The United Nations International Year of Shelter introduced The World Habitat Awards in the year 1985 for the homeless as part of its involvement of the Building and Social Housing Foundation.
The annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day presents the award of £10,000 for two winners. The award is given once a year to projects in the global North as well as the South that grant realistic and pioneering solutions to contemporary housing needs and troubles.
Prize:
- The awards of £10,000 for two winning projects.
- Trophies will also be presented to the winning projects, and travel and accommodation costs will be met for one representative of each winning project to attend the awards ceremony.
Criteria:
Projects are sought that demonstrate practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues faced by countries of the global South as well as the North.
Entry Process:
The World Habitat Awards (WHA) competition has a two-stage entry process:
(I) Submissions need only comprise a summary of the key aspects of the project. From these preliminary submissions, ten projects are selected by an Assessment Committee to go forward to second Stage of the competition.
(II) Submissions are evaluated by an independent advisory group before being put to a panel of international judges, which include the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo. Evaluation visits are carried out to some of the projects prior to the final judging.
Deadline 1st November 2011.
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