BERLIN—The Lebanese Affiliation for Improvement – Al Majmoua has acquired Ladies’s World Banking’s 2015 Excellence in Management Award. The award, supported by Oliver Wyman, acknowledges Al Majmoua’s dedication to selling gender variety among the many group’s employees, management and governance alongside its mission to serve low-income ladies.
“We have now lengthy admired Al Majmoua’s ardour and innovation in serving low-income ladies in one of the vital difficult markets on this planet,” mentioned Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Ladies’s World Banking. “The Excellence in Management Award celebrates its devoted efforts to develop a various workforce that develops its ladies staff as leaders.”
Al Majmoua, which affords monetary and different providers throughout 22 branches in Lebanon, fosters gender variety all through its recruitment, retention and management growth practices. The establishment sends focused SMS messages to recruit ladies professionals and gives employees with an incentive for referring ladies candidates. All staff are supplied equal pay, versatile work hours, distant working choices and different family-oriented advantages. The establishment additionally works to showcase profitable ladies staff and gives teaching and mentoring packages to help ladies’s skilled growth.
Immediately, ladies signify 57 % of Al Majmoua’s complete employees and 60 % of the senior administration staff, up from 47 % of employees and 50 % of senior administration simply 4 years in the past.
“Non-discrimination and equal gender alternative is on the very coronary heart of Al Majmoua’s tradition, core values and enterprise ideas,” mentioned Dr. Youssef Fawaz, Govt Director of Al Majmoua. “We embrace a various workforce as each a enterprise crucial and aggressive benefit in our mission to supply very important providers to low-income people throughout Lebanon with out discrimination.”
Al Majmoua’s efforts are notably essential as Lebanon presently hosts an estimated 2 million Syrian refugees. With a rustic inhabitants of 4.5 million, the refugee inflow is inflicting appreciable stress on Lebanon’s native sources, notably as help from worldwide reduction organizations dwindles. Al Majmoua affords group loans to each Syrian refugees and their Lebanese host communities to assist finance income-raising actions in addition to a variety of non-financial providers, together with coaching in technical expertise, entrepreneurship and enterprise administration, in addition to assist with managing tight family budgets.
“We’re honored to acknowledge Al Majmoua’s achievements with the Excellence in Management Award,” mentioned Finja Kuetz, Companion and Head of Oliver Wyman in Germany and Austria. “The group’s steadfast dedication to gender variety and serving ladies shoppers, even in essentially the most hostile circumstances, is a mannequin for increasing monetary inclusion within the area.”
The Excellence in Management Award is introduced alongside Ladies’s World Banking’s Making Finance Work for Ladies summit in Berlin this week the place leaders from finance, cell know-how, funds and shopper manufacturers are becoming a member of authorities representatives, microfinance pioneers and extra to look at the newest and most promising developments in monetary providers for low-income ladies.
