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Our
About This President’s About 2023 Apical2030 Approach to Transformative
Report Statement Apical Highlights Highlights Sustainability Partnerships

APICAL GROUP
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2023
MATERIALITY ASSESSMENT AND

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

Stakeholder Engagement Method & Topics & Concerns Apical’s Response
Groups Frequency Raised
Local • Apical’s grievance • Address community • Prioritised employment
Community mechanism to understand concerns including opportunities to local
and address community FPIC communities
concerns including FPIC and • Ensure the local • Increased in community
environmental conservation community reaps the investments and programmes to
(ongoing) benefits that palm improve well-being, infrastructure
• Dialogue with community oil brings such as and basic needs
groups and representatives better infrastructure, • Prevention of fire outbreak with
facilitated by our SSL Team access to employment Free Fire Village Programmes
(regularly) opportunities • Conducted CLEAN workshops
• Outreach programmes to • Fire prevention to empower on alternative
improve livelihood (annually) livelihood options
• Complaint handling,
grievance procedures
and conflict resolution
engagement (ad hoc)
• Surveys (periodically)
Governments • Multi-stakeholder forums • Compliance with • Provision of updated documents
and and events (regularly) government policies on compliance of Apical and our
regulatory • Consultations (regularly) and regulations suppliers
bodies • Field visits (regularly) • Communications • Participation in PROPER
• Apical Website (ad-hoc) around Apical’s programme
• Apical Sustainability policies and actions in • Submission of regular monitoring
Dashboard (ad-hoc) responsible palm oil reports
• One-on-one meetings (ad- • Alignment of Apical’s • Collaboration with regional and
hoc) initiatives with local governments to conduct
• Materiality Assessment government policies, progammes such as SLV
(every 2-3 years) especially in HCV/HCS
• Survey (periodically) areas and smallholder
development

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