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Applications are now open for the 2022 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Prize for Girls' and Women's Education to improve and promote girls' and women's educational opportunities and, consequently, their quality of life.

The UNESCO Prize for the Education of Girls and Women recognizes outstanding and innovative contributions made by individuals, institutions and organizations to advance the education of girls and women.

Funded by the Government of the People's Republic of China, the prize is awarded annually to two laureates and consists of a reward to help them continue their work in the field of girls' and women's education. The Director-General of UNESCO awarded the Prize for the first time in 2016.

The Prize contributes to two Sustainable Development Goals: "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all" (Goal 4) and "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls" (Goal 5).

Priority areas

• Participation : Help girls move from primary to lower secondary education and complete basic education
• Literacy : Helping teenage girls and young women acquire literacy skills
• Environment : Supporting the creation of a gender-sensitive and safe teaching and learning environment
• Teachers : Engage teachers as agents of change with gender-sensitive teaching attitudes and practices
• Skills : Helping girls and women acquire knowledge/skills for life and work

Price information

A price of up to 50,000 $ US is available.

Eligibility criteria

• Applications may be made by the governments of UNESCO Member States through their Permanent Delegations to UNESCO and by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in official partnership with UNESCO.
• Nominations must focus on an established project or programme designed to advance the education of girls and women.
• Each Permanent Delegation or NGO may submit up to three entries for one edition of the Prize.
• Self-nominations are not accepted.

Criteria

The Jury will assess the applicant's project/programme on the basis of the following three criteria:

• Impact : The impact of the project/programme must be qualitatively and/or quantitatively measurable and provide tangible results in relation to the resources invested.
• Innovation: The project/programme stimulates and/or builds on innovative approaches to advancing girls' and women's education. This includes new ways of working where "business as usual" has failed, as well as transformative "out-of-the-box" thinking and action.
• Sustainability : The project/programme has taken steps, ideally at the design or implementation stage, to ensure that it will have a lasting impact on girls' and women's education beyond the life of the project.

For more information, please visit UNESCO .