Dangote Industries

No leading practices were identified in the governance and strategy area.

No leading practices were identified in the environment area.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company discloses that its subsidiaries are implementing measures to fortify their products in order to tackle micronutrient deficiencies in Nigeria.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion area.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to strengthen its sustainability governance and accountability by designating an individual or body to implement its sustainability strategy and by assigning decision-making and oversight to its highest governance body. It could link senior executives’ compensation to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. Additionally, it could disclose whether the highest governance body has expertise in its most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a list of trade associations of which it is a member. Furthermore, it could provide a clear and detailed framework for assessing the alignment of these trade associations with its sustainability targets and report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised by each stakeholder group during its stakeholder engagement activities and to describe its process, including frequencies and channels, for engaging with stakeholder groups beyond materiality assessment.

Sustainable development strategy
The company states that it has a materiality assessment at the subsidiary level but could further disclose its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability topics and impacts, including external stakeholder involvement, assessment frequency, and the outcome of the process at group level.

While the company discloses some sustainability objectives or targets including social inclusion and water in its subsidiaries, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain and to report consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has an opportunity to disclose reductions in scope 1 and 2 and scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, and set time-bound targets aligned with the Paris agreement’s 1.5 degree pathway.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company has an opportunity to disclose targets to optimise the use of fertilisers and minimise the use of pesticides in its production and/or sourcing practices, and report progress against the targets.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to soil health and agrobiodiversity.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to enhance its disclosures relating to water use and withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment and provide evidence of how its activities contribute to addressing malnutrition and food insecurity.

Food safety
The company has an opportunity to disclose its commitment to food safety and demonstrate that its operations and supply chain adhere to food safety standards.

Workforce nutrition
While the company has employee health and wellbeing programs, it has an opportunity to enhance these programs by incorporating nutrition-focused health checks or nutrition education. It could also disclose the length covered by its parental leave policy and offer supports like breastfeeding rooms or flexible hours for nursing mothers. Furthermore, while it offers healthy meals at work, it could clarify the criteria for its healthy meal offerings and how these are made accessible to employees.

Child labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to prohibit child labour in its supply chain and to require an age-verification system in its value chain. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to identify living income benchmarks and assess living income gaps for some commodities and regions. Also, it could adopt procurement practices and develop supply chain relationships that improve farmers’ income resilience.

Forced labour
The company has an opportunity to disclose forced labour requirements for its operations and supply chain such as a prohibition to pay recruitment fees, to retain workers’ personal documents, or to restrict workers’ freedom of movement. Further, it could provide evidence of how it builds the capacity of its suppliers to prevent forced labour impacts.

Land rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights. Furthermore, it could describe a process at its operations and supply chain level to identify legitimate tenure rightsholders when acquiring, leasing or making other arrangements to use land and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company states that it prohibits bribery and corruption but could formalise this commitment in a public policy document and to describe the process for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its operations. It could also include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. 

Furthermore, while the company has a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could further specify the accessibility of this mechanism to all stakeholders and options for anonymity. Additionally, the company has an opportunity disclose its approaches to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document, specify that it does not make any political contributions, and divulge how much it spends on lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy commitment on respecting the health and safety of its workers in its operations and supply chain, and provide evidence on how it monitors the performance of its suppliers on health and safety standards.

Moreover, it could disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or state that it has achieved payment of a living wage to all workers. The company could also describe how it determines a living wage for the regions in which it operates, and explain how it works to support their suppliers in paying a living wage to their workers.

While the company professes support for equal opportunity and condemns all forms of harassment based on gender, it could formalise this commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment in a public document and set related targets. Additionally, the company could disclose the female representation on the highest governance body and the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.

Respect human rights
The company has an opportunity to disclose a policy statement that commits to respect human rights and the ILO fundamental rights at work in its operations and supply chain. Additionally, the company could describe a comprehensive process for identifying human rights risks and impacts across all its activities and supply chain, as well as assessing and identifying what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. The latter could include a description of how relevant factors, such as geographical, economic and social, are taken into account. Furthermore, it could unveil a global system to address its salient human rights issues by preventing, mitigating or remediating them.