Nomination Instructions and Selection Process

Call for Nominations
Solutions for Agriculture, Food Security & Capacity Development; Social Protection, Agriculture & Food Security; Climate Change, Environment & Agriculture; Food Security, Nutrition & HIV/AIDS; Global Health, Agriculture & Food Security; and Renewable Energy, Agribusiness & Food Security

Global South-South Development Expo 2012

The Special Unit for South-South Cooperation in UNDP is inviting you to nominate a project or program that has provided a successful solution in any of the following areas through effective leadership, innovation, and partnership:

Agriculture, Food Security & Capacity Development;
Social Protection, Agriculture & Food Security;
Climate Change, Environment & Agriculture;
Food Security, Nutrition & HIV/AIDS;
Global Health, Agriculture & Food Security; and
Renewable Energy, Agribusiness & Food Security

 ·      Who can participate?

Any public or private institution, group or project that have made significant contributions to human development in the global south and that has provided solutions to address the challenges in the areas of climate change/environment, food security, global health. We seek organizations and institutions that can nominate south development solutions (SDS) that could readily be replicated, scaled up or adapted across developing countries. The South Development Solution (SDS) could be a Southern-grown solution, a South-South partnership solution, a North-South-South triangular partnership solution, a South-South-Multilateral Organization solution, Public-Private partnership solution, and/or combination of all these.

The deadline for submission of the nomination form is  31 October 2012.

You may fill out the nomination form online or download the Word versions -

Arabic

 Chinese

 English

 French

 Russian

 Spanish 

Please email the Word version and all additional documents relevant to the nomination (multi-media, jpeg/eps, word, spreadsheets, graphs) to the Secretariat at email address – gssdexpo.secretariat@undp.org.

 ·      Criteria for Nomination

Nominated initiatives should have some of all of the following attributes:

1.     South priority/demand driven

2.     South ownership

3.     South leadership

4.     Broad-based partnership

5.     Innovation

6.     Efficiency

7.     Sustainability

8.     Scalability

The best selected solutions will receive:

   ·      An opportunity to exhibit the initiative at the Global South-South Development Expo in the FAO HEADQUARTERS IN ROME

·      The opportunity to interact with partners and donors interested in funding or replicating the initiative in other developing countries.

·      A Commemorative plaque at the Special Ceremony with World Leaders.