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Categories for the Asian CSR Awards
In each category below, the award is for a project or service implemented or significantly enhanced in 2008 or from January to June 2009 as opposed to a continuing program or activity.
- Best Workplace Practices
The company that has policies and programs in place that show the respect they have for their employees and how much they value them. It focuses on how far the company has gone in taking care of its employees by way of embracing diversity in the workplace, providing childcare, providing for appropriate work life balance of employees, dependence care, layoffs and closing, health and wellness, privacy, employee training, fostering lifelong learning, improving the quality of life at work and implementing employee ownership plans on a sustainable basis.
- Concern for Health
The Company that has accomplished the most for the improvement of health care in the local, national or international environment in which it operates with initiatives in such areas as improvement in child health including the reduction of malnutrition, support of medical research into areas meaningful to and of importance to the immediate community, partnerships with NGOs, governmental bodies or others to provide health care to the less fortunate members of society. The award is for sustainable projects or programs that are related to the core mission of the company and related to its competencies and expressed values.
- Environmental Excellence
The Company that has successfully implemented a major project or program in areas such as: Energy Efficiency, Extended Product Responsibility, Green Product Design, Waste Reduction, Sustainable Business Practices and Water Conservation. The company that has integrated environmental performance into its sustainable development strategy and delivers proven business benefits.
- Poverty Alleviation
The Company that has done the most during the preceding twelve months for the alleviation of poverty in the local, national or international environment in which it operates with initiatives in such areas as livelihood and employment generation, basic social services such as health, water, sanitation, nutrition, housing etc. The award is for sustainable projects or programs that do not merely pay lip service to poverty alleviation but are shown to form part and parcel of the company’s mission.
- Support and Improvement of Education
This award recognizes the contribution of companies through their contribution toward improving the level of education of their employees, their community and their nation. It recognizes how well the company backs up its belief and commitment to education and how sustainable the project or program is.
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Special Awards
We have since veered a bit from the lifetime achievement award and have for many years instead been giving a special award for an organization composed primarily of businesses - that in fact our socially oriented and have implemented plans and projects to alleviate poverty, improve the environment, and other CSR practices.
In the past few years, we have given this award to Singapore Compact for CSR, Business Ethics Institute of Malaysia and Indonesia Business Links.
This does not mean that the organizers will not select any lifetime achievement awardee. It's all case to case. Unlike the Asian CSR awards, which are structured, have a formal board of judges, and a rather stringent search and selection process.
Be it for the special award or for the lifetime achievement award, we do not seek nominations from the public in the sense that it is not a competitive award. It is just a person or an organization that the organizers wish to honor. In the search and selection process, we consult the conference partners. |
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