Deadline: February 15, 2026
Applications are open for the United Nations FAO Award for Achievement 2026. The FAO Award for Achievement recognizes professional achievements in various sectors such as fisheries, forestry, climate, land and water, animal and plant health, to name but a few. It is awarded to any entity or individual, including FAO teams or employees, for outstanding technical cooperation or humanitarian work at country level.
Award
The award includes:
- a scroll describing the achievements of the recipient institution and/or an award;
- a cash prize of USD $10,000.
Eligibility
- The FAO Award for Achievement will recognize specific professional achievements in various sectors and programmes related to the work of the Organization, with due regard to areas where FAO undertakes extensive work, such as fisheries and aquaculture, biodiversity, environment, forestry, climate, land and water, animal and plant health, FAO/WHO Center, FAO/IAEA Center and Codex Alimentarius.
- It would be conferred upon any entity or individual, including FAO teams or employees, for example, for outstanding technical cooperation or humanitarian work at country level.
Criteria
In the spirit of Conference Resolution 11/21 the winning entity or individual should be one that has implemented a programme having a model character and which has either:
- Outstanding contribution to the advancement of the country or countries to which he or she was assigned, in particular in the fields of sustainable agricultural and rural development or food security. This contribution must be clearly identifiable and may take the form of technical innovations in agriculture, fisheries or forestry; institutional or administrative improvements; discoveries of new resources as a result of research, surveys or other investigations; establishment of training and research institutions;
- Filled a critical gap and met successfully short-term technical assistance needs which could not be covered by other sources of support; and/or
- Produced sustainable outcome and outputs and had particular catalytic effects such as increased mobilization of investment funds, large-scale follow-up action, policy and institutional changes; and/or
- Particular emphasis will be given to the nature, the sustainability and the replicability of the achievements and the catalytic effects generated.
Application
- The text of the detailed nomination should be self-contained and should provide concrete elements and information.
- The nomination can be submitted electronically at the form or sent via mail at [email protected]
For more information, visit UN FAO Award for Achievement.