CLIENTS

OUR WORK

Our clients make up our village. A place where we have worked together, played together and made life-long friends. These partnerships have shaped us into who we are today, and we continue to be able to bring positive social impact only through these amazing organisations with whom we've journeyed. Thank you for continuing to place your trust in us. We won't let you down.

SUSTAINABILITY

Asia's Best Sustainability Strategy & Report

Our client received 3 awards on a project focused on embarking on a sustainability journey:

Asia's Best Sustainability Report 2016
Asia's Best Islamic ESG Bank 2017
Asia's Best Sustainability Strategy 2017

IMPACT

Harvard-Commended Social Return On Investment

Our client successfully published a project globally on AIDF, with a Harvard commendation.

Spanning 6 countries so far, the project quantified the Social Return On Investment of vaccination storage in remote villages around the world.

COLLABORATION

Asia's Largest Collective Impact Collaboration

Our client, the Central Bank leading 107 financial institutions, championed a project to successfully setup a collective impact focused on the education of underprivileged children.

Setup and ran a new organisation for the Central Bank for 1.5 years; representing a collaboration of 107 largest Financial Institutions in Malaysia (FINCO), the largest collective impact in South East Asia - in achieving systemic progress in Education for the children of Malaysia.

Conducted Bursa Malaysia’s FTSE4GOOD ESG Index and Sustainability Reporting workshops for public listed companies. Provided exclusive content for the Corporate Responsibility section of Bursa Marketplace, a retail investor portal for Bursa Malaysia for three years.

Retained for the fourth year running in Sustainability Strategy design, execution and reporting. This included the baseline, strategy, action plan, implementation and communication. Sustainability was adopted as the core driver of 2019 business strategy and growth.

Designed a 3-year organisational strategy with clear execution and monitoring components. This included the baseline, targets, roadmap, defined indicators and templates to run monitoring and evaluation through the years.

Designed a 5-year social impact strategy with associated targets and measures. Plans include micro-insurance, financial literacy and disaster preparedness impacting over 40,000 households in Malaysia. CSR annual report writing was also undertaken for 2018.

Across South East Asia, conducted regional due diligence of 10 education-focused non-profits, producing detailed rating and report of each for organisation – encompassing the categories of strategy, operations, governance, stakeholders and innovation.

Designed a 3-year financial education strategy to increase awareness in Malaysia. This programme was designed to complement PIDM’s core function of providing financial protection. This included the baseline, strategy, roadmap and milestones for clear implementation.

Designed and established a partnership for Maybank Kim Eng with Kiva in San Francisco to provide microfinancing across 5 ASEAN countries. This was US-based Kiva’s first corporate partnership in Asia and provides microloans to up to 10,000 beneficiaries.

Designed and established a microfinancing programme in collaboration with AIM (Malaysia largest MFI). This programme provides micro-entrepreneurs with access to funds, knowledge, markets and technology. After a successful pilot, this was expanded nationwide.

Provided Sustainability knowledge and understanding for Hong Leong Group and its subsidiaries in preparation for Bursa Malaysia’s ESG index rating and sustainability listing requirements. Workshops encompassed global trends, local regulations and actionable recommendations.

Produced a Harvard-commended SROI report for a leading European medical cold chain manufacturer, justifying government purchases through social returns quantified in a research published on the impact of vaccinations. Projects have spanned Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, Malaysia and India. Publication currently on AIDF’s global website.

Business process review in line with organisation-wide implementation of Salesforce. This was spearheaded by the Corporate Development, Action Learning and Innovation Entrepreneurial Centre divisions.

Coordinated a Dual Vocational Training apprenticeship programme for a group of companies to increase youth employability, in collaboration with Malaysian German Chamber of Commerce and Penang Skills Development Centre. First graduating cohorts are 100% employed.

Concept design for modular prefab affordable housing - profitable penetration of lower income housing market. First model has been designed, manufactured and launched. First state partnership for affordable housing has been secured.

Concept design for ‘The Village’ on GemFive, a dedicated section of an ecommerce platform enabling village artisans to market their products to online customers with a facilitated supply chain model.

Created a profiling tool to advance 80,000 microentrepreneurs towards ecommerce, in line with the nation’s aspirations for the Digital Free Trade Zone (DFTZ). Tool is deployed online as a gamified self-care environment with a supporting partnership ecosystem as enablers.

Facilitated a roundtable discussion for a new national social stock exchange with multiple stakeholders; including regulators, investors, corporations, non-profits and the government.

Created strategy for social sector partners encompassing impact strategy, action plan, assessment and reporting. Focus spanned community building, child protection and refugee management.

Designed a 3-year strategy for optimal impact - included baseline, targets, roadmap, defined indicators and templates to run monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, implemented Salesforce for operations and impact tracking.