Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) Partnership Award 2026 ($10,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Applications are invited for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) Partnership Award 2026. UN FAO convention established the Partnership Award to acknowledge excellent cooperation with FAO in advancing the Organization’s work by Members, different UN businesses or worldwide establishments, educational or analysis entities; and civil society or non-public sector entities, together with media retailers.

Transformative partnerships are central to FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022–2031, which emphasises collaboration as a key driver for attaining sustainable agrifood techniques. The FAO Partnership Award embodies this imaginative and prescient by recognising excellent partnerships which have considerably superior FAO’s mandate. These partnerships reveal innovation, inclusivity, and influence—participating communities, elevating consciousness on meals safety, and selling scalable options aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Award celebrates those that exemplify the energy of cooperation in remodeling meals techniques and enhancing lives.

Award

The award contains:

• a scroll describing the recipient’s achievements and/or award,
• a money prize of USD $10,000*

*Note that the displacement of the money prize should happen inside 30 days from the day of notification.

Eligibility

• This award acknowledges excellent cooperation with FAO in advancing the group’s work and important contribution to the enchancment of world meals safety.
• Eligible nominees embrace FAO members, different UN businesses or worldwide establishments, educational or analysis entities; and civil society or non-public sector entities, together with media retailers that, have, in the course of the biennium previous the Conference, have made a major contribution.

Criteria

The successful establishment/group ought to be one that may reveal excellent cooperation with FAO and the way it has in an space associated to FAO’s mandate in the following categorization (Four Betters)

• Better Production: Promoting environment friendly, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-meals techniques. 
• Better Nutrition: Ensuring entry to secure, nutritious meals for all, addressing all kinds of malnutrition. 
• Better Environment: Protecting, restoring, and sustainably managing pure assets and ecosystems. 
• Better Life: Supporting inclusive financial progress, improved livelihoods, and resilience, particularly for rural populations. 

In addition, nominations ought to meet a minimum of one of following standards:

• Community engagement: engaged native communities and related stakeholders with the purpose to enhance folks’s lives responding to their wants and rights and enhancing efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Awareness: raised visibility of the drawback of starvation and malnutrition, speaking advanced agricultural and financial points to the wider public, and promoted profitable options and tasks for improved meals safety and vitamin
• Innovation and adaptability: introduced an revolutionary thought, a brand new strategy, or a novel coverage that was carried out efficiently and is adaptable to different context inspiring related improvements inside a given metropolis, nation, area or at the world degree
• Impact proof: developed an initiative that demonstrates proof (e.g. )of influence in enhancing folks’s lives; and/or
• Policy and advocacy: advocated efficiently the worth of insurance policies*(ff coverage,) and rules that FAO prioritizes.

Application

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For extra data, go to Partnership Award.