Applications Invited for Zayed Sustainability Prize 2021

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Zayed Sustainability Prize 2021

The Zayed Sustainability Prize, an evolution of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, is the UAE’s pioneering global award in sustainability and a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Categories:

The Zayed Sustainability Prize awards 5 categories:

Health

This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to essential and affordable healthcare
• Ensuring access to maternal and new-born healthcare
• Ending epidemics (AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis etc.)
• Preventing and treating water-borne, communicable and non-communicable diseases
• Reducing illness from pollution, hazardous chemicals and contamination

To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US$ 600,000

Food

This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited to:

• Decreasing hunger and malnutrition
• Increasing agricultural or other food processing productivity
• Enhancing sustainable food production

To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US$ 600,000.

Energy

This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to affordable and reliable clean energy
• Increasing production of clean energy
• Improving energy efficiency
• Introducing new forms of clean energy or other technology innovations

To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US$ 600,000.

Water

This category recognises organisations that can demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to safe and affordable drinking water
• Ensuring access to sanitation and hygiene
• Increasing water use efficiency
• Improving water quality

To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US$ 600,000.

Global High Schools

The Global High Schools category recognises high schools or secondary schools, from six global geographic regions that propose innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability projects in the areas of health, food, energy and/or water. The proposed project could be in one area (e.g. water) or a combination of areas (e.g. energy, water, food, and health).

The application must be submitted by the students and supported by the school management. The projects must:

• demonstrate how they meet the three criteria: impact, innovation, inspiration; as explained in the Evaluation Criteria section of this page;
• be able to be implemented and operational within one to two years;
• benefit the school community and/or their local/regional community for several years.

In each of the following six global regions, one school will win up to US$ 100,000:

• The Americas
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Middle East & North Africa
• Europe & Central Asia
• South Asia
• East Asia & Pacific

What is the Prize Fund, per category?

The total prize fund is USD 3 million, distributed as follows:

• Health USD 600,000
• Food USD 600,000
• Energy USD 600,000
• Water USD 600,000
• Global High Schools USD 600,000

(Divided amongst six schools; awarding each up to US$100,000)

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