CSR Network Zimbabwe’s National awards recognize excellent sustainability strategies that are transforming business, society and the environment. We showcase the very best – from CEOs to investors to companies leading the way in innovation, technology and impact – setting new standards and direction for industry.
Mark your calendars now for a night full of celebrations and industry-wide recognition.
November 22 is not to be missed.
To stay up to date with new categories, deadlines, the judging panel, what to expect and how to enter, or to send your entries, get in touch with us on admin@csrnetworkzimbabwe.co.zw, willard@csrnetworkzimbabwe.co.zw, or 0774768895
We also have a limited number of headline sponsorships for the 2019 Awards so please get in touch with us ASAP.
2019 Categories Include-
I’m very pleased to announce the world’s leading awards to celebrate responsible business excellence.
Key Dates for your diary:
- Entries & Nominations Close: September 30 2019
- Finalists Announcement: October 21 2019
- Awards Ceremony: 22nd November 2019
We’ve revamped our categories to cover every aspect of transformative business, ensuring you’ll find the project worth showcasing, including:
- Zimbabwe top 10 Sustainable Companies
- Top Charitable Companies in Response to Cyclone Idai
- Top CSR Manager of the year
- Business Transformation Award
- Sustainability Innovation Award
- Business Leader Award
- Partnership of The Year
- Clean Energy Transition Award
- New Start-Up Award
- Responsible Investment Award
- Circular Innovation Award
- Plastics Innovation Award
- Responsible Supply Chain Award
- Reporting and Transparency Award
- SDG Impact Award
- Community Impact award
- Purpose-Driven Communications Award
- Lifetime Achievement Award
Excellence Category
- Excellence in Community – Partnership with Charity
- Excellence in Community – Volunteering
- Excellence in Community – Community Programs
- Excellence in Environment
- Excellence in Marketplace
- Excellence in Workplace
- Excellence in Supporting Youth Employment & Financial Inclusion
- Excellence in CSR by an SME
- Best CSR Initiative-Responsible Business
- Best CSR Initiative-Giving to communities
- Best CSR Initiative-Education
- Beacon Award for Philanthropy
- Waste Management Initiative in The Commercial and Public Sector
- The Best Community Recycling Initiative of the year.
- Recycling Business of The Year
- Best Corporate Social Investment Initiative of the Yr
- Best CSR Initiative-Energy
- Best CSR Initiative-Healthy
- Most CSR Initiative with impact
CSR Awards Judging Process 2019
The Awards are judged by a panel of industry experts who all bring a broad range of experience in the sector.
The Corporate Social Responsibility Awards seek to recognize the outstanding work of businesses that are engaged in making a difference in their communities they operate in. The CSR Awards are a chance for businesses to showcase their achievements in a variety of action categories, from volunteer programs to environmental initiatives and more. The Awards are open to businesses of all sizes engaged in CSR, from big Corporations to SMEs..
Judging Process
CSRNZ is committed to ensuring that the judging process is both robust and transparent. Judges are looking in particular for projects which are innovative, engage staff at all levels, are well thought out and communicated, utilise a variety of resources, and have positive impacts on the business and the target sector.
The CSR Awards applications are reviewed by experts in the field of CSR and business leaders.
The judging panels are chaired by an independent chairperson.
Judging Panel One
Judging Panel One scrutinises all applications to the Awards. The judges review the applications independently and provide a score. This judging panel then meets to discuss the highest scoring projects and create a shortlist of the strongest projects. These projects are then passed on to Judging Panel Two for review.
Key Judging Criteria
The judges evaluate each project on its individual merits, but there are a number of criteria that will be key factors in their evaluation:
- Innovation: Projects should demostrate high levels of inovation in addressing the relevant issues.
- Engagement & Collaboration: Projects engage staff at all levels of the company and involve knowledge or skills sharing. There is strong and mutually beneficial collaboration with any partner charities, communities or other stakeholders.
- Strategy & Communications: Projects involve clear identification and prioritisation of goals and actions, and effective communications with all stakeholders.
- Social Impact: Projects have demonstrable, positive, long term impact on the relevant stakeholders and are sustainable.
- Business Impact: The company and staff benefit from engagement in the project. CSR projects support and complement core business strategy.
Company Categories
We request that companies identify which category they fall under during the application process and they can enter in as many categories as they can as long as they are engaged in that CSR project.
Sponsorship Benefits CSI Awards 2019
Headline Sponsors ($10000)
- 10 Free passes to attend the awards dinner
- Opportunity to present an award
- Unlimited banner display inside and outside the event venue.
- Logo display on all conference material and media adverts
- 20% discount on Advert placement in the CSI Annual handbook
- Sponsorship acknowledgment on our website, newsletter, Facebook and other social media platforms
- Verbal mentions that you are a headline sponsor during the awards dinner
Award Category Sponsor ($7500)
- 3 Free passes to attend the awards dinner
- Logo to be engraved on the award trophies
- Opportunity to present the sponsored award
- Banner display inside and outside the event venue.
- Logo display on all conference material and media adverts
- 5% discount on Advert placement in the CSI Annual handbook
- Sponsorship acknowledgment on our website, newsletter, Facebook and other social media platforms
- Verbal mentions that you are an award sponsor during the awards dinner
Support Sponsors $5000
- 2 Free passes to attend the conference
- limited banner display inside and outside the event venue.
- Logo display on all conference material and media adverts
- 5% discount on Advert placement in the CSI Annual handbook
- Sponsorship acknowledgment on our website, newsletter, Facebook and other social media platforms
Registration Desk Branding ($3000)
- Exclusive branding rights of the conference entrance registration desk
- Unlimited banners outside the conference venue.
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*NEW* Business Transformation Award
This award will reward companies that have embraced innovative opportunities to develop a sustainable business model for the future.
- *NEW* Clean Energy Transition Award
This award will celebrate an ambitious strategy which embraces the net-zero mindset and is taking a lead in addressing carbon-impacts across its value chain. - *NEW* Circular Innovation Award
This award will celebrate innovation which moves the company from a linear to a circular model. - *NEW* Plastics Innovation Award
This category rewards companies that have demonstrated a market leading plastics initiative which has created measurable impact through deploying technology or innovation. - *NEW* SDG Impact Award
This award will recognise a company initiative or campaign which is best aligning impact to the SDGs and sets industry-leading standards as a company.
Entries this year are coming in hard and fast as a result of the new categories.
Showcase your sustainability commitments and gain international recognition with the world’s most prestigious celebration of responsible business excellence.
