Ashden 2017 International Awards is now open - Deadline: 8 November 2016
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Ashden is looking for pioneering energy enterprises and programmes working in developing countries and emerging economies that are increasing access to sustainable energy.
Entry to the awards is free of charge and the winners will get prize money, national and international media exposure and a wide-ranging package of support, which could include business mentoring, sales and technical training, introductions to investors and help with communications.
The seven categories of this year are:
- Increasing energy access for homes or businesses: Increasing energy access to those that have limited or no access by providing renewable energy products or services.
- Sustainable buildings: Improving energy use in urban buildings, including residential, commercial and public buildings.
- Developing innovative financial mechanisms or business models for delivering sustainable energy: Organisations providing innovative financial mechanisms or using innovative business to expand access to sustainable energy products or services.
- Sustainable travel: Innovative enterprises or programmes that are improving access to sustainable travel, encouraging the use of more sustainable modes of travel or using technology to enable more efficient fuel use.
- Improving the lives of women and girls through sustainable energy: Enterprises or programmes that are providing sustainable energy to women and girls as beneficiaries and creating employment or income-generating activities, or involving them in the supply chain. We are also interested in work benefiting refugees and internally displaced women and girls.
- Sustainable energy and water: Enterprises or programmes using sustainable energy technologies to deliver increased access to safe and affordable drinking water; or water for agricultural production; or adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene.
- Powering business: Enterprises or programmes which provide or use clean energy or energy efficiency in the provision of goods and services through business activities, for example in the agricultural, commercial and industrial sectors.
The deadline for entries is 8 November 2016. For further information including the eligibility criteria and how to apply for an Award visit http://www.ashden.org/apply/international or contact the Awards Coordinator +44 (0)20 7410 7023, email: internationalapps@ashden.org.