Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine sustainability interactions with the community
- Determine sustainability related impacts on the community for each process step
- Determine overall impacts on the community from the portion of the value chain
- Determine overall impacts on the community from the complete value chain
- Engage with the community
- Determine impact of community issues and actions on the sustainability of the organisation and its value chain
- Identify key community groups, representatives and opinion influencers
- Determine best strategy for engagement with the community on sustainability issues
- Implement strategy to define community sustainability issues with the organisation and value chain
- Rank issues by importance to the community and organisation
- Report issues and rankings back to internal stakeholders
- Compare issues raised with impacts determined
- Determine root cause of selected issues
- Determine regulatory impact of issues and responses
- Develop a response for selected issues
- Explore alternative methods of addressing selected issues
- Categorise alternative methods
- Negotiate acceptable solutions
- Agree a timeline for action and indicators of progress
- Identify issues where no short-term resolution is achievable
- Establish agreed mechanism for ongoing monitoring of progress by the community
- Record outcomes and communicate to stakeholders
- Monitor and report progress of agreed solutions
- Collect agreed metrics or other indicators
- Take action if solutions are not delivering as anticipated
- Maintain dialogue with community as agreed