{"id":163678,"date":"2023-10-11T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T08:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/?page_id=163678"},"modified":"2025-06-27T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T11:59:17","slug":"the-one-africa-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/about\/the-one-africa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"The ONE Africa Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"block_60cbdfc27f4b79fb03bac01acd2cb935\" class=\"oneorg-block oneorg-promo flush is-style-bottom  has-text-align-left  \">\n\n\t\t\t    \n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__inner\">   \n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"oneorg-promo__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p class=\"oneorg-section-title\">About<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-one-africa-award\">The ONE Africa Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>ONE Africa Award<\/strong>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 ONE Africa Award recognizes best practices by an African organization addressing social development issues through innovative advocacy in promotion of SDG attainment, by aligning with the\u00a0JobsNowAfrica Campaign\u00a0which is focused on job creation. The organization that is selected as the winner will receive prize money of $100 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/blog\/one-africa-award-2022-we-have-a-winner\/\">2022 Winner: Elena NGO<\/a><br><\/strong>Elena NGO will be awarded the prize of US $100,000, and celebrated at the 20th Nelson Mandela Foundation Annual Lecture on Saturday, 12 November 2022, at the Durban International Convention Centre in the City of eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/about\/the-one-africa-award\/previous-winners\/\">Previous Winners<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/africa\/about\/the-one-africa-award\/about-the-one-africa-award\/\">About the award<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;ONE Africa Award&nbsp;celebrates African efforts aimed at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world\u2019s blueprint for a better future. 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