Esther currently chairs the Global Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Advisory Panel for the Biodiversity Credit Alliance. She is a member and a Panelist of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance Task Force and Biodiversity Credit Alliance Forum respectively on behalf of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. She is the Co-Chair of the Southern African Development Community for the Global River Protection Coalition.

She is currently the Chairperson of Community Association of South Africa in Natural Resources (CASA-Natural Resources). She is currently serving of the Independent Advisory Panel for Biodiversity (IAPB) – www.iapb.org Working Groups Governance, Benefits and Measurements and Metrics. She is a Co-Lead of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance www.biodiversitycreditalliance.org for the Demand Integrity Working Group.