The selection process for the awards are as follows:
The following comprehensive process will be used to assess all nominations and thus determine the award winners. This is to ensure the integrity of the awards selection process, and consequently the credibility of the awards. The selection process will comprise the following stages:
1) Nominations will be invited from the public nationwide;
2) The nominations will be received and any clarifications and/or adjustments to the format used by, or on behalf of nominees will be sought by the organizers and presented by the nominees or their agents;
3) Nominations will be examined to ensure that they meet the eligibility criteria;
4) The nominations that meet the eligibility criteria will then be authenticated by our contracted team of researchers to confirm claims made in the nominations;
5) Where information contained in a nomination is found to be deliberately falsified, the nominee would be automatically disqualified.
6) A specially constituted team of Award Assessment Consultants will then assess each nomination against the assessment criteria, using the qualitative performance assessment model;
7) The Awards Jury will then meet virtually over several sessions to consider each shortlisted nominee. Where a member is unable to join meetings either for technical reasons or for reason of unavailability due to acceptable cause, that member will forward his or her inputs into the considerations to the meetings of the Jury;
8) Influenced by the group discussions each juror will then score each shortlisted nominee on each criterion, using the scoring model set out above in the Selection Criteria Section of this Concept Framework.
9) Our dedicated research consultants will then compute each nominees total scores to determine the winner in each category. The computations will be cross checked for their accuracy by the secretariat established for the award scheme the organizers. Where any discrepancies are identified, the computations will be sent back to the research consultants for correction rather than changed unilaterally by the secretariat to ensure that the final results are not influenced in any way by the organizers.
10) In the event of a tie for top position in any category the winner will be decided by the Awards Juror guided by the desire for inclusiveness which for the purposes of this awards scheme would favour minorities with regard to gender, religious affiliation, ethnic group or age.