As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts are becoming a major focus for investors, regulators, businesses, consumers and other stakeholders, we help companies and institutions understand their ESG risks and opportunities.
Our team has extensive experience in the ESG space, both with private companies and investors as well as within the public sectors, particularly with matters pertaining to clean and efficient energy development, diversity and inclusion, and economic development.
Stakeholder Engagement
In today’s marketplace where stakeholder capitalism is becoming more mainstream, businesses are expected to engage their stakeholders and address concerns, as well as advance economic, social, and environmental objectives.
We help you design sustainability engagement strategies that strengthen relationships with stakeholders and improve sustainability performance.
Effective stakeholder engagement is relevant to every type of organization.
Our team has in-depth experience collaborating with and representing a range of stakeholders including, indigenous communities, media, community-interest groups, government agencies and regulators, investors, business owners and landowners.
Our focus:
- Development & Implementation Stakeholder Strategies (to ensure meaningfully collaboration, integration and transparent participation of all relevant stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society, local and indigenous communities and others impacted).
- Impact Reporting & Remediation Strategies.
- Brand & Media Messaging.
Impact Investments
Working closely with a range of clients from private corporations, foundations, impact investing funds to NGOs, our team creates and implements beneficial social and environmental impact investment solutions customized to the unique goals and investment opportunities of each client.
We develop strategies that maximize social and environmental impact alongside financial returns.
Our focus:
- Develop & Manage Impact Investment Programs and Opportunities.
- Perform Impact Investment Due Diligence (including market analysis, talent and resources searches and evaluations).
- Develop Metrics and Reporting Standards (including integrating ESG-principles).
- Develop Investment Policies & Frameworks.
Impact Investments
Working closely with a range of clients from private corporations, foundations, impact investing funds to NGOs, our team creates and implements beneficial social and environmental impact investment solutions customized to the unique goals and investment opportunities of each client.
We develop strategies that maximize social and environmental impact alongside financial returns.
Our focus:
- Develop & Manage Impact Investment Programs and Opportunities.
- Perform Impact Investment Due Diligence (including market analysis, talent and resources searches and evaluations).
- Develop Metrics and Reporting Standards (including integrating ESG-principles).
- Develop Investment Policies & Frameworks.
Sustainability Frameworks
We help clients integrate the principles of sustainability into their core business models as a value creation. We design & implement comprehensive transparency, governance & compliance frameworks focused on improving processes & achieving desired ESG outcomes.
Our sustainability strategies are designed to drive growth, manage risks and attract investments.
Our focus:
- Strategic & Operational Frameworks Development (i.e., ethics and code of conduct policies, supply chain best practices, labor and employment practices, commercial and contracts manuals, cyber and data privacy procedures, anti-corruption and trade compliance policies).
- Human Rights, Democracy & Rule of Law Analysis.
- Disaster & Crisis Response and Resilience.
- Green & Sustainable Projects Strategies.
- ESG Due Diligence (i.e., value preposition plans and impact assessments for projects and transactions).
- Technology Innovation & Optimization Strategies.
- ESG Management Plans & Playbooks (for projects and transactions).
- Board & Management Trainings (including development of policies and the implementation of appropriate procedures).
Our focus:
- Strategic & Operational Frameworks Development (i.e., ethics and code of conduct policies, supply chain best practices, labor and employment practices, commercial and contracts manuals, cyber and data privacy procedures, anti-corruption and trade compliance policies).
- Human Rights, Democracy & Rule of Law Analysis.
- Disaster & Crisis Response and Resilience.
- Green & Sustainable Projects Strategies.
- ESG Due Diligence (i.e., value preposition plans and impact assessments for projects and transactions).
- Technology Innovation & Optimization Strategies.
- ESG Management Plans & Playbooks (for projects and transactions).
- Board & Management Trainings (including development of policies and the implementation of appropriate procedures).
Sustainability Frameworks
We help clients integrate the principles of sustainability into their core business models as a value creation. We design & implement comprehensive transparency, governance & compliance frameworks focused on improving processes & achieving desired ESG outcomes.
Our sustainability strategies are designed to drive growth, manage risks and attract investments.
Energy & Natural Resources
The business community is in a situation of significant environmental, socio-economic and policy transformation as the global community more and more seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing impacts of a changing climate.
This transformation presents unique challenges across industries, particularly the energy sector.
We help governments as well as private companies understand and manage energy development constraints and opportunities.
Our focus:
- Developing Emergency & Crisis Response & Management Plans.
- Setting & Implementing Sustainable Environmental Goals (i.e., carbon footprint reduction, responsible sourcing).
- Energy Project Due Diligence & Evaluation.
- Corporate Social Responsibility Performance (i.e., indicators & sustainability reporting and disclosures, including Global Reporting Initiative GRI).
- Green & Sustainable Projects Strategies.
- Energy Contracts (including public tenders, government contracts, concessions, PPAs, licenses, leases, and public-private partnership transactions).
- Scenario Analysis.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Strategies.
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA).
- Implementing Trainings (pertaining to environment, health and safety requirements).
- Remediation Strategies.
Energy & Natural Resources
The business community is in a situation of significant environmental, socio-economic and policy transformation as the global community more and more seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and minimizing impacts of a changing climate.
This transformation presents unique challenges across industries, particularly the energy sector.
We help governments as well as private companies understand and manage energy development constraints and opportunities.
Our focus:
- Developing Emergency & Crisis Response & Management Plans.
- Setting & Implementing Sustainable Environmental Goals (i.e., carbon footprint reduction, responsible sourcing).
- Energy Project Due Diligence & Evaluation.
- Corporate Social Responsibility Performance (i.e., indicators & sustainability reporting and disclosures, including Global Reporting Initiative GRI).
- Green & Sustainable Projects Strategies.
- Energy Contracts (including public tenders, government contracts, concessions, PPAs, licenses, leases, and public-private partnership transactions).
- Scenario Analysis.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Strategies.
- Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA).
- Implementing Trainings (pertaining to environment, health and safety requirements).
- Remediation Strategies.
Sustainability Reports & Disclosures
In today’s business, more and more, companies are expecting to report and disclose accurate nonfinancial information that shows that appropriate ESG management plans have been put in place as their commitment to long-term sustainability. This information is demanded not only by investors, but also by other stakeholders like customers, regulators, strategic partners, and other parties.
Benchmarking off the most recent international standards and guidelines, we design sustainability reporting and improvement strategies that monitor ESG data and performance (such as staff diversity, cyber incidents and supply chain, sourcing, and procurement activities) and achieve desired outcomes and build trust with regulators, customers, investors and other stakeholders.
Whether we are assisting with exploring new markets or developing and launching new programs, products, and services, our customized entrepreneurship pre and post investment support equip businesses with proven techniques and capabilities that systematically generate value, resulting in real impact within relevant communities.
Efikas has developed core social entrepreneurship & economic development solutions for startups and established companies.
These solutions, which include essential industry frameworks, processes, mentorship, tools along with consultancy and management advisory in various industries and locations, are strategically designed to help companies build their capacities to define, discover and exploit opportunities.
Developing social entrepreneurship abilities and impact strategies for socially conscious businesses is at the core of what we do.
We are dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs solve the
world’s greatest challenges!
1. Research & Data
Our team will provide you with the data and insights that will help you evaluate how you can best take advantage of opportunities. We gather, analyze, and provide you with the right information so that you have a complete understanding of your business decisions.
2. Strategy & Implementation
Our team is ready to help turn your great ideas into successful ventures. We will work with you to help you develop or enhance your strategies, business plans and business models to position you for maximum success. Once those strategized are formulated and evaluated, we can work with you and become an extended member of your organization so that we can make sure that those strategies are properly executed and implemented. The extent of our involvement is all up to you, you can simply rely on us for a particular segment or phase or we can work with you from inception to completion of your venture.
From strategic plans and blueprints development to market & business expansion, management & C-Suite development, alliances and partnerships (i,e., public-private partnerships (PPPs) structuring, legal and business entities incorporation & restructuring, operational & sustainability frameworks, investments and capital raising strategies and program/product/service development and launch, we can help you develop and implement your social innovation and entrepreneurs objectives.
3. Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Training & Workshops
Our innovation and entrepreneurship training programs bring together our unique real-world experiences to address your specific business needs.
We are committed to empowering you with the necessary skills so that you innovate and build your entrepreneurial capacity to start, scale and grow your business and create sustainable and impactful ventures.
We offer virtual and onsite one-on-one as well as small groups sessions. All of our workshops are always led by practitioners with extensive hands-on experience in the respective subject matter and industry.
Some of our most popular innovation & entrepreneurship training and workshops focus on:
- Understanding the innovation & entrepreneurial process, what does it take?
- Ideation, concept generation and opportunity identification.
- Building capacities for effective pitch to investors and other stakeholders.
- Effective frameworks and methodologies for developing business models and strategies.
- Business law: regulation and industry expectations, including taxes and compliance.
- Business resilience: effective business continuity and emergency strategies and frameworks.