Announcing the Winners of the Ideas for Action Competition 2015

First Place: Team Pennsurance
Creating New Microinsurance Products for Remittance Service Providers in India
Members: Ezgi Aytac, Arjun Bhaskar, Keshav Garud, Matthew McPhail, James Zhou

Second Place: Team Oxygen
Innovative PPP Model for Promoting Financial Deepening and Inclusion in the Rice Value Chain in Nigeria
Members: Michael Adeola, Chioma Ukwuagu, Ogomegbunam Anagwu, Henry Ushie, Maureen Orji

Third Place: Team Outcome
Decreasing poverty in the mining communities of the world through the empowerment of communities in the control of mining royalties: an application to the Peruvian case
Members: Alberth Rolando Barreto Fortón, Diana Lucia Chaman Salas, María Eugenia Robles Mengoa, Alexander Matthew Spevack

Runners up:
Team Impact. PH
An initiative to enhance and transform the Philippine nonprofit sector
Members: Carissa Feria and Joan Cybil Yao

Team Backe & DeGagne
Development Impact Bonds: The Power of Participatory Development in Creating Sustainable Market Demand: A Case study of Open Fires and Inefficient Cookstoves
Members: Lena Backe and Matthew DeGagne

Team Rolling Stones
Introducing Internet-Based Funding Mechanisms for World Bank Operations
Members: Joulan Abdul Khalek, Till Cordes, Zhenbo Hou, Tamara Zakharia

Top Eighteen Finalists:
Team Development Daredevils
Members: Aanchal Anand & Colin Sollitt

Team Synergy
Members: Abhimanyu Roy, Sanjula Bhaumik, Alok Kumar, Chinalee Garg, and Rajiv Krishna

Team Shark Tank
Members: Caroline Gezon, Laura Baker, Kate McNabb, Josh Talbot, and Sania Salmon

Team Politicuz
Members: Javier Rodriguez

Team EcoExperiencias
Members: Brenda López Miramontes, Damián Chan K’in Miranda, Héctor Albores León, Héctor Sandoval Vargas

Team Y&R
Members: Yugank Goyal and Ranjan Ghosh

Team Catalyst
Members: Arnav Siddhartha Kapur, Tom Rutter, William John Glennerster, Anand Sharma, and Henrik Sachs

Team HealthLending
Members: Fuming Guo, Finlay Mungall, and Tingting Guo

Team Bottom-Liners
Members: Leslie Ngwae Ngwa and Kingsley Nfor Monde

Team Africa Prosperity
Members: Landry Signé and Matthieu Ostrander

Team Migrants for Development
Members: Victoria Finn and Paul P. Maeser

Team Foster Capital
Members: David Berdugo and Roma Poberejsky

Recap from the Case Competition Event

On March 30, we were happy to see about 30 young students sit excitedly to hear from Dr. Djordjija Petkoski and begin working on their case studies. Dr. Petkoski shared a little on how he got involved at the World Bank and how many countries he’s been fortunate to work with. His passion for world progress showed as he enigmatically spoke out about why young people should care about the development goals. “The world will not be the same once you graduate. In one year, two years, five years, ten, the world will look very different,” he said. He spoke about the respective responsibilities held by the government, corporations, and NGOs, and what each can do to make the world a better place to live for all people.

I4A first rounds

Thank you to everyone who made submissions to I4A 2015. We received hundreds of submissions and were incredibly impressed with the quality of your work. Please note that due to the quantity of submissions in different languages, we have evaluated submissions in English first, and will reach out to those who submitted non-English proposals soon about their finalist status.

We have selected and contacted a short list of “finalists” who will continue into the next phase of the competition. If you were not contacted, please know that we absolutely appreciate the time and energy you put into your submission and regret we cannot give personalized feedback on each document.

We hope to further recognize submissions that were particularly impressive but are not in our pool of finalists. Please stay tuned for more information about that and the outcome of the competition.

Best,
I4A Review Team