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UNESCO 2023 Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education

The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions, and organizations to advance girls’ and women’s education. It is the first UNESCO Prize of this nature and is unique in showcasing successful projects that improve and promote the educational prospects of girls and women and in turn, the quality of their lives.

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UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO's programmes contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined in Agenda 2030, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015. Political and economic arrangements of governments are not enough to secure the lasting and sincere support of the peoples. Peace must be founded upon dialogue and mutual understanding. Peace must be built upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of humanity. I... continue reading

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UNESCO Prize

Application Deadline19 May 2023
TypeContest
SponsorUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
GenderWomen

Aim and Benefits of UNESCO Prize

Funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Prize is conferred annually to two laureates and consists of an award of US $50,000 each to help further their work in the area of girls’ and women’s education. 


Requirements for UNESCO Prize Qualification

The two Prize laureates will be selected by UNESCO’s Director-General on the basis of recommendations made by the Prize’s independent International Jury which is made up of five experts in the field of girls’ and women’s education, representing all geographical regions.

The nominations will only be considered if the project/programme:

  • Has a clear focus on advancing girls’ and women’s education, the promotion of gender equality in and through education, and contributes to one or more of the five priority areas of the Prize:
    • Participation: Supporting girls to transition from primary education to lower-secondary education and to complete full basic education
    • Literacy: Supporting adolescent girls and young women to acquire literacy skills
    • Environment: Supporting the creation of a gender-responsive and safe teaching-learning environment
    • Teachers: Engaging teachers to be change agents with gender-responsive teaching attitudes and practices5.Skills: Supporting girls and women to acquire knowledge/skills for life and work
  • Has already been running for at least two years at the time of nomination (for example a project nominated in 2023 must have been active since May 2021);
  • Shows evidence that it may be replicable, scalableand/or provide significant learning potential for initiatives in other contextsOnce it has passed the basic eligibility requirements, the project/ programme of the candidate will be assessed by the Jury based on the following three criteria: 

Application Deadline

May 19, 2023


How to Apply

  1. Nominations can be submitted via the dedicated online platform in English or French by a National Commission or Permanent Delegation to UNESCO of the concerned Member State, or by an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO.
    Nominations submitted by a Member State’s National Commission must be validated by the Permanent Delegation.
    nominations from an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO must be validated by the organization’s headquarters. Nominations from country branches or affiliated offices will not be accepted.
     
  2. National Commissions and Permanent Delegations to UNESCO may access the online submissions platform through their official UNESCO account using the following link: http://unesco.org/gwe.
    NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO will be granted direct access to the online platform by the Secretariat upon request. To request access, please contact [email protected].
     
  3. Member States and NGOs in official partnership may request that candidates complete the online nomination form directly.
    Access to the platform will be granted to candidates by the Prize Secretariat upon request from the nominating entity (National Commission, Permanent Delegation or NGO in official Partnership with UNESCO). Requests should be sent to [email protected] by 15 May 2023. Once the online form is completed by the candidate, the nominating entity will be required to review and validate the submission.
     
  4. Nominations must be submitted via the online platform by midnight of 19 May 2023 (UTC+1, Paris time). Kindly note that a nominating entity (Member State or NGO in official partnership with UNESCO) may not submit more than three nominations.

For any question regarding the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education or the submission process, please contact the Secretariat of the Prize at the Section of Education for Inclusion and Gender Equality at [email protected].

For more details, visit UNESCO website.

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