This article presents examples of grassroots aid projects and programs that delivers results, within the framework of the Development Marketplace. It discusses the extent to which such community-based efforts can be replicated.

This is the account of an evaluation to ascertain the effectiveness of community-driven reconstruction programs in Liberia.

Science underpins improvements in human welfare, through technologies which it develops for health, food production, engineering and communication.

In most parts of the world, if conventional hierarchic organizations and risk-averse bureaucracies fail, they lose their reputation.

In 1999, as news of protesters being subdued with pepper spray in Seattle at the WTO Ministerial Conference came drifting in, we sat explaining our plans for the World Bank's first Development Marketplace to a senior member of the International Finance Corporation's innovation team.

Over half of people in poor countries, including a quarter of those over the age of 14 in Afghanistan, use mobile phones.

Leaders say that people and culture are the most important drivers of innovation. This article shows how leaders can create conditions for greater innovation, within and beyond their organizations, to increase development impact.

We are currently riding a wave of creative responses to some of the world's most intractable problems, led by many different actors from a variety of backgrounds.

Evidence-based knowledge and innovation are critical for national development in Africa if the continent is to sustain the momentum of its transformation agenda. South- South Cooperation (SSC) is a mechanism that can contribute to this objective. Knowledge- and experience-sharing are taking...

Imagine, just a few years from now, a developing country official who is struggling with a difficult problem: perhaps reintegrating demobilized soldiers back into their communities that have been torn by conflict, or helping the desperately poor climb out of poverty through targeted assistance...