The 2015 SEED Awards have been launched – apply now for one of up to 31 Awards!

Enterprises from Africa that incorporate social and environmental benefits in their business model can now apply for the 2015 SEED Awards cycle. For the eighth consecutive year, adelphi has been commissioned to manage the prestigious SEED Awards. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2015.

As in previous years, the 2015 SEED Awards will focus on eco-enterprises working at the grassroots level on the African continent. Social and environmental companies from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda are called to apply for a total of up to 23 SEED Africa Awards. Furthering last year's expansion of the SEED pilot country program in South Africa, this year SEED will make available up to six SEED South Africa Awards, with up to three of them to enterprises in the provinces of Free State, Limpopo or KwaZulu-Natal.

The Awards also encourage enterprises that are led or owned by women and/or specifically promote gender equality and women empowerment to submit their applications. To this end, SEED will make available two SEED Gender Equality Awards to enterprises in countries that are not OECD or EU Member countries; one of them to an enterprise in Kenya.

Prizewinners receive individual capacity building support

The independent SEED International Jury of experts will be looking in particular for enterprises that have developed innovative products or services, and intend to become financially sustainable. The SEED Awards include a prize money of USD 5000 each and will be presented at a high-level International Awards Ceremony.

Furthermore, the SEED support will provide all winners with individual capacity building support during the important start-up and growth phase, opportunities to link to other eco-enterprises and far-reaching national and international profiling of their enterprises.

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Applications for the Awards are accepted until 31 March 2014, 23:59 Central European Time (CET). Please find all further information under www.seed.uno

For the 2015 SEED Awards cycle, SEED has received support from the European Union; the Government of Flanders; the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women); and the international law firm Hogan Lovells. Additional support is provided by the government of the Netherlands and other SEED partners.

adelphi is hosting partner of SEED, a global partnership for action on sustainable development and the green economy that was founded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

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