Gawad Bayani ng
Kalikasan:
Parangal sa Magigiting na Pakikibaka
Para sa Kalikasan at Karapatan
The Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines
is pleased to launch the Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan,
an annual awards event recognizing exemplary individuals
and organizations who have become part of the people's
movement to defend our environment, lives, and rights.
The Gawad
Bayani ng Kalikasan aims to:
a. To promote awareness of critical
environmental issues and the situation of communities
directly relying on the natural resources
b. To recognize the valiant struggles of
the people to defend the environment, lives, and rights,
to serve as an example and lesson to the people who continue
to confront similar challenges.
c. To recognize the exemplary deeds and
initiatives of simple individuals and organizations who
have contributed to the upholding the environment and
people's welfare at the national and/or local levels
d. To promote understanding of the struggle
for social, economic, and political rights and its tight
link in the preservation and conservation of the
environment.
Categories
Six (6) recipients of the Gawad Bayani ng
Kalikasan will be chosen by the Board of Judges: composed
of three (3) individuals (Gawad sa Indibidwal)
and three (3) organizations (Gawad sa Organisasyon).
From this shortlist of six (6) awardees,
the Board of Judges will choose one (1) recipient of the
Natatanging Gawad (Most Distinguished Award), in recognition
his/her/their being an inspiration and example to the
Filipino people for offering time and talents for the
defense of the environmetn and advancement of the people's
welfare.
Gawad sa Indibidwal
(Individual Award) – Awarded to
individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary ability
and effort to uphold the environment and people's welfare,
whether in the form of advocacy, campaigns, education,
research, technology development, community services,
mass media, or cultural work.
Gawad sa Organisasyon
(Award for Organizations)–
Awarded to peoples and community organizations and institutions
that have demonstrated unity in upholding the welfare
of the people and of the environment by exemplary actions
and advocacy, campaigns, education, research, technology
development, community services, mass media, or cultural
work.
Guidelines
and Requirements for Nominations
1. The Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan may be
awarded to individuals and organizations advancing significant
and valiant struggles or exemplary initiatives to defend
the environment and the Filipino people's rights to their
natural resources.
2. Each prospective awardee for the Gawad
Bayani ng Kalikasan must be nominated by at least two
individuals, organizations, communities, or institutions.
3. Individuals or organizations can not
nominate themselves for the Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan.
4. Please send two (2) hard
copies each of the nomination forms and required documents
stated above and one (1) electronic copy saved in a CD
(Abode or PDF format), sealed in a long brown envelope,
addressed to the Secretariat of the Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan
(see mailing address below), personally delivered or
postmarked
on or before 12 midnight of 30 October 2009
(Friday).
5. Documents submitted must
not exceed 30 pages all in all.
- Documents submitted for nominations will not be
returned.
- For nominations and documents, written in
the local dialect, please enclose an English
or Filipino translation.
- Please address all completed nomination documents
to:
Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan Secretariat
#26 Matulungin Street, Barangay Central, Diliman,
Quezon City 1101 Philippines
| Requirements
for Individual
Nominations |
Requirements
for Organizational
Nominations |
- Nomination Form
- Biography
- Two (2) or more Letters of Recommendation
(from individuals, organizations, communities,
or institutions)
- One (1) page essay on the exemplary contributions
of the nominee on his/her advocacy and struggles
for the environment and the people. Essay should
be typewritten or computerized (Font size 21,
Arial), double spaced on 8.5 x 11 bond paper,
1' margins on all sides)
Optional:
- Published speeches by the individual nominee
- List of awards and recognitions received,
if any
- Published articles, images or documents
(news clippings, photographs, website or blog
entries, video footage) about the individual nominee
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- Nomination Form
- Organizational History stating how it reached
its aims and objectives as an organization
- Two (2) or more Letters of Recommendation
(from individuals, organizations, communities,
or institutions)
- One (1) page essay on the exemplary contributions
of the organizations and its advocacy and struggles
for the environment and the people. Essay should
be typewritten or computerized (Font size 21,
Arial), double spaced on 8.5 x 11 bond paper,
1' margins on all sides)
Optional:
- Organizational Publications and productions
(Annual Report, brochure, newsletter, book, website
or blogsite, video-documentaries, films, etcetera)
- List of awards and
recognitions received, if any
- Published articles, images or documents
(news clippings, photographs, website or blog
entries, video footage) about the organization
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