Deadline: 15-Aug-22
Nominations are now open for the Woman Exemplar Award that honours to promote women’s empowerment at the community level by discovering, recognizing and supporting those who have, against all odds, excelled and contributed significantly to the development process in India.
The program is intended for grass-root level, under–privileged women, from either rural or urban areas who have excelled as social change leaders in the fields of education or health or micro-enterprise.
The Program will encourage women who have not had an opportunity to study, or have studied against all odds, or have achieved several milestones without any formal or informal education. Women who have done exemplary work at a young age will also be encouraged.
The Award is called EXEMPLAR because the winning change makers demonstrate vision, resilience and role model leadership, setting an example for others, and igniting the spirit and the belief among them that they too can be empowered. The exemplars are self-motivated individuals, who transform their own lives and that of their societies.
Focus
The Woman Exemplar Program celebrates women working at the grassroots who have contributed to the fields of:
- Education
- Health
- Micro Enterprise/Livelihoods
Benefits
- Recognition
- The program identifies, recognizes and celebrates 15 women leaders who have relentlessly worked and become role models of change at the grassroots level, especially in the rural geographies or from any challenging/ disadvantaged environments. An award is given to 3 women each year with a citation, a trophy and a cash award of Rupees three lakhs each for the winners
- Capacity Building
- Building Capacities of the women leaders to increase the scale and impact of their programs through leadership training, coaching and access to an India-wide peer network for the Woman Exemplars and create a new rung of leaders working on health, education and Microenterprise within marginalised communities
- Become a part of a network of women working to transform India
- The program seeks to create a national level network of grassroots change agents and inspire and create many more such leaders at the grassroots and induce a bottom up approach of development.
Nomination Process
- Only NGOs, social enterprises, government, and other networks can propose nominees, not the applicants.
- The nominee should be able to produce a Recommendation Letter from an authorized agency such as – Government Departments including Panchayat/ Municipality, Government Schools or Primary Health Centres, Nationalized Banks, reputed organizations or any recognized financial institutions.
Eligibility Criteria
For being a part of the program, the woman should have a nominator self-nominated forms will be rejected.
- Women should not be nominated by their own family members for the program. (Family encompasses of the immediate family of the woman and the her spouse’s side of the family if married)
- Employers, partners, stakeholders, community members or government officials can nominate women for this program.
- The nominee should have a minimum work experience of 3 years in the category that she is being nominated for.
- Previous years’ finalists and winners are not eligible to apply for this program
- Women who have received recognition through National Award or State awards (including Chief Minister’s and Corporate Awards) are not eligible to apply for this program.
- Incomplete forms or delayed submissions will automatically be rejected.
For more information, visit https://ciifoundation.in/