| Contest rules
Eligible projects: Innovative projects whose main focus is the good of the community, which are designed for disadvantaged communities or groups and which create conditions for the development and consolidation of full participation by the population.
Prizes will be awarded to projects which:
- Have introduced innovative processes, practices and approaches that bring about qualitative or quantitative changes in common practices
- Have a positive impact on the quality of life of the beneficiaries
- Contribute to the extension or consolidation of the principles of genuine citizenship.
- Are replicable in other population groups or countries.
- Are sustainable
All other conditions being equal, preference will be given to projects that are managed by the beneficiary community, which involve networking or which include the gender perspective.
Consideration will be given only to projects/programmes in one or more of the following areas:
1. Community health : Projects that promote the health of at-risk individuals or communities via programmes that mobilize the community, promote institution-building, improve health-service quality or access and/or promote health. This category includes drinking water and basic sanitation programmes.
2. Basic education : Projects involving any educational level, from pre-school through secondary education. University, technical and vocational levels are excluded.
3. Youth programmes: Projects aimed at improving the living conditions, social integration and community participation by young people aged 15-24 years.
4. Rural development/agriculture/nutrition/food security: Projects that support economic and social development in rural areas and/or contribute to the food supply and food security through environmentally-friendly, socially responsible systems that are sustainable over the long term.
5. Income generation: Projects designed to support or strengthen urban or rural microenterprises and family businesses.
6. Corporate social responsibility: Projects that give expression to an enterprise's commitment to draw on its own resources to contribute to the sustainable social and economic development of a community. Programmes that benefit only the employees of the enterprise and their families will not be eligible.
7. Volunteer work: Projects carried forward by a group of people, organized around a formally established institution, who contribute their time, money or knowledge in order to benefit the community.
The projects must be implemented by municipal or local, state, provincial, regional, or departmental governments, community associations, religious communities, non-governmental organizations (national or international) or other non-profit private-sector institutions, which work in the areas covered by the contest either individually or in networks of such institutions. Entries may be submitted by for-profit entities only in the area of corporate social responsibility.
Eligible projects may be managed and/or implemented by the communities themselves, associations or networks of the beneficiary population or by one of the institutions listed above.
Implementation must take place in at least one of the 33 Latin American and Caribbean member countries of ECLAC.
Projects must have been in actual operation for at least two years and be ongoing.
Initiatives submitted for the 2004-2005 cycle may be submitted again for the 2005-2006 cycle.
Initiatives that generate or may generate profits or monetary gain, directly or indirectly, for the promoters, agencies or institutions that conduct them, other than the communities or beneficiaries themselves, are not eligible.
Projects will only be considered only if they involve some element of innovation in their management processes and/or their results.
Entries submitted after the deadline or in a format other than the official contest form will not be considered.
It is not necessary to send any materials other than the information requested on the form. Any additional information which is sent in this initial phase of the entry process will not be considered in the evaluation or initial screening of initiatives .
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