Our Approach
With over 20 years of field-tested sustainability advisory services and hands-on operational support, Impact for Africa is able to help businesses cut through the noise and focus on what matters: their impacts, their context, their story of creating tourism economies designed for people and places to thrive. By verifying the data to underpin the story, claims are strengthened and shared in a way that secures trust and market position.
Impact for Africa is driven by Lisa Scriven, a respected authority on sustainability frameworks, implementation, and verification. She is passionate about helping small & medium-sized tourism businesses focus on impacts that speak to the specific development priorities of the areas in which they operate. Having explored countless pathways of how this may be achieved, she is an ideal guide to walk alongside you in your journey of sharing verified impacts with the world.
Our Identity
Impact for Africa’s mark is shaped as a thumbprint — symbolising human impact and responsibility.
The river running through it represents the pathway businesses navigate as they engage with the realities around them. On one side are the socio-economic contexts in which people live and work — livelihoods, decent employment, local economies, and development priorities.
On the other are natural ecosystems, where businesses have the opportunity to contribute to regeneration, resilience, and biodiversity conservation.
Together, the mark reflects our belief that meaningful impact is created through how businesses respond to, support, and strengthen both human and ecological systems over time.
Proven Expertise to Deliver Credible Results
Verification Track Record
200+ audits of African tourism businesses against sustainability frameworks & ISO-aligned protocols
Trainer of verification experts
Trained 60+ sustainable tourism auditors from across Africa, including Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa
Global Recognition
Served on the Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) Assurance Panel, 2017 – 2024 (including as Deputy Chair)
Impact Advisory
Sustainable operations & management system implementation support to 100+ tourism SMMEs, CBTEs, and protected areas.
Relevant Qualifications
- Auditor / Technical Advisor – Fair Trade Tourism, Travelife for tour operators, Green Destinations
- Carbon Footprinting – Sustainability Institute
- Systems & Responsible Tourism Technical Assessor (ISO17065), South African National Accreditation System (SANAS)
- Sustainable Tourism – Destination Management, eCornell Course, Cornell University
- MA (Distinction) – Environment, Development & Policy, University of Sussex
SMMEs Supported
Trained Auditors
Audits
Ready to explore your impact?
- lisa@impactforafrica.com
Positioning tourism businesses to thrive with credible impact communication