Directorate of Sustainable Economic Prosperity for Social Transformation

1) Department of Large Scale Capital Investment for Environmental Sustainability

This department focuses on large scale investment and development projects. This happens over a very wide area or involves a lot of people and immense financial resources. It has huge positive social-economic impact.

 2) Department of Increasing Productivity for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used to produce those goods and services.

 3) Department of Green Real Estate for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with green property or sustainable property. This will ensure buildings that are healthier for their inhabitants, more durable and have a smaller carbon footprint than traditional buildings and constructions.

 4) Department of Green Industrialization for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with green industrialization which aims to decouple economic growth from negative environmental externalities by maximizing the application of clean energy, sustainable inputs and green-production technologies.

 5) Department of Green Transport Industry for Environmental Sustainability

This department focuses on modes of transportation that do not negatively impact the environment such as fossil fuels. Green transport modes rely on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy, hydroelectric, and biomass, among others.

 6) Department of Green Banking for Environmental Sustainability

This department nurtures green banks which are mission-driven institutions that use innovative financing to accelerate the transition to clean energy and fight climate change. Being mission-driven means that green banks care about deploying clean energy rather than maximizing profit.

 7) Department of Green SACCOS for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with green SACCOs which are non-profit financial cooperatives owned by their members and governed by a member-elected board of directors. Green SACCOs finance small projects to accelerate the transition to clean energy and fight climate change. To join, individuals, businesses or savings groups must complete the necessary paperwork and purchase a minimum number of non-refundable shares. They also commit to a minimum monthly savings contribution. Although many SACCOs were originally informal community savings groups, the government’s regulatory framework now covers SACCOs, and once licensed, they are formal financial institutions.

 8) Department of Green Mortgage Finance for Environmental Sustainability

This department trains and supports individuals for green mortgages. In this green mortgage lender offers the buyer preferential terms if they can demonstrate that the property they are borrowing for meets certain environmental criteria. This may include a newly-built home with an environmentally-friendly green roof, or solar panels.

 9) Department of Green Friends for Environmental Sustainability

This department nurtures green friends. Green friends are an organization established for the preservation and protection of the environment. The organization is built upon the ethos that it is our calling to take care of nature because of the simple reason that she is in fact our true mother. Green friends feel this understanding to be essential in re-establishing the lost harmony between man and nature, as well as between fellow human beings.

For only when we realize that Mother Nature is our real mother will we treat all the plants, animals and other human beings lovingly as our brothers and sisters. Only through love and compassion is the protection and preservation of nature possible.

 10) Department of Green Scholarships for Environmental Sustainability

This department ensures green scholarships are awarded to students. Scholarships are green when they are awarded to environmentally-conscious students. Concerns about long-term global warming effects and the cost of fuel are pushing more people to consider going green.

 11) Department of Green Insurance for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with green insurance which ensures coverage on environmentally friendly or more energy-efficient materials when making repairs or more energy efficient equipment or appliances. For those policyholders who are already green, discounts are sometimes offered on their insurance premiums.

 12) Department of Green Reinsurance for Environmental Sustainability

This department deals with green reinsurance which follows environment friendly policies in reinsuring. Reinsurance, often referred to as insurance for insurance companies, is a contract between a reinsurer and an insurer. In this contract, the insurance company—the cedent—transfers risk to the reinsurance company, and the latter assumes all or part of one or more insurance policies issued by the cedent who implement environment friendly policies.

 13) Department of Green Social Transformation Fund for Environmental Sustainability

This department focuses on green transformation which is a method of transforming the way business happens today to generate growth while safeguarding resources, transformation effective at process, operation, product, and business model and culture level