Some leading socially-responsible companies in Ghana are rendering their social responsibility stewardship by submitting entries for the 10^th edition of Ghana CSR Excellence Awards (GHACEA).

The event, which is Ghana’s longest-running Corporate Social Responsibility Award scheme, is organized by the Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability (CSR) West Africa, a leading CSR and Sustainability advocacy organization in the West African subregion in collaboration with the Association of Ghana Industries, AGI and other partners.  

The GHACEA 2023 categories include: CSR Company of the Year, CSR Practitioner of the Year, CSR CEO of the Year, CSR Telecom of the Year, CSR Bank of the Year, CSR Insurance Company of the Year, CSR Manufacturing Company of the Year, CSR Hospitality Company of the Year, CSR Aviation Company of the Year, and CSR Consultancy & Services Company of the Year.

Others are CSR SME of the Year, CSR Project/Initiative of the Year, CSR Award for Health, CSR Award for Education, CSR Award for Safety and Well-Being, CSR Award for Greening & Environmental Protection, CSR Award for SDG Partnership, and CSR Award for Youth and Disability Inclusion, among others.

According to John Kojo Williams, Co-Founder and Lead Project Manager for the Centre for CSR West Africa, “We have received very impressive CSR entries from highly socially-responsible companies and those entries are currently being evaluated by the GHACEA jury, a consortium of experts from academia, business associations, regulatory agencies, civil society organisations and the media. We are receiving late entries via mail as the level of excitement to render CSR stewardship among companies in Ghana is growing tremendously.”

The Centre for CSR West Africa has been at the forefront of creating awareness and promoting CSR and sustainability in the region. Over the past 10 years, the Centre has developed sustainable strategies for companies and organized numerous forums to help demystify misconceptions surrounding CSR and entrench sustainability practices.

In July this year, the Centre organized the annual National CSR and Sustainability Conference at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra.

Some socially-responsible organisations, companies and individuals such as Vodafone, RYTHM Foundation, GOIL, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), World Vision, VIVO Energy (Shell), Republic Bank, Societe Generale, Imperial General Assurance, State Insurance Company (SIC), Promasidor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Association of Ghana Industries (AGI), Environmental Protection Agency EPA, Blay and Associates, Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry and more than 30 media organisations attended the successful Conference.

GHACEA Awards dinner is slated for Friday 27^th October, 2023 in Accra.

About the Centre for CSR, West Africa

The Centre for CSR West Africa is a leading advocacy organization, working towards the advancement of corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices in the West African subregion. The Centre provides guidance, training, and consultancy services to organizations, enabling them to develop, enact, adopt and implement responsible business practices that contribute to their social license, bottom-line, societal development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

About the Ghana CSR Excellence Awards, GHACEA

Ghana CSR Excellence Awards is Ghana’s biggest and longest-running CSR Awards Scheme. Regarded as one of the most stringent Awards schemes in the subregion, (with a 13-member jury that is drawn from academia, regulatory agencies, government, civil society, international aid agencies, media and business associations), only socially-responsible companies which have verifiable evidences of the impact of their CSR and sustainability interventions on their beneficiaries and society, have managed to win the coveted Award.

GHACEA Jury’s stringent criteria for measuring impact and evaluating entries include considering the number of CSR projects initiated or completed within the period under review, total reach or cumulative number of people impacted, suitability of project to beneficiary and community, satisfactory and positive feedback from beneficiaries, project outcome measurement versus baseline data, estimated project cost in relation to size of company or turnover, independent verification of project and alignment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.