About us
Who we are
ESG Africa Ltd is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk management consulting firm with offices in Dakar, Senegal, and London, UK. ESGA. ESG Africa is specialized in undertaking Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) to IFC Performance Standards and National Regulation. ESG Africa has a cadre of E&S experts with a wealth of project finance ESDD experience as well as depth and breadth of technical expertise.
In addition, ESG Africa has a Governance arm with experienced experts in the African market.
ESGA was founded by Ms. Seynabou Ba, who has more than 23 years of experience in sustainable development, including 13 years at IFC where she was the ESG Manager for Sub- Saharan Africa. ESG Africa’s experienced management team leads ESG staff and a network of experts in all relevant business sectors and geographical regions in Africa.
ESG Africa’s senior executives and most experts have worked with/for international and regional development financial institutions and have extensive experience in environmental and social due diligence, overseeing projects according to international standards such as the IFC Performance Standards, AfDB, WBG and EIB E&S safeguards.
ESG Africa also focuses on Corporate Governance, Business Integrity and the Board’s Governance of E&S matters to ensure that, ESG matters are not just the responsibility of the EHS manager but rather that of the whole company including the Company Board of Directors.
Our Values
In several African languages – Fulani, Wolof, Shona and others, the word for “Tree” is the same as the word for “Medicine”. Thus, protecting the natural world is a means of safeguarding our own health, both as individual beings and collectively as a species.
Our corporate values system reflects our commitment and our deeply held beliefs on sustainability. We practice our business in the same way we live our lives.
By entrusting us to navigate you through your ESG journey, rest assured that you will be leaning on partners who:
Put Fairness, Transparency and Integrity at the heart of their core mission- Are adamant on the value of hard work. We are dedicated, results-driven professionals
- Build a strong Team spirit
- Empower each other and its Clients
- Strive for Excellence in everything they do. We approach every project with the same level of care and rigor, no matter how small or big
- Care deeply for the natural environment and our communities, and are passionate believers of sustainable economic development
management team
Seynabou Ba is the founder of ESG Africa Ltd. She is an environmental and social risk management expert with over 20 years experience, 13 of which were at the IFC where she was the ESG Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa. Her passion is to build on-the-ground ESG capacity and support African companies in reclaiming the ESG narrative through contributing to the sustainability of the continent.
Nicholas Flanders is a retired IFC Principal Social and Environmental Specialist who worked globally but lived in West Africa and the MENA region. He combines a doctorate in anthropology with over 30 years of experience in understanding and acting upon the human dimensions of environmental issues. He is the original lead author of IFC’s Performance Standard 8 Cultural Heritage.
His strongest passion is passing on knowledge of society and the environment to future generations.
Eme Essien Lore is an experienced development finance professional with a demonstrated history of effective team leadership resulting in measurable outcomes. She is a thought leader on impact investing and the role of organizational health in firm performance. With over 2 decades of experience in development finance, she now focuses on how organizations in Africa can enhance organizational health to underpin corporate governance as a key driver for stronger development finance outcomes.
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your project
In today’s complex world, companies cannot be business-resilient without embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts and opportunities into their core risk management and business strategies. Furthermore, investors globally are taking a harder stance on companies’ abilities to manage ESG risks and measure outcomes. However, it is equally apparent that most companies find understanding and implementing international ESG standards.
That’s where ESG Africa comes in.
take full control of ESG management
within their operations
