รางวัล UN Women 2020 Asia-Pacific WEPs:
พบกับผู้ชนะระดับภูมิภาค
เรารู้สึกตื่นเต้นที่จะประกาศรายชื่อผู้ได้รับรางวัล UN Women 2020 Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards ครั้งแรก!
ขอแสดงความยินดีอย่างยิ่งกับผู้ชนะทุกคนที่มุ่งมั่นที่จะก้าวไปสู่ความเท่าเทียมทางเพศและการเสริมสร้างพลังทางเศรษฐกิจของผู้หญิง แชมป์ทางเพศจากประเทศภาคส่วนและสาขาต่างๆเหล่านี้ได้รับการยอมรับตามลำดับสำหรับความมุ่งมั่นในการเป็นผู้นำที่โดดเด่นความเป็นผู้นำเยาวชนสถานที่ทำงานที่ครอบคลุมทั้งเพศตลาดที่ตอบสนองต่อเพศความผูกพันของชุมชนและอุตสาหกรรมและการดำเนินการของ COVID-19
ผู้ชนะ
Divya เชื่อว่าผู้หญิงเป็นตัวแทนหลักสำหรับการพัฒนาในชนบทของอินเดีย Baeru เปิดใช้งานการเสริมอำนาจทางเศรษฐกิจและสังคมของผู้หญิงโดยใช้ประโยชน์จากพลังของการออกแบบ เทคโนโลยี ภาษาศาสตร์ และบริบทระดับภูมิภาคในรัฐกรณาฏกะ ผู้หญิงได้รับการฝึกอบรมให้รวบรวม คัดแยก และขยะหมุนเวียน เพื่อให้มั่นใจว่าจะได้รับรายได้ประจำและยกระดับทักษะให้กับพวกเธอ
Cherrie Atilano เป็นผู้ก่อตั้ง ประธาน และซีอีโอของ AGREA เธอยังเป็นทูตฟิลิปปินส์ด้านความมั่นคงด้านอาหารอีกด้วย ผ่าน Agrea เธอรวมนโยบายโดยเจตนาที่จะรวมผู้หญิงและเยาวชนไว้ใน Farm Schools มากขึ้น เธอพัฒนาโมดูลเพื่อให้มีความอ่อนไหวทางเพศมากขึ้นโดยเน้นที่ทักษะที่อ่อนนุ่ม ใน 2 ปี AGREA และพันธมิตรได้เพิ่มการรวมสตรีและเยาวชนจาก 50% ในปี 2018 เป็น 64% ในปี 2020 ณ วันที่พวกเขามีทั้งหมด 1200 Farm School Graduates โดย 60% เป็นผู้หญิงและเยาวชน พวกเขายังคงมีความครอบคลุมมากขึ้นและกำลังทำงานใน Siargao เพื่อเป็นเกาะเกษตรกรรมที่นำโดยผู้หญิงแห่งแรกในฟิลิปปินส์
Intel ได้บรรลุเป้าหมายรวม RISE 2030; ผู้หญิงเป็นตัวแทนมากกว่า 40% ของบทบาททางเทคนิคที่ Intel และกำลังจะเพิ่มจำนวนผู้หญิงในตำแหน่งผู้นำเป็นสองเท่าภายในปี 2030
1st Runners Up
When Arshia Ahmad Saqib became the General Manager of Human Resources and Admin at Engro Fertilizers in 2020, she was the first female head of the People Function in the history of the company. As a staunch advocate and expert in diversity and inclusion, Arshia launched a multi-faceted approach to drive gender inclusion throughout the organization. Among the many actions Arshia implemented, she personally committed to coach at least 10 women to take up C-suite roles and she runs a platform for women’s advocacy called ‘Cross the Line with Arshia.’ She also launched Women of Impact, which focuses on professional development and retention of women through coaching and mentoring. Under her leadership, a Core Team comprising of one General Manager from each function was set up to oversee and strategize gender diversity initiatives.
To ensure results, a target was set that for all hiring due to attrition or new position creation, the target is to fill 40% of them with female candidates. The breakthrough of hiring for 2020 has been the hiring of women in non-traditional roles where they were not previously considered for hiring before such as the hiring of the first female mechanic in Pakistan at the plant workshop, hiring of warehouse in-charges on the field in the supply chain, hiring women in field labs and hiring the highest number of women in 2021 in Product Management roles requiring considerable field travel. With Arshia at the helm, the diversity ratio at Engro Fertilizers has risen to 8% in 2020 from 5% in 2019. As of June 2021, this has already risen to 9%.
In 2016, Tawhida Shripoa left her 15-year career as a journalist to found Moner Bondhu, which means Friend of Your Mind, a unique and innovative social enterprise that provides quality, accessible and affordable mental health care services. Moner Bondhu prioritizes support for women and girls of all ages and socioeconomic background and provides free counseling services for those who cannot afford to pay. With a core team of 25 people, more than 100 counselors, mental health experts, advocates, psychologists, and psychiatrists, and 1500 volunteers, Monder Bondhu offers a 24/7 hotline. With the onset of COVID-19, calls to the hotline from women repeatedly mentioned gender-based and domestic violence, and many workers in the RMG sector called with reports of severe mental distress. Leveraging the team’s creativity, Monder Bondhu was able to shift to offering online support services. In 2020, Moner Bondhu saw a 300% increase in clients, and to date they have provided counseling services to tens of thousands of clients across Bangladesh.
The commitment to empower women from the underprivileged rural communities in economic and social sphere. Aparna has strived to implement gender equality holistically throughout the company’s operations. Internally, she established policies to ensure the company adopt inclusive culture in the hiring, training, and treatment of their employees. Externally, Aparna has commenced the tracing of TORAJAMELO’s supply chain, to ensure that their partners are also committed to the same social and environmental approaches. Moreover, she initiated to work with various partners and local communities to educate women and promote gender equality & women’s empowerment.
2nd Runners Up
Jennifer Buckley is a private equity professional passionate about championing women’s economic empowerment through gender-focused funds, demonstrating that these investment strategies are able to generate market-rate financial returns while also delivering significant impact. The premise is that women-focused investing is vital to economic and societal development. At Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (“SEAF”), Jennifer led the women’s economic empowerment initiatives and formed a team of predominantly women investment professionals and gender lens champions in Southeast Asia. She saw an opportunity to integrate the private equity model with the impact framework and tools to develop an investment product that will entice mainstream capital providers to adopt gender lens investing. Jennifer was instrumental in developing the Gender Equality Scorecard (GES©) and led the roll-out over SEAF’s 30 global offices and funds and its engagement within the impact investment and development
finance community. In June 2021, she marked another milestone in her career when she formed Sweef Capital Management Pte Ltd (formerly known as SEAF Southeast Asia Management Pte Ltd), to continue to build a strong regional base and exemplar for women-led funds management. Jennifer is currently in discussions with different institutions to secure more limited partners with the goal of building a US$100 MM fund for SWEEF.
Net Supatravanij is the Co-Founder of ila, a social enterprise focused on bringing diversity and inclusion to the workplace and empowering gender-based violence survivors. She is the creator of ALLY: a mobile application that aims to turn local stores into safe spaces and bystanders into allies against domestic abuse. ila was selected to exhibit at the UN Women Asia Pacific for Beijing 25+ Conference in 2019 and Net was invited to speak by the UN Women's Asia Pacific on the International Women's Day in 2020.
Implementation such as gender-neutral and equitable recruitment policy, annual remuneration review to monitor gender pay gap, clear promotion and career management pathways and training to develop female leadership. Moreover, L'Oréal Indonesia provide variety of benefits to support and reward all employee, including Total Reward Program to look after employee’s emotional wellness and Share & Care Program to make employees feel secure in health and safety, financial aspect, and ensuring work-life balance as well as well-being of female and male employees.
PwC invites women who has interests in technology sector, for example, female colleague students, to participate in its annual code camp to attract potential female job seekers to the company. It also established a Women in Technology Committee to encourage women’s participation in STEM by holding a series of activities including lectures, workshops, etc. Women are provided with network opportunities and platform for harnessing skills and seeking advancement in the technology sector.
Julie Sandlau Vietnam (JSV) made the commitment to create a sustainable livelihood for women in the locality where their factories are located by empowering them. Through time, JSV noticed that goldsmiths are mostly women, while management positions are usually occupied by men. With a commitment to change that picture, JSV providetraining programs for women and opportunities for them to advance in their careers by implementing new policies, such as: flexible working arrangements for employees in leadership positions, which focus on reducing work-life conflict for recruited women managers. Now, nearly 80% of managers are women in the last 6 years (from the time the new policy was issued).
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