1. Have introduced innovative processes, practices and approaches that bring about qualitative or quantitative changes in common practices.
2. Have a positive impact on the quality of life of project beneficiaries.
3. Contribute to the extension or consolidation of the principles of genuine citizenship.
4. Are replicable in other population groups or countries.
5. 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 incorporate a 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/agriculture development: Projects that support economic and social development in rural areas

5. Nutrition/food security: Projects that contribute to the food supply and food security through environmentally-friendly, socially responsible systems that are sustainable over the long term.

6. Income generation: Projects designed to support or strengthen urban or rural microenterprises and family businesses.

7. 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.

8. 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 and 2005-2006 cycles may be submitted again for the 2006-2007 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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Selection process

This process shall take place in four phases:

1. Initial screening: Selection of projects on which additional information will be requested. This process will be the responsibility of the Selection Committee, with assistance from the ECLAC team and external evaluators. Additional information will be requested from selected projects. The results of this phase will be announced on 20 April 2007.

3. Third phase: On the basis of the results of the field visit, the Selection Committee, assisted by the ECLAC team and external evaluators, will select up to 20 finalists, whose representatives will be invited to the award ceremony. The results of this phase will be announced on 5 November 2007.

4. Awards: The finalists will be invited to the Innovation Fair and award ceremony. At this event, a representative of each of the finalists will give a presentation on the project. The Selection Committee, assisted by the ECLAC team and external evaluators, will then select the five winning projects.

Note: The contest will be held on an annual basis over the next two years. The dates for each cycle will be announced well in advance.

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Awards 1st place: US$ 30,000
2nd place: US$ 20,000
3rd place: US$ 15,000
4th place: US$ 10,000
5th place: US$ 5,000

The award money may be used only to support the winning programmes or projects or to improve the working conditions of the implementing organizations. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAY THE AWARD MONEY BE DISTRIBUTED TO INDIVIDUALS, whether as wages, bonuses or prizes. In the case that for-profit entity wins, the prize may be spent exclusively in the area of corporate social responsibility.

ll finalist projects will receive an honourable mention.
The semi-finalist projects will be widely publicized in Latin America and the Caribbean. .

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Registration Entry forms are available on the ECLAC website, www.cepal.org and on the website of the Regional Office of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for Latin America and the Caribbean www.wkkf-lac.org . The forms may also be requested by via e-mail from: innovacion.social@cepal.org or from:

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC): Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile. Telephone Nos.: (56-2) 210-2297 or 210-2451; fax No.: (56-2) 210-2523.

ECLAC subregional headquarters for the Caribbean: 1 Chancery Lane, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Telephone No.: (1-868) 623-5595; fax No.: (1-868) 623-8485.

ECLAC subregional headquarters in Mexico: Av. Presidente Masaryk 29, 11570 Mexico, D.F., Mexico. Telephone: (52-55) 5263-9600; fax no.: (52-55) 5531-1151

ECLAC office in Bogotá: Carrera 13 A No. 28 –38 – Manzana 2, Of. 210, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. Telephone No.: (571) 336-8472; fax No.: (571) 336-8501

ECLAC office in Brasilia : Edificio BNDES, 17° Andar CEP 70.076-900, Brasilia, Brazil. Telephone No.: (55-61) 321-3232; fax No.: (55-61) 321-4247.

ECLAC office in Buenos Aires: Paraguay 1178, 2º y 3º B, 1057, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Telephone No.: (54-11) 4815-7810; fax No.: (54-11) 4815-2534.

ECLAC office in Montevideo : Juncal 1305, Piso 10, Montevideo, Uruguay. Telephone No.: (598-2) 916-1580; fax No.: (598-2) 916-1776.

Regional Office of the Kellogg Foundation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Alameda Rio Negro, 1084 conj. 31, Centro Comercial Alphaville, 06554-000 – Barueri, SP, Brazil. Telephone No.: (55-11) 4191-2233, fax No.: (55-11) 4195-0992.

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Submission of entry forms

The deadline for the submission of entry forms is 12 January 2007 (5 p.m. Chilean time). Entry forms may be sent via e-mail to:
innovacion.social@cepal.org or via fax or mail to any of the ECLAC offices listed above.

Latin American and Caribbean member countries of ECLAC: