{"id":150726,"date":"2020-02-03T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/?post_type=one_press&#038;p=150726"},"modified":"2023-09-05T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T13:18:21","slug":"100-000-one-africa-award-2019-deadline-extended","status":"publish","type":"one_press","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/press\/100-000-one-africa-award-2019-deadline-extended\/","title":{"rendered":"$100 000 ONE Africa Award 2019: Deadline Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After se<\/span><span class=\"s2\">veral <\/span><span class=\"s1\">requests <\/span><span class=\"s2\">to extend the deadline <\/span><span class=\"s1\">and interest toward\u00a0the eleventh edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africaaward\/\"><span class=\"s3\">ONE Africa Awards 2019<\/span><\/a>, the deadline for applications has been extended until 21 February \u00a02020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Africa-led, Africa-driven organizations have the opportunity\u00a0 to submit their applications for consideration for the Award. The Award honors outstanding contributions by African based organizations leading the fight against poverty and preventable disease on the continent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ONE Africa Award celebrates African efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world\u2019s blueprint for a better future. SDG targets range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV\/AIDS and providing universal primary education. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africaaward\/\"><span class=\"s2\">The 2019 ONE Africa Award<\/span><\/a> will recognise Africa-driven and Africa-led advocacy efforts that have demonstrated success at the community, national or regional level. The award recognises, rewards and advances the exceptional work of organisations founded by Africans and based in Africa, dedicated to advancing development goals in Africa. The $100,000 award will recognise innovative African initiatives to fight extreme poverty and incentivise more of such efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe extension of the deadline of the ONE Africa Award was imposed by the immense interest toward the award. For the last week or so we have witnessed an influx of entries and received so many requests to extend the deadlines, that we simply had no other option. The ONE Africa Award \u00a0ultimate goal is to showcase and celebrate African organisations changing and improving \u00a0the lives of other African citizens\u201d, comments Edwin Ikhouria, Interim \u00a0ONE in Africa<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Executive<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More details on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africaaward\/\"><span class=\"s2\">ONE Africa Award<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and full scoring criteria for applicants can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africaaward\"><span class=\"s2\">www.one.org\/africaaward<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Notes to Editors:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">1. Who can Apply\u00a0\u2013Civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and other groups based in Africa that have demonstrated commitment and success in advocacy to promote the attainment of one or more of the SDGs are invited to apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. How to Apply \u2013 Applications for the ONE Africa Award will be accepted until 2<\/span><span class=\"s1\">1 February \u00a02020. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Applications can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:award@one.org\"><span class=\"s2\">award@one.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or by mail to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ONE in Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stonewedge Office Park<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Block D<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1 Wedgelink Road<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bryanston<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2031<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Johannesburg<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">+27 117064511<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bryanston, Johannesburg<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">About ONE\u00a0\u2013 Co-founded by Bono, ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organization of nearly 9 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. Half of this membership is based in Africa. Not politically partisan, we raise public awareness and press political leaders to combat AIDS and preventable diseases, increase investments in agriculture and nutrition, and demand greater transparency in poverty-fighting programs.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several requests to extend the deadline and interest toward\u00a0the eleventh edition of the ONE Africa Awards 2019, the deadline for applications has been extended until 21 February \u00a02020.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"contributor":[26],"class_list":["post-150726","one_press","type-one_press","status-publish","hentry","contributor-tumba-tshimanga"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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