USAID 2024 Water-Secure World Photo Contest
What does a water-secure world look like to you? The USAID 2024 Water-Secure World Photo Contest is now open for submissions through Friday August 9th! We invite you to submit your photos that demonstrate USAID’s progress towards improving health, prosperity, stability, and resilience through sustainable and equitable water resources management (WRM) and access to safe drinking water and sanitation services and hygiene practices (WASH).
Winning photos will be featured in USAID Global Waters’ digital, print, and social media products and platforms. Last year’s winners also featured prominently in the Global Water Strategy 2023 Annual Report. It’s a great opportunity to share your water-secure world story–in pictures–with a global audience!
Contest entrants may submit up to five high-quality photos that illustrate the value of #WRM and #WASH as categorized in the U.S. Global Water Strategy:
- Category 1: Strengthen Water and Sanitation Sector Governance, Financing, Institutions, and Markets
- Examples: Mobile payments for water or sanitation services; Multi-stakeholder processes that feature local leaders; Training or support for local utilities, watershed basin organizations, etc.
- Category 2: Increase Equitable Access to Safe, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Drinking Water and Sanitation Services and the Adoption of Hygiene Practices
- Examples: Households gaining piped access to water services; Professionals delivering water or sanitation services; Inclusive (e.g., disability, gender identify, etc.) sanitation facilities in institutions or markets
- Category 3: Improve Climate-Resilient Conservation and Management of Freshwater Resources and Associated Ecosystems
- Examples: Nature-based solutions for flood protection; Watershed management or coordination; Mapping efforts of forest cover, areas of high water recharge, groundwater, etc.
- Category 4: Anticipate and Reduce Conflict and Fragility Related to Water
- Examples: Cooperation between groups that depend on shared water resources that integrates conflict response and/or builds resilience to shocks; Humanitarian WASH or WRM response
Eligibility
- This contest is open to anyone–amateurs and professionals alike! Photos may be submitted by the photographer or by someone else with the photographer’s permission.
- Photos must depict a USAID-funded activity.
- Photos must be original submissions (not submitted to a previous Water-Secure World Photo Contest)
Rules and Submission Requirements
- Photos should portray people with dignity and respect (e.g., people appear clean and healthy, people are using water from clean containers). Refer to the USAID Photo Guide for Partners.
- You may submit to some or all categories, but no more than five photos total.
- Photos must be taken within the last three years.
- Photos must be submitted in color.
- Each submission must include:
- One high-resolution photo (4,000-6,000 x 2,000-3,000 px)
- A clear caption explaining who is in the photo, where they are, and what they are doing. If no people, please use the caption to explain the context of the image.
- Name of USAID-funded activity or project
- Date the photo was taken
- Photo credit: Name of photographer or activity, and organization affiliation, as applicable
- Contact information so we can reach out with questions and notify winners
NOTE: Please be especially conscious about the use of photos that depict young children. Reconsider submitting such photos if you cannot verify parental consent. In photos of young children, it is best if a consenting parent or guardian is included in the photo. Please ensure that photos of children are appropriate (i.e., children are fully clothed, clean, appear healthy, not barefoot).
How to Submit
- Submit your photo(s) (up to five [5] total) on our Drimmify portal. If you are submitting more than one photo, it is best to submit them all at once. Be sure to fill out the required fields to ensure your submission is complete. If you encounter difficulties with the portal, contact us.
- Submissions will be accepted until Friday, August 9, 2024.
Questions?
Email [email protected].
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By submitting a photograph to this competition you:
- Declare that you own the copyright of the photograph and it is your original work.
- Declare that you have received permission to use the visual image of any identifiable individual or building in the photograph for entry into the competition and that the image may be published as stipulated.
- Agree that Global Waters and its partners who use the photo will not be responsible for the infringement of any third-party rights in the photograph that may arise as a result of your actions or omissions and that you indemnify UGlobal Waters and its partners against all legal fees, claims, damages and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of your breach of the contest rules.
- Grant reproduction rights for Global Waters (under USAID and the interagency) use and in doing so agree that USAID and/or other individual partners can use your photograph for the purposes of the competition and also for future reproduction on websites and literature and other materials at USAID’s and/or other individual partners’ discretion (photographs will be credited where appropriate).