ALLOW helps businesses to embed social responsibility into their sustainability practices.
It’s time for businesses to recognize and address their social impacts in light of interconnected issues like growing inequality, climate change, nature loss, COVID-19, and water scarcity.
What do we mean by social responsibility?
It means proactively identifying and managing business impacts on your employees, workers in the value chain, local communities, customers and society.
It addresses the relationships your company has and the reputation it fosters with people and institutions in the communities where you do business.
Companies are supposed to take responsibility for their effects on the environment and people. Businesses frequently have greater clout and flexibility than governments or other authorities when it comes to influencing or resolving social issues. Corporate responsibility for social or societal issues is driven by stakeholder expectations. One way for businesses to show how they can help meet those expectations is through the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Resources will move to sustainable production as the green transition picks up speed, necessitating social interventions and communication. Organizations must manage possible trade-offs in order to achieve a so-called just transition, where environmental benefits are realized without sacrificing social justice.
When conducting your business in a socially responsible way, you are managing your risks.
Through stakeholder engagement in the local communities where you are operating, you are building trust and gaining your license-to-operate.
Businesses should encourage fair working conditions for their contractors and employees as well as for their global supply chains.
To obtain the company's operating license and lessen any potential negative effects in the future, it is crucial to support the resilience of the local community.
Every company's management team, human resources, occupational health and safety, ethics and compliance, and procurement departments should discuss the issue in addition to sustainability functions.
ALLOW has extensive experience in social responsibility matters in industry
Strategy advisory
By addressing important stakeholders, setting goals, and coordinating policies with best practices, including human rights due diligence, ALLOW creates social responsibility strategies and roadmaps for the whole value chain.
Stakeholder engagement
Businesses should behave responsibly, minimizing negative effects while maximizing positive influence, as they have an impact on communities and other stakeholders. Planning for engagement, mapping stakeholders, and creating strategic community investments are all areas in which ALLOW can assist.
Supply chain management
When it comes to the risks to human rights and society, suppliers are crucial. In accordance with established standards, ALLOW offers consulting services ranging from risk assessments and screenings to capacity building and the adoption of sustainable procurement procedures.
Assessments & reporting
Third-party evaluations and external verification systems demonstrate strong corporate social responsibility. In addition to offering support for ESG ratings and reporting in accordance with established and anticipated frameworks and regulations (such as GRI, MSA, EU taxonomy, CSRD, etc.), ALLOW has a long history of providing due diligence services and social impact assessments.