ICS signs knowledge-exchange agreement with Essex University Academics

The Institute of Certified Secretaries of Kenya (ICS), is a membership organization, established under the Certified Public Secretaries of Kenya Act, Cap. 534 of the Laws of Kenya with a mandate of promoting the practice of good governance in both the private and public sectors.  In fulfilment of its core mandate of promoting good governance, ICS has initiated a collaborative research and impact agreement with academics from the University of Essex (United Kingdom).

The agreement aims at facilitating collaboration, through rigorous research, in the broad area of corporate governance. It intends to bridge the ‘academic research-practice divide’ and offers an opportunity for governance practitioners and researchers to work jointly on projects with the aim of developing appropriate governance policies and practices that will have a positive impact on organisations, people and society.

The ICS team is led by CS. Obare Nyaega (Chief Executive Officer), CS. Jeremiah Karanja (Head of Professional Services), and Mr. Gilbert Kiprono (Manager, Research and Business Development). The Essex Team comprises of Professor Teerooven Soobaroyen and Dr. Danson Kimani, both of whom are members of the Essex Business School’s Centre for Accountability and Global Development (CAGD).

As part of this emerging collaboration, the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council’s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) scheme provides the University of Essex with funding to support an initial project entitled “Towards improving corporate governance practices within Kenyan State-Owned Corporations: A collaborative project with the Institute of Certified Secretaries (ICS) of Kenya”.