The editorial board of CSR Reporters, Africa’s premier platform for news on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability practices has announced that Mr. Thabo Mabe, MD/CEO of Allied Industries Plc will be headlining this year’s edition of its Social Impact and Sustainability Awards, otherwise known as SISA.
Thabo who is a world renowned Sustainability champion, as the guest speaker will be speaking on the theme “Leveraging Effective CSR for Sustainable National Development”. As business sustainability leader, he will be leading the discussion on moving CSR beyond rhetoric to actually using it as vehicle for national development.
The annual CSR Reporters’ Social Impact and Sustainability Awards, SISA, which is scheduled for November 26, at the Grand Banquet hall, Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, is designed to recognise and honour dedicated commitment of organizations that are integrating globally recognized and measurable sustainable development standards within their business operations.
The award programme is further to celebrate those organizations that are contributing towards positive social and economic change; standing up for key issues such as diversity, equity and inclusion, and human rights while also making more responsible environmental choices.
Eche Munonye, the Editor-in–Chief of CSR Reporters noted that there was influx of nominations for this year as it received over 232 nominations from various individuals and groups with knowledge of the nominees and the works that have been done in the year under review. Those nominations, he said, have been reviewed by the constituted panel and award notification letters are already being dispatched.
Eche also noted that it was indeed a privilege to have one of the most dedicated sustainability champions, Mabe, MD, Nascon Allied Industries Plc as the guest speaker.
This event is specially loaded as it will also feature the launch of CSR 50 compendium, a research document of 50 most CSR and Sustainability focused organizations in Nigeria.