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The Water Changemaker Award

Global Water Partnership

By IW:LEARN

May 18^th, 2020

Is your journey a Water ChangeMaker journey?

If yes, then share and submit your story until 07 June 2020 to the Water ChangeMaker Awards. The Water ChangeMaker Awards is an initiative that seeks to highlight experiences in the way water decisions have built climate resilience. The journeys towards such decisions will have involved changing mindsets from inertia to action; speaking truth to power; finding new ways of working; building new coalitions; changing laws or policies; mobilizing others to collaborate, and more.

Why you should participate

“It always seems impossible - until it's done.” Nelson Mandela

These journeys are being collected because, at times like these, learning from and celebrating those who have made things happen is more important than ever.

Selected stories will benefit from opportunities to Connect, Collaborate, and Celebrate. Winning initiatives will be honored for their success in changing behaviors, organizations, or external contexts through innovative approaches focused on achieving positive climate resilient outcomes.

Elegibility

What: ChangeMaker initiatives should be about decisions involving water that have contributed to building resilience to climate change.
Who: All organisations, entities, and individuals associated with the public, private, and non-profit sector are eligible to submit their ChangeMaker initiative. Submitters need to be involved in the initiative described or have the agreement of those involved in order to submit. If you have more than one experience to share, you may: Multiple submissions are welcome.
Where: Initiatives can be from anywhere in the world.
When: Initiatives must be either ongoing or concluded within the last five (5) years
Verification: When submitting your story, you must point to a contact in your country who can verify the existence of your organization or group. The verification may be informal but would need to involve the name and email address of the verifier.
Exclusion: Staff employed by GWPO or any of the GWP Regional Secretariats, or their direct relatives (partners, children, parents) are not eligible to submit a ChangeMakers experience, nor are members of GWP’s GLOBAL Steering Committee or GLOBAL Technical Committee.

Please note:

Many languages work: Submissions are accepted in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. However, the organizers work in English and will therefore use publicly available online translation tools to convert non-English submissions into English.
Get ahead of the final date: It is recommended to upload submissions ahead of the final date given that the system may experience instability when overloaded.
Quantify where you can: Submitters are encouraged to quantify results and include data that demonstrates positive impacts in their submissions.
Verificiation: Submissions will undergo a verification process using the contact details provided.

How to submit your story

Submit your ChangeMaker journey between 6 April 2020 and 7 June 2020.

Submissions can be made via the “submit your change journey” link. If you have any questions please use the competition guidelines as a reference.