Concluding Remarks

We hope that our report has presented you with a satisfying and meaningful overview of the role sustainability plays in our day-to-day operations and business practices. Through this report, we have tried to describe what sustainability means to us, how it unties us as an organisation, how it governs us internally and how it guides us externally.

We publish an annual sustainability report as a tangible expression our commitment to transform lives and to operate in a responsible and ethical manner. It is also a reflection of our belief in holding ourselves accountable and sharing our successes, challenges and constraints in a public, transparent and open manner.

This report is also an explicit responsibility of our continued membership of the UN Global Compact Network Kenya (GCNK) and an expression of our enthusiastic adherence to the principles enshrined in the Code of Ethics for Business in Kenya.

An exciting opportunity

From a sustainability perspective, an exciting recent development has been the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The successors to the Millennium Development Goals, the SDGs are an articulation of how we can work together to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

Adopted in September 2015, we believe that the SDGs offer us a way of embedding sustainability into our thinking and even further into the core of the business.

This process has begun in earnest and one of the outcomes is an enhanced purpose statement for the business that aligns our vision of transforming lives, new business strategy and material matters with the SDG objectives. Much of the early work in this process has been to convert the SDGs from a list of noble ideals into a set of tangible, meaningful and realistic daily objectives for us as a company. We look forward to sharing our discoveries and progress in this regard in our report next year.

For more information about the Sustainable Development Goals, visit the UN website