Call for Entries: The SERAs- Nigeria CSR Awards 2015
Theme: Building Partnerships for a Sustainable Future: Business Leadership as a
Catalyst for Development
The award that is Nigeria’s top CSR and sustainability honor enters in ninth year. The awards process is designed to integrate principles and
framework of the Global compact, global reporting Initiative and ISO 26000.
The adopted theme for seeks to explore the vital role cooperation and partnerships have played in the efforts to achieve the millennium
development goals (MDGs) and how such inclusive approach will enhance innovative mechanisms for financing and accountability as these factors
remains crucial for the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the post 2015 development agenda.
The SERAs-Nigeria CSR Awards recognize and promote the role of corporate organizations in social giving and social transformation in Nigeria.
The awards seeks to highlight the innovative ways that corporate organizations engage their various stakeholders and the communities where they
do business and benchmarks this against best global practices. The launch of the 2015 report as well as the award ceremony will take place on
November 14, 2015 at the Shell Hall, Muson Centre, Onikan, Lagos at 6p.m prompt.
Participating organizations are expected to demonstrate how own corporate social responsibility initiatives contribute in tangible and measurable
ways to improving lives of stakeholders within the backdrop of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Nigeria. See table. The focus is on
projects implemented between January 2014 to May 20015.
There will be one overall winner as well as a first and second runner up. In addition, one winner each will emerge in the under listed categories:
Best company in:

Poverty reduction

Environmental Sustainability

Community Involvement

Supply Chain Management

Maternal health

Combating HIV and AIDS

Agriculture

Partnerships for Development

Children-centered CSR
(sponsored by UNICEF)

Labor Practice

Innovative CSR

Environmental/Social
/Sustainability reporting

CSR Reporting (Media)

Most Voted Company

Partnership

Most Responsible Company in
Nigeria
Eligibility
Corporate /commercial and non- profit organizations operating in
Nigeria.
Entry Requirements
Complete the entry form online at www.sera-ng.com and submit; or
download the entry form from the SERA website, complete and email
as an attachment to 2015entry@sera-ng.com. Entries, together with
supporting documents – pictures, newspaper clips, annual,
social and sustainability reports etc. must be submitted no later
than July 15, 2015. You may also mail entries and (or) supporting
documents by courier to The SERAs-Nigeria CSR Awards, TruContact
CSR Ltd, 30 Shakiru Anjorin, Off Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
(provided the documents arrive on or before the closing date).
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
and examples of programmatic focal areas
G1
Poverty
Reduction
Examples
Examples
*Agriculture
*SMEs
*Rural
Industrialization
*Economic
empowerment
G5
Maternal Health
*Antenatal care
G2
Universal
Primary
Education
*UBE
*Mass Literacy
*Girl Child
*Education
Infrastructure
G3
Gender
Equality
G4
Child Health
*Girls
Education
*Women in
Politics
*Immunization
*Nutrition
programs
*Child spacing
*Early marriage
G6
Combat HIV/AIDS,
Malaria etc.
G7
Environment
Sustainability
*Orphans and
* Safe water
G8
Partnerships
For
Development
*Agriculture
processing and
exports
* ICTs
*Safe
vulnerable children
*Sanitation
The Assessment Process
motherhood
* VCT
*Waste
Names of short listed organizations will be uploaded on the awards
programs
*PMTCT
Management
website and Nigerians will be called upon to vote on a national level,
*ARVs
*Energy
names of companies that they perceive to be role models in their
*ITNs
Saving
*TB DOTS
*Resource
corporate social responsibility operations and performance in the
Saving (e.g.
various categories. The organizers will also monitor and verify claims
use of paper)
made by participating organizations. The verification exercise will
involve visits to the cited project locations identified by short listed
companies, and interviews with beneficiaries and stakeholders. The final selections will be done by a panel of judges, made up of eminent
Nigerians and non-Nigerians, active and distinguished as professionals with impeccable records.
Please complete the form below. If completed online, the boxes will expand to accommodate your information. If completed offline, additional
sheets may be used. Please note that the maximum total number of pages allowable is seven (7 pages).
CONTACT INFORMATION
Name
Title
Organization
Address
Telephone
Email
Name of CEO
1.
Policy on Social/Ethical/Environmental Issues
Website
1a. Organizations’ vision and mission statements
1b. Corporate policy that governs social/ethical and environmental matters. Please provide title of policy as well the date it became
operational
1c. What are the specific areas addressed by your policy (tick as many that apply):
* Environmental protection (Industrial pollution) * employee welfare /rights safety * Human resource development *gender / equal opportunity /human rights
poverty reduction *Community/rural & agriculture development * Health
* Education
* None of the above
*Other (please describe): __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
1d. How does your organization deal with the issue of corruption?
1e. Indicate the level of the committee that takes the decisions regarding social/ethical and environmental matters:
Board
Senior /Junior Management
CSR Department
*
1f. Please indicate percentage of 2014 income assigned to CSR portfolio
2.
CSR Strategic Approach / Strategy
2a. Please summarize your organization’s CSR approach including the focus, target groups and the expected benefits or results
2b Which Social Accounting (SA) standard(s) has your organization adopted:
AA1000
SA 8000
Global Reporting Initiative’s Sustainability Guidelines
Other _____________________________________________
None
The SERAs - Nigeria CSR Awards 2015
Theme: ‘Building Partnerships for a Sustainable Future: Business Leadership as a Catalyst for Development.’
Cross-sector partnerships are progressively being seen as a crucial development method for the 21st Century and are seen as the most efficient
way to deal with challenges that have overpowered the single-sector interventions. A high number of partnership initiatives under development
have shown that cross-sector collaboration can be very effective and sustainable in achieving global sustainable development. The cross-sector
partnership between governments, the private sector and civil society was high on the agenda since the UN Conference on Environment and
Development - the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and later in Johannesburg in 2002.
The research conducted by University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability and Leadership (CISL) concludes that, if we are trusting on
partnerships to achieve sustainable development impacts, then they need to be firmly tied into genuinely comprehensive consultation processes,
that operate within accountability frameworks, be properly supported and evaluated, and lead ultimately to policy change (Findlay-Brooks, Visser &
Wright 2007).
The following table can be part of the application form for completion by participants, with
0 = not in place, 1 = in development; 2 = in place
Use table and tick as appropriate indicating areas being addressed by your organization. Attach/ submit
evidence to support your claim and label according to number references below, along with completed table,
with your entry form. ALL evidences will be investigated and verified by Jury team.
ISO 26000 on Social Responsibility - Core Subjects
Management
System
Components
Type of
Evidence
Organizational
Governance
Human
Rights
Labor
(Employment)
Practices
The
Environment
Fair
Operating
Practices
(Anti
corruption)
Consumer
Issues
Community
Involvement &
Development
Policy
Copy of policy
1.1
2.1
3.1
4.1
5.1
6.1
7.1
Legal Register
Voluntary Codes
(Where
applicable)
Objectives
List of relevant legislation
Copy of certificate of
adoption
1.2
1.3
2.2
2.3
3.2
3.3
4.2
4.3
5.2
5.3
6.2
6.3
7.2
7.3
List of objectives
1.4
2.4
3.4
4.4
5.4
6.4
7.4
Targets
List of targets
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
5.5
6.5
7.5
Programs or
projects
Financial
Resources
List of projects
1.6
2.6
3.6
4.6
5.6
6.6
7.6
Budget
1.7
2.7
3.7
4.7
5.7
6.7
7.7
Human
Resources
Board Director
Number of staff
1.8
2.8
3.8
4.8
5.8
6.8
7.8
Name of Director
1.9
2.9
3.9
4.9
5.9
6.9
7.9
Senior Manager
Name of Senior Manager
1.10
2.10
3.10
4.10
5.10
6.10
7.10
Training
List of training courses
and number of attendees
Database of KPIs
(should link to objectives
and targets)
1.11
2.11
3.11
4.11
5.11
6.11
7.11
1.12
2.12
3.12
4. 12
5.12
6.12
7.12
Internal
Reporting
List of Internal reports
compiled
1.13
2.13
3.13
4.13
5.13
6.13
7.13
External (Public)
Reporting
Copy of Reports
1.14
2.14
3.14
4.14
5.14
6.14
7.14
Audits
1.15
2.15
3.15
4.15
5.15
6.15
7.15
Board Review
Conducted
List of audits conducted
(dates and auditors
used)
Date of reviews
(Board minutes)
1.16
2.16
3.16
4.16
5.16
6.16
7.16
Cross Sector
Partnerships
List of Partners and
copies of MOU
1.17
2.17
3.17
4.17
5.17
6.17
7.17
Financial
mechanism
Details of loan, donation,
sponsorship or
investment programme
1.18
2.18
3.18
4.18
5.18
6.18
7.18
Performance
Data (KPIs)
Section 3
i.
Give an overview of your company/organization
ii. What cross-sector partnerships is your company/organization engaged in?
iii. Give details of partnership project – list the partners involved and length of partnership
iv. What is the aim of the project/program?
v. What are the financial mechanisms that you have put in place?
vi. What have been the measurable outcomes and impacts?
Section 4
Overall Winner (Best Partnership Award)
The following questions drawn from the Partnering Tool Book developed by International Business Leaders
Forum (IBLF) will assist the panel with internal assessment:
1. What is the innovative partnership approach used by the company/organisation?
2. What are the mechanisms that enabled each partner/sector to achieve both common and
complementary goals more effectively, legitimately and sustainably?
3. How do they access and draw on the full range of technical, human, knowledge, physical and financial
resources found within all sectors?
4. What is the dynamic of their networks and do they offer each sector better channels of engagement
with the wider community and greater capacity to influence the policy agenda?
5. What is their understanding of the value, values and attributes of each sector thereby building a more
integrated and a more stable society?
6. Is the partnership doing what it set out to do – has the project or program of activities achieved preagreed objectives?
7. Is the partnership having impact beyond its immediate stakeholder group? (Are there any recognition
of achievement from project beneficiaries, key others and / or the wider community)
8. Is the partnership sustainable and self-managing - either through the continuing engagement of
partner organizations or through a self-sustaining mechanism that has replaced the partnership,
enabling partners to move on to other things?
9. What is the ‘added value’ in which individual partners have gained significant benefits - partner
organizations have established new ways of working with other sectors and / or have had their own
systems and operational styles improved?
10. Has the partnership made a useful contribution to the global partnership movement?
11. What makes this program innovative?
12. How has partnership enabled this program to generate results beyond what the company could
otherwise achieve?