The NBI has developed an online platform that provides businesses with a report on their Gender Pay Gap. Click here to learn more about how you can use NBI’s free online Gender Pay Gap Calculator to understand and tackle pay discrepancies in your business.
Creating inclusivity
Transformation and Equity is focused on mobilising the private sector to tackle issues of inequality and exclusion with the aim of achieving an equitable and transformed society with key focus on Workplace Transformation, addressing pay disparity, building a multi-stakeholder approach towards Gender-Based Violence and integrating GESI.
Transformation Blueprint
The Transformation Blueprint is anchored by key transformation principles: accountability, transparency, support mechanisms, recourse, justice and equity. Through this document, the NBI has developed a framework which speaks to the dynamism and complexities of the South African private sector. Based on research and knowledge sharing, the Transformation Maturity Curve emerges from this work as a tool for companies to track and measure their transformation journeys. Through 3 key themes: Bold Leadership, Inclusive Policies and Procedures and Transformative Social and Workplace Culture. Findings from engaging with the Maturity Curve will assist business in developing and implementing interventions which prioritise belonging, equity and broader social transformation.
Belonging at Work: Research on LGBTQIA+ on Inclusion in the workplace
The National Business Initiative (NBI) conducted research on understanding the experiences of LGBTQI+ employees in the workplace with the intention of creating strategies that support and enhance transformation, belonging and representation in the office environment. Additionally, this research formed part of a comprehensive report that reflects the current international best practice on workplace transformation, providing an overview of current research that has been conducted on the topic in South Africa, critically engaging the experiences of LGBTQI+ employees in the South African private sector and exploring interventions that effectively speak to a transformed workplace.
Reflecting on research this series serves as a platform to unpack the key interventions required to accelerate belonging and transformation at work.
Thevan Naidoo
Project Manager
Gender Based Violence Pathway
The National Business Initiative (NBI), under the Social Transformation unit, has undertaken the task to develop a Gender Based Violence (GBV) Pathway which aims to work with South African companies in addressing, challenging their thinking and responses to eradicating GBV. Given that businesses operate within society, it is not immune from experiencing social issues that continue to plague the country. Currently, research on the extent and existing interventions in corporate South Africa on addressing and eradicating GBV is scarce.
Addressing issues of exclusion & discrimination is crucial for achieving an equitable and transformed society & the eradication of GBV. This is done through 3 critical areas:
1. Thought Leadership: Develop appropriate responses and support for companies to understand and address issues of GBV within their organisations, value chains and broader society. Facilitate GBV dialogues with senior leadership.
2. Capacity Building: Facilitate the NBI GBV Working Group – Community of Practice towards collective action interventions.
3. Collective Action: Capacity building to existing gaps in interventions to tailor impact initiatives
Addressing Pay Disparity:
Gender Pay Gap Calculator
The NBI has developed an online platform that businesses can use for free to calculate and visualise their Gender Pay Gap. The GPG platform is a catalyst for change: it is a dedicated space for companies to commit to narrowing the gender pay gap. This endeavour represents a significant innovation in recognizing and addressing the intricate economic and social factors that underpin gender pay disparities in South Africa.
The Gender Pay Gap platform is built and hosted on Impact Reporting, a social value measurement platform based in the UK. Users can upload anonymised staff wage data for analysis to reveal the size and dynamics of their GPG and address income disparities in their organisations. Please download the deck for more information, or apply to use this platform with the form.
Call to Action
Following the conclusion of the pilot report, the NBI will focus on developing an online pay gap tool which will allow companies to securely submit their data sets and measure their income discrepancies. Under this future project, companies are invited to assist with funding the development of the tool.
Addressing Pay Disparity: Gender Pay Gap Pilot
The NBI in partnership with the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of Witwatersrand conducted the Gender Pay Gap Pilot to develop a methodology that measures the pay gap within South African companies. Through this pilot process, the NBI sought to develop a standardised and simple methodology that can be applied across sectors and develop solutions on correcting the wage gap. On 20th March 2020, the NBI hosted its first gender pay gap pilot workshop where we invited participating companies to gain better insight into the pilot process and further expand on the economic models to be used for the pilot. The final reports were launched and published in March and May 2021, respectively.
Addressing Pay Disparity: Gender Pay Gap Pilot
The NBI in partnership with the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at the University of Witwatersrand conducted the Gender Pay Gap Pilot to develop a methodology that measures the pay gap within South African companies. Through this pilot process, the NBI sought to develop a standardised and simple methodology that can be applied across sectors and develop solutions on correcting the wage gap. On 20th March 2020, the NBI hosted its first gender pay gap pilot workshop where we invited participating companies to gain better insight into the pilot process and further expand on the economic models to be used for the pilot. The final reports were launched and published in March and May 2021, respectively.
Thevan Naidoo
Project Manager
Gender Index Implementation
The Social Transformation Unit has partnered with Absa to support addressing the challenges facing society and to contribute to driving transformation and equity. NBI has been tasked as service provider in undertaking the work of conceptualising, developing, and implementing a Gender Index (GI) for companies in the private sector. The Gender Index aims to gain a deep understanding of how companies are contributing to achieving equality and equity against 5 set of Indicators: Leadership & Representation, Employee Journey, Organizational & Workplace Culture , Economic Inclusion , Community , Environmental Sustainability.
The team has developed a benchmarking tool that will assess 25 JSE Top Listed companies. In developing the thematic areas, and high-level indicators, we will measure these large companies with no industry restrictions. We will explore the company’s performance against existing gender inclusion approaches. We will be collecting data from publicly available information – including annual integrated reports, company policies, governance and sustainability reports, and other documents for the 2021 financial year.
Integrating GESI into Local Economic Development & Climate Finance Acceleration
Integrating Gender Equity and Social Inclusion frameworks and approaches across works areas and society, implementing GESI Trainings and support for projects and developing Monitoring and Evaluating frameworks to measure the impact of GESI approaches.
(CFA – GESI) Gender & Social Inclusion in Climate Finance:
GESI/Gender mainstreaming is an essential part of climate interventions and mitigation within Society. The effects of climate change are not just environmental but on all manner of persons within society, most importantly marginalised groups within society. Climate change amplifies existing gender inequalities. As a result of Climate change, marginalised groups are susceptible to climate shocks which therefore influence their nutrition as well as their income and livelihood. Marginalised groups, in particular women , have fewer access to climate finance and access to the green economy.
Thevan Naidoo
Project Manager