas.