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    Global Best Practice Programme

    Shining a light on projects that are providing real solutions to the world's biggest challenges, in line with the globally-sourced Sustainable Development Goals, with a view to expanding them elsewhere.

    What is the Global Best Practice Programme?
    Expo 2020 Dubai’s platform to showcase projects that have provided tangible solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. It will highlight simple but effective initiatives, which localise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and can be adapted, replicated, and scaled to achieve an enhanced global impact.

    Applications for this programme have closed. If you still have a story to tell and would like to apply for the Untold Stories programme, please email your interest below.

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    Our focus areas

    The programme calls for projects related to five priority development topics and touching on at least one cross-cutting theme and enabler for development.

    • Inclusive and sustainable service delivery
      Reliable service provision in urban, suburban and rural areas, as well as in fluid environments such as informal, nomadic, post-disaster, emergency, and refugee settlements.
    • Livelihoods and enterprise development
      Promoting alternative employment and income opportunities, women in the workplace, competitive products and services, and improved market access.
    • Resilient habitats
      Better protecting human, economic and natural assets in urban, rural and fluid environments (informal, nomadic, post-disaster, emergency & refugee settlements).
    • Social development
      Reliable, affordable and appropriate healthcare and education systems and delivery.
    • Water, food and energy security
      Smarter consumption and resource management to better meet increasing water, food and energy requirements for a growing global population.
    Our Jury

    Our jury comprises a Chairing Committee and an Evaluation Committee with representatives from international development organisations from across the world.
    • His Excellency Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales

      Secretary General of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)

      Co-Chair of The Global Best Practice Programme
    • Dame Polly Courtice

      Director at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

      Co-Chair of The Global Best Practice Programme
    Evaluation Committee
    accenture Cisco DPWorld Emirates Emirates NBD Emirates NBD Emirates NBD Emirates NBD Emirates NBD
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    Our aims

    The Programme seeks to enhance visibility of best practices for a better 2030, and bring stakeholders together to chart action for greater results, at a global platform that will see 25 million visits and worldwide media attention.

    • Collaboration
      Facilitate and encourage partnership and cooperation between relevant stakeholders.
    • Creativity
      Use of art, film, storytelling, music or other media to communicate projects creatively.
    • Sustainable impact
      Demonstrate sustainable and tangible impacts (social, economic, environmental) of projects from around the world.
    • Transference
      Create points of connection between people, partners, communities and countries so project impacts can be adapted, replicated or scaled.
    Know a great project?
    The call for proposals for the Global Best Practice Programme has now closed. However if you have missed this deadline but have an interesting project, you can still nominate your initiative. Email us your interest for Expo’s Untold Stories and we will be in touch shortly about how you can nominate your story.

    Untold Stories can come from nations, international organizations, businesses, educational institutions, NGOs, social enterprises, communities and individuals from across the world.

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