Announcement: Meet the 2011 SEED Winners!
It is with great pleasure and excitement that the SEED Initiative today announces the 2011 SEED Award Winners!
UN Announces SEED Award Winners 2011 With Focus on African Entrepreneurs
Nairobi, 15 December 2011 From a company that transforms groundnut shells into fuel briquettes in Gambia, to an enterprise that has developed solar ovens in Burkino Faso, to an initiative that trains and employs street youth to collect waste materials in Ghana, which they then transform into handmade designer products, to a business in Kenya where women produce aloe-based skin care products, these are just some the 35 winners of the 2011 SEED Awards, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
2011 SEED Annual Report is out!
“One of the most urgent – but not widely explored - questions at the centre of the debate on transitioning to the Green Economy is how to engage with and deploy the main engine of the global economy – small, micro- and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs).
SEED’s Annual Report 2011
2011 was a remarkable year for SEED, where a record number of SEED winners were awarded. Click on the link above to:
- learn about SEED’s significant expansion
- discover more about SEED’s focus in Africa
- find out about the insights revealed from SEED’s first high-level Symposium on the Green Economy, in South Africa, and
- gain better understanding of the obstacles and opportunities social and environmental enterprise face
UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerement of Women
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The Green Economy: SEED’s activities to help accelerate the transition.
SEED Symposium:
SEED Symposium: The Green Economy: Accelerating the Transition
Written by Amelie Heuer
Author: Creech (IISD), May 2011
- whether and how these enterprises – other with only one or two owners or employees – could accelerate the transition to the green economies in their countries and regions.
- what they might need on the way of support and enabling conditions from their governments.
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United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP - WCMC)
Written by Amelie Heuer
Hosting partner of the SEED Initiative
UN Women partners with SEED and sponsors a 2011 SEED Gender Equality Award
UN Women, the UN organisation dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women has partnered with SEED and will sponsor one special SEED Gender Equality Award in 2011 to initiatives that are women-led or owned, and prioritise gender equality or women’s empowerment as a core objective.
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