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2015 has been a year of expansion and growth for the NEXSO platform, and from FOMIN we plan to keep the hard work for the innovation initiative of the IDB Group. 

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The MIF was honored to partner with the IDB’s Japan Special Fund Poverty Reduction Program (JPO) on its third annual call for proposals. We recently launched a new website, NEXSO, which is a place for all who work in the field of international development—NGOs, government agencies, businesses, funders, investors and so on—to share and discover innovative development solutions. NEXSO served as the “collection point” for grant proposals during the JPO’s recently concluded application period. More than 500 civil society organizations submitted the requested information about themselves and their proposals using the NEXSO platform, and now the JPO staff and others involved in the process are evaluating the applications and selecting which will receive grants from the fund. This was one of the first “challenges”—competitive processes that provide exclusive opportunities to selected applicants—hosted by NEXSO. 

Niños participando en una taller de OpEPA. San Andrés, Colombia, 2012.

OpEPA es una organización colombiana. Su misión es reconectar a los niños y jóvenes con la tierra para que actúen de manera ambientalmente responsable. Hasta el momento han trabajado con más de 85,000 estudiantes y 5,000 educadores. Adicionalmente han conformado la red de grupos de acción ambiental -Ecoclubes- en Colombia con más de 80 grupos distribuidos en todas las regiones de su territorio y vinculando indígenas, campesinos y habitantes de las ciudades.

Pablo Vagliente es el Responsable y Director de AVINA para Argentina y uno de los jueces de la competencia NEXSO. 

Entrevista a Pablo Vagliente, Director de AVINA Argentina y juez en NEXSO

¿Cómo se involucró en el mundo del cambio social y las innovaciones sociales?