Deadline- 12 June 2013
SEED Initiative has announced 2013 Awards which seeks innovative projects on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The project is supported by UN Women, 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. This program mission is to 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.
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Innovative and entrepreneurs from emerging economies, developing and least developed countries can send their applications to win a tailor-made support package to help expand their business
- 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.
- 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.
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