Are you part of a small and growing eco-inclusive enterprise that continues to deliver environmental, social and economic benefits to your target markets?
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual awards scheme designed to identify the most innovative and promising locally led start-up eco-inclusive enterprises in developing and emerging economies. Each year, multiple award categories are offered, ranging from country- or region-specific awards to thematic categories.
SEED Award Winners and Runners-up are eligible for participation in our Accelerator and Catalyser programmes, respectively. Our Catalyser and Catalyser Pro support high-achieving enterprises to scale up and optimise their eco-inclusive impacts.
The SEED Awards have celebrated and supported the further advancement of eco-inclusive entrepreneurship while generating key impacts:
What does the SEED Award Prize offer?
As a SEED Award Winner or Runner-up you will receive a customised SEED Support Package, which includes the tools and guidance required for your enterprise to emerge from the start-up stage and effectively scale-up the positive environmental, social and economic benefits which you deliver to your target markets.
The SEED Support Package is delivered through our Accelerator programme (for Winners) and Catalyser programme (for Runners-Up).
The SEED Awards Jury – an independent panel of experts from various fields of sustainable development – has generously offered its time to help identify the most promising partnerships from the many applications received each year for various SEED Awards schemes. To ensure consistency of approach, the Jury always contains several Jurors from previous years.
SEED Award Recipient criteria
Enterprises which fulfil the following requirements are invited to apply to be a SEED Award recipient. Please click on each criterion check mark () for more information:
Application Information & Frequently Asked Questions FAQ
Do you have questions about your application for the Awards 2023? Download the Application Guides and FAQ below.
You can also send your questions to the Awards email at awards_ep
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Meet the 2021 SEED Award recipients
From 900+ applications across 9 countries - Ghana, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe - 9 Winners and 37 Finalists were selected. These winners offer products and services that innovate ways for their value chains to mitigate and/or adapt to climate change. These enterprises have already achieved great success but are looking to scale-up their environmental, social and economic impacts. They require your support to do so. We invite you to discover and collaborate with SEED Award recipients.
Currently, we offer the SEED Awards programme in the following countries:
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