This award is designed for individuals or teams within member companies (or between member companies) who ensure transparency at all levels of their company's CSR activity. Transparent reporting is what will be judged.
Eligibility: STCIC member companies who publish an annual CSR report on their activities in Trinidad & Tobago.
Criterion 1:
The extent to which the report transparently reports on the company�s impact on the economy, society and environment of Trinidad & Tobago and the extent to which the report indicates that the company has been a good corporate citizen.
Criterion 2:
Is there independent verification (audit)?
Criterion 3:
Is the report comprehensive, including both internal and external environmental and social impacts?
Criterion 4:
Does it report verifiable targets?
Criterion 5:
Is there a mechanism for stakeholder feedback?
This year, the award recognizes environmental best practice from individuals or teams within member companies (or between member companies) through the implementation and practice of waste reduction or recycling programmes in their operations. Entries can be made from within divisions or specific operating sites.
Entrants will need to demonstrate how through a specific initiative, they have made significant steps forward in waste reduction within their operations and the impact of environmental strategies which are embedded into the core business. Some examples of waste reduction schemes are: solid waste recycling; water reduction, conservation and reuse; and the reduction of carbon and other gaseous emissions.� It is proven that wise use of resources impacts on business efficiency. Businesses which take the initiative in implementing and practicing responsible waste management impact on business performance and environmental security. Successful entries will display a real sense of innovation in dealing with the problem of waste in an efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendly manner.
Eligibility: STCIC Member companies
Criterion 1:
Describe the organisation�s efforts to reduce the amount of waste generated (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink) and show how your programme/system represents leadership or innovation in environmental progress.
Criterion 2:
Identify the methods for measuring success and the results obtained. Please provide evidence of the outcomes where possible.
Criterion 3:
Describe how the programme/system improved your company�s business performance and whether there were any cost savings attached to the practical implementation of the waste management system, providing evidence where possible.
Criterion 4:
Describe the organisation�s approach to inform employees, customers and suppliers of the system and encourage active participation. Please include motivational tools and communication methods which demonstrate the organisation�s commitment to environmental sustainability through use of the system.
Criterion 5:
Describe the measures taken to ensure that the improvements in environmental performance are sustained in the future and show the realistic transferability of the programme from a technical and economic standpoint.
This award is designed to recognise companies, teams or outstanding individuals within member companies who have provided a mix of skills, resources and time devoted to strengthening and developing the community in which the company impacts. The award specifically focuses on a company�s community involvement through its social investment projects with particular attention to Volunteerism on the part of the company and its employees. The desired effect of the implemented initiatives or projects should be developing communities which are better equipped to sustain themselves through the formation of effective relationships between the business and the community, working together to support people and meet local needs.
Initiatives may take the form of businesses supporting local community leaders, getting involved in local community events, community capacity building, identifying and addressing areas of need through sustainable development programmes.
Eligibility: STCIC Member companies
Criterion 1:
Show how the initiative or project identified the social issues most relevant to the communities which you work with
Criterion 2:
Demonstrate how the company has worked in partnership with the community and leveraged on the combined expertise for mutual benefit
Criterion 3:
Describe the sustainable benefit of the company�s investment to the community
Criterion4:
Describe how community investment was planned and managed using appropriate resources to deliver against the company�s targets
Criterion 5:
Describe how employees, customers and suppliers are continuously encouraged and engaged to support the company�s community initiatives
Criterion 6:
How were the outcomes of the initiatives or project measured? Please provide outcomes where possible showing the difference that the investment has had in the community and impact on the company.
In no more than 300 words, say why your company should win this award.
This award is to recognise those companies from amongst our membership who have placed greatest emphasis on their internal CSR. It is based solely on the employee's opinions about their company, rather than what the company says about itself. Companies interested in being considered for this award will have a twenty- two question survey circulated to a random sample of their employees and the results of the survey will be tallied by the judging panel to create an overall ranking of participating companies. The survey will ask employees for their opinions on major areas of CSR, including communication, consultation, work-life balance, equity, transparency, respect, trust, health and safety and concern for the environment.
Instructions and Guidance for Companies
In order to be considered for this award your company must provide us with a complete listing of your employees, so that we can ensure a robust sample, and work with us to ensure the distribution and return of the questionnaires. There is also a small administrative fee that you will be charged to help us off-set the cost.
Questionnaires will be e-mailed to the random sample of your staff June 12th, 2009. The random sample will comprise twenty percent of your total full-time workforce or a total of sixty people, whichever is greater. Firms with less than sixty employees will not be eligible for this Award. Employees will be asked to complete the form and return by e-mail to the Awards Coordinator.
The top three ranking companies will be informed that they have been shortlisted for the award on or before August 7th, 2009. The STCIC will visit these companies in order to compile a short video, mainly comprising interviews with staff in consultation with relevant staff in your company. The final ranking among these top three companies will be announced at the STCIC CSR Leadership Awards at a ceremony on 18th September 2009. Companies that are not short-listed will be told where they were ranked, but this information will not be publicly reported.
Eligibility: STCIC Member companies
This award seeks to recognize operating companies within Trinidad and Tobago demonstrating a real commitment to the development of local business. It is based on nominations from local businesses for those operating companies which have been continuously committed to business development through supply chain relations. To submit a nomination, local businesses must meet a score of 80% or higher in the STCIC local business content rating. Operating companies must also be members of the STCIC.
Eligibility: STCIC members
Criteria 1:
The company uses a transparent and equitable system to pre-qualify vendors, including the uniform and industry-wide health and safety pre-qualification system developed as part of the Safe to Work (STOW) initiative.
Criteria 2:
As a rule, the operating company upholds fair and equal trade and negotiation and has transparent rules regarding the selection and assessment of suppliers showing support for suppliers who adhere to these.
Criteria 3:
The company contributes to the improvement in suppliers� management standards through the provision of information and joint training activities and maintains stable and long-term relations with supply companies, using negotiation as a tool for growth.
Criteria 4:
The company regularly discusses social responsibility with its suppliers and has formal mechanisms which enable is values and principles to be transferred to the supply chain such as: good working conditions; environmental protection, accountability and equality.
CSR Pioneer - Small and Medium Business Award
CSR policies and programmes in small and medium businesses face particular challenges. While many are very concerned about their role in society, they often lack the resources, experience and tools to implement sustainable CSR policies and programmes and to plan, monitor and evaluate the impact of their policies. The STCIC Leadership Awards will include a special award for CSR initiatives in a small or medium business, placing a particular emphasis on the business plan, monitor and evaluate their CSR programmes.
Eligibility: Member of the STCIC, non-members, independent with no parent company and having a total annual sales under US$5.0 million and an employed full time staff of no more than 100 persons.
How to enter: Send us your responses to the following:
Criterion 1:
Describe your CSR activities, including elements such as your investments in social and environmental programmes, health and safety policies, business ethics policies and codes of conduct.
Criterion 2:
Describe how you plan your CSR activities and how you ensure that these activities are aligned to your core business.
Criterion 3:
Describe how you measure the outcomes of your CSR programme.� Please provide evidence of the outcome where possible.
Criterion 4:
Describe how your CSR activities have improved your company�s business performance.
Criterion 5:
Describe how the activities and outcomes were communicated both internally and externally.
Criterion 6:
Describe how you capture and learn from lessons in the implementation of your CSR activities and how past lessons have influenced your current CSR activities.
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Mapping Corporate Social Responsibility in Trinidad and Tobago is a pioneering study undertaken by UNDP and STCIC. Its aim is to provide an overview of the current level of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and related activities of the private sector in Trinidad and Tobago. Learn more.