UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2025 (up to $50,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 12, 2025

Nominations for the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education 2025 at the moment are open. The UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education honours excellent and progressive contributions made by people, establishments, and organizations to advance ladies’ and ladies’s schooling. It is the primary UNESCO Prize of this nature and is exclusive in showcasing profitable tasks that enhance and promote the tutorial prospects of ladies and ladies and in flip, the standard of their lives.

Prize

• Funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China, the Prize is conferred yearly to two laureates and consists of an award of US $50,000 every to assist additional their work within the space of ladies’ and ladies’s schooling.

Eligibility

• Governments of UNESCO Member States by way of their Permanent Delegations to UNESCO and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in official partnership with UNESCO could make up to 3 nominations. Self-nominations are usually not accepted.
• Individuals, establishments, or organizations advancing ladies’ and ladies’s schooling are eligible for nomination. Nominations should concentrate on a longtime undertaking or programme of the candidate, which has been operating for at the least two years, and meets the choice standards.

Nomination

• Nominations could be submitted by way of the devoted on-line platform in English or French by a National Commission or Permanent Delegation to UNESCO of the involved Member State, or by an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO. Nominations submitted by a Member State’s National Commission should be validated by the Permanent Delegation. Nominations from an NGO in official partnership with UNESCO should be validated by the group’s headquarters. Nominations from nation branches or affiliated places of work is not going to be accepted.
• National Commissions and Permanent Delegations to UNESCO could entry the web submissions platform by means of their official UNESCO account utilizing the next hyperlink: http://unesco.org/gwe. NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO will probably be granted direct entry to the web platform by the Secretariat upon request. To request entry, contact [email protected].
• Member States and NGOs in official partnership could request that candidates full the web nomination kind instantly. Access to the platform will probably be granted to candidates by the Prize Secretariat upon request from the nominating entity (National Commission, Permanent Delegation or NGO in official Partnership with UNESCO). Requests ought to be despatched to [email protected] by 10 May 2025. Once the web kind is accomplished by the candidate, the nominating entity will probably be required to overview and validate the submission.

Nominations should be submitted by way of the web platform by midnight of 12 May 2025 (UTC+1, Paris time). Kindly word {that a} nominating entity (Member State or NGO in official partnership with UNESCO) could not submit greater than three nominations.

For extra data, go to UNESCO Prize.