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Awards

Middle East Stevie Awards- Gold Award for Innovation in House/Internal Organs and Publications

2020

The Stevie Awards honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals in the Middle East

Middle East Stevie Awards- Silver Award for Innovation in the Use of Events

2020

The Stevie Awards honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals in the Middle East

Middle East Stevie Awards- Award for Innovation in the Use of Social Media

2020

The Stevie Awards honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals in the Middle East

Best Places to Work Award

2020

The award honors organizations that make the work environment more engaging and fun.

EGI Award (Excellence in GIS Implementation)- Gulf region- GIS for Sustainable Development

2020

The EGI Award is an award given to organizations that promote innovation and experimentation in GIS implementation.

Meetings Arabia & and Luxury Travel (MALT) Excellence Awards- Outstanding Government Sector Event

2020

The MALT Excellence Awards highlight, honor and celebrate path breaking achievements of top organizations and individuals, who have demonstrated exemplary initiatives in the field of Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Events (MICE), Business and Luxury Travel from the Middle East.

Special Achievement in GIS Award (SAG)

2020

The Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards are presented to organizations from around the world to show appreciation for their use of spatial analytics technology to solve some of the world's toughest challenges.

Best federal Entity in Supporting Gender Balance 2018

2019

This award is dedicated to the best federal entity that supports gender balance. The evaluation is based on three pillars: Decision Making: Ensuring gender equality and balance in women's access to leadership positions. Education and experience: Enhancing women's access to professional and technical fields. Work Environment: effort completed to make the workplace environment more appealing for women.

Organization of the Year for Women Empowerment, GCC Gov HR Awards

2019

This award aims to acknowledge an organization for its efforts in creating a diverse working environment and promoting gender equality at every level. It recognizes empowering initiatives and innovative actions taken to promote gender equality.

Judges Special Award at IdeasUK

2019

The award was given to the UAE SDG Data Hub chosen by the IdeasUK’s judge Simon Hill EO and Co-founder, Wazoku Swahili for 'great idea' as he said: “this is the most innovative project for the fact that it’s telling stories from public and private sector and spreading positivity among the world through a central place where everyone can access it”.

Sustainability Award (UAE SDG Data Hub) at IdeasUK - Sustainability Award

2019

Sustainability Award: awarded in recognition of the idea that demonstrated the greatest contribution to the conservation of natural resources and protecting the natural environment or a sustainable project.

People and Organizations Award (Race to the Future) at IdeasUK - People and Organizations

2019

People and Organizations Award: is an award given to ideas that focus on achieving cultural goals

“Best Achievement of the National Agenda” category in Mohammad bin Rashid Government Excellence Award

2019

This award is part of the sub-category of the Government Excellence award system, awarded to the entities with the best result in good practices of Planning and Follow-up for the National Agenda under the main criteria of the National Agenda.

Ideas UK Platinum Accreditation- Corporate Innovation System Management

2018

Platinum accreditation in the field of Corporate Innovation System Management from IdeasUK is the highest rating given by the organization, which specializes in evaluating proposal systems applied in government and private entities around the world

Best federal Entity in Supporting Gender Balance 2017

2018

This award is dedicated to the best federal entity that supports gender balance. The evaluation is based on three pillars: Decision Making: Ensuring gender equality and balance in women's access to leadership positions. Education and experience: Enhancing women's access to professional and technical fields. Work Environment: effort completed to make the workplace environment more appealing for women.

Happiest Workplace

2018

This award is considered the highest category within The Happiness in the Workplace Award program and is granted to the organization through members of the evaluation committee votes.

Best Employee Engagement Program

2018

This category is for organizations that show excellence in adopting an Employee engagement and inclusiveness program that is based on respect, trust, integrity, two-way commitment and communication between an organization and its employees.

Best Work-Life Balance Program

2018

This category is for organizations that show excellence in promoting work-life balance in the office without compromising productivity or efficiency. Organizations that support its employees to split their time and energy between work and the other important aspects of their lives.

Idea of the year

2017

This award presented by Ideas UK was awarded to the authority in the Continuing Development Category for its most outstanding institutional innovations

Innovation​​

Project integration of CPI with ICP And the production of purchasing power parities (PPP) at the subnational level

ESCWA has chosen the United Arab Emirates, which is unique in geography, making it a model country for implementing the project on a small scale. Each emirate has administrative autonomy and different demographic and economic characteristics, which is reflected in the size and patterns of consumption in local markets. Emirate. Accordingly, each of the seven emirates can be considered a mini-country. The calculation of purchasing power parity each is a simulation to study the extent to which the project can be implemented on a larger scale in the future. The indicators also provide a precise and reliable reference to the purchasing power of the UAE dirhams in each of the seven emirates

Happiness Survey Frame (combining GIS + admin data for new way to do surveys in the UAE)

A methodology, new to the UAE, for conducting surveys uses geospatial data and frameworks, along with administrative records from federal and local government bodies. Using the innovative technology, survey field staff can carry out distribution and sampling units geographically at the state level, through the office work rather than go down the field at almost no cost (estimated to have saved approx. AED 25 million, compared to traditional methods). The framework designed to international statistical standards.

Remote survey monitoring

The above framework is ‘operationalized’ through a dashboard which allows for remote monitoring of the survey process by stakeholders.

Augmented Reality Wall

Augmented reality app using i-Pad to engage FCSC guests with statistics--by pointing an i-Pad at statistics on a wall pictures and short films about the significant numbers pop up

Data Analytics Dashboard

Innovations in data analytics and visualization to present statistics in novel ways that enable policy makers and other users to interpret the data and see patterns that are difficult to see via traditional data tables

Youth Survey Mobile App

An app to carry out surveys with innovative logic—that modernizes survey methods, expediting survey times and cutting costs

SME classification

A system of clarifying and defining small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UAE and linking it to international classifications—this led to led to guidelines for implementing SME law

Youth Future Policy Depot

A model that enables for UAE youth to participate in proposing policy ideas via crowdsourcing

Brain Boot Camp—Back End

A platform that powers FCSC’s accelerator model for an innovative approach to work

FCSC Office

FCSC has been pushing the boundaries of innovation in its physical space with the underlying rational to promote different work styles, collaboration and creativity among staff. There are rooms for different moods and themes, as well as a nursery and boxing room. A better workplace is known to foster better social dynamics, more creativity, an increase on production, and improve the quality of life of the ones using it on a daily basis. The office concept includes an off-site warehouse, converted into a meeting space/brainstorm space.

Rebasing CPI

This project re-based the basket of goods and services to calculate the CPI in the UAE, done in collaboration with the MOE and local statistics Centers. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​