Results of the Forth GRIPS SDGs Award competition

SDGs are high on the GRIPS agenda. To promote innovative efforts by alumni towards solving the most pressing environmental, social and economic challenges of our time, GRIPS launched its SDGs Awards in 2019.
This year, in the 4th GRIPS SDGs Award competition, careful consideration by the screening committee could not identify a winner for this year’s award.

Honorable mention

Starting this year, we’ve begun awarding honorable mentions to highly promising initiatives that are expected to make further progress in the future. And after a review by this year's screening committee, we are pleased to announce that we will be awarding an honorable mention to Ms. Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi. We warmly congratulate Ms. Nyaosi! GRIPS encourages work toward further development of her initiative and looks forward to news of impressive outcomes. We will send Ms. Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi a certificate as a commemorative gift.

Recipient of 2023 honorable mention and project

Ms. Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi, from Kenya, received a master's degree from GRIPS' Public Policy Program in 2006, and is currently a chief economist of the State Department for Housing and Urban Development at the Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing and Urban Development.
Ms. Nyaosi's honorable mention winning project, “The Ushanga Kenya Initiative,” is a flagship project of the Kenyan government aimed at creating economic benefits and employment, and improving the living standards of women in pastoral areas, by organizing women's beadwork cooperatives and commercializing their work. Since the program began, Ms. Esther Nyabiage Nyaosi has been responsible for work plan development, contract management, monitoring and evaluation of this project, and for reporting on its progress and outcomes.