Stakeholder group |
Method of engagement |
Frequency of engagement |
Key concerns/focus areas |
How stakeholders’ concerns and expectations are addressed |
Customers |
- Virtual events(webinars, forums, etc)
- Meetings
- Surveys and feedback
- E-mails
|
Annually, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily |
- Product quality, delivery, and services
- Short-term and long-term product pricing
- Traceability
- Environmental harm, social injustice, and exploitation
|
- RSPO, MSPO, ISPO certified products
- Quality and safety certified products
- NDPE policy
- Crosscheck
- Product development specialists, supported by R&D scientists, interact with customers directly to optimise solutions and provide technical support
|
Employees |
- Employee engagement surveys
- Volunteer programmes
- Skills development workshops
- Organisational Health Index (OHI)
- Muster briefings
- Union meetings
- Gender Committee meetings
|
Annually, quarterly, monthly, weekly |
- Succession pipeline and bench strength
- Performance and consequence management
- Employee well-being initiatives
- Learning and development
- Workers’ welfare
- Wages and overtime work
- Collective agreement
|
- Developing strategies for mission critical position successors and high potential talent
- Aligning and strengthening KPIs and entering into robust performance conversations to achieve a high-performance culture
- Identifying learning needs and implementing structured development programmes to build capacities and capabilities
- Human Rights Charter
- Suara Kami helpline, whistleblowing channels
- OSH systems and standards
- SDP’s COVID-19 approach
- Adopting practices to ensure safety at all our upstream and downstream operations
- Migrant Worker Responsible Recruitment Procedure
|
NGOs/ civil society organisations |
- Meetings and forums
- Engagement surveys
- Collaborative projects
|
Annually, quarterly, monthly |
- FPIC
- Environmental impacts
- Human rights and labour rights
- Expansion plans
- Deforestation
- Traceability
- Food security
|
- Responsible Agriculture Charter
- Traceability and transparency data through Crosscheck
- Human Rights Charter
- Partnerships
- Innovation and Productivity Charter
- SDP Sustainability Scorecard
|
Industry groups |
- Working groups
- Task forces
- Technical committees
|
Annually, quarterly |
- Certification-related issues
- Regulatory pressure
- Market forces (trade and business)
- Sustainability issues
|
- Partnership opportunities
- Task forces, working groups and other platforms (e.g., RSPO Smallholder Support Fund Panel, Shared Responsibility Working Group, Biodiversity and HCV Working Grouping, Human Rights Working Group)
- Contributing to the revision of sustainability certification standards, e.g. RSPO P&C, MSPO
- Sharing SDP’s oil palm genome sequencing knowledge
- PNG Oil Palm Research Association membership
|
Government agencies |
- Meetings
- On-site inspections
- eCorrespondence
|
Annually, quarterly |
- Regulatory compliance
- Emerging regulatory changes
|
- Beyond Compliance Approach
- Robust governance
|
Local communities |
- Land usage agreements
- Community meetings
- Engagement events
- RSPO complaints panels
- Grievance panels
- Gender committee
|
Annually, quarterly, monthly |
- Community lands and ownership
- Fire and haze prevention
- Exploitation
- Local ecosystems/employment
- Smallholders
- Gender issues
|
- NDPE commitments
- Responsible Agriculture Charter
- Human Rights Charter
- Commitment to community development
- FPIC
- Philanthropic support
- Smallholder schemes
- Women’s empowerment and financial literacy programmes
|
Academic Institutions |
- Collaborative Projects
- Advisory Roles
- Funding Applications
|
Annually |
- Awareness on sustainable palm oil production
- Community engagement
|
- Partnership opportunities
- Research collaborations
- Collective action and commitments
|
Investors |
|
Quarterly, anually |
|
- NDPE commitments and progress’
- Annual/sustainability reports
|