Deadline: 30-Sep-21
Nominations are now open for the ICIMOD Mountain Prize 2021 to enable sustainable and resilient mountain development for improved and equitable livelihoods through knowledge and regional cooperation.
The ICIMOD Mountain Prize is awarded every year to an individual, organization, or private sector entity based in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) or beyond, which has demonstrated outstanding efforts enabling sustainable and resilient mountain development in the HKH region to benefit the environment as well as communities—particularly the poor, the youth, and women.
In 2021, the focus of the award will be exclusively on work related to the COVID pandemic – any activity or approach carried out in pandemic-related response aimed at building the resilience of HKH communities.
Nominations will be accepted for those individuals, organizations, or companies that have worked with HKH communities through innovations in their various capacities and brought about positive tangible change on the ground.
Focus Areas
Fields of achievement of the individual, or organization, or company being nominated for the ICIMOD Mountain Prize can be in any of (but not limited to) the following work areas:
- Access to water for drinking, other productive purposes or sanitation
- Gender and social equity
- Food or nutrition security
- Sustainable production systems
- Climate change adaptation
- Disaster risk reduction
- Access to clean energy
- Information and communication technologies for development
- Promotion of income generating opportunities or investments
- Policy advocacy
- Mountain ecosystems or biodiversity management
- Community or cultural resilience
Prize Details
- The prize is currently set at USD 2,500.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any individual, organization or private sector entity that has done outstanding pandemic-related response work in the HKH is eligible for the prize and can be nominated (hereafter referred to as ‘nominee’). The nominee must have made a demonstrable impact. While they would like to particularly acknowledge the efforts of individuals or entities that have worked in line with ICIMOD’s mandate, this is not a pre-condition for the award.
- Any individual can nominate any organization or a private sector entity or another individual that meets the eligibility criteria including his/her own organization or company, for the prize. They expect the said individual (hereafter referred to as ‘nominator’) to be very familiar with the work of the organization or company or individual he/she is nominating. The nominator should nominate only after receiving the consent of the nominee (head of the entity in case of an organization or company).
- Self-nomination (nominating one-self for the prize) is not permitted and the nominator may nominate only once.
Selection Criteria
- A commission for the “ICIMOD Mountain Prize” will judge the submitted nominations and may invite appraisals by external experts to decide on the winner of the Prize. They may contact the nominator, nominee and referee(s) for more information.
- The commission will pick the winner of the prize and Honorable Mentions based on the following criteria:
- demonstrable impact
- innovation
- degree of importance given to gender equity and social inclusion (GESI)
- potential for scalability
For more information, visit https://www.icimod.org/mountainprize/