An award of USD 50,000 each to help further their work in the area of girls’ and women’s education.
Prize directly contributes to the attainment of the 2030 Sustainable Development agenda, particularly SDG goals 4 on education and 5 on gender equality.
Promotion of the right to education of women.
Showcase leadership roles on gender equality.
It also supports UNESCO’s global priorities included in the Medium-term Strategy 2014-2021 and the Gender Equality Action Plan 2014-2021 (GEAP II), as well as the UNESCO Strategy for Gender Equality in and through Education (2019-2025).
Eligibilities
The nominations will only be considered if the project/program:
has a clear focus on advancing girls’ and women’s education, and the promotion of gender equality in and through education, and contributes to one or more of the five priority areas of the Prize:
Participation: Supporting girls to transition from primary education to lower-secondary education and to complete full basic education
Literacy: Supporting adolescent girls and young women to acquire literacy skills
Environment: Supporting the creation of a gender-responsive and safe teaching-learning environment
Teachers: Engaging teachers to be change agents with gender-responsive teaching attitudes and practices
Skills: Supporting girls and women to acquire knowledge/skills for life and work
has already been running for at least two years; and
shows evidence that it may be replicable, scalable and/or provide significant learning potential for initiatives in other contexts
