Unilever products on display at a supermarket. Photo/LIZ MUTHONI
Unilever’s subsidiaries in Kenya and Tanzania have attracted the most attention for having run the most innovative corporate social responsibility campaigns.
The company has been nominated six times as a finalist in the four categories to be awarded in the inaugural East African CSR Awards to be held as a side event on May 6 during the World Economic Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Other Kenyan firms that have been nominated as finalists include Safaricom Foundation, Mabati Rolling Mills, EABL Foundation, KCB, Eastern Produce Kenya, KenCall and Microsoft.
These firms will be competing for recognition for having developed innovative programmes in four categories; Best work place practices, excellence in environmental management, ethical business practices and responsible best practice for supply chains, and sustainable and most scalable community investment projects.
The awards have been sponsored by Tanzania’s Bank M and Dow Chemicals East Africa in partnership with East African Business Council and The EastAfrican, a publication of the Nation Media Group.
The EastAfrican will also publish a special report on CSR that will highlight the nominated projects and some of the innovative programmes that have emerged in regional recently on May 9th.
“We hope to emphasise the enormous potential and the role that the private sector can play in promoting socially and environmentally sustainable development in Africa,” said Elvis Musiba, founding member of EABC, TPSF and TNBC and chairman of the panel of judges for the Awards.
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