<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Zayed Sustainability Prize is calling on all innovators in Ghana with solutions addressing some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, to submit an entry for its 2021 edition. </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Organisations, online
submissions and high schools invited to submit pioneering sustainability entries
before 21 May 2020 deadline</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Offering an annual
winners’ reward fund of US$3 million, the UAE’s pioneering global award for
rewarding impact, innovation, and inspiration across five sustainability
categories saw a record-breaking number of submissions last year with 2,373
entries received from 129 countries.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Prize has been
gathering momentum across Africa since its inception – last year boasting a
greater number of applicants than any other region worldwide, with Nigeria
performing in the top five of all countries globally.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"> ;At the annual awards show earlier this year,
African innovators continued to prove that life-changing innovations are
increasingly borne out of the continent. ; Okuafo Foundation,
a ;Ghana-based start-up won the Prize in the Food Category. Recognized for
its smartphone application that uses A.I., machine learning (ML) and data
analytics to predict and detect crop diseases and infestations, Okuafo’s app
also offers recommended solutions based on scientific knowledge, in real-time.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Now entering its
13th ;submissions cycle, the Prize has already awarded a total of 86
winners whose solutions or school projects have directly and indirectly,
positively transformed the lives of 335 million people, around the world.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Commenting, H.E. Dr.
Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Director General of the Zayed
Sustainability Prize said: “With a 12-year record of recognizing and rewarding
excellent solutions, we are confident that the Prize will continue to attract
more of the most dedicated innovators to submit their entries, in support of
resolving the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges.”</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He added: “Inspired by
Sheikh Zayed’s legacy of commitment to global sustainability and
humanitarianism, the Prize also aligns with the emphasis our national
leadership has given this year to planning, preparing and finding solutions for
the next 50 years.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Prize’s US$3 million
annual fund awards US$600,000 to the winner of each category. The Global High
Schools category is split into six world region winners, with each school able
to claim up to US$100,000 to start or augment their project in their local
communities. This category was introduced to the Prize in 2012 from the
knowledge that empowering and enhancing communities of the future, necessitates
that the next generation of sustainability leaders need to be engaged at the
school level – today.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">While the scope of
submissions varies, core elements of each entry must lie in the innovative ways
in which technology, applications and solutions are driving positive
transformation of people’s lives. For the Health, Food, Energy, and Water
categories, organisations should demonstrate that they are improving access to
essential products or services and have a long-term vision for improved living
and working conditions. Additionally, many technological-based solutions often
integrate with impactful long-term programmes and mechanisms like practical
skills training, social entrepreneurialism, and gender empowerment.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The Zayed Sustainability
Prize has a three-stage evaluation process, beginning with due diligence
conducted by an independent research and analysis consultancy. This identifies
the qualified entries and results in the selection of shortlisted candidates.
Afterwards, evaluations are undertaken by a Selection Committee consisting of
category-specific panels of independent international experts. From this
shortlist of candidates, the finalists are chosen and then sent to the Prize
Jury who select the final winners, across all five categories.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The evaluation of the
Health, Food, Energy and Water categories focuses on three core criteria:
Impact, Innovation, and Inspiration.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For ‘Impact’, submissions
must demonstrate improved quality of human lives in a social, economic,
technological, infrastructural, or environmental capacity. For ‘Innovation’,
candidates should show a clear and unique value proposition, be disruptive or
transformative, technically and commercially viable, and have been adopted in
at least one market. The ‘Inspiration’ criterion requires organisations to
demonstrate shared values with Sheikh Zayed’s sustainability approach, have the
potential to influence behaviour and actions in the wider community, and
encourage others to develop complementary solutions for the advancement of sustainable
and human development.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">For the Global High
Schools category, their projects should be designed to be student–led with
emphasis placed on the students being actively involved in the planning,
implementation, and monitoring processes. Similar to the other categories,
projects should demonstrate innovative approaches that will also be impactful
and inspirational to others. The six world regions of the Global High Schools
category are: The Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East &; North Africa,
Europe &; Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia &; Pacific.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Winners of the Zayed
Sustainability Prize 2021 will be announced at the annual awards ceremony held
during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, in January 2021.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong><em>For more
information, please
visit ;www.ZayedSustainabilityPrize.com ;or ;visit our social media
platforms on: ;Twitter, ;Facebook, ;Instagram, ;YouTube. ;</em></strong></p>

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