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First Island Innovation awards announced

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During this year’s Island Finance Forum, the finalists and winners of the inaugural Island Innovation Awards were announced in a special ceremony involving representatives from the Clinton Global Initiative, the Earthshot Prize, and members of the judging panel.

Launched by President Bill Clinton at last year’s Virtual Island Summit, the Island Awards seek to identify and reward island leaders and changemakers across twelve different categories. As an official nominator for the £1 million Earthshot Prize rewarding projects enacting widespread environmental action, Island Innovation has also put forward several of the winners for consideration.

Hundreds of individuals vied for one of the twelve awards, providing judges with a deep pool of talented individuals and worthy projects to choose from. Winners of this inaugural Island Innovation Awards hail from 11 different islands around the world, and their projects have had a wide-ranging impact on their own local communities and internationally. You will find below the list of winners and their projects and full information on the winners and finalists can be found here.

“This inaugural Island Innovation Awards has been an amazing showcase of island talent from all across the world, and a huge success that we are very proud of,” said James Ellsmoor, CEO of Island Innovation.

“Congratulations to all of our excellent finalists and winners, which represent an impressive range of initiatives from around the world. We received over 330 applications and nominations, which is fantastic, especially considering that it is the first edition of the Awards. Thank you to everyone who attended the ceremony, to our awards partners, the Clinton Global Initiative, and to our esteemed panel of judges.”

The jury for the 2022 Island Innovation Awards.

Future Island Leader 

Ronelle King, for Life In Leggings: Caribbean Alliance Against Gender-based Violence

Location: Barbados 

Island Innovator 

Radhames Carela for Wine To Water Dominican Republic and its Ceramic Water Filter 

Location: Dominican Republic

Sustainable Energy Initiative of the Year

Scaling Smart, Solar, Energy Access Microgrids in Haiti by EarthSpark International 

Location: Haiti

Resilient Island 

Marine Megafauna Conservation Organization’s educational programme in South East Mauritius as part of their main Project “Conservation threatened marine megafauna species in Mauritius”.

Location: Mauritius

Women SDG Leadership 

Gina Ebanks-Petrie, Director, Department of Environment, Cayman Islands Government

Location: Cayman Islands

Sustainable Company of the Year

Island Green Living Association

Location: St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Most Transformational Government Sustainability Initiative

Food Tourism and Agritourism Initiative (FTAI) (Produktif Turism Blong Yumi Initiative), part of the Vanuatu Department of Tourism’s Sustainable Tourism Strategy

Location: Vanuatu

COVID-19 Response

Reach Within: Getting to the root of childhood trauma, simply, by Reach Within

Location: Grenada

Innovative Island Research 

Agricultural genebank research by Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees (CePACT) operated by the Pacific Community (SPC)’s Land Resources Division.

Location: Viti Levu, Fiji

Blue Economy Initiative 

Regenerative seaweed farming and net recycling linked to improved Marine Protected Areas (iMPA) by Coast 4C

Location: 10 small island villages in the Philippines across the central and western Visayas, and expanding to a further 20 small island villages.

Green Finance and Investment 

CARICOM Development Fund for their Credit Risk Abatement Facility (CRAF)

Location: Barbados

Most Impactful Island Innovation Ambassadors

Alfredo M. Coro II, Municipal Mayor, Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines

Location: Siargao Island, Philippines

Maria Chnaraki (Hnaraki), Adjunct Professor, Drexel University

Location: Crete, Greece

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