A year in review Economic / Governance Environment Social Appendix Local community development Western Australia’s local indigenous aboriginal communities, soap to encourage children to learn how to wash their hands who are considered high risk and more prone to health issues. through play. The team also worked with a digital agency to Community The team, supported by Australian Government’s COVID-19 create an online game, Challenge 20, teaching the key steps of Remote Indigenous Community Task Force, subsequently hand-washing routines. Players have 20 seconds to kill as many development in delivered nearly 250,000 sanitiser products during 2020 and ‘germs’ on the hands as possible to progress to the next level. Madagascar 2021, impacting the lives of thousands of community members. Our employees also contribute through our work with the Our work in Madagascar helps mitigate At our Cuernavaca and Mexico City sites, where the local teams Givaudan Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that has our environmental impact and support are working on ‘single use plastics’ and ‘community care’ funded projects to help build more secure futures for community development. In the Analanjirofo agendas as part of a project with a local NGO partner, the communities and their environments since 2014. A full half of region, we help small-scale producers of recycling of more than four tons of their single use plastic waste the foundation’s projects are directly proposed and designed clove leaf oil establish sustainable sources in the form of bottle caps both helped Givaudan meet its global by employees who wish to make a change in communities of firewood and improve distillation waste target. A partnership with the Mexican NGO Banco de where Givaudan sources natural ingredients and communities equipment. This year, we planted more than Tapitas AC, which uses the proceeds from its bottle cap where our employees work. The foundation also works with 117,000 trees and continued developing collection and recycling to help children and young adults local organisations to identify and respond to local needs and and promoting environmentally friendly suffering from cancer, means that the efforts also contributed then carry out projects in three main areas: education, health, agricultural skills. In the vanilla supply chain, significantly towards building happier and healthier communities and preservation of the environment. The foundation works we built and equipped a new health centre through the provision of medical and food support. closely with and relies on resources provided by Givaudan to offering vanilla farmers from eight villages conduct and monitor its projects. Such initiatives encompass health care access. We also started A related programme, Imagin8, is meant to encourage our 27 ongoing projects in 12 countries, touching more than construction of a new school. Our people to explore their personal connection to the company 40,000 beneficiaries as well as their families and communities. efforts have had an impact on more than purpose. It contributes to the scale-up of our efforts in social 11,000 beneficiaries. innovation by prompting employees to see themselves as In certain supply chains, we develop targeted action plans in changemakers. With a focus on small, simple ideas that can cooperation with the producers, suppliers and/or other accelerate improvements in, for example, social conditions, organisations such as NGOs. This allows us to support projects positive climate action, mental health or access to affordable, in education and health as well as good practices in agriculture healthy products for more communities, the programme has and processing. We also assist in safeguarding the environment generated hundreds of ideas. and natural resources, and encourage investment in sustainable development and innovation. More information can be found In keeping with the mindset of ‘think small with a big impact,’ in the chapter on Responsible Sourcing & Traceability. one very simple but effective idea was to promote hand- washing among children. At the height of the COVID-19 We additionally support local communities with charitable pandemic in 2020, our employees saw the need to improve giving. We work with producers, suppliers and/or other hygiene among children in poorer countries. Colleagues in Brazil, organisations to bolster projects in education, health and Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, UK and the USA collaborated and nutrition as well as good practices in agriculture and by 2021 we were able to pilot a sustainable, colour-changing bar production. We help communities safeguard their environment 114 Givaudan — 2021 GRI Sustainability Report