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🏆 With a total of $1 Million in prizes, the Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development aims to recognize and support groundbreaking initiatives in sustainable development.
🌱 This is your golden opportunity to showcase your innovative practices and contribute to creating a brighter future for our planet.
📝 Don't miss out! Register now at www.dubaiaward.ae to participate in this remarkable initiative.
Award History
Established in 1995—under the directive of the late Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum during the United Nations International Conference in Dubai—as an outcome of the Dubai Declaration. This declaration created the international concept of sharing Best Practices for the accelerated development of the human settlements sector.
The Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development has continued to receive support from H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and Industry and Chairman of Dubai Municipality.
OUR VISION
Be a global platform to share futuristic practices achieving human happiness.
OUR MISSION
Recognize global innovative practices that made a positive impact and continue to improve the quality of people’s life leading to the cities of the future.
1. Best Practices Award in Urban Regeneration and Public Spaces
Urban regeneration brings back underutilized assets and redistributes opportunities, increasing urban prosperity and quality of life. Public space is considered the backbone of cities. They are crucial for achieve sustainable cities and inclusive communities: providing ecosystem services, improving health and wellbeing, ensuring social inclusion and economic exchange.
This category caters for addressing the cities of the future; finding ways in which cities ensure to provide affordable housing and access to food, water, clean air, mobility, public life and nature for continuously more numerous urban populations.
2. The Most Beautiful, Innovative and Iconic Building
Sustainable and iconic building development require holistic local and life cycle data analysis in designing true bioclimatic and responsive developments, to make it a distinctive mark in the world. They balance preserving resources, habitats, heritage, visual appeal and optimizing wellbeing, quality, affordability, and performance.
This category caters to recognize most iconic, smart, innovative, human-centric sustainable projects that combine green design and construction practices with modern, intelligent architectural excellence in an innovative eco-human-cultural approach.
3. Best Practices Award in Sustaining Urban Food Systems
Food security is defined as the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food.
This category caters for systemic change and much improved access to food by all people while maintaining a strong connection between food production, storage and supply to local, regional and global beneficiaries showing an impact on human settlements.
4. Best Practices Award in Addressing Climate Change and Reducing Pollution
Living environment is defined as the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
This category caters for solutions addressing climate change, pollution reduction, and the protection of a thriving biodiversity including long-term multilevel governance mechanics, stakeholder engagement, disaster management, and circular economy.
5. Best Practices Award in Urban Infrastructure Planning and Management
Infrastructure is defined as the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies, etc.) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
This category caters for finding adaptable, local and resilient solutions, that will enable longer lifecycle of infrastructure, due to the fast-paced transformations in line with the 4th industrial revolution relying on innovative, futuristic and sustainable projects improving living conditions.
Who can apply?
The award is open to all sectors: national and regional governments, local authorities and their associations, non-governmental organizations, multilateral agencies, community based organizations, research and academic institutions, public and private foundations, media entities and individuals.
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