The Right Livelihood Awards have opened their application process to honour and support courageous people and organisations from across the world offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems. There is no particular category for the Award and any person or organisation making a visionary change can be nominated for this Award among which 4 will be chosen by the Jury as the winners who will be presented the Award at a grand ceremony in Stockholm.

The Right Livelihood Award is not an award for the world’s political, scientific or economic elite, but an award for the people and their work and struggles for a better future. The Laureates come from all walks of life: they are farmers, teachers, doctors, or simply, concerned citizens. The Right Livelihood Award accepts proposals from everyone through an open nomination process.

The applications for 2019 Awards have started and the last date to apply is by 1 March 2019.

Unlike other International prizes, the Right Livelihood Award has no categories.

The purpose of Right Livelihood Awards is to promote scientific research, education, public understanding and practical activities which:

-contribute to a global ecological balance

-are aimed at eliminating material and spiritual poverty

-contribute to lasting peace and justice in the world.

Nominations can be sent in for people or organisations whose ongoing work aligns with the above goals.

The Right Livelihood Award Foundation makes three cash awards and one Honorary Award each year, for a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognise but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The prize money changes slightly each year and in 2017 the prize money shared by all Laureates was SEK 3 million (approximately 2.4 crore INR). The cash awards are intended for work in progress or the extension of existing activities; they are never given for personal use.

Proposals, preferably written in English, should be submitted both electronically and as a paper copy via regular mail through the address given on the website.

The Right Livelihood Award Foundation is a charity registered in Sweden, with head office in Stockholm. The Foundation's principal purpose is to bestow the Right Livelihood Award but they also run the Right Livelihood College, a capacity building arena for the award laureates as well as other educational programmes.

The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980 to “honour and support courageous people and organisations offering visionary and exemplary solutions to the root causes of global problems”. It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' and there are now 170 Laureates from 69 countries. The Foundation is a politically independent and non-ideological platform for the voices of its Laureates to be heard. It is sustained by individual donations from different countries.