United Nations FAO Award for Achievement 2026 ($10,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Applications are open for the United Nations FAO Award for Achievement 2026. The FAO Award for Achievement acknowledges skilled achievements in numerous sectors similar to fisheries, forestry, local weather, land and water, animal and plant well being, to call however a number of. It is awarded to any entity or particular person, together with FAO groups or workers, for excellent technical cooperation or humanitarian work at nation degree.

Award

The award contains:

• a scroll describing the achievements of the recipient establishment and/or an award;
• a money prize of USD $10,000.  

Eligibility

• The FAO Award for Achievement will acknowledge particular skilled achievements in numerous sectors and programmes associated to the work of the Organization, with due regard to areas the place FAO undertakes intensive work, similar to fisheries and aquaculture, biodiversity, atmosphere, forestry, local weather, land and water, animal and plant well being, FAO/WHO Center, FAO/IAEA Center and Codex Alimentarius.
• It can be conferred upon any entity or particular person, together with FAO groups or workers, for instance, for excellent technical cooperation or humanitarian work at nation degree.

Criteria

In the spirit of Conference Resolution 11/21 the successful entity or particular person must be one which has carried out a programme having a mannequin character and which has both:

• Outstanding contribution to the development of the nation or international locations to which she or he was assigned, specifically within the fields of sustainable agricultural and rural growth or meals safety.  This contribution have to be clearly identifiable and should take the type of technical improvements in agriculture, fisheries or forestry; institutional or administrative enhancements; discoveries of recent assets on account of analysis, surveys or different investigations; institution of coaching and analysis establishments;
• Filled a important hole and met efficiently quick-time period technical help wants which couldn’t be lined by different sources of assist; and/or
• Produced sustainable final result and outputs and had specific catalytic results similar to elevated  mobilization of funding funds, giant-scale observe-up motion, coverage and institutional adjustments; and/or
• Particular emphasis will likely be given to the character, the sustainability and the replicability of the achievements and the catalytic results generated.

Application

• The textual content of the detailed nomination must be self-contained and will present concrete parts and knowledge.
• The nomination may be submitted electronically on the kind or despatched by way of mail at [email protected]

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For extra data, go to UN FAO Award for Achievement.