Cause Index

SASDC

Our Purpose

The SASDC exist primarily to addressing socio-economic challenges through value chain diversity and inclusion, thereby improving economic sustainability in alignment with the National Development Plan. We do this to unlock competitiveness by, among others, creating access to procurement markets for marginalized Black businesses through the development of a collaborative eco-system of partners from business and government

Our Vision

The SASDC will be the leading partner in providing innovative solutions and thought leadership to all stakeholders for the diversification of value chains by facilitating access to market and capacity enhancing opportunities for Black businesses.

Our Mission

By actively involving our Members in efforts that will increase and expand business opportunities and business growth for black businesses, the SASDC will:

We enable a collaborative supplier diversity eco-system of partners from business and government by leveraging Preferential Procurement, Enterprise and Supplier Development Interventions.
Through our due-diligence assessment protocols, we verify their key credentials before certifying Black Suppliers.
We connect our stakeholders to enable supplier diversity outcomes
We generate thought leadership, change management and develop and enhance stakeholder capacity and competitiveness through supplier diversity
We celebrate and promote the benefits of Supplier Diversity and its best practice.
Our Values

The following core values express the SASDC culture and "the way we do business":

Professionalism: We provide a quality and reliable service, responsibly and with pride
Agility: We are innovative and quick to respond to change
Compassion: We put ourselves consistently in another person's shoes, to feel his or her pain as though it were our own, and act on our desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering of another.
We generate thought leadership, change management and develop and enhance stakeholder capacity and competitiveness through supplier diversity
Respect: We treat all stakeholders with compassion, respect and dignity.
Courage: We deal with challenges to our Vision, mission and values without fear or favour

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