JKH wins Platinum at WILAT Sri Lanka’s ‘Heforshe’ Awards 2018
John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH) won the Platinum award at the Women in Logistics and Transport (WILAT) Sri Lanka’s ‘Heforshe’ Awards recently.
WILAT Sri Lanka, in pursuing its mission to empower women in logistics and transport partnered with UN Women’s ‘Heforshe’ programme to provide an opportunity and framework for corporates in the transportation industry to demonstrate leadership on gender equality and invited 10 top corporates including JKH, as IMPACT Champions, to sign the CEO Statement of Support as a pledge towards this cause.
In 2018, as part of the fifth year anniversary celebrations WILAT carried out a survey among these 10 corporates and invited them to take part in the ‘Heforshe Awards Survey’, to showcase its initiatives in the work place towards gender equality.
JKH won the Platinum award in recognition of its commitment as an equal opportunity employer with not only policies and processes that are in place to support gender equality and non-discrimination in the workplace but also its CSR initiatives to empower women in Sri Lanka. The criteria for judging by an independent panel included the areas of recruitment and retention, work/life balance, professional development and empowerment, professional conduct and due care, mentoring and recognition.
‘Heforshe’ is a global solidarity campaign for the advancement of women, initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to achieve equality by encouraging men as agents of change and act against negative inequalities faced by women. Gender equality is an issue that affects everyone, socially, economically and politically.
IMPACT 10x10x10 engages key decision-makers in governments, corporates and universities around the world to drive change from the top. IMPACT Champions make gender equality an institutional priority by implementing the Heforshe IMPACT framework and developing the game-changing commitments to advance and achieve gender equality for all. These leaders are committed to change the world.