DP WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE REPORT 2021
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OUR WORLD, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WE ARE COMMITTED TO CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
VIA INITIATIVES THAT HAVE TANGIBLE AND MEASURABLE IMAPCTS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITIES WHERE WE OPERATE.
Our Community Engagement strategy guides us as an organisation to strategically invest in our communities through partnerships and alignment with the UN SDGs. We take a data-driven approach to tracking and measuring performance, providing global guidance whilst allowing local variation to maximise the impact and benefit we bring to local communities. This focus on data can be tracked via the key metrics we report in our ESG Scorecard on page 36. Our community strategy is focused on areas that are most relevant to our business.
DP World’s commitments are overseen by an internal Charity Committee, which reviews and supports the investments made by the Group’s Head Office and business globally. We drive integrity in our community investment measurement processes. Our community impact is measured via the help of third-party assessment tools developed by the Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) framework, which ensures objective measurement and monitoring of our engagement efforts. Our investment data is reviewed and assured annually against this standard.
In 2021, we invested US$ 13.2 million in community investment projects, an increase of 41% since 2020. In total we reached over 312,000 beneficiaries across our community investment projects supporting over 718 partners and NGOs. Over US$ 1.9 million was invested in women’s projects, an increase from US$ 1.5 million last year, reaching more than 160,000 women in projects within their communities, over the 100,000 target per annum set.
These include five focus areas of:
Education We aim to address the needs around education infrastructure, industry exposure & logistics opportunities for people between the ages of 0 – 25. This will focus on digital skills, innovation, talent pipeline and inclusion of girls and women.
See pages 30 to 33.
See pages 8 and 9.
Health
We recognise that access to healthcare is a universal right and want to help when we see a gap. We support the most pressing local health needs in non- communicable diseases, medical facilities and clean drinking water. We aim to help eliminate illegal wildlife trade (IWT) as well as support wildlife conservation projects that ensure animals remain safe in their habitat and we support local communities to protect wildlife. Our focus is on restoring and enhancing the oceans over the next 10 years in line with the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration. We are investing in ocean restoration projects like blue carbon initiatives, particularly mangrove planting, which absorb carbon and build coastal resilience to sea-level rise thereby supporting our communities We work to provide logistical support in emergencies through the Logistics Emergency Team (LET). We also invest in our communities to help build their resiliency to natural disasters, respond with direct financial or in-kind support during an emergency and support infrastructure repair in the aftermath. Across every community programme we also apply a gender lens. This means thinking about how women and girls are being supported in the programme and ensuring that women and girls will not be discriminated against and that there are real benefits.
See pages 13 and 21.
Wildlife protection
See pages 20 and 34 to 35.
Oceans
See pages 8 and 9.
Emergency relief
Women
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