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Deadline: 31-Jul-22

Nominations are now open for the 2023 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders to honor individuals and organizations who have shown exceptional commitment to defending human rights, despite the risks involved.

The Martin Ennals Award (MEA) is an international Award given to human rights defenders in urgent need of protection. Many defenders who are nominated for the Award face serious risks – for example, they are in jail or at risk of detention; they have been prevented from carrying out their work by authorities or businesses, or they have disappeared. The Award seeks to protect these defenders by highlighting their work through the media and mobilizing international support for them. The presentation of the Award is accompanied by significant advocacy and outreach activities in favor of the human rights defenders concerned. The winners are also given a financial prize to use at their discretion.

The promotion and defense of human rights by activists plays a decisive role in many countries where they promote the search for justice, peace, and equity for all. The Martin Ennals Award aims to support the tireless struggles of these men and women.

The independent Martin Ennals Award Jury will select three winners – or Laureates – who will be announced publicly in early 2023.

Eligibility Criteria

• To qualify for the Award, the nominees must:
  • Be currently active in the promotion and protection of human rights
  • Not employ or advocate violence
  • Not be self-nominated
  • Be in need of protection
• Self-nominations for the MEA are not accepted. Human rights defenders or organizations can be nominated by a third party, as long as the motivation is substantiated and the candidate meets the MEA criteria, namely being a human rights defender at risk.
• Past Laureates include lawyers, journalists, civil society activists and even a Buddhist monk.
• Post-humous nominations are not eligible.

Criteria

In addition to the achievements of the candidate, several criteria are taken into consideration for the Award:

• Candidates must be currently active in the promotion and protection of human rights. The Award does not consider defenders who are deceased.
• The candidate should not employ or advocate violence.
• Self -nominations are not accepted.
• Defenders who are no longer in need of protection (e.g. because they are now in a safe environment) will normally not be considered.

For more information, visit https://www.martinennalsaward.org/call-for-nominations/

Deadline: 12-Aug-22

With financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the #Youth4Disarmament initiative invites young people, aged 13-29, to share what disarmament means to them and their communities by creating their own music.

The Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge has been inspired by the uniting and healing power of music that can support efforts for Securing their Common Future.

Pillars

The original scores should also reflect one of the four pillars of the Secretary-General’s Agenda for Disarmament for inspiration:

• Disarmament to save humanity,
• Disarmament to save lives,
• Disarmament for future generations,
• Strengthening Partnerships for Disarmament.

Award Details

Winners will receive a token grant, ranging from $500 (first-place), $250 (second-place) and $100 (third-place), and will be invited to perform at a special congratulatory event during the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly First Committee.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge is open to young people of all nationalities, who are aged 13 to 29 years old. Submissions will be welcomed and judged in three age groups: 13-18 (middle and high school), 19 to 24 years (college and graduate school) and 25 to 29 years (early career professionals).
• There are no restrictions on how many performers can enter a submission together; entrants can be solo performers, a duo, choir, band etc. By entering a submission to the contest, the entrants accept the full terms and conditions of the contest. There is no entry fee of any kind.
• Entries which are deemed to have been incorrectly, inappropriately, or incompletely submitted will be disqualified. Incomplete entries that do not comply with the theme, eligibility and rules will be automatically disqualified. The United Nations reserves the right to verify the eligibility of any entry and to disqualify any entrant who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these rules or who tampers with the entry process.
• Submissions can be from any genre of music and can be performed in all languages. Entrants are encouraged to perform in their native language and should provide a transcript if lyrics are used.

Specifications

• Content: Create a musical piece that reflects what disarmament means to you and your local communities, with reference to the Secretary General’s Agenda for Disarmament.
• Audio length: must be a maximum of 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
• Audio file size and file type: Maximum file size: 8 MB. File type: mp3, m4a, ogg.
• Language: Any language may be used within the entry. If a language other than English is used, please provide the lyrics in the original language to be used for translation. You may also provide an English translation of the transcript if possible. Style or form: The musical entry can be from any genre or format of music (i.e. classical, pop, rap, instrumental, etc.)
• Originality: All work must be original. No entries will be accepted or considered if they are deemed to use in whole or part derivative material that could be considered plagiaristic. Use of materials in the public domain are allowed. Copyrighted materials are allowed only if the entrant(s) obtain the necessary permissions or licences.
• Permissions: Entrants are responsible for obtaining permission and licences to use any copyrighted material included in the video and should have the consent of everyone appearing in the entry.
• Submission: A maximum of two entries is permitted if the content is different from one entry to the other.

For more information, visit http://en.unesco.kz/youth4disarmament-launches-pitching-peace-youth-music-challenge

Deadline: 5-Aug-22

The Innovations for Poverty Action’s (IPA) Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) has launched its second Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for full randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other rigorous impact evaluations to assess the impact of counter-trafficking programs.

HTRI welcomes proposals to assess counter-trafficking interventions that fall into any or all of the “4P’s” (prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership). Funding priorities are guided by HTRI’s Research and Learning Agenda, which outlines key research gaps under the 4P’s.

Details

Applicants are instructed to read the Research and Learning Agenda and refer to one or more of HTRI’s priority research questions that their research project intends to address. Research that is primarily qualitative or descriptive will NOT be considered for funding under HTRI. Applicants can request full funding for RCTs, partial funding for RCTs, or funding for new arms of existing RCTs, as described below:

• Full rigorous studies to assess the impact of a counter-trafficking program: These grants are for research projects with a clear research question, committed implementing partner(s), well-defined research designs, and statistical power estimates. While most of the impact evaluations funded will be RCTs, studies that use high-quality quasi-experimental and/or natural experiments will be considered in exceptional cases when a randomized experiment is not possible. Grants can also fund the continuation or completion of RCTs that have already started without HTRI funding (including those for which data collection is complete). This includes midline and endline surveys, long-run follow-up surveys from previously published evaluations, as well as “downstream studies” that use an already-completed randomized trial to answer a human trafficking-relevant question. The expectation is that this work will result in a paper publishable in a top economic, political science, or science journal. 
• Adding a human trafficking-targeted treatment arm to an existing study: These are grants that will support expanding a study by adding a treatment arm explicitly focused on reducing human trafficking to an existing randomized evaluation. 
• Adding human trafficking-focused survey modules or survey rounds to existing studies: These are smaller grants that would fund the cost of adding human trafficking survey modules to upcoming data collection rounds for existing studies or add a new survey round to an existing study.

Award Information

• Full rigorous studies to assess the impact of a counter-trafficking program: Awards are between $50,000 and $450,000. Applicants should apply for the funds needed to yield the best research, but (all other things equal) lower budgets have a higher probability of being funded.
• Adding a human trafficking-targeted treatment arm to an existing study: Applicants can request funding for the costs of expanding the study sample and survey as well as the human trafficking-focused intervention. Awards are between $100,000 and $250,000.
• Adding human trafficking-focused survey modules or survey rounds to existing studies:  They are intended for research studies that are likely to have an impact on trafficking but are not currently collecting human trafficking data. Awards are between $50,000 and $125,000.

Duration: Project timelines will depend on individual proposals. However, they expect research projects to launch in early 2023 and to close before the end of Spring 2025.

Geographical Focus

All projects must benefit people and communities in/from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Eligibility Criteria

• Researchers must either hold a PhD or be currently pursuing a PhD in a relevant social science discipline. The research team must include members with demonstrated experience in field research and randomized evaluations and members with a deep understanding of human trafficking in the target region/country, including the social determinants that allow human trafficking to thrive.
• IPA encourages proposals from diverse research teams. They welcome applications from researchers from multiple disciplines and historically underrepresented groups, and they strongly encourage research teams to include researchers from the countries where the project will take place, with clearly defined contributions from all members of the research team. Researchers with lived experience of human trafficking are strongly encouraged to apply.
• HTRI also encourages the contribution and input into research projects of people with lived experience of human trafficking, from the design stage through implementation and dissemination of results, at all levels of project leadership.

For more information, visit https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/application-guidelines-human-trafficking-research-initiative-rfp-summer-2022

Deadline: 29-Jul-22

The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is pleased to announce the ninth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2022 (FIFAfrica22).

The Forum is set to take place in Lusaka, Zambia on September 26-29, 2022, offers a platform for deliberation on gaps and opportunities for advancing privacy, free expression, inclusion, free flow of information, civic participation, and innovation online. As part of the registration, they invite session proposals including panel discussions, lightning talks, exhibitions, and skills workshops to shape the agenda for FIFAfrica22.

CIPESA recognises that internet freedom is multi-faceted, and just like it is essential to have a multiplicity of stakeholders working jointly, it also requires diversity in the voices, backgrounds, viewpoints, and thematic work areas of those that attend FIFAfrica.

Over the course of four days, the FIFAfrica22 agenda will feature panels, workshops, exhibitions, and presentations. All interactions will maintain and observe national COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Add

Criteria

• The Forum is a landmark event that convenes various stakeholders from the internet governance and online rights arenas in Africa and beyond to deliberate on gaps, concerns and opportunities for advancing privacy, access to information, free expression, non-discrimination and the free flow of information online on the continent.
• In line with this, there is limited funding to support travel for participation at FIFAfrica22. Preference will be given to applicants who can partially support their attendance.

For more information, visit https://cipesa.org/2022/06/fifafrica22-call-for-proposals-registration-now-open/

Deadline: 14-Aug-22

Under the banner of Generation Restoration, the Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) and the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) are launching the third edition of the Restoration Stewards program to support and highlight the work of young restoration practitioners and their teams, who represent the next group of ‘Restoration Stewards’.

The year-long program provides funding, mentorship, and training to deepen the impact of youth-led restoration projects.

During the program, the Restoration Stewards and their teams are supported to further develop their project and become ambassadors at both global and local levels. Globally, the Restoration Stewards share their journey in a series of vlogs and blogs documenting their stories of inspiration and challenges. Locally, they commit to spark a restoration movement, creating pathways to connect, share, learn, and act for more sustainable landscapes.

The Restoration Stewards program supports young restoration professionals and their teams to further develop their restoration projects and raise awareness among their local communities about the importance of ecosystem restoration and healthy landscapes.

Funding Information

They receive a grant of EUR 5,000 to develop their restoration project.

What’s in it for the Stewards?

• The Restoration Stewards receive support from experts to take the project to the next level, as well as opportunities for professional development.
• In collaboration with the GLF and its partner organizations, set up project-specific targets to be reached by the end of the contract
• Seek and carry out training activities to improve understanding of the landscape approach, and about the relevant ecosystem
• Run a minimum of two events to engage their local community
• Coordinate with the GLF team for active social media engagement
• Create stories on the progress made in the project.
• Meet with the GLF team and the assigned mentor on a regular basis to discuss the project’s progress

Eligibility Criteria

• They will consider applications from anyone between the age of 18 and 35 years old who has initiated a restoration project in any of the following ecosystems: forest, mountains, oceans, peatlands/wetlands, drylands/rangelands. Applicants must understand and be willing to adhere to and model the GLF vision, pillars and values.
• They will give priority to projects that are:
  • Run by a person or a group of young people who are either local, Indigenous or nationals of the country in which the restoration project operates;
  • Already in the early development stage and have been running for a minimum of one year.
  • Note that you do not necessarily have to create a new project from scratch to be eligible; you can also build on any activities you are already running.

For more information, visit https://stewards.globallandscapesforum.org/about/

Deadline: 5-Aug-22 The Innovations for Poverty Action’s (IPA) Human Trafficking Research Initiative (HTRI) has launched its second Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for full randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and other rigorous impact evaluations to assess the impact of counter-trafficking programs. HTRI welcomes proposals to assess counter-trafficking interventions that fall into any or all of the “4P’s” (prevention, protection, prosecution, and partnership). Funding priorities are … [Read more…] about IPA: Human Trafficking Research Initiative

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Deadline: 29-Jul-22 The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) is pleased to announce the ninth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2022 (FIFAfrica22). The Forum is set to take place in Lusaka, Zambia on September 26-29, 2022, offers a platform for deliberation on gaps and opportunities for advancing privacy, free expression, inclusion, free flow of information, civic participation, and innovation online. As part of the registration, … [Read more…] about Forum on Internet Freedom 2022 in Africa

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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 Nominations are now open for the 2023 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders to honor individuals and organizations who have shown exceptional commitment to defending human rights, despite the risks involved. The Martin Ennals Award (MEA) is an international Award given to human rights defenders in urgent need of protection. Many defenders who are nominated for the Award face serious risks – for example, they are in jail or at risk of detention; they have been … [Read more…] about 2023 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders

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Deadline: 12-Aug-22 With financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the #Youth4Disarmament initiative invites young people, aged 13-29, to share what disarmament means to them and their communities by creating their own music. The Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge has been inspired by the uniting and healing power of music that can support efforts for Securing their Common Future. Pillars The original scores should also reflect one of the four … [Read more…] about #Youth4Disarmament launches Pitching Peace Youth Music Challenge

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Deadline: 7-Sep-22 The Smart City Expo World Congress is currently seeking nominations for the World Smart City Awards (WSCA) 2022 to recognize and support innovative city strategies, projects and ideas that can potentially make an impact on citizens’ lives and turn the cities into more sustainable and inclusive places to live in. The aim of the Call for Awards is to recognize, promote and support innovative solutions or strategies that can potentially change citizen’s lives by increasing … [Read more…] about Submit Nominations for World Smart City Awards 2022

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Deadline: 27-Jun-22 Sanofi is pleased to partner with One Young World to offer the Future Women in Tech Scholarship. This global program will enable five women leaders to participate in the One Young World Summit 2022 as part of Sanofi’s global delegation; have a fast-tracked opportunity to join Sanofi’s early careers program and receive 1:1 mentoring to support their first career steps in Sanofi. What does the scholarship provide? Delegate access to the One Young World Summit 2022 … [Read more…] about Sanofi: Future Women in Tech Scholarship 2022

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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 The Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, are proud to announce the 2022 edition of the Transformational Business Awards. The FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards are a leading global initiative that highlights and promotes ground-breaking, long-term private sector solutions to major development challenges. This year’s program marks 17 years of collaboration between the Financial Times and the … [Read more…] about Apply Now for FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards

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Deadline: 8-Jul-22 The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon is inviting applications for its Africa Regional Democracy Fund Program (ARDF) for Democracy, Human Rights and Governance to strengthen democratic institutions, improve governance, and promote respect for human rights in Cameroon. The ARDF provides assistance to Cameroonian organizations that seek to implement short-term, highly targeted activities designed to show measurable results. Program Objectives Promote Accountable, … [Read more…] about The Africa Regional Democracy Fund Program (Cameroon)

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Deadline: 15-Jul-22 The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is pleased to launch the Tuition-free Product Immersion program for journalists and staff inside small to midsize news organizations who have little to no experience with product development and management but have an interest in adopting a product approach. Product Immersion for Small Newsrooms, an online, tuition-free training program for journalists by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, welcomes … [Read more…] about Tuition-free Product Immersion Program

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Deadline: 8-Aug-22 The Wellcome Trust is accepting nominations for the Biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health. This award will fund research teams to significantly advance understanding of the biological vulnerability to extreme heat in the context of maternal and child health. By the end of the award, successful applicants will have delivered new knowledge at this intersection and generated evidence with the potential to inform new interventions that can be … [Read more…] about Wellcome Open Call: Biological Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Maternal and Child Health

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Deadline: 31-Jul-22 The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has announced the Science and Innovation Forum for harnessing science, technology and innovation to transform their agrifood systems. Harnessing science, technology and innovation (STI) is key for leveraging emerging opportunities for reaching a world free from poverty, hunger and malnutrition. FAO is integrating STI to provide solutions that address the three dimensions of sustainability. To bring FAO’s … [Read more…] about FAO Science and Innovation Forum 2022

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Deadline: 17-Jul-22 Are you a young changemaker between 15-35 years old? Do you have photography skills? Do you want to showcase your photography skills with the world? USAID’s Youth Excel program is launching a 6-week global photo competition to encourage young people from Africa, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa to share images reflecting five main themes. Participation in the Youth Excel’s photo contest authorizes IREX, USAID … [Read more…] about Open Call for Youth Excel Photo Contest 2022

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Deadline: 10-Jul-22 The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) is inviting researchers/research groups from the group of SoilBON collaborators, for projects and processes related to digital data mobilization of already collected soil biodiversity data. This initiative aims to substantially increase the amount of species distribution data openly available at GBIF and, with that, improve the capacity of soil ecologists around the world to address key ecological questions. These funds … [Read more…] about SoilBON Archive Data Mobilization Grant

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Deadline: 1-Aug-22 The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has launched an open call to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) for the Nature, People and Climate (NPC) Investment Program. CIF’s Nature, People and Climate Investment Program will tackle in an integrated manner, the multiple drivers and impacts of climate change resulting from human activities on land resources and ecosystems services. By working with multilateral development banks as implementing agencies, fostering strategic … [Read more…] about CIF’s Nature, People and Climate Investment Program

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Deadline: 8-Sep-22 The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program is now open for applications. The Radcliffe Fellowship Program awards 50 fellowships each academic year. Applicants may apply as individuals or in a group of two to three people working on the same project. They seek diversity along many dimensions, including discipline, career stage, race and ethnicity, country of origin, gender and sexual orientation, and ideological perspective. Although their fellows come from many … [Read more…] about Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program

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Deadline: 4-Jul-22 The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, is pleased to announce the 2022 CCMP Reporting Fellowship Program for journalists interested in covering the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27). Hosted this year by the government of Egypt, the conference is scheduled to take place in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh from 7-18 November 2022. The 2022 … [Read more…] about Climate Change Media Partnership 2022 Reporting Fellowships to COP27

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Deadline: 19 July 2022 Are you an organisation led by young women, LBTQI and non-binary people, women living with disabilities, or other minoritised group? Are you a feminist or women’s rights organisation in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine or Yemen, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel Region, French speaking Africa? Is your organisation working on body and health rights, economic security and justice, leadership, participation and peace, or on climate justice issues? If so, the African Women’s … [Read more…] about AWDF Call for Applications: Leading from the South

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Deadline: 22-Jul-22 WYSE International is seeking applications for the Global Change Makers: Leadership Coaching for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an exciting and unique opportunity to enhance your leadership skills in service of your community. Successful applicants will participate in a free, bespoke, year-long coaching programme with a world-class leadership professional. Your leadership coach will support you as you lead a project which positively benefits your … [Read more…] about Global Change Makers: Leadership Coaching for the SDGs

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Deadline: 30-Jun-22 The Global Health Advocacy Incubator has announced the applications for the Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund. The Advocacy Fund provides critical support to help advance promising legislative or regulatory efforts on healthy food policy. These policy priority areas include: taxes on sugary beverages and/or ultra-processed food, front-of-package nutrition labeling, restrictions on marketing of unhealthy food and beverages, and healthy public sector food environments, … [Read more…] about Healthy Food Policy Advocacy Fund

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Deadline: 16-Oct-22 The Danone Institute International (DII) is seeking nominations for its 3rd Edition of the Danone International Prize for Alimentation (DIPA) for mid-career emerging leaders in the field, and rewards pioneering research that spans multiple disciplines and represents a major advance in Alimentation. The DIPA is awarded jointly by the Danone Institute International (DII) and the French research organization, the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM). The DIPA is … [Read more…] about Danone International Prize for Alimentation

Deadline: 29-Jul-22

AGRF and Heifer International have launched the Pitch AgriHack 2022, a digital agriculture competition focused on accelerating entrepreneurial growth and job creation in the agriculture sector by leveraging advanced technologies and youth participation in Africa’s food security agenda.

This seventh edition of Pitch AgriHack invites African businesses to pitch their approach to driving technological innovation in the agriculture sector. Generation Africa, a thematic platform of the AGRF will host the competition, which is sponsored by global development organization Heifer International.

The competition provides cash prizes to innovators driving increased use of technology and job creation across the agricultural sector in Africa.

Benefits

• The open competition portion of Pitch AgriHack 2022 will support companies that are driving innovation in agriculture across three categories with prizes totaling US$45,000:
  • Early-stage,
  • Mature/Growth-stage,
  • Women-led
• A fourth invite-only category, known as the AYuTe Africa Challenge, sponsored by Heifer International, will award up to US$1.5 million in grants to scalable ventures that are already generating measurable impact for Africa’s smallholder farmers.
• Six winners will be selected from the open-application categories and two winners from the invite-only AYuTe Africa Challenge category. The winners will be announced at the AGRF Summit which takes place September 5-9 in Nairobi.
• Top contestants will receive a one-day boot camp in preparation for their final pitches, with winners receiving continued support as they develop and grow their enterprises.

Eligibility Criteria

• Candidates are early-stage, growth-stage, or women-led AgTech companies with innovative solutions impacting smallholder farmers at scale.
• Applicants should have:
  • A clear and defined description on how their solution is impacting small holder farmers
  • Strong organizational and operational structure
• The applicant applying must:
  • be aged 18-40 on the day of submission to the 2022 Pitch AgriHack Competition
  • hold nationality (with official ID) from any of the 54 nations of the African Union
  • be the founder/co-founder of the enterprise represented in the competition and play an active role in its operations and leadership
  • have no criminal record related to corruption, tax evasion, financial impropriety, felony or other offences
  • Not be a previous Pitch AgriHack finalist or winner
  • must submit the application form in English
  • must agree with the Terms & Conditions
• Early Stage Category – The Venture must have:
  • The ability to scale and impact a large number of smallholder farmers
  • An identifiable technological innovation that addresses the following problems for smallholder farmers:
  • Smallholder farmer productivity
  • Smallholder farmer income
  • Labour intensiveness of operations
  • Resilience
  • Access to information for smallholder farmers
  • Strong competitive advantage
• Growth Stage Category – The Venture must have:
  • The ability to scale and impact a large number of smallholder farmers
  • Recorded evidence of demonstrated impact on smallholder farmers’ revenue
  • An identifiable technological innovation that addresses the following problems for smallholder farmers:
  • Smallholder farmer productivity
  • Smallholder farmer income
  • Labour intensiveness of operations
  • Resilience
  • Access to information for smallholder farmers
  • Strong competitive advantage

For more information, visit https://vc4a.com/heifer-international/pitch-agrihack-2022

Deadline: 4-Nov-22

If you’re aged between 5 and 19, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations wants to hear from you! Use your imagination and create a poster showing a world where no one is left behind, and everyone has access to healthy and affordable food.

Everything in our world is connected – from our food to our cultures, environment and economies. Today, many people continue to face global challenges like poverty and hunger, climate change, conflict and inequality. Global challenges need global solutions! They can all learn how to be part of these global solutions, for a sustainable future where every person counts.

Prize Details

• 15 posters in each category (60 posters) will be selected for the shortlist by the screening committee and notified in December 2022.  Shortlisted candidates will receive a certificate for this achievement.
• Three winning poster designs will be selected as finalists by a jury in each category.
• The top three poster designs in all categories will be announced on the World Food Day website.
• Winners will be promoted on FAO social media and by FAO offices around the world.
• Winners will also receive a Certificate of Recognition and a surprise gift bag.
• In the event that any of the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible in accordance with these Contest rules and/or the General Rules, Copyright and Privacy, cannot be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and it will be in the sole discretion of FAO to choose whether to award the prize to another eligible entry.
• When winning posters are published, only the first initial, full family name and country of origin will be published. No other personal information about the Contestants will be published or shared.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Contest is open to children and youth between the ages of 5 and 19, living anywhere in the world.
• The age to declare in the entry form is the one at the time of entering the Contest. Minors must have the permission of their parents or legal guardians to participate in the Contest.

Criteria

• Participation is free of charge.
• The competition is divided into the following categories: 5 to 8, 9 to 12, 13 to 15, and 16 to 19.
• Only one entry should be submitted per person. Multiple entries from one person will result in disqualification.
• Poster entries may be drawn, painted or sketched using pens, pencils, crayons or charcoal, or using oil, acrylic or watercolour paint, as well as mixed media. Digitally created artwork is also permitted. No photographs are allowed.
• Poster entries may or may not include text. If text is used, no more than 25 words or 100 characters can be accepted. Do not include personal information, such as names, school names or age, etc.
• All artwork must be original and should not include logos or photographic images of the Contestant or other personal information.
• All participants are encouraged to read about the World Food Day theme in the World Food Day Activity Book. Younger children may want to learn together with a parent or teacher.
• Posters can only be submitted using the entry form provided. All fields in the Contest entry form must be completed and after uploading the poster design, the ENTER button must be clicked. Younger children may need help from an adult in making their online submission.
• Only digital files saved as a JPEG will be accepted and submissions must be made through the online form provided – please do not send in physical posters.

For more information, visit https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/contest/en/

Deadline: 1-Jul-22

Applications are now open for the Getty Images Creative Grant to provide financial support and mentorship to artists who are committed to authentically representing members within the disability community.

With Getty Images’ mission to move the world, they are partnering with Verizon and the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) to promote diversity within creative commercial photography and videography, elevating the work and voices of people within disability communities.

The theme for this year’s Grant, Disability Communities, will emphasize the “community” aspect of disability communities themselves. Often in advertising and media, members of the disability community are shown solo, or only with able‑bodied people around them, yet infrequently with other members of the community. This Grant aims to portray a diverse range of people, groups and experiences within the disability community in a variety of settings, with the overarching goal of helping brands, agencies and content creators more authentically represent those within the community.

This Grant comes on the heels of The Disability Collection, a joint effort launched in 2018 by Getty Images and Verizon, in conjunction with the National Disability Leadership Alliance (NDLA) to more authentically represent people with disabilities in the media. The collection has grown to include over 4,000 curated images and videos devoted to portraying individuals with disabilities more accurately.

Prizes and Benefits

• One first place recipient: $15,000; one second place recipient: $10,000; three third place recipients: US$5,000
• The successful recipients will be invited to license their award‑winning content through GettyImages.com and iStock.com at a 100% royalty rate for imagery created within their proposed project.  This is subject to you entering into a separate agreement with Getty Images allowing for the distribution of your content.
• Guidance and mentorship from one of Getty Images’ award‑winning Art Directors, as well as a feature on the Getty Images Creative Insights website, in addition to promotion on relevant Getty Images and iStock social channels. Please note, this additional support is not a requirement of the Disability Communities Creative Bursary and choosing to take advantage of this opportunity is at your discretion.

Requirements

• Links to existing portfolio of work online
• The submission must include: a 200‑500 word summary of the project proposal and an explanation as to how the project is breaking traditional stereotypes of the disability community/showing a true sense of community through commercial photography and videography
• A short biography detailing who you are and what you’ve done
• All the required fields indicated on the application
• The applications must be in English
• All submissions must be digital. Prints, books, slides or transparencies or other such materials will not be reviewed by judges nor returned to applicant.

For more information, visit https://grants.gettyimages.com/en/grants/disability-communities-creative-grant-2022