The Development & Innovation Award (Innovate) is an initiative launched by the Ministry of Municipalities and Environment to benefit from its intensive human resources and diversity of competencies covering the various fields of the ministry by motivating them to think innovatively and enhance their competitiveness to attract ideas and development projects that contribute to the development and improvement of performance of the ministry. This will positively reflect on the development and improvement of services provided to the public, and promote and enrich the culture of innovation at the national level. Where ideas are received and development initiatives are formulated in a general framework to be ideas that are applicable and capable of bringing about change, and contribute in the development of work and community improvement in general and improve the services provided by the ministry in particular, and provide a work environment that encourages development, creativity, innovation and initiative.
Ideas or innovations will be evaluated according to the following basic criteria: