Manila Water acknowledged by UN Girls for gender equality efforts

Manila Water was acknowledged because the nation’s Group Engagement and Partnerships Champion, whereas President and CEO Jocot de Dios was the primary runner-up for Management Dedication on the 2024 Philippines UN Girls’s Empowerment Ideas Awards.

Manila Water was lauded because the nation’s Group Engagement and Partnerships Champion, whereas its President and Chief Government Officer (CEO), Jocot de Dios, was named first runner-up for Management Dedication on the 2024 Philippines United Nations (UN) Girls’s Empowerment Ideas (WEPs) Awards final November 27.

The corporate’s successful entry for the Group Engagement and Partnerships class was the Built-in Water Entry, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program. It focuses on offering tailor-fit options—typically women-led—that allow assets to construct and improve water entry and sanitation infrastructure, strengthen information on water and sanitation administration, and interact in invaluable partnerships to champion the provisions of the UN Sustainable Improvement Aim (SDG) 6—Clear Water and Sanitation for All.

The WASH program additionally helps UN SDG 5—Gender Equality, because it promotes the energetic participation of the group leaders and members, particularly ladies, and includes them within the improvement of native insurance policies that facilitate correct administration of their water system property and construct their competency on water stewardship.

Manila Water Basis, the corporate’s social improvement arm, oversees this system and different efforts in delivering shared worth for weak sectors and communities past the East Zone concession space.

WASH additionally was the second runner-up in the identical class on the UN Girls Asia-Pacific WEPs Awards Regional Ceremony held on-line final December 3.

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The 2024 Philippines UN Girls WEPs Awards additionally named Manila Water President and CEO Jocot de Dios as the primary runner-up for Management Dedication. He expressed his gratitude to the UN WEPs group for recognizing the gender and women-empowering packages of Manila Water.

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“This award is an affirmation of our 27-year legacy. I feel it actually reveals that we’re all on the precise path. [We had] very fascinating messages earlier on, and I feel that can gasoline our resolve to proceed to better issues collectively. Mabuhay po ang kababaihan,” de Dios mentioned throughout his acceptance speech for the corporate’s Group Engagement and Partnerships Champion award.

Underneath de Dios’ management, Manila Water has cemented its dedication to Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion (DEI) by signing the corporate’s DEI Coverage and by pushing for its inclusion within the checklist of UN WEPs signatories.

He additionally signed a memorandum of understanding with the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage-Regulatory Workplace to advance gender and improvement (GAD), which allows Manila Water to take part in GAD packages of presidency companies and non-governmental organizations.

These have been strengthened by worker advantages enhancement, communication campaigns, coaching, and engagement actions aligned with themed occasions like Nationwide Girls’s Month; Satisfaction Month, which was celebrated for the primary time within the firm; and Nationwide Incapacity Rights Week.

The WEPs Awards is organized by the UN Girls’s Gender Motion Lab: Innovation and Impression for Gender Equality in Asia-Pacific and supported by the Authorities of Australia Division of International Affairs and Commerce.