Nomination Instructions and Selection Process

Call for Nominations Solutions for Energy, Climate Change, Industrial Development, Inclusive Social Development, Biodiversity, Forestry and Land Degradation, Agriculture, Health, Youth and Women and Energy Access

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:

Energy, Climate Change and Industrial Development
Energy, Climate Change and Inclusive Social Development
Energy, Climate Change: Focus on Biodiversity, Forestry and Land Degradation
Energy and Climate Change: Agriculture
Energy and Climate Change: Health, Youth and Women
Energy, Climate Change and Energy Access

·      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 southern 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  30 September 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 UNIDO HEADQUARTERS IN VIENNA

·      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.