Since 2000 the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) affords an annual Reconciliation Award to an individual, community or organisation in South Africa that has contributed towards social cohesion. Through this award, the IJR acknowledges and showcases the recipients’ approaches and strategies to enable reconciliation, whether they originate in the spheres of politics, media, business, culture, sport, academia or community service.
WORTH
- Nominees will be shortlisted, with the ten most exceptional individuals or youth organisations being acknowledged for their work and given the title of IJR’s Rising Shaper Representatives. One of the ten will be selected as the main award recipient with the winner title Rising Shaper 2016.
ELIGIBILITY
In order to apply, applicants must:
- Be 18 years or older
- Focus on socio-economic justice and inequality
- Have minimum of 3 references/ testimonies of different types of people
- Have completed nomination form
- Applicants can be involved as individuals in personal projects or working in the following organisations that are youth driven: NGOs, civil society organisations, public institution, academic institution, social movements, NPOs
DEADLINE: September 19 2016
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