The award title is “Al-Sumait Prize” for advances in the fields of Food Security, Health, and Education in the African continent. The prize is to be awarded annually to individuals or institutions within one of these proposed three fields and has a value of $1,000,000 (One million US dollars).

The objective of the Prize is the appreciation, recognition of the best studies, scientific projects, applied research, and innovative initiatives, which have made a significant and lasting influence in advancing progress to economic and social development in Africa. The awarded projects should help African nations to overcome poverty, hunger, lack of potable water, injustice or to improve health care, literacy and the allocation of economic resources. The Prize should also highlight successes within the following areas: Food security, Health, and Education.

The deadline to submit a nomination is the end of June 2017.

The prize is to be awarded to individuals or institutions who through their research projects or initiatives have made significant advancement within one or more of the following areas of Education:

• Improving peoples access to basic or advanced education.
• Improving literacy among all members of society.
• Decreasing the dependence of children’s education on the socio-economical status of their parents

Read more on Alsumait Prize website