Call for Applications: 2013 SEED Awards seek
innovative projects on gender equality and women’s empowerment
New York, 16 April 2013 –UN Women joins the European Union,
the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety, the government of Flanders, the UN Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO), and the international law firm Hogan Lovells in
supporting theSEED Award,
an initiative that aims to help the most promising start-up entrepreneurs,
women-led enterprises and other social and environmental inspiring businesses
to integrate ideas and proposals to address pressing local issues.
Innovative and entrepreneurs from emerging economies, developing and
least developed countries c
an send their applications to win a tailor-made
support package to help expand their business, as part of the 2013 SEED Awards,
which opens today.
The award includes expert advice on developing their business plans for
the winners, as well as their participation in specially-designed workshops to
enhance their skills, and benefit from high-level profiling of their
enterprises through an international network of businesses, governments and
development institutions.
For the 2013 cycle, SEED will make available up to two SEED Gender
Equality Awards, supported by UN Women. To check country eligibility for the
Gender Equality Awards use the SEEDS country
eligibility check.
To be eligible to apply for the SEED Gender Equality Award, the enterprises
need to:
- Demonstrate entrepreneurship
and innovation.
- Deliver economic, social and
environmental benefits.
- Show the intention and
potential to become financially sustainable.
- Be a partnership between
different stakeholder groups.
- Be locally driven or locally
led.
- Demonstrate that it has the
potential for scale up or significant replication.
- Be in the early stages of
implementation.
- Be from a country with a
developing or emerging economy.
- Be run or owned by a woman
or women and prioritise gender equality and/or women’s empowerment as a
core objective.
Detailed eligibility criteria are available at www.seedinit.org,
along with details of previous Award Winners.
Applications can be filled in online at the SEED Initiative websitewww.seedinit.org or can be downloaded and emailed to seedawards2013[at]seedinit.org.
Applicants may also contact the SEED Initiative by email or phone (+49 30 89 00
068 99) in case they are not able to submit their application electronically.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday,
12 June, 2013, 23:59 Central European Time (CET).
