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TOYIN F. SANNI FOUNDATION ESSAY COMPETITION

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Application Deadline: March 31st 2024.

LOCATION: Nigeria

The TFS Foundation is hosting an essay contest with the aim of providing financial support to deserving students for their university fees. 

Participants are invited to engage with one of the following thought-provoking essay topics:

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Concerns: Identify an ESG-related issue in your local community. Discuss its significance and propose solutions.

Nigeria’s Economic Challenges: Analyse recent events impacting Nigeria’s economy, their effects, and suggest potential remedies.

Inclusive Finance and Its Impact: Define inclusive finance and explore how a finance and investment group like Emerging Africa Capital can significantly contribute to this area.

ELIGIBILITY:

Eligibility: You must be a senior secondary school student at the time of submission.

Essay Length: Your essay should not exceed 1000 words.

Prize Allocation: Monetary awards will be managed by Emerging Dreams Trust and disbursed based on your academic progression.

Originality Check: All essays will be scrutinised for AI/plagiarism, with plagiarised content leading to disqualification.

Submission Format: Submit through a Google Form, including required personal details and your essay in PDF format.

Language and Formatting: Essays must be in English, formatted in Century Gothic font size 11, double line spacing, and justified alignment.

Filename Format: Use the format FirstName-LastName-Question-Number.pdf (e.g., Sarah-Ayomide-1.pdf).

Deadline: Submit your essay by March 31st. Late entries will not be considered.

Evaluation Criteria: Essays will be judged on originality, creativity, coherence, grammar, and adherence to the prompt or theme.

Judging Decisions: The decisions of the organization are final.

BENEFIT:

The competition will celebrate a total of nine winners, three in each category:

Winner: N1,500,000

1st Runner-Up: N1,000,000

2nd Runner-Up: N500,000

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: THE KOFI ANNAN NEXTGEN DEMOCRACY PRIZE

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Application Deadline:  31 March 2024. 

LOCATION: Switzerland

The call for nominations for the 2024 Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Prize is open! The Kofi Annan Foundation and the Democracy and Culture Foundation invite nominations for the second edition of the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Award. Nominees must be aged between 18 and 30. The nomination period for the 2024 Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy Award is from 15 January 2024 until 31 March 2024. Notification of the awardee will be made by July 2024.

ELIGIBILITY:

Nominees must be aged between 18 and 30 at the time of nomination. There are no restrictions in terms of nationality, gender, or occupation. The Selection Committee will consider the following when deciding the winner:

Impact: The nominee’s actions had a demonstrated outcome, for instance, a change in policy in a given country, the rate of participation in elections, the number of people reached through a specific campaign, the number of users of a specific application, the number of students gaining a wider understanding of the importance of the democratic process, the number of community associations engaged in an educational campaign etc.

Innovation: The innovative character of these actions.

Sustainability: Whether the nominee has advanced the cause of democracy and human rights for a sustained period of one-year minimum, and whether her/his actions are sustainable over time and replicable in other contexts;

Values: The values displayed by the Nominee through her/his actions.

Benefit: The added value the Award could bring to the nominee in terms of international notoriety and support.

BENEFIT:

The Prize includes a monetary prize of USD 10,000. The award will be presented at the Athens Democracy Forum, and all travel and accommodation expenses linked to the Awardee’s participation in the Forum will be covered by the organizers. Awardees will be invited to take a leading role in organising a panel session on youth and democracy at the following year’s Forum.

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