2001 Winners and Finalists

George Odera Outa planned to use popular theatre techniques of song, dance and drama to make the rural communities of Lake Victoria more aware of what is happening to them - and what they can do about it.

George Odera Outa of the University of Nairobi, Kenya developed a community education project to combat the environmental hazards that are choking Lake Victoria, the world's second largest fresh water lake, and threatening the livelihoods and health of the four million people who live around it. Since winning the Prize, George has launched his project in the main Lake Victoria town of Kisumu as part of its centenary festival.

Runners-up were Kapil Mohan, a civil servant from Mangalore, India, and Juliet Jenkins, an environmental designer from West Sussex, England who each received $5,000.

Kapil's project solved an environmental problem by making tiles and bricks from iron ore waste rather than clay. Juliet's proposal aimed to show that large areas of agricultural land in southern England could be more effectively developed as natural 'working wetlands' - an economic and environmentally-sound alternative to conventional artificial drainage.