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Call for proposals – your green idea could win up to US$15,000

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Are you a young innovator?

Are you a citizen of Latin America and the Caribbean?

Are you passionate about climate change?

If so, you are eligible to participate in the Greenovators contest, organized by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and EARTH University, in collaboration with the Ibero-american General Secretariat and Costa Rica’s Ministry of Environment and Energy.

The proposed project must provide specific indicators to monitor the impact of the project because the work that are awarded seed funds must commit to a monitoring report for evaluation by the end use of funds to deliver. Your project should be in one of the following areas:

  • Education and Awareness
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Renewable Energy
  • Sustainable Transport
  • Sustainable Business
  • Resilient Agriculture
  • Water resources

You could win

  • 5 prizes of US$ 15,000
  • 10 prizes of US$ 10,000
  • 15 prizes of US$ 5,000

Contest participants can also win a trip to Costa Rica and participate in the Greenovators event.

Proposals must be submitted before August 3o 2014. (12.00 am EST)

To find out more about the contest rules and apply, visit www.iadb.org/greenovators today!


Jennifer Doherty-Bigara

Jennifer Doherty-Bigara is a policy advisor and climate change specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, based in the country office of Barbados. With over ten years of experience in the sustainability agenda, she has mainly focused on climate governance and national and local climate change policies (NDCs, LTS, SDGs), fiscal policy and green budgeting, climate finance and long-term planning exercises with an adaptation approach. Jennifer has gained analytical and operational knowledge advising governments through the coordination of the NDC Invest Platform and afterwards mainstreaming climate change considerations in the IDB portfolio of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, ensuring the design and implementation of sustainable development projects. She also gained key insights as an external appointee in the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), coordination the efforts of the Adapt ‘Action Platform in the Gulf of Guinea and the Indian Ocean. She has also worked on climate finance and coordinated fundraising efforts as part of the SECCI Funds, ACL, PROADAPT, and bilateral donations. Jennifer holds a master´s in International Development Policy from the McCourt School of Public Policy (MSPP), University of Georgetown and a Master’s in International Affairs from Sciences Po Toulouse. Follow Jennifer on Twitter: @jdohertybigara @jdohertybigara

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