Deadline: 4-Jun-21
CSR-in-Action is currently accepting nominations for the 2021 Community and Human Rights (CAHR) Awards– pronounced “Car Awards” that provides a platform that encourages businesses to take extraneous steps to correct the anomalies of engagement within communities, primarily extractive communities, by acknowledging and appreciating best performing companies.
CAHR Awards was established by CSR-in-Action Advocacy, Global Rights and Zenera Consulting in 2019, as a recognition platform to foster individual contribution to national development as well as to encourage businesses who have taken steps to inclusively and impactfully engage communities, primarily extractive communities, by acknowledging and appreciating their performance through nominations and voting.
The CAHR Awards is organised alongside the Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference – an annual conference which is part of a broader SITEI Initiative, which seeks to drive pertinent conversations around and proffer systemic solutions to communities, business and government through targeted tools, activities and policies.
Categories
- Environmental Management Award: The company which has had the least negative environmental impact in the last 3 years, and contributed to impact mitigation with state of the art technology, with a proven commitment to managing its environmental footprints.
- Community Engagement Award: The company with the most amenable relationship with its community and which has a clear process for inclusive engagement and grievance management. These should have yielded positive Impacts within the communities.
- Community Impact Award: The company/individual with the most visible impact of community development, including infrastructure, training, growth of women entrepreneurs, youth graduates and other applicable impacts.
- Human Rights Award: This award is annually funded by Global Rights with support from the Open Society Foundation (OSF). It will be given to the company/individual with the best compliance to mainstreaming human rights norms in its operations and with the most significant impact on safeguarding livelihoods.
- Award for Leadership: The award would be given to an individual – male or female – who has exhibited exemplary leadership that has a significant and positive impact on advancing and scaling responsible behavior.
- Equal Rights Award: This award could go to a company who has exhibited a commitment to gender equality.
- Humanitarian Award: This award would be to an individual, and may come with a cash reward. It would be for contributing significantly to alleviating human suffering and improving the quality of life of individuals both in Nigeria and abroad.
Eligibility Criteria
- CAHR Awards will recognise ten individuals and organisations from across Africa.
- The awardees will be rewarded with bespoke statuettes and/or cash prices, and will become part of a network aimed at amplifying their efforts and contributions to nation-building.
For more information, visit https://csr-in-action.org/sitei/cahrawards/
