UNDER-ENGAGEMENT IN CLIMATE EDUCATION AND JUST TRANSITION INVESTMENT IS CLIMATE ADAPTATION VULNERABILITY

IE Collective UK creates opportunities facilitating community investment through impact in environmental, corporate sustainability and ESG reporting.

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Impact with companies I’ve worked with

  • Supported the delivery of 13 STEM sessions young people on fashion-tech solutions to better textile waste.

    Motivez CIC

  • Supporting 1st Year support LIS students as an External Curriculum Partner. As expert partner, I supported students' understanding of the second-hand fashion market in Kantamanto Market and how it fits into the EU Textile Waste Directive and the New Circular Economy Plan

    London Interdisciplinary School

  • Advisory Board member on Students Organising For Sustainability UK (S0S-UK) PACE Index to diversify inclusion in the climate sector. PACE Index is a collaboration between SOS-UK and zedela in Germany, pioneers in data-driven advocacy for historically marginalised communities in Europe. ‍

    Students Organising for Sustainability UK (SOS-UK)

  • One of the few British researchers to conduct on-the-ground qualitative research on informal second-hand fashion business community for MSc in Global Development and Environment.

    University of Bristol

THE BIG ISSUE

The UK’s environmental sector was valued at £103.6 billion in 2021 (ONS, 2024). Yet it remains the second least diverse sector in the country according to the RACE Report.

Read IE Collective UK’s first report

BRINGING ABOUT TRANSFORMATIVE STRATEGIC INVESTMENT STRATIGIES

JUST TRANSITION DESIGN LABS

Diversify your talent pool and get ahead of deep impact and regulatory risk management

Through our end-of-life supply chain education programme “Just Transition Design Lab”, we want to create the groundwork to leverage the fashion industry and waste management industry to guarantee compliance with Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and create opportunities for strategic investment in informal circular economies in Africa.

UNINHIBITED DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATIONS

Under-engagement in climate education is climate adaptation vulnerability.

Uninhibited Development Communications goal is to connect investor communities engaged in environmental sustainability, climate adaptation and circular economy services to the communities most impacted by the climate crisis and 21st-century poly-crisis through new radical models of strategic investment communications and culturally-informed creative media.

CO-CREATION AND EQUITY MODEL CONSULTANCY

Introducing the B.E.L.L. Framework: Climate Adaptation, responsible investment and Just Transition requires cultural intelligence

The B.E.L.L. Framework is for the promotion of an approach to design thinking that opens the window for new forms of climate adaptation investment rooted in cultural intelligence.

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Cohort 1: Just Transition Design Labs

Did you know? In 2019, it was reported that the EU generated 12.6 million tonnes of textile waste per year, equating to 12kg per person of clothing waste.

Is your fashion company ready for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)?

As part of the European Green New Deal and the EU Textile Strategy, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) will standardise ESG reporting.

Every listed apparel and footwear company (bar micro-enterprises) that sells apparel and footwear that sells into the EU will be required to report under CSRD.

Just Transition Design Labs

When: June 7th 2025 - July 25th 2025

Where: Online (Zoom)

Time: Saturdays 11am - 2pm

Diversify your talent pool and get ahead of CSRD end-of-life supply chain engagement through creative thinking.

Through the Just Transition Design Labs, you will create a creative supply chain engagement action plan and concept. You will be upskilled in textile waste supply chain risks and creative engagement to better enable you to create impact with CSRD and use regulatory compliance as a tool to facilitate strategic investment in informal end-of-life second-hand trades in Africa for circular economy inclusion.

Uninhibited Development Communications

Uninhibited Development Communications is disruptive investment communications for the service of communities experiencing exclusions from formal economies in the UK and globally.

The aim is to create new pipelines for investment through strategic investment communications for service provision for communities facing exclusions from formal structures.

We will help you communicate your value to unlock investment opportunities in the climate and environmental sector through developing climate and environment investment communications plans and strategic communications support.

IE Collective UK: Textile waste in Accra, Ghana

IE Collective UK is an eco-system of strategy, resource sharing and collaboration for project building and strategic investment in climate adaptation for systemically excluded communities.

INSPIRATION BEHIND IE COLLECTIVE UK

IE Collective UK was created as a response to my master’s research in University of Bristol’s MSc Global Development and Environment programme.

I developed and conducted an international participatory research project in Kantamanto market, in Accra, Ghana, with the great support my local host Richmond Osei-Bonsu.

According to The OR foundation, 15 million pieces of second-hand textiles flow into Kantamanto market weekly. Some are such poor condition that they cannot be resold. Ghana’s existing waste management structures cannot process all the textile waste flowing into the market.

However, the informal traders made it clear that are not seeking an end to their livelihoods, they want better quality clothing and trade conditions.

I wanted to a design a solution that provides generational support rather than one-off advocacy.

Read more my article about my research here

EXPERIENCE WITH KAYAYEI’S DAUGHTER

I realised the answer was not a short term campaign. I was deeply touched my experience with a Kayayei’s (female head porter) daughter, who was a very happy child but her future was already looking bleak. Despite being school age, her mother had no capacity to take her school, as every cedi counts in the work as kayayei - so she stayed with her mother in the market.

With the dwindling quality of clothing and the potential of new EU environmental regulations impacting the trade, it was clear that the worst hit would be Kayayei and - by extension - their children with any significant losses to the market.

Learn more about the Kantamanto research here.

PREVIOUS AND CURRENT CLIENTS/WORK EXPERIENCE

I have a rich and deep experience spanning 8 years working in corporate social responsibility, community investment, gender equality, environmental sustainability and participatory research co-created with marginalised communities and youth.