Annual Report - SABMiller India

Priority Why it is Targets we set Progress Targets fora priority last year we have made this yearBuildingsupply chainsthat reflectour owncommitmentBenefitingcommunitiesContributingto thereduction ofHIV/AidsRespectinghuman rightsTransparencyin reportingour progressThe effects of our purchasingare felt around the world. Weengage with our suppliers tosecure supplies of qualitygoods and services, reducereputational risks, provideemployment and improvestandards of living indeveloping communities.The prosperity of communitiesand that of our operations arecodependent. Our corporatesocial investment activities aimto improve the quality of lifefor local people, helping tobuild strong relationships withsuppliers, consumers andour employees.The HIV/Aids pandemic isparticularly relevant to ouroperations in Africa. We haveprogrammes in place for ouremployees, their families, localcommunities and suppliers andwe share our experiences withour operations around the world.This helps us to ensure thewellbeing of our staff and thestability of our workforce.We conduct our businesswith respect for nationalcultures and different locallaws, norms and traditions.We promote the values of theinternational community, notablythe Universal Declaration ofHuman Rights.External stakeholders shouldbe able to access informationeasily to enable them toassess our performanceagainst stated values and tomake informed judgementsabout the business. We aimto improve our reporting inresponse to stakeholder needs.• Incorporate ResponsibleSourcing Principles intosupplier contracts.• Field-test good practiceagricultural principles.• Extend the coverage ofour supplier engagementworkshops.• Ensure that every operationhas a formal corporate socialinvestment strategy.• Improve the measurementand evaluation of strategiccommunity investment.• SAB Ltd to increase employeeinvolvement in communityvolunteering to 65%.• Improve the percentage ofspouses and dependantson treatment by continuing toaddress the fear and stigmaengendered by the disease.• Run education workshopsfor community organisationsand suppliers in Tanzaniaand Zimbabwe.• Introduce awarenessinitiatives in two operationsoutside Africa.• Ensure that all groupcompanies have embeddedour human rights principlesin their local humanresources policies.• Increase frequency of internalreporting by operations toevery six months.• Encourage the productionof local sustainabledevelopment reports.• Responsible SourcingPrinciples becomingpart of the supplierevaluation process.• Reviewed and tested guidanceon agricultural practice. Nowcarrying out wider review ofsmallholder farmer activity.• Held regional workshopswith key European suppliers.• 10,500 farmers involved insmallholder programmes.• All operations now have aformal strategy in place.• Continued to embed oursystems for data collection.• US$30 million cash invested incorporate social investment.• Employee volunteering at SABLtd estimated to have reached65%, although data captureneeds to be improved.• Held education workshops inTanzania, Zimbabwe,Uganda and Zambia.• Published a briefing paper‘Living and working withHIV/Aids’.• Supported and presentedat the first ‘Business againstAids’ round table in Russia.• Percentage of spouses anddependants on treatment rosefrom 11% to 14%, with furtherimprovement needed.• All group operations haveincorporated human rightsprinciples into their localpolicies.• Principles now beingintroduced into thevalue chain.• Held stakeholder dialoguesessions on our approachto sustainable development.• Instituted twice-yearlyreporting on progresson the 10 priorities.• Local sustainable developmentreports becoming moreconsistent, using our 10priorities as a framework.• Review our smallholder farmerprogrammes to understandthe business and social valueadded and expand andimprove their impact.• Include social, ethical andenvironmental criteria inevaluating suppliers of rawmaterials such as packaging.• Improve the focus of ouractivities on our strategic CSIissues of water, enterprisedevelopment and HIV/Aids.• Continue to expand ourentrepreneurship programmesand identify the value addedto improve the quality ofthese activities.• Increase participation ofemployees and their spousesin annual voluntary counsellingand testing.• Increase the percentage ofHIV positive spouses anddependants on managedhealthcare programme.• Increase number of peereducators in our businesses.• Introduce our new Code ofBusiness Conduct and Ethics.• Contribute to human rightsdialogues on a national andglobal level.• Conduct detailed ‘deep dive’investigations on sustainabledevelopment issues throughoutthe value chain in four of ouremerging markets.• Improve qualitative dialoguebetween operations throughtraining sustainabledevelopment championswithin each region.Overview Operating and financial review Governance Financial statements Shareholder informationSustainable development review 33SABMiller plc Annual Report 2008