8 Fostering Sustainable Ecosystems About the Report Leadership Messages About the Theme Corporate Overview Stakeholder Engagement and Materiality Assessment Our ESG priorities and Performance Fiscal Impact Sustainability National Economic Value Jobs Created Value Addition Sector Diversification About the Theme “Fostering Sustainable Ecosystems” Africa is home to countless natural resources and a highly agile, skilled, and entrepreneurial youth. Our aim is to build platforms that harness the power of these resources and create economic and social value for Africa, in turn profiting our business with purpose. Thus, we design, finance, conceive, and operate industrial ecosystems across Africa. All of our industrial ecosystems include world-class integrated organization services ensuring greater competitiveness. Through our industrial hubs, we seek to contribute to the development of more competitive economies and more equitable societies for tomorrow, helping achieve greater income equality in Africa. We strive to Foster Sustainable Ecosystems by promoting diversity and inclusion, establish responsible supply chains, ensure circular economy models, and achieve carbon neutrality. Our vision is to turn Africa into a green industrial powerhouse with our tailor-made special economic zones to boost exports and trade in a resilient and sustainable manner. Our aim is to industrialize key sectors by creating local transformation, maximizing production, efficiency, and cost, which in turn generates local value addition. Our designed Arise Impact Model is our guiding framework within the ambit of which we conduct our sustainability initiatives, creating maximum environmental and socio-economic impact across our SEZs in Gabon, Benin, and Togo. This platform stands as evidence of our dedication to constructing a sustainable future and our commitment to pursuing holistic growth. Our model is not only dynamic and robust but has also been thoroughly evaluated by a trusted and independent third party. The platform displays our SEZ’s impacts in terms of: Our Philosophy is simple: doing good for people and the planet is doing good for business. ARISE IIP Impact Model
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