Development Case Guidelines

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July 30 Competition opens

September 8(6:00pm EST)*

Deadline for submission of proposals

Mid-September Notification of proposal winners

October 3 Youth Summit 2013

C" 0/?1())(.6 ,/(D*4(6*)Participants must submit their solutions to [email protected] including the cover sheettemplate provided on the event website (http://www.bit.ly/WBGYouthSummit ) by the competitiondeadline. All submissions must be written in English. No late submissions will be accepted .

5.1 Proposals

Participants must submit a proposal of 2,000 words maximum, in English, [email protected] September 8, 11:59pm EST. Proposals provide solutions to one ofthe development cases with a realistic action plan of implementation, and can include any of thefollowing:

a) Measurement of social impact (including monitoring and evaluation);b) Market readiness (i.e., understanding of conditions and constraints in target country);c) Competition & SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats);d) Strategic Alignment & USP (unique selling point) (i.e., what is the comparative advantage);e) Risk Assessment and Analysis;f) Sustainable outcomes of the solution and operational impacts;g) Stakeholders;

h) Team implementation strategy (i.e., clearly defined project objective and roadmap forimplementation);

i) Financial plan; andj) Feasibility Analysis.

In addition to the proposal, participants must submit an executive summary no longer than 400 wordsthat includes the following components:

a) Problem realization (The problem you are trying to solve);b) States the solution in terms of a socially impactful product, project or development model;c) Addresses who the customer is and what is the benefit of the solution (target audience);d) What is innovative about your approach;e) Includes sustainability depth beyond revenue-generating concepts; and

f) Includes a results framework (i.e., how you plan to measure results).

Please send us your cover sheet, executive summary and proposal in one email to:[email protected]

5.2 Selection of Winning Proposals

Each proposal will be submitted to an evaluation committee made up of representatives from theWorld Bank and our case sponsors. The evaluation committee will select one winner and one runner-
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up for each of the 4 development cases. The winners will be notified by mid-September via email, andrepresentatives of each team will have the opportunity to present their proposals at the 2013 YouthSummit event, either in person or by video-conference.

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Awards differ by development case, but possible prizes include:

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Winning proposals are eligible to receive additional awards from the individual case sponsors.

For more information regarding the development cases, please contact Nicholas Bian [email protected].

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