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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mutarika (Mai) Pruksapong <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 8:32 PM Subject: [resilient-cities] FW: Call for Proposals SDGs & Her competition + OHCHR resources on child, early and forced marriage To: Making Cities Resilient-UNISDR <[email protected]> PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL. FOR ANY INQUIRY, PLEASE DIRECTLY CONTACT IGC TEAM. EMAIL ADDRESSES PROVIDED BELOW. *From:* Christel Rose *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 June, 2018 5:28 PM *Subject:* FW: Call for Proposals SDGs & Her competition + OHCHR resources on child, early and forced marriage Dear colleagues, Please see below a competition on “SDGs & Her” organized by the World Bank Group, UNWomen, UNDP and Wharton School's Zicklin Center that is addressed specifically to women who own and/or lead a microenterprise. Grateful if you could share with your respective networks and motivate relevant applications – in particular from the business community but also from grass-root enterprises. Many thanks in advance and best regards. Christel Ms. Christel Rose Director's Office - Regional Coordination UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) 9-11 rue de Varembé, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland E: [email protected] <[email protected]> │T: +41 22 917 83 55│ M: +41 79 443 17 78 Skype: christel.rose1│ Web: www.unisdr.org │ www.preventionweb.net [image: cid:[email protected]] [image: cid:[email protected]] *From:* UNOG-DCM IGC *Sent:* Tuesday, 26 June, 2018 10:10 AM *To:* UNOG-DCM IGC <[email protected]>*Subject:* Call for Proposals SDGs & Her competition + OHCHR resources on child, early and forced marriage [image: cid:0__=8FBB0810DF86E8198f9e8a93df93869091@local] *Dear friends of the International Gender Champions network,* Pleased kindly find below information on *a Call for Proposals for the SDGs & Her competition* and on *new OHCHR resources available on child, early and forced marriage*. With best regards, * The IGC Team* *Call for Proposals for **SDGs&Her competition <http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/sdgs-2030-agenda/brief/sdgs-and-her>**, co-sponsored by the World Bank Group (WBG), Wharton School's Zicklin Center, UN Women, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):* *SDGs&Her is an on line competition *that raises awareness of the SDGs within the women's business community by recognizing the efforts of women entrepreneurs in achieving the SDGs. It collaborates with private sector partners on all SDGs, particularly SDG5, to share best practices and innovative ideas. *The competition is open to women who own and/or lead a microenterprise* – defined as an enterprise that employs fewer than 10 people, has annual sales of less than $100,000, and/or has a loan eligibility of less than $10,000. Applicants complete a short online template <https://sdgsandher.awardsplatform.com/> describing their work and linking their initiative/product to one or more SDGs. Entries will be screened and then judged by an expert panel, which will select the winners based on the microenterprise's impact on the SDGs, vision, purpose, and clarity. The top winners will be recognized at an event at the margins of the 2018 UN General Assembly High-Level Week in New York in September 2018, and stories about the winning entrepreneur and many other notable entries will be shared through partners' social media and websites. *The deadline for applying is June 30, 2018.* Many thanks in advance for your help in spreading the word about this global competition that we hope will interest many of your partners. - *Contact*: Perception Change Project [email protected] *New OHCHR resources available on child, early and forced marriage:* A *new webpage <https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WRGS/Pages/ChildMarriage.aspx>* gathering information on child, early and forced marriage, including in humanitarian settings, has just been launched. It gathers information on recent UN events, links to key resolutions, reports, studies, standards, data, and relevant links. We will keep it updated and populate it with more and updated information. Please do not hesitate to alert us of information or documents you consider relevant. In the coming months, this page will also host the coming report of the HC on *child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings* to be presented next year at its forty-first session (June 2019), including the revenant submissions and supporting documents. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/WRGS/Pages/ChildMarriage.aspx - *Contact*: PEREZ MENA Beatriz [email protected] You are receiving this message because you are a member of the community Making Cities Resilient-UNISDR <https://cc.preventionweb.net/lyris/resilient-cities>. View this contribution on the web site <https://cc.preventionweb.net/_/stl6nysa> A reply to this message will be sent to all members of Making Cities Resilient-UNISDR. Reply to sender <[email protected]> | Unsubscribe <[email protected]>
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