By Wallace Mawire.
Harare. (News Of The South) – The Institute for Sustainability Africa (Inśaf) in conjunction with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ), Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, Institute of Directors in Zimbabwe and other partners will convene a 2015 Shareholders Forum and Responsible Investing in Zimbabwe conference, according to Rodney Ndamba, Chief Executive for the Institute for Sustainability Africa (Insaf). The conference will be held on the 17th of July 2015 at Celebration Centre in Harare.
According to Ndamba, the forum is aimed at encouraging responsible and sustainable investing in Zimbabwe by encouraging active shareholders (including minorities) and investors’ participation in companies they invest, whilst encouraging consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in investing decisions as underlined by the United Nations Principles on Responsible Investing (UNPRI).
“The conference is part of a bigger and long term goal of developing guiding principles for Responsible and Sustainable Investing in Zimbabwe. This conference is targeted at a broad range of institutional shareholders, investors, minority shareholders, business leaders, companies and capital markets stakeholders,” Ndamba said.
“INŚAF organisations to be part of this journey of building sustainable companies through responsible investing by demanding good corporate governance through active shareholder participation in the companies you invest,” Ndamba said.
key presenters will include Mr. Adrian Bertrand, United Nations – Principles on Responsible Investing, Network Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa (South Africa) and Mr. Theo Botha, an Independent Shareholder Activist and Consultant with CA-Governance, (South Africa) and Mr. Douglas Kativu, Director, Global Reporting Initiatives – Africa Office (South Africa). Locally, SEC-ZIM, ZSE and a local Institutional Shareholder will be presenting.
Comments
About Author
