FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards 2019
Highlight your organisation’s contribution to helping solve key challenges affecting developing economies.Awards Schedule
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30th November, 2018 Entry Opening Date
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15th March, 2019 Entry Closing Date
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13th June, 2019 Awards Ceremony
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WELCOME TO THE FT/IFC TRANSFORMATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS SUBMISSION PLATFORM
The aim is to recognise, showcase and reward private sector innovation, impact, replicability, financial viability and sustainability across a number of key areas identified in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
While the focus of all categories is on transformational impact in developing economies, the awards are also open to projects that address similar market deficiencies in the developed world and that could be replicated in severely under-supplied regions.
CATEGORIES
This award relates to Sustainable Development Goal 4, with an additional emphasis on the provision of skills-based training that will empower young people, help them gain employment, and also help entrepreneurs secure their livelihoods, in line with Goal 8.
This award relates to Sustainable Development Goal 2 “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”, and Goal 6: “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”, with an additional emphasis on access to land, land tenure rights, land management, and land governance – all critical for the achievement of both food and water security.
This award relates to Sustainable Development Goal 3: “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. Special attention will be given to innovative, replicable business models that improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of healthcare delivery.
This new category, established in partnership with the UK DFID, aims to showcase solutions that harness the power of innovation and technology to ensure inclusion among people with disabilities, particularly in developing economies.
This award highlights projects that address the most crucial infrastructure needs in the fast-growing cities of the developing world, with long-term socio-economic impact. This category is open to private sector businesses only, but recognises the importance of public-private partnerships in infrastructure and builds on the success of the award for City-Led Transformation, established in partnership with Cities Alliance from 2015 to 2017.
This prize will be awarded to the initiative that in the opinion of the judging panel stands apart among the winners of all private sector categories for its level of innovation, impact, replicability, financial viability and sustainability in the context of a developing economy.
This award will recognise the short-listed entry that stands out across all categories for its innovative financing structure, including blended solutions that bring together diverse sources of capital.
This award will recognise the short-listed entry that across all categories most effectively addresses one or more of the effects of climate change in the context of a developing economy, or that can be replicated in a developing economy.
This award will recognise the short-listed initiative that stands apart across all categories for its ground-breaking use of new technology and the strength of its disruptive approach to markets and business models.
AWARDS CRITERIA
| Infrastructure developers | Energy Companies | Healthcare providers |
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| Pharmaceutical companies | Technology companies, including assistive technology providers | Agribusiness companies |
| Water companies | Design houses | Lifeskills firms |
| Pension funds | Education providers | Life insurance companies |
| Private equity funds | Sovereign wealth funds | Fund managers |
| Investment banks | ||
JUDGING CRITERIA
Download the judging criteria in full here.
PRESENTED BY
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. The FT marks 130 years in 2018 with a record paying readership of more than 940,000, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions. It is part of Nikkei Inc, which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.
IFC - a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group - is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work with more than 2,000 businesses worldwide, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in the toughest areas of the world. In fiscal year 2018, we delivered more than $23 billion in long-term financing for developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.
EVENT INFO
The FT/IFC Transformational Business Conference and Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday 13 June 2019 in Central London.
08:00 - 17:30 - FT/IFC Transformational Business Conference
In line with the focus of the Awards, this sixth edition of the FT/IFC Transformational Business Conference will discuss the crucial role of the private sector in helping to meet objectives around climate change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the steps that need to be taken to achieve long-term, transformative impact.
18:00 - 00:00 - FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards Dinner
The winners in each awards category will be announced at a special dinner whose capital, technology and ideas are contributing to substantive progress in financing and developing low-carbon infrastructure, delivering healthcare and education, assuring food and water security, and generally transforming the development landscape.
YOUR CONTACT
If you have any questions or would like support on your entry please contact ftlive@ft.com.
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