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Snow Leopard Enterprises, from Mongolia, has been named as the winner of this year's World Challenge competition, taking the first prize of a $20,000 grant from Shell to help develop their initiative.

Watch this space to find out who has won this year's prizes and for information about the broadcast of the awards ceremony and a special Down to Business live pitching event.

All 12 World Challenge videos are now available on YouTube for those still to make up their minds who to choose before voting closes this Friday.

Every year readers get to hear from the finalist projects about their time being filmed by the team of World Challenge producers.

Last weekend saw the broadcast of the first episode of the World Challenge on BBC World News. Here Leo Johnson talks with host Paddy O'Connell about some of his motivations behind working on the series' sister show, Down to Business.

Every year, to help those voting for World Challenge projects, we have blogs from the field from each World Challenge producer. Next week we'll have the blogs from the individual projects.

On Monday 26 September voting was opened for World Challenge 2011, an annual competition run by BBC World News and Newsweek in association with Shell.