Current frameworks, checked
Every framework reference is confirmed against its live version, from King V superseding King IV to the standards and rules still moving through adoption.
About
A practitioner’s advisory firm
Symbiosis is built on time spent inside public institutions and on hands-on project delivery, not on theory alone.
Symbiosis Sustainability & ESG Advisory is a Namibian firm working with governments, financial institutions and businesses across Southern Africa on ESG strategy, governance design and climate finance.
The region is entering a period of significant resource development, spanning Orange Basin oil, green hydrogen and the SADC critical-minerals agenda. The disclosure and safeguard standards international financiers now apply have moved faster than local capacity to meet them. We work in that gap, translating international standards into decisions that hold within Namibian and regional institutions.
Every engagement is designed to leave the client’s own institution more capable of sustaining the standard achieved, and less dependent on the firm that helped it get there.
Principal
Shirley Mambadzo — Founder & Principal Consultant
Education
MPhil, Sustainable Development Planning and Management (cum laude), Stellenbosch University
Reach
Namibia and the wider Southern African region
Credentials
Licences & certifications
Professional certifications in sustainability disclosure, ESG analysis and climate, alongside the MPhil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management.
Managing and Reporting on Nature
UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative · 2026
ISSB: Applying the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards
UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative · 2026
Certificate in ESG Reporting
The ESG Institute · 2026
CSRD Fundamentals
Sustainability Reporting Institute · 2025
Introduction to Sustainable Finance
UN CC:Learn · 2025
ESG Corporate Analysis
Candriam · 2025
Future17 SDG Challenge
QS Quacquarelli Symonds · 2024
Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact
SDG Academy · 2020
Method
How the work holds up
ESG advice is only as good as the evidence and the frameworks behind it. Three commitments run through every engagement.
Version-accurate
Evidence-driven
Claims that can be verified
Factual anchors are checked against primary sources before they reach a client-facing document. Inferred and confirmed findings are kept distinct, and uncertainty is stated plainly.
Systems integration
Every indicator has an owner
Indicators are tied to a named host system, a data owner and an assurance route, so a reporting framework becomes something an institution can actually run.
ISSB · IFRS S1–S2
King V corporate governance
NamCode
NSX sustainability guidance
MRV & carbon accounting
GEDSI
Climate finance origination
Work that outlasts the engagement.
Start with a conversation about what your institution is accountable for, and what it needs to be able to sustain on its own.