Awards and Recognition
Honey Care Africa and its founders have received numerous international awards for their work, including:
- the Equator Initiative Prize at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
- the International Development Marketplace Innovation Award in partnership with Africa Now from the World Bank & Soros Open Societies Institute (2002)
- the World Business Award from the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum and United Nations Development Programme (2004)
Honey Care also received the coveted "Kenya Quality Award" in the Small and Medium Enterprise Category from the Kenya Bureau of Standards (2004) and was named the "Top Small to Medium Sized Business in Africa" for 2005-06 at the SMME Awards in South Africa. It also received "First Prize in the Renewable Energy and Environment Category" at the same event.
Honey Care Africa has been featured on numerous occasions in the press and media including in the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, CNBC Europe, CBC, UN Radio, Daily Nation, and East African Standard. It has been discussed in a number of academic journals, including the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the MIT Sloan Management Review, and has been featured in several books and other published academic works.
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