ExxonMobil, Nigerian Breweries, Lafarge, Total, Cornerstone Insurance, Etisalat, BATN, Airtel, DHL, Nigerian Stock Exchange, FCMB, Promasidor, and First Bank are among 47 corporation organisations that have entered for this year’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards.
The awards, otherwise known as The SERAs, are organised by TruContact CSR Nigeria, and they integrate the principles and framework of the Global compact, global reporting Initiative and ISO 26000.
The SERAs is a major galvaniser of businesses across various sectors in Nigeria to imbibe CSR ethos and sustainability.
This year’s edition seeks to highlight the lessons learned from Nigeria’s inability to completely attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) targets.
The SERAs produce an annual Nigeria Social Enterprise Report that documents the CSR and sustainability interventions of corporate organisations countrywide.
The organisers have also called for entry for the Tunmise Adekunle Awards for CSR reporting, introduced in 2009 to promote media excellence in reporting CSR and sustainability.
Entries for this category close on Monday, September 21.
The SERAs, which began in 2007, has to date registered more than 520 applications from 92 organisations in 13 different sectors of the economy.