National Business Initiative (NBI)

Launched by former President Mandela in 1995, the NBI has been a leading business coalition focused on the broader role of business in sustainable development over the first decade of democracy in South Africa.

Today, the organisation is an alliance of forward-thinking South African and overseas companies that are committed to actualising the NBI vision of a thriving South African society, with a market economy that functions for the benefit of all. A key driver of this vision is the belief that the mobilisation of business leadership and corporate support can play a pivotal role in entrenching social, economic and environmental stability as the pillars of a fully inclusive, non-discriminatory democracy.

The annual contributions of its member companies are deployed to enhance sustainable growth and development through the identification of critical programmes that require funding for analysis, research and implementation.
The NBI is presently the focal point of the UN Global Compact Learning Network in South Africa. For more information on NBI, please visit http://www.nbi.org.za.

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Please note the following dates of project forthcoming activities:

October 2007

Another Roundtable Meeting of which the outcomes of the Market Research and the Multi-Stake Holder Conference will be discussed.

National Human Rights and Business Conference: March 18th and 19th, 2008

AICC, in partnership with the South African Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, is holding a National Human Rights and Business Conference entitled 'Business, Development, and Poverty'. The event will be held at the Nedbank Sandton Auditorium. To register, and for more information, please see: www.africagrowth.net/humanrightsandbusiness

Round Table Discussion

There will be a roundtable discussion on the 10th & 11th July hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission.

Please contact us for further details.