Integrated Talks with Namhla Saba
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago -Do you *business, government, individual, organisation, investment fund* want to make a meaningful, systemic, long term contribution to human development by making the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) a reality, without compromising your fiduciary duties? But so far your endeavors though good, are not quite hitting the target nor moving the needle as you’d like? You are not alone.The Integrated Talks Podcast is here to demystify, unpack, distill and repackage the sustainable development universe with industry leaders to give you actionable insights, tools, frameworks to use in your world so that you can simply “plug and play” your capital for meaningful change with greater clarity and confidence.Our focus is on all things CAPITAL that directly or indirectly contributes to CHANGE in AFRICA and other emerging countries.We keep it simple, so that you can keep it moving.
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Episodes
Institutional investors and ESG integration in Private Equity Funds (LP's and GP's) in Africa.
July 28, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBNamhla Saba in this episode talks to Sibulele Ndandani a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with close to 20 years of experience in investment banking focusing on Africa private markets (debt and equity), corporate credit and project finance. She currently works at a pension fund as a capital allocator to funds across Africa. With growing global climate change concerns and significant inequality and poverty challenges especially in Africa and other merging markets, capital plays a vital role...
ESG integration for business leaders
June 18, 2023 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.12 MBNamhla Saba, in this episode, discusses ESG integration into the core operations of the business. The key pillars that can help business leaders navigate the process of ESG integration. ESG Integration into core business allows organisations to: - Respond to their client's/customer's supply chain sustainability requirements - Collect and analyse relevant data to support their sustainability assertions, hence avoiding greenwashing - Systemically work towards meeting net zero targets - Positi...
ESG for Business leaders
June 18, 2023 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.46 MBNamhla Saba in this discusses the objectives of ESG and how it is applicable to business leaders and their day to day activities. It is becoming increasingly crucial for business leaders to understand ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and its day-to-day application to business operations. Although ESG started as purely a risk management tool used by investors, it is swiftly moving into the core of business operations. It endeavours to encourage businesses to adopt sustainable busine...
Avoid greenwashing: info that misleads consumers
June 07, 2023 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBNamhla Saba and co-host Renoud Willemsen unpack "GREENWASHING" as it relates to business. We discuss What is greenwashing How greenwashing manifests its self The current incoming regulations and how they can affect business as usual How business can avoid the greenwashing trap For the past two years, global regulators have been adopting laws that will heavily fine organisations found guilty of intentionally or unintentionally misleading consumers in their labelling, advertising and pro...
Impact measurement for SDG aligned financing
May 11, 2023 19:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBNamhla Saba discusses impact measurement for SDG signed financing, with Reinoud Willemsen a partner at Embedding Impact. Approximately $3trillion-$4trillion are required per year to meet the SDG agenda. However, we understand that financing is an impact enabler; it does not always drive real change in communities. Hence understanding the importance of the impact value chain from deal-making to monitoring and review is essential to complement and support the impact driven by the financed proj...
"Demand-led approach" for Youth employment with Zintle Raziya
June 22, 2022 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.9 MBIn this episode, Namhla Saba (MD of Integrated Thinking Solutions), interviews Zintle Raziya the founder of Igniting Humanity who is a Mandela Washington Fellow and One Young World delegate and has been selected as a representative for South Africa to receive an award as a New Leader for Development for the international organization Crans Montana Forum. Youth unemployment is one of South Africa's stubborn significant challenges, we discuss the benefits and opportunities in effectively ...
How are your investments contributing towards sustainability?
November 05, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBThe host, Namhla Saba, brings awareness to investors who want to understand what and how their investments, managed by asset managers and investment companies, contribute to sustainability. This enables investors to understand better the contribution they themselves are ultimately making to sustainability. This episode also helps investors have clarity of their investment companies ESG strategies. Namhla unpacks some of the predominantly used sustainable finance strategies by financial ins...
Sustainable development is the objective... but what does it mean for you?
October 20, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBIn episode 1, Namhla Saba, the host, spends the first 11 minutes articulating the purpose and contextual background of the podcast. The remainder of episode 1, Namhla unpacks the “sustainable development” definition as the initial building block to gaining understanding of the sustainable development universe. She repackages the definition in such a manner that it becomes a generic framework for listeners to use and filter subsequent topics. This podcast of unpacking “sustainable develo...