#ACiAwards Group A
- African ChangeMakers Rising Star Award – Emerging Leader pursuing careers with a portfolio or doing extraordinary things related to tech innovation, social innovation, design thinking, and changemaking.
- African ChangeMakers Courage Awards — Emerging Leader – that choose to make education a priority while facing life challenging events, such as homelessness, heartache, financial hardship, family turmoil, illness, substance abuse and physical disabilities.
#ACiAwards Awards Group B
3. African ChangeMakers Agricultural Award
4. African ChangeMakers Health & Wellness Award
5. African ChangeMakers Innovative Education Award – quality education, accessibility, affordability.
6. African ChangeMakers Environmental & Climate Award -climate, water, land
7. African ChangeMakers Industry & Infrastructure Award
8. African ChangeMakers Humanity, Peace & Civil Rights Defender Award
9. African ChangeMakers Women Advancement Award – reduce inequalities, domestic violence, education etc.
10. African ChangeMakers Clean & Renewable Energy Award- reduce, reuse, recycle, consumption and production – Innovative & Digital Cities
11. African ChangeMakers Partnership & Community Development Award – diaspora, friends of Africa, country for Africa, company for Africa
12. African ChangeMakers Governance Leadership – Strong Institution & Policymakers Award- public figures for their significant contributions to the country and its communities
13. African ChangeMakers Future of Work & Employment Award- workforce, employment
14. African ChangeMakers Creative Arts & Entertainment Award
15. African ChangeMakers Tech & Innovation Award
16. African ChangeMakers Diversity & Inclusiveness Award
Awards Group C
17. African ChangeMakers Men/Women of the Year Awards
18. African ChangeMakers Lifetime Leader Award
African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Time-line.
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Entry Application Opens: April 22, 2021
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Entry Application Closed: June 30, 2021
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards E-Voting Start: July15, 2021
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards E-Voting End: July 31, 2021
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Winners Notification: August 5, 2021
African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Eligibility.
- Nominee must have a company/project/initiative you had been working on/working with impact that can be verified.
- Nominee company/project/initiative must be beneficary to Africa people or the African continent.
- Nominee will make a 60 seconds (one minute) video of themselves telling us the following in the video -Nominee Full Name, Country name, name of your company/project/initiative, impact it had in the community or across Africa, why nominee deserve the award and why you are Africa Changemaker.
African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Rules & Regulation.
- #ACiAwards2021 is an online application and e-voting system process thereby enabling all African nations to send in nominations across the world.
- #ACiAwards2021 will be presented by sponsors, partners and selected awards officials.
- Winners will be notified ahead of #ACLeads2021 event to make a 60 seconds (one minute) award acceptance speech with the Full Name, Country name, name of the company/project/initiative and what the new ACiAwards means to winner, the organization or initiative.
- Award Recipients outside Nigeria will be given E-plaques, e-Badge and e-certificates which can be printed out and framed for display.
- Award Recipients in Nigeria will be given a plaque and e-Badge.
- ACi will also recognize some high-level organizations/individuals in some categories for the well-known impact they are making.
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Entry Application Opens: April 22, 2021
- African ChangeMakers Initiative Awards Entry Application Closed: June 30, 2021
