Sustainability report 2019

76 Contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals In September 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant for all countries. AAK has strong commitment to sustainability and we have welcomed the SDGs. We see the SDGs as an integrated part of our sustainability work and they are incorporated in our model, AAK House of Sustainability. AAK plays an active role in supporting the delivery of the SDGs. The goals and AAK contribution is reviewed on an DQQXDO EDVLV DQG GXULQJ $$. LGHQWL¿HG HOHYHQ SDGs that represent our contribution and ability to make VLJQL¿FDQW LPSDFW $V D JOREDO SURGXFHU RI YDOXH DGGLQJ YHJHWDEOH RLOV DQG IDWV VROXWLRQV ZH KDYH LGHQWL¿HG our global supply chains as an opportunity as well as a responsibility to do our part to achieve the SDGs. Therefore, we are monitoring our contribution towards DFKLHYLQJ WKH 6'*V DQG WKHLU VSHFL¿F VXE WDUJHWV UN SDG UN SDG sub-targets AAK’s contribution to the UN SDGs Progress 7DUJHW By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to QDWLRQDO GH¿QLWLRQV Smallholder inclusion in our supply chains for shea, palm and coconut offers access to global markets. AAK has progressed regarding the number of smallholders actively included in our supply chains as well as regarding the way they are included. We have successful smallholder engagement projects UXQQLQJ IRU SDOP RLO LQ 0DOD\VLD DQG 0H[LFR IRU FRFRQXW LQ ,QGRQHVLD DQG IRU VKHD LQ %XUNLQD )DVR Ghana and Ivory Coast. 7DUJHW Equal right to economic resources, access to land, natural resources and banking AAK continues to offer an increasing number of microcredits and bank accounts through our program Kolo Nafaso in West Africa. AAK has opened a total number of 4,249 bank accounts within Kolo Nafaso. We have furthermore expanded the program into Ivory Coast. 7DUJHW By 2030, double the agricultural produc- tivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family IDUPHUV SDVWRUDOLVWV DQG ¿VKHUV LQFOXGLQJ WKURXJK secure and equal access to land, other productive UHVRXUFHV DQG LQSXWV NQRZOHGJH ¿QDQFLDO VHUYLF - es, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment AAK continues to educate smallholders in West Africa, Indonesia and Mexico in good agricultural practices which can have a positive impact on their incomes. AAK is furthermore supporting smallholders in VHFXULQJ ODQG WLWOHV WKURXJK RXU )RUHYHU 6DEDK partnership. AAK has grown the Kolo Nafaso program by 72 percent in 2019, offering training to an additional 96,615 women. All of the Indonesian coconut smallholders in our supply chain have been trained in good agricultural practices. )RU WKH 0H[LFDQ VPDOOKROGHU SURMHFW ¿HOG VFKRROV KDYH EHHQ HVWDEOLVKHG DQG VWDQGDUG RSHUDWLQJ procedures developed. 7KH )RUHYHU 6DEDK SURJUDP KDV LQ IRFXVHG RQ VHFXULQJ ODQG WLWOHV IRU VPDOOKROGHUV LQ WKH Sabah region. 7DUJHW End preventable deaths of new-borns and children under 5 years of age AAK produces customer co-developed oils and fats solutions for special nutrition products and continuously contributes to the research of optimizing these products. AAK is a pioneer in parenteral nutrition, which is nutrition delivered directly into the bloodstream. AAK is helping the global population with safe, proven, essential lipids. Beginning already in the 1970s, we supplied lipid knowledge and solutions that were commercialized by our partners who made them available to the medical sector. The knowledge about lipids’ role in medical nutrition has JURZQ HYHU VLQFH )RU H[DPSOH WKH ULJKW IDWV DUH QRZ DOVR NQRZQ FRQWULEXWRUV WR OLPLW LQÀDPPDWRU\ effects.