The Awards are based on 4 main criteria which are:
1- Park Design and Layout
2- Features and Facilities
3- Protection and Community Engagement and Involvement
4- Park Management and Maintenance
The judging criteria are largely based on the International Customer Service Standard (ICSS:2020-2025), a framework of 24 specific measures that can be applied equally to government, not-for-profit and for-profit organizations of all sizes and across industry sectors. Using a balanced scorecard approach, these 24 measures can be grouped into four distinct perspectives:
• A service perspective… how do you deliver a high quality of customer service in your organization?
• An operational perspective… how do you ensure consistency in the delivery of customer service?
• A learning and growth perspective… how do you create a culture of customer service…what do you put into it?
• A financial & governance perspective
The annual IPRA Golden World Awards (GWA) initiative, established in 1990, recognizes excellence in public relations practice worldwide in a variety of categories. Recipients of the award take particular pride in the recognition granted to their entry as meeting international standards of excellence in public relations. The Global Contribution Award recognises a campaign with an objective of meeting one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The overall IPRA Grand Prix for Excellence is presented to the entry judged as representing the highest standards that year. While there are many national and regional PR awards, there is only one truly global scheme: the GWA
The Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid International Sustainability Award is a new award. It was launched at the Fifth Ajman International Environment Conference in March 2018 under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi - Member of the Supreme Council - Ruler of the Emirate of Ajman. The award aims to honor and encourage everything related to the field of sustainability, whether it is research in the field of sustainability or personalities who have made contributions to the field. The award is also given to institutions that establish and apply the principles of sustainability and become an example for other institutions.
From its headquarters in Barcelona (Spain), through its regional divisions in different parts of the world, UCLG has been operating since 2004 and is a global organization dedicated to promoting the values, goals and interests of cities and local administrations around the world. The main objective of the organization is “to be a unified voice and a global advocate for democratic local governance and the protection of its values, objectives and interests in cooperation with local administrations and the international community.”
UCLG's position enables it to effectively represent local administrations before the international community, and gives it a role to promote international cooperation between local administrations and federations of local administrations, thus becoming a major source of information on local governance around the world. The UCLG Organization is also the official spokesperson for local administrations at the United Nations on local government issues