CSP© Accreditation - Curriculum

Designed to provide global assurance of skills and ethics

The StePs Certified Stewardship Professional (CSP©) accreditation is designed to provide global assurance of skills and ethics.

The program is based on five pillars of knowledge related to stewardship as conducted by specialists and/or portfolio managers.

To achieve the CSP©, professionals would take a specified number of hours of approved coursework produced by partner organizations, academic institutions, or StePs itself, and pass examinations overseen by independent experts.

The CSP© Pillars

Stewardship
Fundamentals

Total duration: 14 hours
Introduction and Basic Concepts
What is stewardship? Why is it important?

A primer to corporate governance (relevant economic theories, separation of ownership and control, monitoring issue etc.)

Investment management (investment management models, levels of stewardship etc)

Protagonists

Stewardship
Tools, Skills and Techniques

Total duration: 17 hours
Engagement
Dialogue & private engagement

Collaboration

Escalation

Public campaigns

Negotiation skills

Stewardship & ESG: Themes, Assets and Outcomes

Total duration: 11 hours
Sustainable Investment, ESG & Stewardship
Terminologies

ESG and capital markets

Application of ESG

ESG analysis and research

Reporting, Assessment
& Transparency

Total duration: 14 hours
Regulation & Reporting Standards
Corporate governance reporting

Stewardship reporting standards: country-specific/regional/international

Financial reporting

Non-financial reporting

Management report

Country
Specific

Total duration: 10 hours

Within this module students will have
to choose between four different markets.
Africa
ESG and Stewardship in African Markets