King Baudouin Prize

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The King Baudouin Prize for Development in Africa ( French Prix ​​Roi Baudouin pour le Développement en Afrique , Dutch Koning Boudewijnprijs voor Ontwikkeling in Africa ) is an award from the Belgian King Baudouin Foundation ( French Fondation Roi Baudouin , Dutch Koning Boudewijnstichting ) with Based in Brussels and New York City . The foundation was set up in 1976 by the Belgian King Baudouin on the occasion of his 25th anniversary to the throne.

The award, which has been awarded every two years since 1980 and is endowed with 200,000 euros (as of 2016), is intended to honor successful projects that are carried out by Africans for Africans and that make a remarkable contribution to development in Africa. The aim is also to improve the visibility of the award winners vis-à-vis organizations such as the United Nations including sub-organizations, the World Bank and the European Union . For a number of years, one of the foundation's main focuses has been on projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi , but the prize has also been awarded to projects outside of Africa.

The International Congress of Distinguished Awards placed the 2014 award in the second highest category of international prestige - together with awards such as the Crafoord Prize , the Heineken Awards , the Lasker Awards , the Pulitzer Prize and the Wolf Prize .

Award winners

year Award winners website country
1980/81 Paulo Freire paulofreire.org Brazil
CGIAR, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research cgiar.org  
1982/83 AT Ariyaratne for Sarvodaya sarvodaya.org Sri Lanka
1984/85 Walter Plowright   United Kingdom
1986/87 International Foundation for Science ifs.se Sweden
1988/89 Indian Council of Agricultural Research icar.org.in India
1990/91 Kagiso Trust kagiso.co.za South Africa
1992/93 Grameen Bank grameen-bank.net Bangladesh
1994/95 TASO, The AIDS Support Organization tasouganda.org Uganda
1996/97 Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra mst.org.br Brazil
1998/99 Asma Jilani Jahangir for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan hrcp-web.org Pakistan
2000/01 FUNDECOR (Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Cordillera Volcanica Central) fundecor.org Costa Rica
2002/03 Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International fairtrade.net Germany
2004/05 Ousmane Sy   Mali
2006/07 Front line frontlinedefenders.org Ireland
2008/09 KBR68H kbr.id Indonesia
2010/11 Denis Mukwege hopitaldepanzi.org Democratic Republic of Congo
2012/13 Bogaletch Gebre for Kembatti Mentti Gezzima-Tope kmgethiopia.org Ethiopia
2014/15 ADISCO (Appui au Développement Intégral et à la Solidarité sur les Collines) adisco.org Burundi
2016/17 BarefootLaw   Uganda
Farmerline   Ghana
Kytabu   Kenya
2018/19 Wecyclers http://www.wecyclers.com/ Lagos, Nigeria

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards By Prestige (PDF, status 2014) at the International Congress of Distinguished Awards (icda.org); accessed on December 27, 2016.
  2. ↑ https://www.kbs-frb.be/fr/Activities/Themes/Africa-and-developing-countries/99626 accessed on August 20, 2020

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