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News alert - 10 January 2025

World Habitat Awards Open for 2025

The World Habitat Awards recognise projects that provide practical and innovative solutions to current housing needs and problems. Any individual, organisation or government with an innovative and practical solution to housing needs and problems from around the world is eligible to enter.

Housing projects and approaches are sought that:

• Demonstrate practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to current housing issues faced by countries all around the world.
• Can be transferred or adapted for use as appropriate.
• Are already being implemented or are completed ie not at design stage or very early stages of development.
• View the term habitat from a broad perspective and bring other benefits as well, such as energy or water saving, income generation, social inclusion, community and individual empowerment, health benefits, capacity building or education.

Projects should:

• Focus on affordable and adequate housing.
• Have taken action to address the climate emergency.
• Be in progress or have been completed in the last 10 years.
• Be taking steps to promote diversity, equality and inclusion.
• Have been designed and/or delivered in close collaboration with the residents/local community.

Entries must detail housing projects and/or programmes that are either completed or in progress.

While the housing element must be a key part of each submission, entrants are encouraged to submit projects and programmes that view the term 'habitat' from a broad perspective. Entries are encouraged that also address wider issues, for example, the climate emergency and environmental sustainability, social inclusion and income generation and gender, among others.

Two Gold Awards are made each year, along with non-financial Silver and Bronze prizes. In addition to international recognition, awards of £10,000 will be made to each of the two Gold Award winning projects. Trophies will also be presented to the winning projects, and travel and accommodation costs will be met for one representative of each winning project to attend the awards ceremony.

Entries should be submitted by the 3 March 2025 (23:59) deadline.

World Habitat Awards - World Habitat