SPARKDEVELOPING CAPACITIES FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
A Partnership Initiative in the Local Capacity Development Facility (LCDF) Family
LCDF principles: joint investment, local ownership, country specific
Contents• Market challenges in Vietnam
• SPARK commitment
• Two main strategies
• Adding value to ongoing initiatives
• SPARK organization
• Current state
Market challenges in VietnamMarket challenges in Vietnam
Growing number of non-state providers of
Capacity Development Support
Social Entrepreneurs, local organisations with
capacity needs
Existing funding streams (government, donor, NGO, private sector)
Low quality services, limited outreach
Poor demand articulation, low ability to pay
Pre-
dete
rmin
ed C
apac
ity
Dev
elop
men
t Sup
port
Resp
onse
to g
over
nmen
t
and
dono
r age
nda’
s
Low investm
ent & low
enabling
environment, funding for pre-
packages servicesCom
pete against subsidizes
public providers
Imperfect, non
transparent Capacity
Development market
SPARK commitment
1. Improve the market for CDS at local level
• demand articulation: creating opportunity for local organisations,
to express demand for poverty related Capacity Development
Services
• improved capacity development services: Enhancing the
outreach and quality of capacity development services
• redirect finance flows: to the sub-national level as well as
tapping into local resources
2. Promote social innovations
Dynamic and Transparent Market for
Capacity Development Services
Strategy 1:
Up-scaling social innovation
Strategy 2:
Market facilitation for local level CDS
Creating opportunity to
demand for CDS
Enhancing outreach and quality of CDS
outreach
Finance flow to local and tap local
resources
2 main strategies…
Match making events
Market survey
sSeed
funding
CDS learning & quality standard
s
Solution scanning
& selection
SPARK Ambassa-
dors Web-based platform
Strategy 1: Upscaling social innovation connecting with impact investors
Step 3
Investors’ scan
Step 4
Implement
Step 2
Assessment
Define key
underlying
capacity for
Success =
demand
articulation, costs,
Potential impact
Short listed
solutions posted
in the websites
for investors
scan- Decision
by Govn Board
Step 1
Screening
local
solutions by
Spark
Ambassadors,
other channels
•Brokering
•Linking to
other players
•Develop key
capacity
•Seed funding
•CDS/TA
Step 5
Monitoring
Lessons learned
for further
scaling up with
service
providers,
owners,
promoters
SPARK looks for “talents” that create social change at local level.
Strategy 2: Market Facilitation- CDS investment
Match making events
SPARK Ambassa-
dors
broker new relationships and promote social entrepreneurs, service providers, users
Web-based platform reference center for
social innovation, CD tools & methods
Market surveys
monitor growth, outreach & quality of CDS
CDS learning &
quality standards
professional learning between service providers
quality standards among local service providers
Develop cross cutting competencies for service providers
Adding Value to Ongoing Initiatives
Value added
Market information
Cooperation
Competition
Build on & leverage
Partnership
Influence Funding stream
Funds & Development programsFunds & Development programsP135 National poverty programme
P30A 61 poorest districts
Making Markets Work Better for the Poor (M4P)
Social Entrepreneur Support Programme
The Vietnam Innovation Day
WB’s Civil Society Fund
Small grant Global Environment Fund
Ford Foundation – VCCI Challenge Fund
Learning & InfluencingLearning & InfluencingPeople's Participation Working Group
Partnership Group for Aid Effectiveness (PGAE)
International Support Group – Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development (ISG-MARD)
Comprehensive Capacity Building Programme (CCBP) to Strengthen ODA management in Vietnam
Hanoi Core Statement on Aid Effectiveness (HCS)
Vietnam Development Reports
SPARK organisation: A Social Investment Fund
SPARK (LCDF Vietnam)Board Advisory
Board
Secretariat / Implementing Unit
LCDF International
Management
Fund raising / Communication
Research & Assessment
Matchmaking / Brokering
Market monitoring
SPARKAmbassadors
Current Spark
1. Plan 2010: 5 local solutions are under way. Outreach
10,000 HHs, additional funding 100,000 USD mobilised
2. Institutional set up
• Partnership agreement signed with founding members
• Started as project with its own structure: Jan 10
• Governance board, PD, POs in place by end Apr
• Identify political supporters for registration & new partners:
on going
We need you
• Service Provider• Mentor
• SPARK Ambassador
• Core Co-Investor• Solution Investor
Thank you for your attention!
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