Recognizing and celebrating impactful, creative, and scalable locally-driven initiatives aimed at combating climate change and enhancing resilience in vulnerable communities.
2023 AWARD CATEGORIES
Capacity Building: This category encompasses innovations and endeavors that facilitate an ongoing and adaptive learning process for local communities, governments, and organizations. These initiatives should address established needs of participants, fostering inclusive local decision-making that endures beyond project timelines. They could establish institutional legacies, nurture technical and interpersonal skills (like collaborative leadership, trust, and network governance), or empower local actors to independently enhance their capacities and share knowledge over time. Examples include embedding adaptation capabilities within local organizations, facilitating peer-to-peer learning, and supporting local experts and advocates.
Business Adaptation Solutions: This category welcomes both small and large businesses that have bolstered leadership from local communities and governments in their adaptation endeavors. Businesses in this category may have contributed to addressing structural inequalities faced by vulnerable groups such as women, youth, children, disabled individuals, displaced populations, indigenous peoples, and marginalized ethnic groups, all of whom are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts. Additionally, these businesses may have devised and made accessible adaptation solutions or technologies that target local climate-related vulnerabilities.
Women in Leadership: This category honors women leaders on local, national, or global levels who have spearheaded design, advocacy, and/or implementation of climate resilience and adaptation initiatives for local communities. Applications are welcome from, or on behalf of, women leaders who have demonstrated leadership in designing or executing efforts that tangibly enhance climate resilience—especially for the most susceptible—in communities.
Innovation in Devolving Finance: This category is designed for organizations, projects, initiatives, or programs that employ pioneering models to offer adaptable, long-term, patient, and/or predictable funding for local-level adaptation efforts. The funding mechanism should empower and support local identification of climate challenges, priorities, and solutions.
ELIGIBILITY:
The Awards are open to individuals, organizations, or partner groups worldwide that have executed or are currently engaged in climate change adaptation and resilience initiatives.
To be eligible:
The intervention must address climate change effects or intentionally enhance long-term resilience against those effects. Vulnerable communities and groups adversely impacted by climate change must be the focal point of the solution. Solutions should be locally driven and should demonstrate practical application of at least one of the eight Locally Led Adaptation Principles. The intervention’s results must be evident, and it should already be in progress or have been implemented.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:
Applications will be accepted from 1-31 August 2023.
SELECTION PROCESS:
Applications will be evaluated based on a point-based system centered around five key criteria:
Effectiveness and impact on communities. Potential for scalability and replication. Empowerment of decision-making, particularly for vulnerable groups. Consideration of gender and social inclusion. Planned utilization of the Award funds.
The top 20 shortlisted candidates (5 from each category) will be nominated for the Awards and will be requested to provide additional information to support their applications.
Subsequently, a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) will assess the shortlisted applicants within their respective categories. The TAG will select two candidates per category, with the final winners chosen by a High-level Jury.
PRIZES IN 2023:
Twenty nominees will gain exposure and recognition for their Awards nomination.
Four winners will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and an invitation to an Award Ceremony at COP28 in Dubai, scheduled from 30 November to 12 December 2023.
Winners will be required to present a proposal outlining how they intend to utilize the cash prize and provide progress reports up to one year following the prize disbursement. DAI Global will offer support in monitoring activities listed in the proposal through video calls, digital surveys, and requests for visual materials.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
For more details and to apply, please visit the provided link BELOW.
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