2020 CID Collaboration Award

The CID Collaboration Award is a new award introduced at the CID Annual Conference 2019. The award recognises and celebrates the importance of effective relationships and collaborative thinking within and across the sector to tackle difficult development challenges and global issues.

We want to hear from CID Members and Associate Members that have successfully worked together on a project with a mix of organisations and individuals – for example, local entrepreneurs, governments, funders, private sector, consultants, academics or researchers.

A successful collaboration could mean you have overcome particular obstacles, used technology creatively, or found new ways to collaborate across geographical boundaries. You may have had to compromise or take calculated risks with new collaborations that had not been tried before. 

Covid-19 and its impact has made this year especially challenging for people around the globe, including those working in the development sector and those who are impacted by the work we do. CID is aware that a number of its Members and Associate Members have successfully worked together on projects with a mix of organisations and individuals – for example, local entrepreneurs, governments, funders, private sector, consultants, academics or researchers. A successful collaboration could mean you have overcome particular obstacles, used technology creatively, or found new ways to collaborate across geographical boundaries. You may have had to compromise or take calculated risks with new collaborations that had not been tried before. 

We commend our Members and Associate Members for joining forces with other organizations and individuals and would like to hear more about these collaborations. Nominate yourself, your organization or your partners now for the CID Collaboration Award 2020! Please find the Application Form below.

Download the Application Form here

The 2019 Collaboration Award was awarded to ChildFund, Save the Children and World Vision, along with UNICEF, for their work on the Ending Violence Against Children initiative. 

Judging criteria

Your Application Form will be judged on the following criteria:

• The narrative - how compellingly you tell the project's story  
• The scope - who and how many people were reached
• The impact - what is the likelihood of impact and sustainability
• The collaboration - how the collaboration led to the successes or results of this project.

How to enter

Deadline for entries: 5.30 pm on Thursday 15 October 2020.

Please submit the Application Form and any additional evidence/supporting material by the deadline via email to office@cid.org.nz.

Eligibility criteria

Entrants must:

• be a CID Member or Associate Member;
• complete the application form;
• understand that "project", "campaign" and "partnership" refer to the work for which you are submitting an entry – this could be a campaign, a collaboration, an innovation etc;
• submit their full entry before the deadline (5.30pm, Thursday 15 October 2020);
• give consent for the information they provide to be uploaded onto the CID website and CID’s social media channels;
• give consent for potential media coverage of their organisation's project;
• understand that the intentions for this initiative are to celebrate, share and publicly recognise the inspiring work of the CID membership; and
• understand that entries must relate to projects that have been initiated within the last two years and either have finished within the last 12 months or be current and operational at the time of entry.

Notes for entrants

• Three shortlisted entries will be shown at the awards ceremony, after CID’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) and dinner on 5 November 2020
• Entrants are free to use the award name, the name of CID and the sponsor's name in their publicity in relation to the award
• Entrants may submit more than one entry.

Judging process

Judges will include members of the CID team. Judges will evaluate each entry against the criteria, using their own discretion. The judges’ decisions are final and binding and no feedback will be given on unsuccessful entries.

Award sponsors

Entrants must:

• understand that the awards may or may not be sponsored;
• understand that if sponsored, the sponsors are not included on the judging panel;
• understand that if sponsored, the sponsor will co-present the awards to the winners at the award ceremony;
• agree that overall winners and those highly commended will be cited with the name of CID and, if sponsored with the name of the sponsor, in any publicity in relation to the award.