The award is bestowed upon companies that run their business operations yielding minimal negative impact on the environment, community, and society. The winning companies undertake environmentally friendly activities at all facets of the organisation to ensure that its processes, products, and production activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit.

NOTE: HIGHEST RANKED WINNER IN THIS CATEGORY WILL BE CONFERRED WITH THE AFRICA’S GREENEST COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD.

The award is bestowed upon companies that run their business operations yielding minimal negative impact on the environment, community, and society. The winning companies undertake environmentally friendly activities at all facets of the organisation to ensure that its processes, products, and production activities adequately address current environmental concerns while maintaining a profit.

NOTE: HIGHEST RANKED WINNER IN THIS CATEGORY WILL BE CONFERRED WITH THE AFRICA’S GREENEST COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD.

The award is presented to companies who have enriched the communities through various outreach initiatives. These programs are envisioned by the company’s dedicated team and executed by a special committee and/or through partnerships with external independent bodies. Award recipients epitomise the mission and values of an organisation that cares for the community and demonstrate exemplary active citizenship in promoting the well being of society at large.

NOTE: HIGHEST RANKED WINNER IN THIS CATEGORY WILL BE CONFERRED WITH RESPONSIBLE AFRICA’S COMMUNITY CARE COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD.

The award is presented to companies that take on a people centric approach and demonstrate strong commitment towards employee empowerment and enrichment. The winning companies show advocacy for investment in people, recognition and retention, improving employee’s job satisfaction, practices fair communication, and promote work life balance. The awarded companies fare low attrition rate, house a great pool of talents, and have a practice of knowledge sharing among employees and stakeholders.

NOTE: HIGHEST RANKED WINNER IN THIS CATEGORY WILL BE CONFERRED WITH THE AFRICA’S BEST WORKPLACE OF THE YEAR AWARD.

This award is bestowed upon organizations, whom in the jury’s opinion, showcases responsible and exemplary innovation in sustainability, where initiatives championed may include elements of reducing the environmental impact of products, improving resource efficiency and/or the use of alternate technologies and processes.

The award honours Small & Medium enterprises that are not only financially successful, but have proved to be socially responsible and ethical in doing business as well. Winners in this category have demonstrated substantial efforts towards the development of the community, preservation of the environment, and have in place HR policies and practices that promotes the wellbeing of its employees. These organisations take upon the concept of CR in a fair manner, regardless of its financial limitation if any.

This award is presented to organisations that are creating new pathways and pilot a change of course through grassroot sustainable initiatives. The winner demonstrates commitment to sustainable development by actioning diverse solutions to sustainability challenges faced in their settings.

This award aims to recognize effective and productive relationships with external stakeholders to meet social development objectives. These initiatives highlight the significance of forming long term relationships and commitments, creating direct economic and development opportunities for the communities involved.

This accolade is conferred upon organizations that lead programs and initiatives that contribute significantly to communal causes. These projects are executed by the organization with clear objectives at hand focused on the development of the communities at large.

This award is granted to organizations that have developed exceptional HR practices in any area of people management. Encompassing key areas such as diversity, inclusivity and employee engagqement.

The leadership awards honour the exemplary efforts of individuals and enterprises in spurring the creation of a new, more promising, socio-economy

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This revered honour is bestowed upon an illustrious entrepreneur who has shown an extraordinary ability to communicate their vision to stakeholders and leads the company towards the status of a mega brand. The recipient of this award displays strong entrepreneurial passion, flair, perseverance, and stands out as a grand example of a remarkable entrepreneur.

This award recognises an entrepreneur who is 40 years or below and has shown exceptional business performance, having built a name for themselves regardless of boundaries that may come with age. He/she embodies fine values, strong beliefs and unwavering dedication in their entrepreneurial pursuit, thus serving as an inspiration for aspiring young leaders.

This award is presented to exceptional leaders who have demonstrated sound responsible leadership and successfully apply it to spearhead growth and prominence for the company. These individuals exhibit the ideal blend of business acumen, professionalism, entrepreneurial calibre and astuteness.

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This award is presented to exemplary individuals leading mega businesses for a decade or more with the right attitude towards the business and the determination and grit to achieve success. These selected fews are led by their inner drive, embracing the concept of sustainability and new innovation to continuously grow the multimillion dollar business in terms of revenue, brand reach and resources maximisation.

This award is presented to change makers with the grit, foresight and commitment to positively impact the communities they serve in. These selected few leaders reflect global diversity, creates definitive path for followers, innovate to promote public interest, and value authentic exchanges towards public- private cooperation.

Technopreneurs harness the power of technology, combining social tools of the day and the Internet of Things to make a difference in the communities they operate in.

Top executives play an integral role in the day to day operations of an organization. Although the companies they lead are not personally founded or owned by them, these executives valiantly aspire to the founding tenements of the organization, leading it to higher place of business productivity and organization efficiency.

The award honours resilient and forward thinking companies in Africa with strong influence over people, resources, and global interactions. These mega corporations are selected based on strength in revenue, profitability, total employees, innovativeness, brand influence in the marketplace, and adherence to corporate sustainability principles.

This award honours scalable startups that bring innovative product, service, or process to the marketplace with a steady consumer engagement strategy. Recipients of the title are selected based on overall user count, strength in funding to upscale market capitalisation, and dominance as the next big thing to look out for in Africa.

The award recognises aspiring small & medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa that express clear business direction with strong initiatives in driving growth for the enterprise. These enterprises have overcome significant hurdles with uncompromising ethics, and hold immense potential for future growth and job creation.

The award recognises high performing enterprises that have shown tremendous growth in revenue and are on the path to becoming the future giant corporations of Africa. Winners of this category showcase steady revenue growth year on year with strong returns, and are focused on connecting to consumers in seizing business opportunities.

This award recognizes companies that have shown significant technological innovation in their products, services or business. Winners in this category demonstrate a clear vision in their transformative approach to software and technology, showing that their tech innovations can lead to creation of new approaches and prospects in Africa.

The Award recipient promotes empowerment of communities or individuals that are socially excluded, or that suffer discrimination in work, business or involvement in community life. Such groups might include people with physical or mental disabilities, isolated minority groups, or refugees. Programs for empowerment of women, economically disadvantaged communities or other minorities would fall into this category. The recipients must have a clear “Social Empowerment Mission” and must have programs and projects in place that support this projects.

The Award recipient adheres and maintains the quality and completeness of disclosure and reporting of governance practices in annual reports of business entities in the public and private sectors. Besides, the recipient cares to safeguard integrity in financial reporting, structure board to add value, promote ethical decision making, respect the rights of shareholders, and remunerate fairly and responsibly. The recipient should not reflect just a checklist approach, but demonstrate transparency and openness, integrity, stewardship and leadership recorded in the annual reporting of corporate governance.

The award recognises business models which replace the ‘end- of-life’ concept with reducing, alternatively reusing, recycling and recovering materials in production/ distribution and consumption processes, with the aim to achieve sustainable development, which implies creating environmental quality, economic prosperity and social equity, to the benefit of current and future generations. The winning entry of this category should demonstrate at least one of the 3 main principles of Circular Economy:
1) Smarter product use and manufacture;
2) Extend lifespan of product and its parts; and
3) Useful application of materials Key emphasis will be on waste reduction technologies, process innovation, repurposing and material reductions.

The Awards commends to the business’s comprehensive sustainable reporting in disclosure, transparency, and credibility while bridging the social, environmental, and economic issues affiliated to the business. The accredited report will demonstrate a clear, focused, and accurate description of strategies, actions, impacts, and its continued sustainable developments reflecting the business’s sustainability goals. The report will be evaluated on the business’s strategic means in sustainability, stakeholder engagement, disclosure of quantifiable and financially relevant investing frameworks, and significant sustainability impacts addressing its challenges and contributions.

The Award honors businesses that encourage and promote programs aimed at raising awareness and improving the health of their direct and indirect stakeholders. The recipient must have clear health related programs which could focus on Sustainable Development Goals in Good Health and Wellbeing and Clean Water and Sanitation such as reducing child mortality, improve maternal health or combating, HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. They could also focus on other issues of social concern such as dietary health, obesity, heart disease, early screening for treatable and preventable diseases, mental health and social isolation amongst others. For participants in the Health Industry, evidence of programs beyond standard business operations must be provided.

The Award recipient has policies and program in place that show respect for their people (primarily employees, but may also include vendors, clients and business partners). They will be judged on the amount their business has invested in taking care of their employees by way of dependent care, layoffs and closing, health and wellness, employee training, fair recruitment and promotional practice, fostering lifelong learning, improving the quality of life at work and in implementing employee ownership on a sustainable basis.

The recipient believes in the larger responsibility for recognizing the impact of running their business to the environment and seeks to reduce and reverse the impact. The recipient has consciously implemented programs and efforts which includes, but not limited to, the following: Energy Efficiency, Product Responsibility, Green Product Designs, Waste Reduction, Recycling and Water Conservation. Additional weightage will be given to participants that have a harm reduction and reversal program in place. The recipient should also have integrated environmental performance into its sustainable development strategy and has an annual reporting structure to track this performance.

This award is presented to distinguished companies who are the worthy captains in their respective industries. The winning companies have a distinct competitive edge, set the industry trends, and have commendable best practices in place. Winners in this category have shown the ability to evolve the focus of their enterprises along with the dynamic changes of the industries they serve to sustain as market leaders.

AN airline company that is conducting business in the most sustainable way possible with the aim to actively contribute to their national climate change response goals and global industry commitment to become the most environmentally sustainable airline in Africa

This award category is to recognize an online trading platform that excels in transparency, user experience, customer service and best use of technology.
Entries for this category should support their nomination with no more than 1,000 words about the firm and its progress.

This award category if to recognize the best fintech firm in the past 12 months in terms of use of technology in the solutions, the user friendliness, the problem their solution is solving and the level of customer support.
Entries for this category should support their nomination with no more than 1,000 words about the firm and its progress.

This award category is to recognize a firm whose e-payment offering has the most outstanding use of technology, best customer service, ease of integration and best back-end solutions.
Entries for this category should support their nomination with no more than 1,000 words about the firm and its progress.

The award is open to any African-based organization that achieved important success at workplace health promotion activities or organizational policy designed to support healthy behavior in the workplace and to improve health outcomes of employees. The accomplishment(s) must demonstrate responsible business management, talent performing at the highest standards and be recognized as internationally significant.

The majority of demonstrable results, major new activities or initiative(s) should have occurred within the current calendar year but may have begun earlier.

The award is open to any African-based organization that achieved important success in service excellence. The accomplishment(s) must demonstrate an organization providing high service level standards.

The majority of demonstrable results, major new activities or initiative(s) should have occurred within the current calendar year but may have begun earlier

The award is open to any African citizen or person of African descent who achieved recognizable success on the continent or outside of it. Award candidates can be in any discipline but more attention is given to fields such as business, government and academics.

The majority of demonstrable results, major new activities or initiative(s) should have occurred within the current calendar year but may have begun earlier.