Nominations

Nominations for SI Awards 2024 are open.

Please email the completed nomination form to amylui@sph.com.sg by 15 May 2024.

 

Assessment

The following framework will be used to measure the impact:

  • Core Attributes
  • Significance:
    • The individual should demonstrate the significance of the actual environmental and/or social outcome resulting from the implementation of the projects/initiatives/programmes he/she led.
    • Significance in fulfilling the needs should be emphasised and clearly articulated. The individual is encouraged to share descriptions of the significance to meeting the organisational, community, national, regional and/or international goals and needs.
    • Indirect impact that results in improving the enterprise’s profitability need not necessarily be included. However, please demonstrate other indirect outcomes as well if there were any.
  • Leadership:
    • The individual must demonstrate his/her leadership in effectively implementing the projects/initiatives/programmes.
    • Individuals who implemented pioneering projects/initiatives/programmes and has influenced a large scale of stakeholders will be awarded bonus point.
  • Essential Attributes
  • Advocacy: The individual should demonstrate how he/she advocates in creating changes as well as how he/she engaged and motivated internal and external stakeholders. For example, how he/she influences business strategies/decisions, influences the public policy, influences the employees’ behaviours, influences policymakers etc.
  • Scope: The individual must demonstrate how the projects/initiatives/programmes he/she led positively affect the local community in Singapore. The individual who extends his/her impact beyond Singapore to reach larger scope will be awarded bonus point based on how large the impact is.
  • Duration: Duration of the impact refers to the period that relevant stakeholders experienced the outcome. This award values both short-and long-term impact.
  • Depth: Depth of the impact refers to the degree of change in the outcome level experienced by relevant stakeholders. Examples could be the degree of improving the lives of local communities, the degree of improving energy efficiency.
  • Pre-requisite: Good Governance
  • Governing Leadership: The applicant should show his/her uphold strong mission and vision of his/her enterprise, ensuring leaders of every level are committed to fairness, transparency, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Engagement of Stakeholders: The individual should demonstrate his/her practices regarding stakeholder engagement. This includes but not limited to practices to enhance participation of internal stakeholders and actions to engage external stakeholders.
  • Compliance: The individual should demonstrate that he/she does not have any outstanding charges.
  • Evaluation
  • The individual will be evaluated based on the social and/or environmental outcome attributing to his/her efforts instead of the size or the impact of his/her enterprise.
  • This award will honour individual who has showed singular excellence in environmental or social aspects as well as individual who has shown excellence in both aspects.

Click here for the eligibility

The following framework will be used to measure the impact:

  • Core Attributes
  • Significance:
    • The enterprise should demonstrate the significance of the actual environmental and/or social resulting from the implementation of the projects/initiatives/programmes.
    • Significance in fulfilling the needs should be emphasised and clearly articulated. The enterprise is encouraged to share descriptions of the significance to meeting the community, national, regional and/or international goals and needs.
  • Leadership:
    • The enterprise must demonstrate its leadership in carrying out the projects/initiatives/programmes.
    • The enterprise which carried out pioneering projects/initiatives/programmes and have influenced other entities such as other enterprises, medias, academic institutions will be awarded bonus point.
  • Essential Attributes
  • Scale: The enterprise should demonstrate the scale of the impact, including but not limited to the groups of stakeholders affected, the scale of people reached, the scale of people experiencing the outcome etc.
  • Scope: The enterprise should demonstrate its contribution to Singapore's national priorities/national strategies/national development plans. Enterprise which extends its impact beyond Singapore to reach larger scope will be awarded bonus point based on how large the impact is.
  • Duration: Duration of the impact refers to the period that relevant stakeholders experienced the outcome. This award values both short- and long-term impact.
  • Depth: Depth of the impact refers to the degree of change in the outcome level experienced by relevant stakeholders. Examples could be the degree of improving the lives of local communities, the degree of improving energy efficiency, etc.
  • Bonus Points
  • Synergy: The enterprise which promotes sustainability while collaborating with other entities and actors will be awarded bonus point. Examples including but not limited to engaging suppliers to promote a green supply chain, engaging consumers to promote a green lifestyle.
  • Innovation: The enterprise would be awarded bonus point if the creativeness and originality of the projects/initiatives/ programmes are proven.
  • Pre-requisite
  • Environmental Practices
    • Targets: Enterprise should demonstrate its targets/visions/statements regarding environmental protection. Environmental protection includes but not limited to waste management, energy conservation, climate actions etc.
    • Strategies: Enterprise should illustrate the strategies and practices to achieve the above-mentioned targets/visions/statements.
  • Social Practices
    • Engagement of Employees: Enterprise should demonstrate how it engages its employees. The engagement methods include but are not limited to open dialogue, employee surveys etc. 
    • Wellbeing of Employees: Enterprise should demonstrate practices carried out to improve the wellbeing of employees. These practices include but are not limited to training and education, occupational health and safety practices, diversity, and inclusion practices etc.
  • Good Governance Practices
    • Governing Leadership: The enterprise should show its commitment to values that are conducive to the success of the enterprise, employees, and stakeholders at large which includes but not limited to fairness, transparency, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
    • Engagement of Stakeholders: The enterprise should demonstrate practices regarding stakeholder engagement. This includes but not limited to policies/regulations that ensure the rights of stakeholders, avenues for stakeholders to participate etc.
    • Transparency and Disclosure: Enterprises should demonstrate the contents of disclosure and their medium for communication. Contents of disclosure includes but not limited to the enterprise’s financial disclosure, ownership structure and voting rights, remuneration policy, related party transactions, risk factors, issues regarding stakeholders, governance structure and policies.
    • Financial Viability: The enterprise should demonstrate the capability of the entity to have been financially sustainable. This includes but not limited to ensuring the optimum use of resources to generate profit, financial security and ability to obtain proper funding when required.
  • Evaluation
  • The enterprise will be evaluated based on the social and/or environmental outcome attributing to its efforts.
  • This award honours enterprise that has showed singular excellence in environmental or social aspects as well as enterprise that has showed excellence in both aspects.

Click here for the eligibility

Declarations

1. By submitting this nomination form in relation to the Sustainability Impact Awards(“Award”), each nominator hereby agrees with SPH Media and the organisers to be bound by and comply with all the terms and conditions in this form (“Terms & Conditions”):
(a) that all figures provided in the nomination form, except for the gross operating profit figures, are non-confidential information and may be published and used for research and analytics purposes;
(b) to provide relevant company information should the organisers need to verify the data provided in the nomination form (upon request);
(c) to provide the company’s projected financial figures for the relevant financial periods (upon request);
(d) to notify the organisers in the event your company, holding company or subsidiaries have successfully applied for public listing and expect such a listing to occur;
(e) to notify the organisers in the event of any changes to your company's eligibility for the Award;
(f) to provide details of any litigation cases against your company and/or your company's directors/shareholders in the run-up to the publication of the Award listing;
(g) to abide by the publicity schedules and guidelines stipulated by the organisers in the run-up to and after the publication of the Award listing;
(h) to provide relevant information about your company for purposes of inclusion in Award-related collaterals, including but not limited to books, write-ups, etc.;
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3. Additionally, each nominator hereby represents to SPH Media that:
(a) the particulars and information furnished to SPH Media in this form are true and correct, and have satisfied the assessment criteria stipulated by the Award organisers;
(b) where he/she provides SPH Media with any personal data relating to a third party (e.g. a nominee and nominee’s officers/employees), by submitting such information to us, he/she represents to SPH Media that he/she has obtained the consent of the third party to enable he/she to provide SPH Media with the third party’s personal data for the respective purposes.

4. Nominators are required to provide their particulars for the purpose of verification and audit.

5. The decisions of the evaluation panel on the Award are final and conclusive, and no appeals will be entertained. SPH Media and the organisers reserve their rights to revoke an Award in the event of non-compliance with any of the above conditions.

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