Measuring Impact from Laura Kakon, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer at Honoris United Universities
Our commitment to sustainable growth and positive societal impact is integral to our long-term success. Without rigorous measurement, it becomes impossible to ascertain the true impact of our achievements and initiatives. Our annual Impact Report is key to understanding our influence and using that knowledge to drive meaningful change, operating with integrity, accountability, and a genuine sense of responsibility towards society and the environment.
Progress is a journey fraught with challenges, setbacks, and, most importantly, opportunities to learn and improve. Measuring and reporting our social impact is not just an obligation, but a conscious choice to pave the way for a more sustainable and equitable future.
We worked closely with our sponsor, Actis, in light of its award-winning focus on impact investment, to update the Actis Impact Score (AIS), which measures the positive social and environmental impact of investments and enables comparison across sectors and geographies.
Our impact score
We are proud to announce that we successfully improved our impact score by 16 points, from175 in 2021 to 191 in 2022), achieving further recognition in two categories, Quality Education & STEM Education, and welcoming an additional category, Clean Energy, increasing our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to 12, up from 11 in 2021.
The score therefore once again demonstrates that Honoris delivered transformational progress in Quality Education; Employment Access; Gender Equality; STEM Education, and Clean Energy.
The addition of SDG7: Clean Energy, also increases our contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to 12, up from 11 in 2021. We continue to support the objectives of the Goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for everyone by 2030, by harnessing a collective approach both internally and externally among our many global stakeholders.
Our specific contributions across the 12 SDGs are outlined throughout the report, which is framed across our six core impact pillars: Quality of Learning, Employability, Innovation, Communities, Sustainability, and Network.
We are committed to transforming the lives of our students through relevant education for lifetime success.
We Educate for Impact.
Special remarks from Julia Devos, Head of the New Champions Community at the World Economic Forum
In 2022, Honoris was selected to be part of our World Economic Forum New Champions community, an exclusive network of mid-size purpose-driven organizations. In addition, among numerous other member contenders, and due to their exceptional advancement in innovation and business transformation, Honoris stood out as the deserving recipient of the 2022 New Champions’ award in the adaptive capacity domain.
We are truly delighted to have them as an integral part of our community, where they consistently contribute with their thought leadership in the field of education and their inspiring vision for Africa’s future leaders. These leaders of tomorrow envision themselves to be conscientious, committed to elevating their nation and positively impacting the world and Honoris is helping them to achieve this vision.
REFLECTING ON THE HONORIS JOURNEY from Shami NISSAN, Partner Sustainability at Actis
I am proud and delighted to say that Honoris is one of the most impactful companies in the Actis portfolio. Over the years of our partnership together, the genuine commitment and determination to live up to the mission of Education for Impact has been plain to see by all of us at Actis. Honoris is always striving to improve and to broaden its reach, the number of people it touches and the quality of education outcomes it offers.
Honoris’s work in delivering accessible, high quality education in Africa, focused on employability and 21st century skills is more critical now than ever, to develop tomorrow’s homegrown leaders.
Congratulations to Honoris for its achievements to date, and we look forward with excitement for more to come.
