CFA Society Sri Lanka is honoured to be conferred the CFA Society Excellence Award for Impact and Innovation (APAC Region), which recognizes high impact and highly innovative initiatives that have potential for development, with the local chapter winning the award for its innovative solutions to aid students during the pandemic period. While the Candidate Council (CC) of the CFA Society Sri Lanka was established to assist local CFA Program candidates in their exam preparation, and to help grow and build a sense of community, amidst the COVID-19 outbreak and an ensuing nationwide lockdown, activities were disrupted, with no readily available contingency plan. As such, key challenges included the delivery of exam preparation activities, as well as increased financial challenges, and anxiety faced by candidates. The Impact and Innovation award category is focused on recognizing societies executing high impact and highly innovative initiatives that have strong potential for widespread society interest and further development. Society initiatives are evaluated based on the impact of the initiative, its uniqueness, innovativeness, potential to replicate and success measurement.

Source: The Nation July 19, 2021 06:33 UTC