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Dubai Municipality has won 11 local and international awards during the first half of 2018.
Ahmed Al Louz, Acting Director of the Knowledge Management Department, noted that the participation in various local and international forums was part of the municipality’s endeavour to be a leader in the race for excellence and achievements.
“The highest participation was in the Environment, Health and Safety Sector, which competed in 40 awards, followed by Environment and Public Health Services in 22 awards. The Engineering and Planning Sector and Corporate Support Sector participated in nine local awards the Director-General Sector participated in four. The Communication and Community Sector competed in two awards,” he said.
Al Louz said that Corporate Support Sector was the most winning sector with four local awards followed by Environment, Health and Safety Sector winning two prizes and rest of the sectors won one local award each.
Among the departments that participated and won the most number of local and international awards was the Waste Management Department.
“The Knowledge Management Department is keen to encourage the various organisational units in the municipality to participate in the awards, whether local or international, but with a condition that the awarding bodies should have a great deal of reputation and credibility. The Dubai Municipality has been keen to develop standards that measure up to the level of the award that each department wishes to achieve. We agree with the participation based on these criteria and if the required standards are not met we do not encourage any participation,” Al Louz said.
He added that the aim of encouraging participation in these awards is to achieve local and international leadership for Dubai Municipality, which is a strategic objective that all organisational units seek to achieve by competing in local and international forums. The goal is to evaluate the municipality’s standards with the level of other organisations’ global standards and understand how they can complete the lack of requirements to achieve this leadership through these partnerships.