Corporate social investment

Every material Mondi operation has in place a rolling three- to fi ve-year corporate social investment (CSI) programme or community engagement plan, designed to help us create sustainable, mutually beneficial relationships with national and local communities that reflect their priorities and, where possible, match our business interests.

We have agreed a broad, generic set of CSI objectives across the business, which help us select the projects we should support. These ensure that we only get involved with projects that enhance the capabilities of our communities and contribute to their social and economic development. In addition, the projects need to give us the opportunity to form partnerships with other interested parties, including NGOs and government.

The actual projects we choose to work with are based on specifi c, tailored solutions that spring from the socio-economic assessment toolbox (SEAT) reports we undertake on the communities surrounding our material operations. A SEAT gives us a structured way of helping us improve the well-being of our communities. It involves a number of different stages:

First, we profile our operations and the communities within a given area
Next, we engage with the full range of interest groups, and identify the positive and negative impacts of our operations
Then we produce a management plan designed to meet the community’s development needs and reduce the negative impact of our work
Finally, together with local stakeholders, we publish a local report that provides the basis of our ongoing relationship with them

Below are reports from a number of our sites.

Austria: