AELERT Achievement Awards

The AELERT Achievement Awards recognise AELERT's signature values and beliefs: collaboration, leadership, excellence, innovation and improvement in environmental regulation. There are three awards that celebrate best practice as well as improvement in the practice of the regulatory craft:

Achievement in Building the Regulatory Craft

This award will be presented to a person or group who has significantly contributed to the environmental regulatory profession. Their contribution should span jurisdictional boundaries.

Achievement in the Regulatory Profession

This award will be presented to a person or group who has excelled or significantly improved in their personal regulatory performance within their home agency or jurisdiction.

Achievement in Developing Regulatory Outcomes in Remote Locations/Small Teams

This award will be presented at the 2020 AELERT-INECE Conference dinner to a person or group who have delivered outstanding regulatory reforms or outcomes with limited resources and capacity in remote and/or small teams.

Important Dates

Nominations Open: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Nominations Close: Friday 28 February 2020
Winners Announced: Wednesday 11 March 2020 (2020 AELERT-INECE Conference Dinner)

Assessment of Nominations

The Modern Regulator Improvement Tool (MRIT) attributes will form the criteria against which each nominee is assessed.

The MRIT was designed by AELERT to provide a useful way for environmental regulators to assess where they are on their journey towards being a modern or effective regulator. It provides a mechanism for agencies to assess their level of development against 12 attributes of a modern regulator, grouped into the following four broad themes:

Vision, Role and Strategy
Capability and Improvement
Governance and Delivery
Leadership and Culture

How to Nominate

The nomination process will be open to all AELERT members and all AELERT members will be eligible to be nominated. Nominations will only be accepted through the online nomination process until Friday 28 February 2020.

Nominations must include a summary of no more than 500 words outlining the nominee's achievements and how they have gone above and beyond what could be reasonably expected in the category for which they are nominated.

Nominations can be made for an individual or a team. Self-nominations will not be accepted. All nominations received will be collated by the AELERT Secretariat and forwarded to the judging panel for consideration.

Judging Panel

The judging panel will comprise the AELERT Steering Committee or a sub-committee thereof as decided by the AELERT Steering Committee. In the event that a Steering Committee member is themselves nominated, they will excuse themselves from the judging process. Any conflicts of interest must be declared.

The Award

For each of the award categories the winner will receive a trophy and complimentary registration to the next AELERT Conference and Conference dinner. In the case of a team winning the award, a maximum of two complimentary tickets will be awarded.

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INECE Achievement Awards

The INECE awards will also be distributed at the Conference Dinner following an internal selection process.