The HRD Award is the UAE’s most prestigious UAE Emiratisation Award for organizations in banking and financial sectors. It is open to all the organizations in these sectors and focuses on recognizing organisations’s efforts and achievement in the area of Emiratisation and UAE National employment, training and development, and providing detailed independent feedback to all participating organizations to help them of their continuing Emiratisation journey.

The Award assessors are all practicing senior managers academics and experts who bring their years of experience and experts who bring their years of experience and judgment to provide valuable feedback and the evidence on which the recognition is based .

The award provides enhanced focus on all aspects of Excellence in Emiratisation that are becoming increasingly critical to the success of any Emiratisation inititiative. Additionally the changes provided organizations with the opportunity to give more explicit focus on :

1- Value of having and implementing Strategic Emiratisation Plan
2- Need to relate everything that is done , and measurements taken to what policy and strategy is             seeking to achieve

The Award is built upon the following set of interrelated Core Emiratisation Categories, these are:

1. Strategic Emiratisation Plan " SEP "
2. Leadership
3. Human Resources
4. Training and Development
5. Community Service

These components are designed to help participating organizations use an integrated approach to Emiratisation that results in :

1. Achievement of UAE Nationalisation Quota
2. Recruitment and selection of UAE Nationals
3. Training and Development of UAE Nationals
4. Integration of UAE Nationals into the organization
5. Participation of UAE Nationals in the growth of the organization

Assessment Dimensions