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Eligibility
We welcome innovative ideas from any group in
a developing country, which is working in partnership
with others to generate environmental and social benefits
in an entrepreneurial way.
To be eligible your entrepreneurial partnership must:
- be in the planning and set-up
phase or in the early stages of implementation;
- be driven by local actors;
- involve at least three partner
organizations that have already agreed in principle
to work together and that come from three different
stakeholder groups such as small, medium or large
businesses;community-based organizations; local or
international NGOs; labour unions; women's groups;
indigenous peoples organizations; research institutions;
public authorities; international agencies;
- display entrepreneurship in
its broadest sense;
- help to demonstrate innovative
ways of doing business through partnerships and has
the potential to serve as inspiration to others;
- have potential to grow,
with a sound financial rationale and a draft business
plan;
- relate to the three pillars of
sustainable development: finding new ways of simultaneously
improving incomes and strengthening livelihoods; tackling
poverty and marginalisation; and managing and conserving
natural resources and ecosystems;
- have the potential to contribute towards the internationally
agreed goals of the UN's Millennium Declaration* and/or
the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
Please see the selection
criteria which will be applied during the judging
process.
* The Millennium Development Goals were agreed by the
United Nations in 2000. They are:
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) Improve maternal health
3) Achieve universal primary education
4) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
5) Promote gender equality and empower women
6) Ensure environmental sustainability
7) Reduce child mortality
8) Develop a global partnership for development
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