WWSF Innovation Prize – 19 Days of Activism for Prevention of violence against Children and Youth
Background
In order to address the requests for financial assistance we receive from coalition member organizations, commemorating the 19 Days for activism and the World Day, WWSF decided to annually award four Prizes for innovative activities.
Mission
- Awarding, while considering the different contexts of countries and communities, pertinent activities and significant events related to prevention of child abuse;
- Encouraging ongoing efforts by organizations to develop and increase prevention measures;
- Catalyzing new energies.
Prize categories
| First prize: | Prize for innovative prevention activities (US$ 2000) Honouring a unique and visionary activity serving as an example for annual events. |
| Second prize: | Prize for significant prevention activities (US$ 1000) Honouring perseverance, past accomplishments and facing new challenges in working for prevention of child abuse. |
| Two additional awards: | For specific activities (US$ 500 each) Honouring a particular pertinent activity at the grassroots level. |
WWSF Innovation Prize for prevention of violence against children and youth
60 Coalition Member Laureate organizations awarded (2004-2020)
2020 – 1 Prize (US$ 1’000) for Haven Initiative, Nigeria
2019 – 2 Prizes (US$ 1’000 each) for VILLAGE OF HOPE COMMUNITY, Kendu Bay Town, Kenya and the Child Protection Network, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
2018 – Prize (US$ 2000) for the Amani Initiative, Arua Uganda (for their campaign: “Prevention of teenage pregnancy and early marriage”)
2017 – 2 Prizes (US$ 1000 each) Network Movement for Youth and Children’s Welfare (NMYCW-SL), Sierra Leone / “Hol dir Hilfe”, Switzerland
2016 – 3 19 Days Campaign partner organizations: The Foundation po DRUGIE, Poland (US$ 2000) / Giving Children Hope Initiative (GCHI) Uganda (US$ 1000) / Navjyoti India Foundation, India (US$ 1000).
2015 – No Prizes were awarded
2014 – 5 Laureate organizations: 3 for US$ 1000: Cooperation for Peace and Development
Afghanistan / Nuestra Escuela, Puerto Rico / Giving Children Hope Initiative, Uganda
2 additional awards of (US$ 500): International NGO “Ponimanie”, Belarus / Asociatia Buna
Ziua, Romania
2013 – Total of 6 Laureate organizations. 2 for (US$1000 each): Union of Crisis Centers, Almaty,
Kazakhstan and ONG Samba Mwanas, Libreville, Gabon 4 Additional Awards (US$ 500 each): Humanitarian Organization of Mercy (HOM) Cotonou, Bénin / FICE Romania, Bucarest / Centro Integrado de Apoio Familiar CIAF, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Solidarité pour la Paix et le Développement Communautaire des Hauts Plateaux de Fizi-Minembwe, Masina-Kinshasa, RDC
2012 – 4 Laureate organizations (US$ 1000 each) Xi’an Philanthropic Child Abuse Prevention & Aid
Centre, China / Queen Rania Family & Child Center Production, Jordan / The National Family Safety Program, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia / Asociacion Metropoli, Colombia / 1 Additional Award (US$ 500): Action Enfance Sénégal
2011 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): UDISHA – Society for Education, Employment & Sustainable
Development, India Second Laureate (US$ 1000): Taia Development Programme, Sierra Leone / 2 Additional Award (US$ 500): Chantier d’appui, de loisirs, de bricolage des Lapinos (CALBRIL) Cameroon / Centre for Human Rights “AMOS” Bitola, Macedonia
2010 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): Xi’an Philanthropic Child Abuse Prevention and Aid Center PCAN,
China / Second Laureate (US$ 1000): KAFA (Enough) Violence and Exploitation, Lebanon Third Laureate (US$ 500): Somali Society Development Association (SOSDA), Somalia /Honorary Award: Terre des Hommes, Italy
2009 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): Children-Women in Social Services and Human Rights (CWISH)
Nepal / Second Laureate (US$ 1000): BZN Atlas / Movement Without a Name (MWN Atlas), Belgium / 2 Additional Awards (US$ 500 each): Saba Media Organization (SMO) Afghanistan / Laboratório de Análise e Prevenção da Violência (LAPREV), Brazil / Honorary Award: SOS Kinderdorf International, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2008 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): The Office of the Ombudsperson for Children, Croatia
Second Laureate (US$ 1000): Corporación Gestión Ecuador, Ecuador / 3 Additional Awards (US$ 500 each) Fairland Foundation (FAFO), Uganda / Stairway Foundation Inc. (SFI) Philippines / Community Human Rights and Advocacy Centre (CHRAC), Cameroon
2007 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): Society for Empowering Human Resources (SEHER), Pakistan
Second Laureate (US$ 1000): Ass. Mondiale pour les Orphelins et les Enfants Abandonnés, Togo / 2 Additional Awards (US$ 500 each): Observatorio sobre Infancia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Organisation Nationale des Femmes Rurales “Fleurs de Centrafrique” (ONFR/FC)
2006 – 2 First Laureates (US$ 3000 each): Tulir Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual
Abuse (Tulir CPHCSA), India / Queen Rania Family & Child Center at Jordan River Foundation, Jordan / 2 Awards (US$ 500 each): Association Najdeh, Lebanon / Cercle de Réflexion et d’Action pour Christ (CRAC), Togo
2005 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): International Child Abuse Network Inc (Yes ICAN), USA / Second
Laureate (US$ 1000): Asociación Afecto contra el maltrato infantil (AFECTO), Colombia / 2 Additional Awards (US$ 500 each): Muhammadan Women Welfare Society, Pakistan / Youth Net and Counseling (YONECO), Malawi
2004 – First Laureate (US$ 3000): Women Action Coalition Child Abuse (WACCA), Nigeria
Second Laureate (US$ 1000): Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW/HR), Pakistan / Additional Awards (US$ 500 each): Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse of East Asia (STA – CPCA), China / and Vienna Network for Prevention of Sexual Abuse against Girls, Boys and Youth, Austria