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The Zayed Sustainability Prize on Wednesday announced the launch of its 20by2020 initiative, which aims to support 10 developing countries around the world with 10 innovative sustainable solutions developed by the prize’s past winners and finalists.
“The 20by2020 initiative is a creative way to leverage the outcomes of the Zayed Sustainability Prize through greater impact [and] greater reach around the world by drawing on the innovative solutions created by prize finalists and winners,” said Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and director general of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, announcing the new programme from Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City.
“Many more people will benefit through this initiative; by the end of 2020 sustainable solutions will be extended to vulnerable communities in 10 countries by impacting thousands of people in need,” he added.
The 20by2020 initiative is also being partnered by several other leading Abu Dhabi entities including the Abu Dhabi Development Fund, Abu Dhabi Global Market and Mubadala.
Al Jaber said that each of the 10 solutions would match a certain need in one of the 10 countries that they are applied in, highlighting how the prize went through its extensive database to select and find the appropriate solutions to apply.
“Because of that very rich experience accumulated over the past 10 years… we were able to define what are the gaps that do exist today in the field and then try to match them to their natural partner through this database.
“What we’re trying to do in 2020 is to put this in action with more emphasis… [on] clearly defined sustainable gaps that do exist today in nations… and match them with those [winners or finalists] who have the service, technology or solution,” he added.
Ahmad Ali Al Sayegh, Minister of State and chairman of ADGM, said the 2020 initiative would also allow the prize’s past winners and finalists to take their innovations beyond their own countries where they have been mainly utilised.
“It is really about taking their product somewhere outside their geography where they usually operate.
Al Sayegh said that the initiative would also carry on past 2020 and would become a yearly initiative by the prize.
“In its first phase for the year 2020 we have enough funding for 10 countries and 10 different products… Hopefully every year like we announce the prizes we will [also] announce that this initiative will continue.”
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