RFP: infoDev Incubator Initiative

["Miraj Khaled" <khaled@bttb.net.bd>]

> Subject: RFP: infoDev Incubator Initiative
> From: "Pamela Street" <pstreet@worldbank.org>
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:35:59 -0500
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>
> Dear infoDev-l subscribers,
>
> With support from the Government of Japan, infoDev launched the Incubator
> Initiative in 2002, aimed at enhancing   entrepreneurship, innovation and
> competitiveness of the small business community in developing countries,
> which will contribute to sustainable economic and social development.
>
> This three-year initiative is dedicated to strengthen business incubators
> and similar programs, and through them stimulate the emergence and growth
> of innovative, highly competitive and ICT-enabled small enterprises in
> developing countries. The initiative also fosters international
> dissemination of successful practices on business incubation, and in
> particular on the effective use of ICT and e-services as vehicles to
> achieve greater efficiencies and higher productivity in business
> incubation programs and across small enterprise development cycles.
>
> The Information for Development Program is pleased to announce now the
> third Request for Proposals - RFP of the Incubator Initiative. In this
> RFP, there are three different modalities of grants: (i) Operational
> Grants for existing business incubators with at least two years of
> experience in business incubation, (ii) Capacity Building Grants for
> start-up business incubators or related programs already established and
> ready to launch a pilot incubation program, and (iii) Planning Grants for
> the establishment of new business incubation programs.
>
> Target proponents include profit and non-for-profit incubators and similar
> organizations already established and providing support services to small
> businesses in developing countries. The deadline for applications is
> January 20, 2004.
>
> Please see the full Request for Proposals and more details on the
> Incubator Initiative at:
>
> http://www.infoDev.org
>
> For more information, please contact us at: incubators@worldbank.org
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Rafael
>
> Incubator Initiative
> infoDev Program
> http://www.infoDev.org