EBUKA ONUNAIWU
Profile
Thinker
Ebuka is an environmental, social and governance (ESG) thinker with an in-depth understanding of
business, social and environmental sustainability. Early passion and curiosity for social good led Ebuka into
engaging in personal knowledge development in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and then
further into sustainability.
Ebuka is widely read and versatile. He likes to engage in critical thinking and pushes himself to go beyond
shallow thinking on various subject matter.
Development Advocate
Ebuka is the Advocacy Lead of CSR-in-Action Advocacy, he has deep interest in national
development and has spent the last 5 years working for organisations in the development sector.
Ebuka’s working experience in the development sector ranges from community development to
teaching, program coordination, event reporting, impact assessment and reporting. He is also keen in
the political development of Nigeria and Africa.
Ebuka’s overarching goal is to bring large scale development to Africa and to affect as many lives as he can
through economic, social and environmental programs in the nearest future.
Consultant
Ebuka also works as a sustainability consultant for CSR-in-Action Consulting and has consulted with
many clients particularly from the oil and gas, and mining sectors. Daily, Ebuka applies his
sustainability knowledge in analysing events and advising entities on the economic, environmental,
social and governance dimensions of their operations. Ebuka is driven by the end goal of his work,
which is the solutions he provides to organisations, which contribute to development in several local
communities, and ultimately to national and global sustainable development.
Ebuka’s interest sectors include oil and gas, mining, manufacturing and consumer goods,
telecommunications, financial services and education. His core interest areas include, community
development, stakeholder engagement, social responsibility, carbon management, ESG risk
mitigation, resource efficiency, product responsibility, responsible investing, sustainable business
models and value chain.
Youth Mentor
Ebuka contributes his own quota to the development of Nigeria’s future generation by mentoring
several undergraduates of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Nigeria through the Nigerian
Bottling Company sponsored “YouthEmpowered” program. Ebuka was selected to join this
program in 2017.
Ebuka is a value coach who believes that the right values should be passed on to Nigeria’s younger
generation in other for them to develop the right mindset for hard work, visioning, self-development
and citizenship.
Professional Experience
Sustainability Management, Reporting and Auditing
As a sustainability consultant, Ebuka has worked with other sustainability professionals to develop
organisation-wide sustainability strategies and policies for managing the sustainability activities of
businesses. With broad knowledge in the various aspects of sustainability, Ebuka is able to proffer
sustainable solutions to material business issues. Ebuka is an expert in writing sustainability reports
and conducting sustainability audits. He has been engaged in writing several sustainability reports for
businesses from various sectors using the GRI Framework. Ebuka has also audited of several
organisations’ sustainability activities using the AccountAbility AA1000AS framework.
Project Management
Ebuka is the project manager of the foremost Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI)
Conference, the leading sustainability workshop for oil and gas and mining stakeholders in Nigeria.
The Conference is organised in partnership with the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (NEITI), Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources (FMPR), the Federal Ministry
of Mines and Steel Development (FMMSD), Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria
(PETAN), Miners Association of Nigeria (MAN), and the Nigeria Mining and Geosciences
Society (NMGS). The Conference which is now in its 7th year, annually hosts the minister of mines
and steel development, the minister of state for petroleum resources and other key dignitaries from
the local and international extractive sector. It also brings together over 700 professionals from oil
and gas, mining, government, academia, community, civil society organisations and the media.
Community/Stakeholder Engagement and Needs Assessment
Ebuka has conducted several community engagements and needs assessment projects for oil and gas,
and mining companies in with host communities in Ondo and Ogun states, Nigeria. Community
engagement is one of Ebuka’s core interest areas because it helps in curbing communal violence and
ensures peaceful cohabitation between businesses and communities. He has also successfully engaged
communities in Abia and Kano states, Nigeria.
Social and Environmental Impact Assessment (SEIA)
Ebuka has led a number of social and environmental impact assessment projects in various cities
across Nigeria. With an academic background in Geography and with experience in social and
environmental risks, Ebuka has been able to conduct SEIAs for businesses in the cement and
manufacturing sectors, produce findings and make recommendations for improvement on the
processes in the project reports.
Strategy Development
Having worked on many projects from diverse fields and sectors, Ebuka has developed many strategy
documents for implementing projects. He has developed several strategies for sustainability,
communications, education, grant assessment, youth empowerment and skill acquisitions, monitoring
and evaluation.
Researching and Writing
Ebuka frequently conducts research and writes on topical sustainability issues happening locally and
globally. Ebuka is part of the team that annually publishes the “Collective Social Investment
Report”, recently renamed to the “Corporate Sustainable Investor Report”. He has written several
articles on diverse aspects of sustainability some of which can be found on his medium page.
Personal
Nationality
Nigerian
Address
Telephone (mobile)
Lagos, Nigeria
Email (home)
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Medium
#SustainabilityInsights
LinkedIn
Ebuka Onunaiwu
Languages spoken
English, Igbo and Yoruba
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Qualifications
2010 – 2014
University of Lagos
BSc (Hons) Geography – Second Class Upper (2.1)
2003 – 2008
Ire-Akari Senior Grammar School, Okota, Lagos
Senior School Certificate, 9 SSCEs
Certifications
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Sustainable Development Fundamentals - Futurenvironments (Global to Local Solutions
Initiative)
Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise - Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India
Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics - The University of California, Berkeley, U.S
Health and Society - Harvard University, United States
Water Treatment - Delft University of Technology, TUDelft, The Netherlands
Familiar Standards
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Global Reporting Initiative G4/GRI Standards
AccountAbility AA1000 AccountAbility Principles Standard, 2008
AccountAbility AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard, 2015
Nigeria Sustainable Banking Principles (NSBP)
International Standard Organisation 26000, Guidance on Social Responsibility
Skills
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Strategy development
Research and analytics
Report writing
Email marketing
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WordPress
Project management
Monitoring and evaluation/assessments
Career Summary
2016 till date
CSR-in-Action
Advocacy Lead/Consultant
2015 – 2016
Gedas Geographics
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst/Project Supervisor
2015 – 2016
Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra, Nigeria
Graduate Assistant
2014 – 2015
Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL)
Voluntary Intern
2014 – 2014
CSR-in-Action
Voluntary Intern
2013 – 2013
Daimler Geographics
Intern
2012 – 2013
International Centre for Reconstruction and Development (ICRD)
Part-time Geography Teacher
Professional Experience
2016 till date
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CSR-in-Action
Advocacy Lead/Consultant
Project manage the “Sustainability in the Extractive Industries (SITEI) Conference,”
since 2016 till date. The annual Conference is a 2-day event with over 700 attendees, and brings
together stakeholders in Nigeria’s extractive sector to deliberate on how to ensure the
sustainable and cohesive management of the extractive sector
Develop Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) frameworks and Impact Assessment (IA)
reports. These typically include the following:
o Development M&E framework
o Evaluation of projects
o Community and stakeholder engagement
o Field work
o Development of project/impact assessment report.
Analyse and report sustainability and social events happening nationally and globally
Write sustainability reports and other non-financial reports using various globally approved
standards such as the GRI framework and AA1000.
Conduct research in areas such as corporate sustainability, social responsibility, environmental
sustainability, impact investing, ethics and good governance
Use online media (email marketing and social media) to constantly advocate for causes geared
towards sustainable development
Develop strategy documents for the rolling-out and implementation of sustainability initiatives
for organisations.
2015 – 2016
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Gedas Geographics
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst/Project Supervisor
Partook in the production of a Basemap of some part of Agbowa/Imota area of Lagos State,
Nigeria
Supervised a GIS project for Etisalat Nigeria, in Abia and Kano States, Nigeria, where I
oversaw the collection of over 20,000waypoints and 13,000waypoints across both states
respectively. The project supervision tasks include:
o Recruitment of working team
o Training of team members on basic GPS handling skill
o Project management
o Collation and analysing of data acquired from the field on ArcMap.
2015 – 2016
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Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe, Anambra, Nigeria
Graduate Assistant
Lectured several students on the following courses: Aerial Photography; Map Interpretation;
Practical Geography; and, Regional Geography of Nigeria
Managed the department’s cartography and database management laboratory.
2014 – 2015
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Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL)
Voluntary Intern
Provided project management support to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Manager
Mobilised youth during the organisation’s sector events
Handled several core logistics during the sector celebration event.
2014 – 2014
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CSR-in-Action
Voluntary Intern
Mobilised youth during the organisation’s sector events
2013 – 2013
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Daimler Geographics
Intern
Learnt the science and techniques of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Partook in the production of several digital maps for Ogun State, Nigeria
Worked on updating spatial and aspatial information in Ebute-Metta area of Lagos.
2012 – 2013
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International Centre for Reconstruction and Development (ICRD)
Part-time Geography Teacher
Tutored Geography to public school students in an educational initiative themed SaveSchool
1by1 (SS1by1).
