Awards

 international awards & Competitons


Winner, UN-Habitat Dubai International Award for Best Practice to Improve the Living Environment,  Dubai, 2013

 

Schwab Foundation African Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, at the World Economic Forum, Addis Ababa, 2012.


Semi-finalist in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, 2012

 

 

Winner of the Innovation Award,  Salon des Solidarités, Paris,  2012

 


Winner of a 2011 SEED Award, (category sustainable consumption and production) for providing support for African entrepeneurs in Burkina Faso.
 

 


Winner of the Social Enterprise Award (International section) by the newspaper La Tribune, in conjuction with the bank BNP Paribas, Paris, June 2011.


Winner of the Social Economy Initiative Trophy awarded by the Crédit Cooperatif Bank, October 2010.

One of 11 “...outstanding finalists” for the World Habitat Award, organised by the Building and Social Housing Foundation for the UN World Habitat Day, 2009

Emilio Caravatti, AVN partner in Mali, won the Brick Award 2010.

AVN was nominated in 2007 and 2010 for the aga khan award for architecture. 
 


One of 25 laureates (out of over 1500 initial submissions) in the World Bank Development Marketplace Competition on Adaptation to Climate Change, 2009.


Winner of the Ashoka France IMPACT Competition for social entrepreneurship, 2008

Tech Awards Laureate, Economic Development, 2007 (as a result AVN figures on the Global Giving websites)


 

Winner of the Ashoka Changemakers Competition on How to provide affordable housing, 2006
 
 

Some welcome compliments

  • "  ... a remarkable achievement..." - Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameeen Bank, Bangladesh, and Nobel Peace Prize 2006 (March 2009, when AVN was one of the winners of a competition on Facebook to meet Muhammad Yunus in Paris)

 

  •  " The Nubian Vault is until now the best program in the world in the field of skills transfer in the construction of earth brick vaults... their success is due to their emphasis on the social aspects of this technology transfer" - Satprem Maini, UNESCO Chair of Earth Architecture, Auroville Earth Institute, India (April 2007, in support of AVN's bid for the Tech Museum Award)

 

  • "The leverage effects generated by AVN make it one of the most innovative initiatives benefiting the population of the Sahel" - Arnaud Mourot, CEO, Ashoka France (April 2007)

 

  •  "My dream is to be able one day to contribute to your work alongside the NV masons..." - Simone Swan, President of the Adobe Alliance, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (July 2011, in an email to Thomas Granier, co-founder of AVN)

 

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