The Zayed Sustainability Prize recognises and rewards small and medium enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative, and inspiring sustainable solutions.

The Zayed Sustainability Prize awards 6 categories:

Health

This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of health that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to essential and affordable healthcare
• Ensuring access to maternal and new-bornhealthcare
• Ending epidemics (AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis etc.)
• Preventing and treating water-borne, communicable and non-communicablediseases
• Reducing illness from pollution, hazardous chemicals and contamination Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development. To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO).

The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.

Food

This category recognises organisationsthat have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of food that include, but are not limited to:

• Decreasing hunger and malnutrition
• Increasing agricultural or other food processing productivity
• Ensuring sustainability of food systems
• Enhancing sustainable food production

Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development. To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.

Energy

This category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of energy that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to affordable and reliable clean energy
• Implementing clean energy technology innovation

Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development. To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.

Water

This category recognises organisationsthat can demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability solutions in the areas of water that include, but are not limited to:

• Ensuring access to sanitation and hygiene
• Increasing water use efficiency

Organisations must also demonstrate a clear vision and long-term plan to further deploy their solution and scale up their impact, as well as inspiring others to follow suit by advancing sustainable and human development. To be eligible for this category, organisations must be a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), or a non-profit organisation (NPO). The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.

Climate action

The category recognises organisations that have demonstrated innovative, impactful and inspirational solutions producing positive results in the following areas:

• Climate Adaptation and resilience building
• Sustainable Land Use and Forest Conservation
• Nature-based solutions for conserving/restoring ecosystems and natural resources or carbon removal
• Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage

The Prize fund for this category is US $1,000,000.

Global High Schools

The Global High Schools category recognises high schools or secondary schools, from six global geographic regions that propose innovative, impactful and inspirational sustainability projects in the areas of health, food, energy and/or water. The proposed project could be in one area (e.g. water) or a combination of areas (e.g. health, food, energy, water and climate action). The Prize is intended to encourage students to develop and implement their sustainability ideas and is not aimed at administrative projects or educational reforms at the school.

In each of the following six global regions, one school will win up to US $150,000: 

1. The Americas 
2. Sub-Saharan Africa 
3. Middle East & North Africa 
4. Europe & Central Asia 
5. South Asia 
6. East Asia & Pacific

Eligibility

Please see each category for the relevant eligibility criteria.

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