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    A one-of-a-kind honor

    There’s no cash benefit involved, but the DAC Prize for Taking Development Innovation to Scale should bring lots of publicity to the winner.

    By Ma. Eliza Villarino // 27 February 2014

    Innovation doesn’t start with an idea. To make a difference, scaling up is crucial. And one organization will soon receive help from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee to do so.

    “We will ring the bells and set off firecrackers” for the winner of the DAC Prize for Taking Development Innovation to Scale, OECD-DAC Chair Erik Solheim told Devex.

    The award ceremony will take place during the annual DAC senior-level meeting this October in Paris, where bilateral aid chiefs and their advisers gather to discuss policy and practice, including the revamp of what we call official development assistance.

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