"We consider ourselves honoured to be selected to receive this prestigious award, thus, the International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) Best Sustainable Development Article Award 2018. The Award is in recognition of our paper “Women's needs in new global sustainable development policy agendas”, published by Wiley in the journal ‘Sustainable Development’.
It is therefore with much pleasure and gratitude that we gladly accept this award and proudly join the past recipients who are frontrunners in shaping the sustainable development trajectory. This award for the 1st position recognises the value of work we have done to promote women and girls in the global sustainable development agendas. In addition, the award publicly displays the quality scholarship from our team and the University of South Africa based in South Africa.
We are confident in the work that we are doing, yet we are very much humbled by this gesture. We do not doubt that there are many other individuals out there equally worthy of this recognition. Lastly, we wish to thank those who nominated and supported our article, the ISDRS members who voted for this article and the Award Jury that evaluated the 10 shortlisted papers. Many thanks to the Conference participants for celebrating with us on this occasion. May we all continue to push the gender dimensions in all global development agendas, specifically recognising the role of women and the girl-child.
Thank you all!"