Gender Mainstreaming Awards encourage and reward business gender transformation across Africa

Category 1: Private sector

1. Women on Boards Award (including Executive Committees and Pipeline development)
   To recognise and acknowledge companies that have successfully transformed their boards and board sub-committees whilst ensuring that female directors are judged on their experience, contribution to and involvement in, the board and not their gender. It seeks to acknowledge companies who challenge themselves to diversify their boards.
2. Women on Executive Committees in Multinationals
   To recognise multinationals that have successfully put in place a programme/s to shift the statistics in terms of women on their Executive committees and have made successful appointments or have developed a pipeline programme geared towards appointments in the future.
3. Equal Representation & Participation Award
   To recognise organisations that have developed strategies or have already implemented measures for the progressive realisation of a greater representation and meaningful participation of women in decision-making structures.
4. Women Empowerment in the Workplace Award
   To recognise and acknowledge organisations that have not only advanced women in their workplaces through training and capacity building; but have also successfully transformed corporate behaviour and practices.
5. Economic Empowerment Award
   To recognise and acknowledge organisations that have strategies in place to allow for future empowerment of women owned or managed businesses or that have successfully used enterprise development as a mechanism to empower women owned and managed businesses.
6. Mainstreaming Gender and Disability Award
   To recognise and acknowledge companies that have strategies in place to allow for future disability programmes or that implemented sustainable disability programmes which have enhanced skills and provided employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
7. Empowerment of Women in the Community
   To recognise and acknowledge organisations that have strategies in place to allow for future programmes or have implemented sustainable initiatives around poverty alleviation which have enhanced skills and provided income opportunities that have positively impacted the lives of women and poor communities.
8. Investing in Young Women Award
   To recognise and acknowledge organisations that have strategies in place to allow for future education of young women or have implemented initiatives with the objective of addressing social inequities by educating and empowering young women leaders from diverse economic backgrounds. These initiatives have positively impacted the lives of young women who will become the next generation of women leaders!
9. Gender Reporting by JSE Listed Companies Award (South Africa only)
   To recognise and acknowledge companies that have embraced both the spirit and the letter of this new listing requirement. It also recognises organisations reporting on pipeline development and further recognises whether or not the organisation has made reference to gender or gender policies in the previous year’s reports. At the same time the award recognises that many organisations report on “transformation” or “diversity and inclusion” which may include racial, gender and other transformation issues.

Category 2: Individual Awards

1. Inclusive Leader Award
   Male or female who is actively sponsoring others up the ranks. They have ingrained into their leadership style a recognition of the provable benefits to their business that diversity brings, with special emphasis on gender. The nomination is made by a person or group of people who know the nominee very well, primarily in a business role, and the nominee accepts the nomination in writing.
2. Positive Role Model Award
   A lady growing her career and who understand the responsibility that comes with being a role model and the need to inspire others to do the same. The nominee is nominated by a person or group of people who know her very well, primarily in a business role, and the nominee accepts the nomination in writing.
    

Gender Mainstreaming Champion Award
 

This is the overall Award for the company in the region.