Win $20,000 with the Global Development Network Essay Competition

Deadline: 15 September 2014 

The Global Development Network in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launches the Next Horizons Essay Contest 2014. The title of this essay Contest is ‘The Future of Development Assistance.’ This is to address the importance of aid and the changes it has brought till date. The competition aims to welcome fresh thinking related to the future of aid that can inform the ongoing discourse on development assistance and to make this thinking available to policymakers and key stakeholders. 

Prizes 

-$20,000 each to up to 20 Entries 

-Promotion by GDN and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Themes 

1. Financial Instruments 

2. Bilateral and multilateral institutions 

3. Middle-income countries 

4. Aid and governance 

5. Recipient role 

6. Data and information technology 

Eligibility 

-Criteria Entrant must be at least 21 years of age. 

-Current employees, contractors and agents of the Global Development Network and, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, together with members of their immediate families (parent, child, sibling and spouse of each) and those living in their same household are ineligible to participate in the contest. --Entries from the residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Myanmar and Sudan will not be considered. Individuals included on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control are not eligible to participate in the contest. 

-Reviewers, selection committee members and translators for this contest are not eligible to participate. --The main text of the essay should contain maximum 5,000 words (notes and rpeference list excluded). Abstract should be maximum 250 words. 

-Citations are must. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited. Essay can be submitted in any of the following three languages – English, Spanish & French. 

Note: Entries are accepted via online platform alone. Only the successful applicants will be contacted. 

For more information, please visit GDN Next Horizon Essay Contest 2014.