Jazz honoured

KARACHI: Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital operator and a part of the VEON Group, has been conferred with the UN Women Asia-Pacific 2022 WEPs Award for a Gender-Inclusive Workplace, a statement said.

This award recognises the organisations that have incorporated the right measures to make themselves the preferred employer for women.

Sabahat Bokhari, director diversity and inclusion at Jazz, said that inclusivity is a big part of everything at Jazz.

“We have incorporated policies and global best practices to pave the way for gender equality within the organisation. This recognition validates our holistic approach towards empowering women and renews our vigor, as we move forward in our journey to create a digitally inclusive ecosystem in Pakistan,” she added.

Jazz is an equal opportunity employer. It’s one of the first telecommunication companies with a high women representation in its executive leadership. Not only does the company promote gender diversity in its work environment, it also has programmes focused entirely on attracting and facilitating the women gender.

For example, ‘Empower’ — Leadership development programme in collaboration with a leading business university in Pakistan; ‘MOMentum’ — phase back programme for returning mothers; and “She’s Back Returnship Programme” for women looking to return to work following a career break.

The company is also dedicated to enhance diversity and women’s empowerment in the society and focuses on uplifting women in the society through the power of the internet.

Women-specific products and services are designed to help address many of the wider gender inequalities by digitally enabling them to access health, financial and other life-enhancing services.

The UN Women launched the Asia-Pacific Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Awards in 2020 under WeEmpowerAsia.

Launched in 2010 by the UN Women and the UN Global Compact, the WEPs are a set of seven principles that support the companies to take a gender-sensitive approach throughout their value chain, starting with corporate leadership and looking across the wider value chain from workplace, marketplace and community.