Deadline: 15 January, 2022
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced a call for nominations for its 2022 NGO Innovation Awards.
The UNHCR’s NGO Innovation Award celebrates the efforts and accomplishments of NGOs who developed innovative approaches for protection and delivery of services to refugees and other persons of concern to UNHCR.
UNHCR, via this Award, seeks to identify and recognise the new and creative approaches that can result in better protection and delivery of service to concerned communities.
It is understood that the 2022 award will focus on women-led organisations and girl-led organisations (WLOs) working with or supporting refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless persons and host communities.
Benefits
- Seven winning organisations, one each in UNHCR’s regions, will receive U.S.$15,000 each to help support their innovation work that strives to uphold and improve challenges around gender equity and accountability
Eligibility
- Open to women-led or girl-led organisations
- Entrants must be working in forced displacement context
- Entrants must be working at the local and grassroots level
- Entrants must have developed innovative approaches in their work
To nominate and for more information, click here.
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