Deadline: 6-May-22
The International Water Association (IWA) has announced a call for nominations for the Gender Diversity and Water Award to recognise individuals for their outstanding professional contribution to the advancement of gender diversity supporting both equity and wider impactful change in the water sector.
This award recognizes the contribution of an individual (rather than an organisation or project). Consideration for the award is based on nominations. Nominations should not be by the nominee or a family member of the nominee. Nominees and those making nominations do not need to be members of IWA.
The award winner will be selected for the excellence of their contribution in terms of the criteria set out in the Nomination Procedure below. All applications are made on a confidential basis.
Award Assessment Criteria
Nominations for the award will be judged on the basis of the following criteria:
- Impact – Nominations should clearly demonstrate the impact of the nominee on the advancement of gender diversity (e.g., number of people, scale of transformation), achieved in connection with relevant policies, programmes or other activities.
- Accessibility – Nominations should indicate the extent to which these activities are accessible and open to all women within the institution or group concerned.
- Innovation – Nominations should also highlight any evidence and demonstration of new ideas, initiatives or practices that have not been implemented before.
Election Procedure
- Based on the above details, a review panel will make a preliminary assessment of all submissions and develop a shortlist of nominees.
- Shortlisted nominees will be contacted for them to provide a more detailed submission. A template will be provided for this. These submissions will be reviewed by the award judging panel, comprising experts from industry, university, utilities and stakeholders in the water and wastewater sector from various regions.
- The detailed submission will cover each of the criteria set out above, as well as a description of how the nominee’s leadership within the sector has had a positive impact on the advancement of gender diversity.
- Based on the detailed submissions, each judge will assess all candidates in the shortlist. On the basis of the award criteria, the judges will identify their proposed overall winner and any other candidates they consider to be close contenders.
- The review panel and / or judges may, at their discretion, request supporting information to verify or better substantiate any nomination.
- The judges will submit their recommendation(s) for the award recipient to the IWA Governance and Nominations Committee, whose decision on the award (including whether and to whom to make the award) is final.
For more information, visit https://iwa-network.org/iwa-gender-diversity-water-award/