NCBA Plants 1.3 Million Trees, Mobilizes KES 9.5 Billion in Green Financing
NCBA Group PLC has mobilized KES 9.5 billion in green and sustainable financing, planted more than 1.3 million trees, and empowered 70,536 women and youth through skills and mentorship programs. The bank disclosed this on Thursday alongside its full-year 2025 financial results.
The figures mark some of the most concrete progress yet under the lender’s “Change The Story” sustainability strategy, launched in 2023 with 15 commitments targeting 2030.
On economic inclusion, NCBA partnered with HEVA Fund through the ELEV8 Live music platform to extend tailored financial products to young creatives, helping them generate income and scale their enterprises. The bank says its programs have cumulatively impacted 1.2 million livelihoods to date.
The bank has also moved to green its own operations, recycling 83.6 percent of waste in select offices and installing six electric vehicle charging stations across the region.
Beyond this, NCBA says sustainability is also being woven into its supply chain, with an average of approximately 20 percent of suppliers now sourced from women- and youth-led businesses.
More than 3,000 staff have gone through the bank’s internal “I Change the Story” sustainability training, while KES 100 million is deployed annually toward community engagement programs.
NCBA’s sustainability commitments will now run alongside its newly launched 2026–2030 Ubuntu business strategy and a proposed acquisition of a 66 percent stake by South Africa’s Nedbank, a deal the group says will expand its capacity to deepen its impact agenda across East Africa.
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