Africa Public Affairs

Learn about ACCA Public Affairs Africa including past and upcoming events, and how to get involved.

About ACCA Public Affairs Africa

ACCA has a growing footprint across Africa, representing over 22,000 members and affiliates and more than 63,000 students. Public affairs activity is coordinated regionally and delivered with locally embedded teams across 12 markets, alongside engagement in a further 24 remotely managed markets.

This regional and local approach connects ACCA’s professional expertise with Africa’s policy and institutional priorities.

List of markets covered by ACCA in region

We have offices in Nigeria, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia

The markets we manage remotely include Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Cameroon, The Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, Algeria, Chad, Seychelles, Morocco, Western Sahara, Niger, Sudan, Madagascar, Mauritania, Mali and Libya.

Our Public Affairs engagement

ACCA works with governments, regulators, professional bodies and regional institutions across Africa to bring the profession’s expertise into policy development and implementation. Through research, consultation and strategic partnerships, our public affairs work connects global policy developments with African priorities and implementation experience.

Shaping policy: key developments

Shaping Sustainability Policy and Implementation Across Africa

Across Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa, ACCA has worked with regulators and professional institutions as sustainability reporting moves from policy development to implementation. Expert input into national adoption roadmaps, combined with early-adopter evidence from the Sustainability Working Group Africa (SWGA), is enabling implementation experience from one market to inform policy and capability development in others.

Institute of Certified Public Accountants Rwanda (ICPAR)

Institute of Certified Public Accountants Leadership at the joint ACCA/ICPAR Sustainability Working Group Africa (SWGA) Report Launch Event -March 2026

Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG)

Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAG) and ACCA are collaborating to build capacity for effective climate and sustainability reporting implementation.

Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN)

As a member of FRCN’s Adoption Readiness Working Group, ACCA contributed to Nigeria’s sustainability reporting roadmap through consultation, review, with subsequent implementation insights jointly developed with FRCN informing preparer training.

Adoption Readiness Working Group (ARWG) South Africa

As a member of South Africa’s ARWG and Chair of its Research Cluster, ACCA supported evidence gathering and the sharing of global and regional implementation insights to inform the national sustainability reporting adoption roadmap.

ACCA is creating routes for African institutions and professionals to contribute to global standard-setting. Working with PAFA, ACCA coordinated African perspectives into the IPSASB consultation on public sector sustainability reporting, including contributions from AAAG and public sector leaders. Collaboration with PAFA and AFIAAR has also brought African stakeholders into the development of SASB Agriculture and Energy standards, while SWGA expert voices are contributing African implementation experience to ACCA’s global research and international policy discussions.

Sustainability Working Group Africa (SWGA)

ACCA is aligned with PAFA’s Sustainability Centre of Excellence and collaborating with stakeholders across the region to advance Sustainability Reporting adoption in Africa.

ACCA is working with public institutions and partners to connect professional development with the capability needs of Africa's public sector.

Africa Professionalisation Initiatives (API) and Office of the Auditor General (OAG)

Africa Professionalisation Initiatives (API) & Office of the Auditor General (OAG)

ACCA, API and the Office of the Auditor-General Kenya partnered to convene audit and accountancy policymakers and practitioners from across Africa, supporting professional development and a future-ready public sector.

Strategic partnerships are creating new platforms for policy engagement and professional development, including collaboration with AFIAAR on audit quality, regulatory capability and future talent.

National Treasury South Africa

ACCA and the National Treasury are partnering to professionalise the Public Sector in South Africa

Africa Forum of Independent Accounting & Auditing Regulators

ACCA partners with AFIAAR to advance audit quality and talent pipeline development on the continent.

Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA)

ACCA contributed policy recommendations to IRBA’s adoption guidance for the global ISSA 5000 sustainability assurance standard, supporting regulatory and professional readiness in South Africa.

World Bank

ACCA partners with the World Bank to develop early-career African professionals through periodic placements, building the skills, judgement and confidence to support effective public sector decision-making.

Long-term sustainability adoption requires more than regulation. ACCA is extending sustainability awareness into education, working with young people and educators to build the knowledge and skills needed by future generations.

Sustainability Education and Future Skills (Nigeria)

ACCA’s Sustainability Hour introduces young people to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, while engagement with educators helps extend sustainability awareness and learning through the education ecosystem, including public schools.

Events and engagements

Events/Engagements

Virtual Public Sector Conference (Global) (November 2026)
Employer Summit (October 2026)
Africa Virtual Public Sector Conference (March 2027)
Africa Members Convention (December 2027)