Big Green: SEED Awards Call for Applications 2009

[seedawards at adelphi-consult.com]

*Calling entrepreneurs for sustainable development:

SEED Awards 2009 is open for submissions*

Apply now if:

- you are finding new ways of simultaneously improving incomes and 
strengthening livelihoods; tackling poverty and marginalisation; and 
managing     and conserving natural resources and ecosystems; *and*

- you are developing a new concept that brings together people and 
organizations from different backgrounds to work in partnership, and 
partners are pooling their commitment and human, financial, and natural 
resources; *and*

- your project or enterprise is in the early stages of development and 
keen to increase its impacts; *and*

- your project or enterprise is locally-led, with strong community 
engagement, and takes place in a country or countries with a developing 
economy or economy in transition; *and*

- your project or enterprise displays entrepreneurship in its broadest 
sense and shows a proven concept that has market potential; it must 
demonstrate financial sustainability in the long term and should have a 
draft business plan.

*Detailed eligibility criteria* are available at www.seedinit.org. 
Before submitting your application, you will be asked to complete an 
eligibility checklist.

Winners of the *2009 SEED Awards for entrepreneurship in sustainable 
development* receive a tailored package of support services, worth up to 
$40,000, to help their venture to become established and to increase 
their impact. This includes access to relevant expertise and technical 
assistance, meeting new partners and building networks, developing 
business plans and identifying sources of finance.

The deadline for applications is *16 March 2009*. Application forms can 
be filled in online or downloaded from the SEED Initiative website at 
www.seedinit.org.
 
The SEED Initiative was founded by IUCN, UNDP and UNEP to deliver 
concrete progress towards the internationally-agreed, aspirational goals 
in the UN's Millennium Declaration and the commitments made at the World 
Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.


Best regards,

 
Dr Helen Marquard
Executive Director
The SEED Initiative

 
For information about the SEED Awards:
www.seedinit.org
seedawards at seedinit.org
Tel: +49 30 89 00068 99
For any other queries about the SEED Initiative:
helen.marquard at seedinit.org
Tel: +44 1420 488 544
 

SEED Initiative
Supporting entrepreneurs for sustainable development
hosted by:
Division of Communications and Public Information (DCPI)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
P.O. Box 30552
00100 Nairobi
Kenya

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