Last year’s Awards were presented by H.E. British Deputy High Commissioner Robert Gibson top crop of CSR Award honourees that ably demonstrated innovation and creativity far beyond traditional outreach that has characterized the space.

Corporate Social Responsibility is one of the key benchmarks of an organization’s overall success and reputation in the marketplace. The National CSR Awards recognize the corporations and their partners that have executed highly successful and impact full CSR campaigns in the past 12 months. These awards recognize both the communications surrounding a CSR initiative and the initiative itself.

Additionally, for the first time, the awards program recognized CSR leaders within organizations, recognising the individual champions behind the Organization’s CSR Programmes, shining a spotlight on the people driving your CSR success.

The pre Awards Networking CSR Summit provides a vehicle for the private sector to gain insights into how they can follow the lead of these stalwarts through dialogue and engagement with peers. Quite often, corporations and businesses are willing to support the development of the wider society but are not always sure of the most effective form that contribution should take. We believe that through the Networking session, you’ll glean some useful ideas from the profiles of the initiatives of the nominees that the Awards will present. These initiatives can serve as examples that future participants can emulate.

The CSR Association National Excellence Awards themselves are a great opportunity to get recognized for exceptional CSR efforts and to shine the spotlight on the people driving an organization's CSR success.

To have been short listed in any of these categories is no mean feat and I want to assure you that your selection from the wider pool of participants will be no easy task. Undoubtedly, it will be an even more difficult one to identify the awardees among you but I know that the adjudicators will do their best.

We shall also concentrate efforts to grow and engage our membership, Pakistan and internationally by demonstrating the value and measurable impact of the Association.
To research and communicate the impact achieved by business and engage our business leadership as champions for responsible and sustainable businesses.
To create a shared vision of a sustainable future In collaboration with our members and key partners, and develop a "roadmap" for business to help achieve this.
Managing our risks and resources in a harsher economic climate while walking the talk on our own behavior and leadership.

Given that corporate social responsibility is uppermost in our mind, we at the CSR Association of Pakistan are pleased bring an event like this. We especially note the judges’ stringent criteria to make the shortlist. Consequently, all nominees can view themselves as winners in their own right. The eventual awardees of course should by extension feel particularly honoured. To each of them, we extend our best wishes and heartfelt congratulations.

The Association was set up in 2005 and now has number of leading organizations as members. We are the largest and one of the oldest national business-led coalitions dedicated to corporate responsibility. The Association was formed by a small number of committed individuals from both the private and not for profit sector. Early supporters have included a number of leading Pakistani institutions.
Regeneration was our initial focus; we acted as a broker for companies supporting local enterprise agencies with cash, people, premises, equipment, expertise and employee volunteering.