The 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge is underway and proposals are stacking up in the USAID Project Gallery.   You can read proposals, star your favorites, leave comments and collaborate with project teams, or submit your own!   Here are some of the most recently submitted projects - check them out!

Submissions are due December 5th!   Submit your idea today!

From the Project Gallery:

• Providing Business Opportunities Information to Farmers and Producers via SMS

  The aim of this project is to help salvadorian agricultural and agroindustrial producers sell their products in local markets for better prices and obtain better profit margins; thus mitigating the effect of intermediaries or middlemen. A primary target is better marketing   of vegetables and garden crops.

  Similarly many of the SMEs that process grains and other agricultural feedstocks also depend on intermediaries and traders, who tend to speculate and inflate prices during time of shortage, generating negative impacts on the profitability of these small companies.

Participate in 4 easy steps:

• Register and/or Login  
• Click on Username
• Click on "Submit a Project to the Project Gallery" under My Project Idea
• Select "USAID" from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form

Visit the USAID Development 2.0 Challenge Project Gallery to check out proposals, star your favorites, and comment and collaborate with the project teams or learn more about the Challenge.