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SAFEGUARDING & STEWARDSHIP COMMITTEE

In 2020, Camellia established a Safeguarding and Stewardship Committee to promote its mission to meeting the highest standards in protecting and promoting human rights across the Group. The principal objective of the committee is to identify and mitigate significant social and governance risks, and has appointed Impactt to act as an advisor. The committee meets on a regular basis throughout the year and provides updates to the Board.

The committee is chaired by Rachel English, non-executive Director. Other members of the committee are Malcolm Perkins, Amarpal Takk, Vinita Gursahani Singh and Louise Nicholls.

Malcolm Perkins

Chairman; Malcolm has been with the Group since 1972 and is a chartered accountant and Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

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Rachel English

Rachel is a chartered accountant, has extensive international and general management experience, having founded and served on the board of several significant businesses. She has a particular focus on ESG matters. Rachel is a member of the Audit, Remuneration, Nomination and Safeguarding committee.

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Vinita Gursahani Singh

Vinita has focused on empowerment of vulnerable people, through building their capacities to access their rights and engaging with varied stakeholders who effect positive action. Over the past 25 years, she has worked with homeworkers, informal sector workers, women and youth across different regions and industries in India. Her notable associations have been with the ETI, Impactt, Traidcraft in the UK and civil society organizations like IRFT and We, the People in India.

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Louise Nicholls

Managing Director of a Human Rights and Sustainability management Consultancy

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Amarpal Takk

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary, Amarpal advises the Board on legal, regulatory, governance, compliance, risk and ESG issues. He is a member of the Strategy Committee and other Board committees.

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LEGAL & GOVERNANCE

In January 2020, Camellia announced that we and certain UK subsidiary companies faced legal claims in the UK based on allegations against two businesses in our African operations, Kakuzi in Kenya and EPM in Malawi.

These claims have now been resolved.

Camellia takes any complaint of criminality, misconduct, illegality, or unethical behaviour against its operations very seriously. We have established a Safeguarding and Stewardship Committee, and we continue to push the Boards of the companies we invest in to look again at their own procedures, and where necessary make operational changes to prevent incidents like those that are alleged from arising in future.

Camellia will continue to do all we can so that our investee companies operate to the highest standards of governance.

This is what the Group’s customers, partners and all our stakeholders expect.

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WHISTLEBLOWING

We are committed to conducting our operations with honesty and integrity, and we expect all staff to maintain high standards. We have established a way of communicating confidentially with Camellia to address issues.

Email us at: confidential@camellia.co.uk

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