CIVICUS Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Awards
Program(s) Offered: Ideas, Initiative
Program Level: Contest
Provider: CIVICUS
Country to Work in: Several countries
Scholarship Description
The 2017 Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Awards is celebrating the twelfth twelvemonth of recognising individuals as well as organisations for their excellence, innovation, as well as bravery inward creating positive social change.
The Innovation Awards are share of the global SPEAK! campaign, which seeks to give a vocalisation to everyone, everywhere. Led yesteryear CIVICUS through the Civic Space Initiative, SPEAK! as well as the Innovation Awards volition together assist celebrate, promote, as well as defend the voices of ordinary citizens inward ensuring a to a greater extent than only as well as sustainable hereafter for all.
Nominations are right away opened upwards for Youth Activists, Individual Activists, Civil Society Organisations, as well as the newest category of Brave Philanthropy. Is at that topographic point an activist, organisation or donor inward your community or terra firma that the Blue Planet should know about? If so, nosotros desire to celebrate them!
Eligibility
CATEGORY DEFINITIONS:
The Awards volition recognise outstanding activists, organisations as well as donors whose locomote demonstrates innovative or bold approaches, perseverance inward the appear upwards of challenges, meaning reach, as well as measurable impact. One honour volition endure conferred inward each of the next categories:
Program(s) Offered: Ideas, Initiative
Program Level: Contest
Provider: CIVICUS
Country to Work in: Several countries
Scholarship Description
The 2017 Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Awards is celebrating the twelfth twelvemonth of recognising individuals as well as organisations for their excellence, innovation, as well as bravery inward creating positive social change.
The Innovation Awards are share of the global SPEAK! campaign, which seeks to give a vocalisation to everyone, everywhere. Led yesteryear CIVICUS through the Civic Space Initiative, SPEAK! as well as the Innovation Awards volition together assist celebrate, promote, as well as defend the voices of ordinary citizens inward ensuring a to a greater extent than only as well as sustainable hereafter for all.
Nominations are right away opened upwards for Youth Activists, Individual Activists, Civil Society Organisations, as well as the newest category of Brave Philanthropy. Is at that topographic point an activist, organisation or donor inward your community or terra firma that the Blue Planet should know about? If so, nosotros desire to celebrate them!
Eligibility
CATEGORY DEFINITIONS:
The Awards volition recognise outstanding activists, organisations as well as donors whose locomote demonstrates innovative or bold approaches, perseverance inward the appear upwards of challenges, meaning reach, as well as measurable impact. One honour volition endure conferred inward each of the next categories:
- Youth Activist: An private who has worked for positive social modify as well as is younger than xxx as of August 1st, 2017.
- Individual Activist: An Individual who has worked for positive social modify as well as is xxx years of age, or older, as of August 1st, 2017.
- Civil Society Organisation: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 registered non-profit organisation that has worked for positive social modify as well as has ii or to a greater extent than full-time employees.
- Brave Philanthropy (Donor): An private or organisation that has provided fiscal back upwards for an activist, organisation or own engaged inward social modify despite fiscal or other risk, world perception, or donor-norms.
In add-on to the to a higher house Category Definitions, the next eligibility requirements utilise for all nominations:
- Nominators tin forcefulness out nominate themselves or organisations amongst which they are affiliated, or nominate other individuals or organisations.
- Nominators tin forcefulness out submit a maximum of i nomination per category.
- Nominations must endure based on specific activities that took house betwixt 1 May 2016 as well as 31 July 2017. (Any nominations based on activities that took house exterior of this fourth dimension frame volition non endure considered.)
- No fellow member of the Civic Space Initiative or private who is otherwise involved amongst the Nelson Mandela – Graça Machel Innovation Awards, whether as an officer, director, employee, or independent contractor, is eligible to endure nominated.
Citizens of ANY Country
Scholarship benefits
The world annunciation of Award winners volition bring house during International Civil Society Week (ICSW) inward Suva, Republic of the Fiji Islands inward December.
Award winners of the Youth, Individual as well as Organisation categories volition endure awarded a prize packet worth unopen to US$4,550.00. This includes Return airfare to ICSW 2017, Registration fee waiver for ICSW, Accommodation inward Suva, Republic of the Fiji Islands for ICSW, together amongst the bulk of meals, Per diem for iv days at ICSW, as well as Cash prize. The Award winner of the Brave Philanthropy category volition have a registration fee waiver for ICSW 2017.
Any costs or fees non specifically listed to a higher house volition endure borne yesteryear Award winners
Method of Application
All nominations should endure submitted via the Awards webpage using the online form. However, CIVICUS encourages individuals as well as organisations amongst resources to assistance possible nominators who may non own got access to the webpage, as well as also invites individuals or organisations to contact CIVICUS if they involve assistance. Nominators must response all of the required fields inward the online bird inside the grapheme limitations specified for each question. CIVICUS is non responsible for attempted or failed submissions. Entries that are incomplete or corrupted volition endure void as well as tin forcefulness out non endure accepted. All nominations must endure submitted earlier the halt of the nomination period. Due to the large pose out of nominations, CIVICUS may non endure able to admit receipt of submissions.
It is of import to read the 2017 Terms as well as Conditions (document is as available inward French as well as inward Spanish), as well as also view the official website (link to it is below) for consummate data on how to utilise for this award
DEADLINES:
The Awards nomination menstruum begins on 28 August 2017 as well as ends at 11:59pm (GMT+2) on 21 September 2017.
PLEASE NOTE:
SPEAK! has been developed yesteryear CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, as share of the Civic Space Initiative. CIVICUS is an international non-profit organisation, which describes itself as “a global alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen activity as well as civil monastic state around the world. Founded inward 1993, the organisation today has members inward to a greater extent than than 145 countries, amongst its headquarters inward Johannesburg as well as offices inward London, Geneva as well as New York.
Application Deadline: 21 September 2017
Open to International Applicants: Yes
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