In 2015, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched by the United Nations. The SDGs, successors to the Millennium Development Goals, are a universal set of targets and indicators designed to help countries end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. The goals are principally focused on wide-reaching action by states, business and civil society. They are in perfect synchronisation with the sustainable process of creating value at Anglo African. They provide powerful, new language to communicate integrated sustainability goals that are more urgent now than ever.
Living in countries where financial capital still represents the main performance indicators companies focus on, the SDGs provide a comprehensive approach on how we create value in the short-, mediumand long-term. That is why Anglo African was the first company in the markets where we operate to introduce the concept in our Integrated Report 2016 to create awareness in order to help deliver the SDGs. We hope and expect the goals to play an increasingly important role for wider society and has the potential to be a powerful and positive agent of change in our markets.
We are in our second year of integration of SDGs in our reporting. Whilst we have made some strong progress, we have also faced some challenges as some of them are either too global in nature and do not necessarily cater for local cultures, or too specialised for organisations in smaller countries. However, as we strongly believe in the value of SDGs, we have adopted our own approach, taking into account that while our contribution might be negligible, the objective is that every single brick counts.
Having been inspired by the SDG Compass, we surveyed our main stakeholders to come up with the Top 5 SDGs for each of our subsidiaries. This is reported in the “Our Companies” section and the next table consolidates them by subsidiaries. From there, we have extracted the common ones, which will become the Group Initiatives while the subsidiaries will concentrate on the other selected ones. However, we have also kept the ones that were not selected in order to ensure that the Group’s operations are not doing anything that would deteriorate or harm them. We expect to engage on this framework actively in the coming quarters and report on this work further next year. On the following page, we highlight how we intend to further this work in the future.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
InfoSystems & NanoBNK will continue to optimise its cost-effective solutions, research and development to assist companies in upgrading their technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries where they operate.
12. Responsible consumption and production
InfoSystems will continue to engage public sector organisations in developing countries to strengthen their technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
17. Partnership for the goals
Anglo African will expand its geographic footprint and contribute to enhance North-South, South-South and regional and international cooperation on and access to technology, innovation and knowledge sharing.
1. No Poverty
NanoBNK will invest in its Digital Banking Platforms and Fintech/Regtech Applications to reach the unbanked and unserved in Africa and Asia, effectively supporting financial inclusion.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
10. Reduced inequalities
NanoBNK Fintech platforms will aim to reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent across Africa and Asia.
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
InfoSystems & NanoBNK will continue to optimise its cost-effective solutions, research and development to assist companies in upgrading their technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries where they operate.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
6. Clean water and Sanitation
DigiConsult will increase its capability readiness through specialised training of its engineers in water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
7. Affordable and clean energy
DigiConsult will continue to engage its clients that are expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
11. Sustainable cities and communities
DigiConsult and Ventures will seek financial and technical assistance to assist clients design buildings that are sustainable, resilient and energy efficient, utilising local materials.
4. Quality Education
Ventures will continue its investments in platforms to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, emerging ICT technologies and engineering spaces.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
11. Sustainable cities and communities
DigiConsult and Ventures will seek financial and technical assistance to assist clients design buildings that are sustainable, resilient and energy efficient, utilising local materials.
17. Partnership for the goals
Anglo African will expand its geographic footprint and contribute to enhance North-South, South-South and regional and international cooperation on and access to technology, innovation and knowledge sharing.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
17. Partnership for the goals
Anglo African will expand its geographic footprint and contribute to enhance North-South, South-South and regional and international cooperation on and access to technology, innovation and knowledge sharing.
1. No Poverty
NanoBNK will invest in its Digital Banking Platforms and Fintech/Regtech Applications to reach the unbanked and unserved in Africa and Asia, effectively supporting financial inclusion.
2. Zero Hunger
3. Good Health and Well-being
4. Quality Education
Ventures will continue its investments in platforms to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, emerging ICT technologies and engineering spaces.
5. Gender Equality
Anglo African will increase its effort to reach women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of the company and consolidate equal pay for equal work.
6. Clean water and Sanitation
DigiConsult will increase its capability readiness through specialised training of its engineers in water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
7. Affordable and clean energy
DigiConsult will continue to engage its clients that are expanding infrastructure and upgrading technology for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all.
8. Decent work and economic growth
Anglo African will promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, intrapreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalisation of initiatives.
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
InfoSystems & NanoBNK will continue to optimise its cost-effective solutions, research and development to assist companies in upgrading their technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries where they operate.
10. Reduced inequalities
NanoBNK Fintech platforms will aim to reduce to less than 3 per cent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 per cent across Africa and Asia.
11. Sustainable cities and communities
DigiConsult and Ventures will seek financial and technical assistance to assist clients design buildings that are sustainable, resilient and energy efficient, utilising local materials.
12. Responsible consumption and production
InfoSystems will continue to engage public sector organisations in developing countries to strengthen their technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production
13. Climate Action
14. Life below water
15. Life on Land
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
17. Partnership for the goals
Anglo African will expand its geographic footprint and contribute to enhance North-South, South-South and regional and international cooperation on and access to technology, innovation and knowledge sharing.
Note: SDGs below were not selected:
