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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Corporate Social Responsibility: Access Bank wins ‘Most Responsible Business in Africa’ Award

Other awards won by the bank included ‘Best Partnership for Development; Best Corporate Communication Team and Sustainability Practitioner of the Year – received by Omobolanle Victor-Laniyan, Group Head, Sustainability at Access Bank.
Access Bank wins ‘Most Responsible Business in Africa’ Award

According to a statement, the award ceremony attracted several dignitaries, business executives and several other sustainability professionals across the continent.

Specifically, a total of 26 awards were presented to several corporate organisations and individuals in recognition of their efforts toward practicing sustainable business principles and embedding concern for the environment into their business consideration.

Speaking at the event, the Executive Director, Personal Banking, Access Bank, Victor Etuokwu said: “We believe that a sustainable business is a more successful business, hence we have made sustainability the bedrock of all our business operations over the last ten years.

Two DIL auxiliaries got the SERAS Sustainability Awards for 'Best Company in Hunger and Food Security' and in addition 'Best in Supply Chain Management' classifications. In unique acknowledgment of its spearheading Sustainability Journey in 2018, Dangote Group was likewise named by SERAS one of the Top 5 "Most Responsible Business in Africa/Overall Winner."

The combination additionally gotten two Certificates of Recognition for crafted by its Sustainability and Governance Function, which is in charge of installing a culture of manageability over the Group, labeled "The Dangote Way".

The author of SERAS, Dr. Ken Egbas, recognized the obvious and motivating effect of the Dangote Way, which Dangote Group President, Aliko Dangote has portrayed as "our remarkable methodology towards causing supportability over the entirety of our tasks, at the center of our systems and corporate culture, characteristic of our total pledge to maintainability; controlled by the most elevated amounts of administration."

Gathering Chief Sustainability and Governance Officer, Dr. Ndidi Nnoli; Group Head, Human Assets Management and Admin., Dangote Cement Plc, Dr. Musa Rabiu; Senior Adviser, Stakeholder Relations, DIL, Fatima Wali-Abdurrahman; General Manager/Head Sustainability, Dangote Cement Plc, Eunice Sampson; and Mr. Abimbola Akosile of the Corporate Communications Department, all Sustainability Champions, got the Awards.

The Dangote Way underlines the significance of People and Stakeholder Engagement on its voyage towards better budgetary execution through dependable and supportable business rehearses.

Dangote's seven mainstays of supportability incorporate the Economic, Social, Environmental, Financial, Cultural, Operational and Institutional (including Governance, Risk, Compliance), which are lined up with the GRI Standard, Global Compact, IFC Performance Standards and SDGs, and are intended to guarantee manageability information implants at the center of business forms and corporate culture, to exhibit a reasonable business case for operationalizing maintainability best practices.

Amid the Dangote Sustainability Week, held pair with the United Nations General Assembly, several workers volunteered to promote the Sustainable Development Goals crosswise over Dangote Cement Plants in 12 urban areas crosswise over Africa: Ghana, Congo, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Tanzania, Senegal, Zambia and Nigeria's Cement plants situated at Obajana (Kogi State), Ibeshe (Ogun State) which tidied up the Ajibese people group and Gboko (Benue State).

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