The Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, are delighted to announce that The Transformational Business Awards 2021 are now open for entries, to all financial and non-financial private sector organisations, as well as NGOs that can meet the judging criteria.
We look forward to receiving your submissions. The entry deadline for submissions is 31 July 2021, 17:00 BST (GMT+1).
The Transformational Business Award 2021 shortlist will be announced on 09 September 2021 and the winner will be announced on 26 October during an online conference and awards event. If you would like to register your interest in attending the online winners event please fill in this short form.
COUNTDOWN TO 2021 ENTRY DEADLINE
2021 CATEGORIES
Transformational Climate Change Solutions – Urban Infrastructure
This award recognises initiatives that leverage private sector expertise and finance, including public-private partnerships, and are using new technologies to build and modernise critical infrastructure, decarbonise mobility networks, accelerate adoption of clean energy, develop scalable, practical green building projects, improve waste management, and generally boost environmental resilience. Special attention will be given to entries that promote inclusion and affordability for low-income residents.
Transformational Climate Change Solutions – Sustainable Supply Chains
This award recognises innovative solutions that are having a measurable impact on more than one component of a supply chain and are replicable across different geographies and sectors. Special attention will be given to entries that promote workforce inclusion, particularly in emerging markets of origin.
Transformational Climate Change Solutions – Climate-Smart Agriculture
This award recognises innovative, high-quality solutions that advance climate-smart agriculture practices and investment in emerging markets, with special attention given to scalable solutions and investments that are technology- or business model-driven and can be applied by smallholder farmers. Entries that offer scalable, sustainable solutions for reducing food losses while also promoting workforce capacity building and inclusion are encouraged.
Transformational Technology Solutions – Post-Secondary Education, Employability and Workforce Skills
This award recognises tech-enabled, scalable solutions for technical and digital skills acquisition and certification, platforms for efficient recruiting and workforce/talent management, and novel public-private partnerships for workforce skilling.
Transformational Technology Solutions – Healthcare Access, Affordability and Quality
This award recognises health tech solutions that have demonstrated an ability to scale commercially while delivering demonstrated improvements in access, affordability and/or quality of healthcare in emerging markets.
Transformational Finance Solutions – Impact Investing
This award recognises impact investing funds that demonstrate innovation, scalability and measured impact in their operations. Special attention will be given to innovation in the fund manager’s approach to identifying, nurturing and scaling-up impact opportunities; the expected and realised impact results and financial returns; and the quality of impact leadership, management, measurement and reporting, taking as reference recognised industry standards.
KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
The Transformational Business Awards Submission Deadline: 31 July 2021, 17:00 BST
The Transformational Business Awards Shortlist Announcement: 09 September 2021
The Transformational Business Awards Winner Announcement: 26 October 2021
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