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The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship
in Sustainable Development is an annual international
competition, designed to support locally-led,
innovative, entrepreneurial partnerships
in developing countries, which have the potential to
make real improvements in poverty eradication and
environmental sustainability.
The SEED Initiative assists young and promising
initiatives in strengthening and scaling up the impact
of their activities. This is not a cash award. Instead,
a comprehensive package of tailor-made support services,
with a value of US$25,000, will be provided to Winners.
The support services
respond to the challenges that emerging partnerships
face when planning and implementing new ideas, including
access to relevant expertise and technical assistance,
meeting new partners and building networks, and developing
business plans and identifying sources of finance.
The SEED Award recognizes and rewards two levels of
winners:
Fifteen finalists who will be publicized
and receive limited support through capacity development
activities. Finalists will be chosen from developing
countries in each of the 4 UN regional groups: Latin
America and the Caribbean, Africa, Eastern Europe and
Asia. There will be 3 finalists from each region except
Asia, from which six finalists will be selected.
Five Award Winners, selected from the
pool of fifteen finalists, who will receive the full
'SEED Award' of support services, which will be delivered
over a period of 12 months. The nature of the support
services will depend on the needs that the Winners identify
and will be developed jointly with them.
In addition to receiving support services, Winners in
2007 were celebrated at Awards ceremonies in their home
countries and invited to SEED's International Partnerships
Forum and Workshop in South Africa. SEED intends
to do the same, and more, in 2008.
The 2008 Awards are being delivered through Adelphi
Consult, based in Berlin, Germany.
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