The ONE Africa Award celebrates African efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s blueprint for a better future. SDG targets range from halving extreme poverty, to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education.
The 2019 ONE Africa Award will recognize Africa-driven and Africa-led advocacy efforts that have demonstrated success at the community, national or regional level. The award recognizes, rewards and advances the exceptional work of organisations founded by Africans and based in Africa, dedicated to advancing development goals in Africa.
Programme Details
- Event: The ONE Africa Award.
- Number of Awards: Not specified.
- Target group: The programme is open for all organisation based in Africa.
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ONE Africa Award Benefits
The Award recognizes the exceptional work of organisations that are founded by Africans, based in Africa and working to help Africa achieve the SDGs. The US$ 100,000 award recognizes innovative African efforts to fight poverty and incentives more of such efforts.
ONE Africa Award Eligibility
To apply for the Award, Applicants must be Civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and other groups based in Africa that have demonstrated commitment and success in advocacy to promote the attainment of one or more of the SDGs.
Selection Criteria
Organisations will be graded in five categories and will be awarded between 1-10 points in each of these categories:
- Extent to which the organisation has designed and implemented an innovative advocacy program that employs entrepreneurial and sustainable approaches to impact in a given sector(s).
- Ability to demonstrate and communicate specific indicators of progress and impact linking work to a given sector(s) in a clear results-oriented framework.
- Demonstration of the ability to replicate efforts of the organisation to scale interventions.
- Demonstration of strong internal and constituency accountability mechanisms (for example, community leadership consultations and involvement in programs to demonstrate that interventions are relevant to the majority of the poor in the target community and empowers them in a sustainable way) along with transparency of operations.
- Extent to which the organisation has employed creative partnerships to achieve its goal(s) and ensure coordination with other development actors. These partnerships may include public and/or private sector players.
Application instructions
Interested applicants who would like to apply for the Award must complete each section of the application (PDF, DOC), attach the required supplemental documents and send it by one of the following methode:
- By email to [email protected] or
- By post to ONE Stonewedge Office Park Block D
1 Wedgelink Road
Bryanston 2031
Johannesburg, South Africa.
The application deadline is January 31st, 2020. For more detail on the ONE Africa Award for Sustainable Development Goals, please visit the official page. To be the first to see latest opportunities, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram.