Sustaining Women’s Empowerment in Communities and Organisations SWECO 2012 Award

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 

CLW’s 2012 Leadership Award: 

‘Sustaining Women’s Empowerment in Communities and Organisations’   (SWECO)

Objective and Overview

CLW’s ‘Sustaining Women’s Empowerment in Communities and Organisations’  (SWECO) Award aims to honour male and female individuals and groups who have developed a sustainable initiative to empower women in a community or organisation.  

Australian men and women are invited to submit a SWECO Application to describe initiatives for economic and social empowerment of women in Australian communities and organisations.

Commercial Sponsorship for the Award will be primarily used to fund the prize for the winners.  The allocation of prize money can be re-configured by the judges, if the categories cannot be fulfilled due to insufficient number of applicants qualifying for the categories stipulated for that year.

 Individuals can nominate themselves for the Award or be nominated by someone else.

KEY DATES

Applications Open: 1 September 11

Applications close: 22 November 11

Winners announced: 8 March 2012, International Women's Day

For Application forms, see menu on left.

CRITERIA

SWECO Applications will be evaluated by the Judges according to the following criteria:

 

AWARD

There will be 4 rankings for the Awardees: One First place or Gold Winner; One Second place or Silver Winner; One Third place or Bronze Winner and Two Highly Commended Winners.

PRIZES

Each Awardee will be issued a Certificate and prize money by post on 8 March 2012, International Women’s Day.

The distribution of prize money will be:

The media will also be informed about the awardees and their projects.