GBCHA announces entries for annual awards

GBCHAGeorgetown: Applications for the seventh Annual Awards for Business Excellence are open to all Private Sector businesses in Guyana, including non– Guyana Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBCHA) Members which are taking action on HIV and AIDS in the workplace and beyond. Applications should be submitted for organization programmes and initiatives that were undertaken in the past year.  Also, nominations may be made on behalf of a company by another company, NGO or other agency.

 The Annual Awards for Business Excellence is a signature event for the GBCHA, as it is an unparalleled opportunity to publicly recognize the unique and vital contributions made by the Private Sector towards HIV and AIDS prevention and elimination programmes in Guyana.

Awards for Business Excellence will be given in the following six (6) categories:

 • Workplace Programme: This Award seeks to highlight innovation in the development and implementation of HIV workplace programmes, with particular emphasis on continuity and sustainability. Applicants are free to describe general health and wellness programmes if HIV is included in the broader programmes.

• Outstanding Peer Educator: This Award will recognize a peer educator who has gone above and beyond expectations to provide quality service to their colleagues in the workplace and/or community. The recipient would have demonstrated their commitment to excellence in programme activities as well as innovation in the implementation of these programmes in the workplace and/or community.

• Core Competency: This Award will highlight an organisation that has utilized their core business products and services, skills or networks to address HIV/AIDS in the workplace and community.

• Community Investment:  This Award will honour an organisation committed to going beyond the workplace to take action on HIV and AIDS in the community, whether through company initiatives expanding to the community or philanthropic endeavors.

• Advocacy/ Individual Leadership: This Award will honour a business leader who has made a significant contribution to the National HIV/AIDS Response, by consistently advocating on behalf of the business sector, the community, and/or those living with or affected by HIV and AIDS.