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Global Citizen 2022 Cisco Youth Leadership Award

International advocacy organisation, Global Citizen, and their global technology partner Cisco, have announced that applications are now open for the fourth annual Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award – an award that spotlights a young change-maker between the ages of 18 and 30 who has taken an innovative approach to solving problems, and who has made a meaningful difference towards the goal of ending poverty in their community. The application period will run from 17th December – until 11.59pm ET on 30th January 2022.

Established in 2018, the Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award is an annual award that celebrates the significance that young people are having on achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and accelerating global problem solving. The award honours an individual aged between 18 to 30 who has contributed meaningfully towards the goal of ending extreme poverty through their leadership, dedication, and innovation, and includes a $250,000 prize paid to the organisation to which the individual contributes.

Candidates will be judged against five equally-weighted criteria, which includes impact, vision, catalyst, global citizenship, and technology innovation. If selected as a finalist, candidates will be judged by a panel of representatives from Global Citizen, Cisco, and esteemed activists and leaders in the international development field.

Whether they are helping school children receive healthy meals in Kenya, ensuring children in India get the health care access they need, or providing communities across Rwanda and neighbouring regions with clean water, previous award winners have proven that innovation and dedication can lead to dramatic change for a better future.

As the past few years have highlighted, young people are the influential, resilient, determined spirits that the world needs right now to defeat poverty, demand equity, and defend the planet. Whether it has been young activists calling for climate policy change, or defending their local communities against destructive inequalities, young change-makers have opened the world’s eyes to what matters most and have helped highlight what needs to be done to end extreme poverty.

In 2020, Rwanda’s Christelle Kwizera received the Cisco Youth Leadership Award for her innovation and leadership in founding Water Access Rwanda, a social enterprise that works to eliminate water scarcity and provide communities in Africa with safe and easily accessible water. By reinventing how low-income communities can access water, her organization helps provide the natural resource to over 70,000 people across Rwanda and in surrounding regions daily.

In 2019, then 28-year-old health entrepreneur Priya Prakash, was awarded the prize in recognition of her work launching HealthSetGo, an organization that works to improve access to health information, which has impacted the lives of 200,000 children in schools in India. HealthSetGo empowers doctors, parents, schools, and governments to make data-driven decisions about children’s health care, improving early detection and treatment rates.

About Global Citizen

Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030. On our platform, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on those issues, and earn rewards for their actions — as part of a global community committed to lasting change.

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Cisco Youth Leadership Award

Application Deadline30 Jan 2022
TypeEntrepreneurs
SponsorGlobal Citizen
GenderMen and Women

Aim and Benefits of Cisco Youth Leadership Award

The award includes a US$250,000 prize paid to the organization to which the individual contributes.


Requirements for Cisco Youth Leadership Award Qualification

The Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award honors an individual aged 18-30 who has contributed meaningfully towards the goal of ending extreme poverty. 

We accept applications from all over the world, with the exception of countries and entities subject to financial or other sanctions by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) or other government entity of the United States of America that may restrict the transfer of the Prize money.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Cisco Youth Leadership Award

  • Impact
  • Vision
  • Catalyst
  • Global Citizenship
  • Technology Innovation

Application Deadline

January 30, 2022


How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Global Citizen on my.reviewr.com to apply

For more details, visit Global Citizen website.

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