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Holcim’s involvement with neighboring communities has always been a mainstay of our social engagement. Our Group companies engage in many activities and projects within their local spheres of influence, some of which have continued for decades.
We encourage our Group companies to engage in longer-term action in three main focus areas:
- Providing education for society’s future
- Building infrastructure for livable communities
- Supporting sustainable community development
Our performance over the past three years is summarized in the following graph, and our approach is demonstrated in many case studies, including this one about our work with the Pro Pueblo Foundation in Ecuador, and another about Holcim Brazil’s Ortopolis program.
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We encourage our Group companies to focus on projects in collaboration with stakeholders where our expertise can contribute to achieving greater impacts.
To ensure project success, companies undertake structured stakeholder needs assessments to analyze the current situation as well as to map stakeholders’ needs and expectations. In 2006, 61% of Group companies conducted structured needs assessments in the communities close to their plants, and 72% involved stakeholders in the planning and management of their CSR engagement.
Lessons learned in the field show that there is no “one size fits all” approach to stakeholder needs assessments. Application of the model depends very much on the local stakeholder landscape, as this case study demonstrates.
To ensure that our local CSR initiatives make a difference and create value for our stakeholders as well as for us, we have developed a tool to assess social engagement impacts. A first pilot assessment was undertaken in Mexico in 2005 and is described in this case study.
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