Equity Bank’s Director of Special Projects Allan Waititu (Center) receives the 2017 Resilience Impact Award on behalf of Equity Bank from the President & CEO of Greater New Orleans, Inc. Michael Hecht (Left) and Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Tim Hemphil. Photo: equitybankgroup.com
Equity Bank is a recipient of the Humanitarian Resilience Impact Award at this year’s RES/CON 2017 Global Resilience Summit held in March in New Orleans, United States.
The Global Resilience Summit, also known as RES/CON, is the premier annual international conference on the practice of successful resilience and disaster management in an evolving global environment.
The Resilience Impact Award recognizes businesses that have excelled in improving community welfare, innovation, advancing local and global economies and disaster management.
Equity Bank was recognized for the work the Bank does in creating resilience through capacity building, improving livelihoods, innovations in cash transfers for recipients in remote and harsh terrain areas, work in refugee camps in Kenya and Rwanda including Kakuma and Dadaab camps and for its leadership role and Chair of the East Africa Humanitarian Private Sector Partnership Platform (EA HPPP) which supports systematic long-term private sector, UN, NGO, Government and community partnerships to address impact of natural disasters and resilience building, long-term emergencies due to conflict and complex urban and out-of camp displacement situations (hppp.online).
While receiving the award, Equity Bank Director of Special Projects Allan Waititu noted that the Bank through its financial intermediation and social impact investments will continue to support its people in their social economic transformational journey.
Waititu was also one of the speakers who took part in a panel discussion where he made a presentation at the Thought Leadership Forum on “The Role of Private Sector in Reducing Disaster Risks and Building Resilience through Equity Bank’s participation in Humanitarian/Resilience, Connecting Business Initiative (CBi) and, on the East Africa Humanitarian Private Sector Partnership Platform which is a local member network of the CBi.
The 3-day summit took place from 7- 9 March at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, Zurich North America, Shell Global, the Walton Family Foundation, AECOM, Walmart and several additional sponsors.RES/CON attracts disaster-management and resilience-building practitioners and experts from around the globe and across the public, private and NGO sectors.