Industry & Economy
-
Events
World Bank to host development event in Delhi
Our Bureau
New Delhi
,
Dec. 12
THE New Delhi office of the World Bank would host for the first time in the country, an event called India Country-level Development Marketplace (IDM) on April 15, 2004, here in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the UK-based Department for International Development.
Disclosing this here at a news conference, the World Bank Country Director, India, Mr Michael Carter, said that the theme for the event is Improve rural services — Access and quality.
"Governments and citizens can work together to ensure that key services do not fail people — in access, in quantity and in quality", he said.
The main objective of IDM is to bring together social innovators from all over the country to compete for funding and to share their knowledge and experience on how to improve the delivery of services in rural areas, especially the delivery of essential rural services such as water supply and sanitation, rural roads, rural education, rural health, rural electricity and rural finance.
IDM has two main components: an innovation competition and a knowledge forum and the competition is open to non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, foundations, academic institutions, civic bodies and the private sector in partnership with registered NGOs.
Article
E-Mail
::
Comment
::
Syndication
|
