PR Excellence Awards, 2022
- Category: PR Professional
- Date: 02-09-2022
Introduction
The Public Relations Society of
Tanzania (PRST) for the first time in Tanzania is introducing in its history of
Public Relations/Communications profession the PUBLIC RELATIONS EXCELLENCY AWARDS for the year 2022.
The
objective of the Awards
The objective of this Awards is to
promote and motivate professional excellence, creativity in planning, advocating,
lobbying, implementing and measuring deliverables of PR programs in their
respective working areas
Definition
of the Award
The Best Award is defined as the
Public Relations Excellence Awards 2022 that looks to the performance
excellence in the Public Relations profession in Tanzania which must meet all important
elements which have been adequately implemented, and ended up satisfying the
set of evaluation criteria.
Eligibility
The Word “eligible” means
“satisfying the conditions to do or receive something”. The following are
points of eligibility for the Award: -
The eligibility for Award is in all
areas of the national economy such as Education, Health, Housing, Power, Water,
Mining, Banking, Energy, Telecommunications, Construction, CSR and others
Participants
for the Awards
The Awards will involve all Public
Relations/ Communications and Marketing departments in the government
ministries, Local government institutions, Parastatal Organizations, Private
companies, Public Relations firms, Utilities, Universities, Religious
institutions or NGO’s.
Filling
in the Forms
The PRST Board will decide if it is
prudent for those wishing to be nominated to fill in special nomination forms
(to be filled by the organizations intending to participate in the program. The
said form will be obtained in the PRST office or online. It will also be accessed
in the PRST’s website. The forms shall contain all the necessary information
required to make an entry. The organizations will be allowed to submit only one
entry, not more than that.
Awards’
entrance fee
All eligible firms and companies
for awards will have the obligation to pay reasonable entrance fee as suggested
by PRST Board and be stated in the registration form.
Method
of collection of the Entries
The process of collecting entries
will commence when the process of media advertisements has started. Properly
written media advertisements will be placed in the print media, electronic
media and even social media/blogs to announce of the AWARD FOR BEST PUBLIC
RELATIONS EXCELLENCE, YEAR 2022.
The advertisements especially those
which have been put in different newspapers will contain enough details, to
guide the firms under respective departments to send their entries to PRST.
Categories
& Criteria of Evaluation
Criteria for the Awards will upon
the following regardless the nature, maturity, sector which company, firm and
institution is:-
a)
PR department set up
b)
Media Relations
c)
Public Education
d)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
e)
Corporate Image
f)
Client Satisfaction
g)
Issues and Crisis Management
Special
Awards
Apart from general awards for the
best performers in Public Relations, there will be special awards for the best Public
Relations Agencies and Public Relations Students Associations depending the
evaluation criteria set by the judgement committee.
PR
personality of the year.
Not only awards for corporate
companies, PRST will recognize the best Public Relations practitioner of the
Year. Advisory Board will set all evaluation criteria in collaboration with
Judgement committee.