Call for Nominations: 2024 Humanitarian Award

Nomination Deadline: May 8, 2024 at 5 p.m. EDT.

Every year, InterAction recognizes the outstanding leaders and organizations that strengthen our community and push our sector forward. Nominations for the Humanitarian Award are now open here.

InterAction will announce the winner during InterAction Forum 2024, to be held in person on June 26 – 27, 2024.

Please see below for specific criteria for the Humanitarian Award.

InterAction Humanitarian Award

Members of our community often surmount significant obstacles to carry out their work effectively. With increasing needs in existing and new humanitarian crises, our resources have been more strained than ever. InterAction seeks to honor these individuals, their bravery, and their commitment to the most vulnerable populations.

The Humanitarian Award is meant to recognize an individual or individuals whose work reflects important leadership qualities in humanitarian settings such as courage, humility, respect, innovation, creativity, empathy, integrity, and curiosity.

Nominees will have made significant contributions in any of the following areas: emergency response, disaster relief, anticipatory action, preparedness planning, diversity, equity, and inclusion, local leadership, civil society engagement, public policy, climate adaption and/or mitigation, or economic development.

If you would like to nominate an individual, please use the form here.

*Nominations will be accepted until Wednesday, May 8*