COLIN RELF YOUNG VOICES AWARD

2nd Award Round Winners Annouced Below!

See your essays or reports published online and win prizes with IFRTD ’s new young people's writing competition.

The International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) is delighted to announce a new writing award for young people.

Colin Relf was a founding member of IFRTD and continued to support the network throughout his life. He was a pioneer in highlighting the fact that large-scale investments in transport infrastructure were not sufficiently improving the lives of rural people.

This award celebrates Colin’s interest in rural transport and his concern with promoting and motivating the people with whom he worked. It aims to encourage young people from developing countries to express, in writing, their innovative ideas, perspectives and approaches to rural transport and sustainable development.

	Award open to young people (35 years and under) from developing countries
	Prize awards of US$600 (1st), US$200 (2nd), US$200 (3rd)
	An opportunity to have your writing published by IFRTD
	Twice Yearly awards (June and December)
	Submissions welcome in English, French and Spanish

First Award Round:
The 3 winners of the first award round were announced in October 2008. To see details of the winners and the entries that they made please click here .

Second Award Round Question:
"Poor rural farmers are central to any solution to today's global food crisis and the long term problems of hunger and poverty"
Lennart Båge, President of IFAD, April 2008.
Discuss, with examples, the role that rural transport interventions can play in achieving sustainable agricultural development and poverty reduction.

Winners of the Second Award Round

The entries made to the second round of the Colin Relf Young Voices Award, focusing on rural transport and sustainable agricultural development, as above, have now been assessed by a panel of rural transport experts involved with IFRTD. The winners of the award are as follows:

First Place Winner: Eric Fofiri - Cameroon

Focus: Analysis of rural transport in Cameroon

Second Place Winner: Thulani Muchiya - Zambia

Focus: Analysis of rural transport in Zambia

Third Place Winner: Adama D Coulibaly - Mali

Focus: The role of bicycles in milk collection in Sikasso, Mali

Congratulations to these three winners! To download and read the winning entries please click on the links to the right.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this award round. The judges enjoyed reading the submissions made and felt that some excellent submissions were made on this important topic.