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Development Gateway seeks Entries for the Photo Contest depicting Empowerment and People Finding Solutions

Development Gateway is inviting photographers around the world to submit photo entries along with stories of people in developing countries working to build a better world.

Development Gateway is a non-profit organization providing information solutions to the people on the front lines of international development work. The people using their solutions and tools include government policy makers deciding how to invest scarce resources, aid workers building schools and clinics, and citizens who want to have a voice in the development process empowering them to be more effective.

Categories of Entries

Development Gateway is looking for images of empowerment and people finding solutions. The photographs should be related to one of the following:

Images related to the thematic areas of Development Gateway’s work: Governance; Knowledge and networking; and Transparency and accountability
People using information and communications technologies
People making something, selling wares, working in a field, constructing a building or type of infrastructure, teaching, learning, or interacting with each other
Abstract images representing hope, the future, or capacity building

Eligibility and Conditions

This photo competition is open to all photographers above the age of 13 years of age, except employees of Development Gateway and their immediate families.

Each entry must include a brief written statement (100 words maximum) explaining how that image is representative of development. Images will be judged on technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit.

Last date for submission of entries is November 18, 2011

For more information, visit this link.

Entries now open for the 3rd edition of International Documentary Festival on Gender Equality to be held in Spain

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mujerDOC is inviting documentary entries for the 3rd International Documentary Festival on Gender Equality that contribute to the promotion of equal possibilities for women and men.

The festival, instituted up by the NGO Mujeres del Mundo (Women of the World) and SEIS DRAGONES, will be held in March 2012 in Soria, Spain.

The Festival’s first and second editions brought up various topics which will also be addressed, along with new proposals, in this third edition:

the promotion of culture diversity among the people; the phenomenon of migration and labor rights of migrant women; femicide and women and girls’ trafficking for sexual exploitation; the oppression exercised by some religions against the freedom to choose one’s sexual identity and live freely with it; creative women in the prison system

Awards

Award for Women: 2,000 Euros (works eligible will be the ones in which the director is a woman).
Award for Medium-length film / Full-length film: 2,000 euros (length must exceed 60 minutes)
Award for Short film: 1,000 euros (length must be below 60 minutes)

Last date for submission of entries is September30, 2011

For more information and details, you can visit this link.

Buckminster Fuller Challenge $100,000 award from innovative initiatives having potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems

Entries are now open for the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award 2011 worth $100,000 in prize money aimed at supporting the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.

Buckminster Fuller Challenge: Program Goals

The Program’s guiding objective is to catalyze wide-spread change in the understanding and approach to solving complex global problems. To achieve this, the program seeks to:

Create a rigorous, transformational process for entry in which applicants grapple deeply with a unique set of criteria.
Promote and disseminate an integrated, comprehensive, systems-based approach to the design of solutions.
Highlight and reward exemplary strategies which embody this approach.
Accelerate the implementation of these solutions.

Target Group

The program attracts an international, interdisciplinary pool of participants tackling a vast array of pressing problems in hundreds of countries around the world. The core participants don’t look to politicians & bureaucrats for answers. They exemplify the extraordinary spirit of individual initiative and ingenuity and include whole systems pioneers, social entrepreneurs, artist/scientist/designers, next-gen change-agents, sustainability educators, and concerned citizens.

Eligibility

Individuals and/or teams may submit no more than 1 (one) entry for consideration. Entries will be accepted if the individual and/or team members:

Are 18 years of age or older.
Maintain a current and valid form of identification appropriate to country of residence.
Submit entry in English.
Follow the submission process completely and on time.
Are available to be contacted by email or telephone at any point in the evaluation process, and are available (if requested) for a site visit by a member of the evaluation committee.

Entry Criteria

Winning the Buckminster Fuller Challenge will require more than a great stand-alone innovation. If for example, your solution emphasizes a new design, material, process, service, tool, technology, or any combination, it is essential that it be part of an integrated strategy dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues.

Entries must be:

Comprehensive — applies a whole systems approach to all facets of the design and development process; aims to simultaneously address multiple goals, requirements, conditions and issues;
Anticipatory — factoring in critical future trends and needs as well as projected impacts of implementation in the short and long term;
Ecologically responsible — reflecting nature’s underlying principles while enhancing the Earth’s life-support systems;
Feasible — relying on current know-how, technology and existing resources;
Verifiable — able to withstand rigorous empirical testing;
Replicable — able to scale and adapt to a broad range of conditions.

The winning strategy will integrate all these criteria into a powerful catalyst having the potential to play a significant role in the transition to an equitable and sustainable future for all.

Last date for submission of entries is October 24, 2011

For more information and details, you can visit this link.

Gender Across Borders invites entries from all to participate in the series on Stigma and Sexuality particularly focused on Abortion Stigma

Gender Across Borders (GAB), an international feminist community of people from all backgrounds, is a platform for discussions and examining the issues related to gender, race, sexuality, and class, offers all an opportunity to voice and progress positive gender relations worldwide.

In this context, GAB in partnership with Ipas and RH Reality Check, is hosting a series on stigma and sexuality on 20-22 September 2011. The series will explore how individuals face institutional, community, or professional stigma because of their sexual and reproductive decisions.

About Stigma and Sexuality

Stigma is difficult to define, and yet we see at work, or experience ourselves everyday: when a sexually active teen is called a slut; when a woman who’s had an abortion hides it from her friends; when a nurse who provides abortions cannot tell her family. It might be just a sidelong look that induces shame, or a global policy that restricts the reproductive freedom of women. Stigma carries strong statements about culture and morality, definitions of femininity, motherhood and personhood, and even life and death.

Invitation for Entries

The series is looking for a diversity of voices to help shine a new light on stigma in this context. Where in your life or work have you witnessed or experienced stigma around reproductive health and sexuality?

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Personal stories of sexual and reproductive health choices in light of stigma
Policy analyses of the domestic or global legislation of stigma
Accounts of stigma “success stories” or transformations of attitudes
Consideration of how stigma is used to oppress and control women
Examination of ways in which stigma persists within the pro-choice movement

While all related topics will be considered, special consideration will be given to articles on abortion stigma, an issue that has received little global attention from the global research, media, and advocacy communities in the past.

Entry Guidelines

Articles should be 300-1500 words and well-researched, though not necessarily academic. Please consult Gender Across Borders for samples of past series submissions and accepted writing style. Individuals or organizations may submit, and submissions in languages other than English will be considered though please include with it a short summary in English.

No prior experience with blogging or professional writing is necessary.

Last date for submission of entries is September 2, 2011.

For more information and details, you can visit this link.

Entries invited for The 2011 INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS from organizations committed to ethical, sustainable or green behaviours

Green Business Enterprises Ltd invites entries for The 2011 INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS in 23 categories ranging from Best Green International Business Award, Best Green Technology Award through to Best Green Educational and Sustainability Awareness Award and Best Green Conservation and Biodiversity Award. The climax will be a gala dinner on 24 November 2011 at the Natural History Museum, London, where the winners will be announced.

The award categories for the year 2011 include: Best Green Int’l Business (Large), Best Green Int’l Business (Med.), Best Green Entrepreneur, Best Green Government Award, Best Sustainable Investment, Best Green Technology Award, Best Green Energy Efficiency, Best Green 4R’s Award, Best Green Intelligent Buildings, Best Green Product Innovation, Best Green Service Innovation, Best Green Edu. & Awareness, Best Green Employee Engmnt, Best Green Not for Profit Org., Best Green Conservation Award, Best Green Water Stewardship, Best Green Ad. & PR Award, Best Green Audio-Visual Award, Best Green Digital Media Award, and Best Green Collaboration. Moreover, there will be Lifetime Achievement Award and Green Celebrity Award.

Launched in 2006 to critical acclaim, the INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS were set up to recognise strategies that use creativity in an engaging and effective manner, leading to more sustainable outcomes. It is now an established event on the global sustainable business-calendar.

The Awards are part of the Royal Society of Arts Environment Award Accreditation scheme and all submitted entries require evidence of efficacy and transparency. Previous winners have included Nokia, Marks & Spencer, Toyota and the China Environmental Protection Foundation.

All entries for the INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS 2011 must be examples of work, projects or initiatives that have been previously published commercially, launched or produced between September 2010 and August 2011 on behalf of the entrant company. For specific categories such as packaging, commercialisation must have ensued between September 2009 and August 2011. All work entered must have been broadcast or published prior to the entry deadline of September 1st 2011.

All work entered must be an accurate representation of the original, and must not be altered in any such way to affect the judge’s decision. You are responsible for any and all required intellectual property rights clearance of any work submitted. The INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS will not accept any liability for any third party claims regarding infringement of intellectual property rights.

Entries are encouraged from any UK or international company or organisation that has demonstrated their commitment to ethical, sustainable or green behaviours. Individuals and micro enterprises are also invited to enter the Awards.

Given the deliberately populist and egalitarian nature of this new award, the winner will be chosen via a public vote, using social networks and the INTERNATIONAL GREEN AWARDS website.

Last date for submitting the entries is September 1, 2011

For more information and details, please visit the link.