Call for Applications: 2013 SEED Awards seek
innovative projects on
gender equality and women’s empowerment
Posted on April 16 2013
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
website http://www.seedinit.org or can be downloaded and emailed to
seedawards2013@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).
gender equality and women’s empowerment
Posted on April 16 2013
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
website http://www.seedinit.org or can be downloaded and emailed to
seedawards2013@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).
