OCP

Lobbying and advocacy
The company discloses some professional associations it is a member of. However, it has an opportunity to disclose a full list of trade associations it is a member of for all geographies.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses an overview of the issues raised during its ongoing and regular stakeholder engagement activities as well as the engagement channels, for each stakeholder group. Furthermore, the company’s stakeholder engagement activities cover nature, nutrition, and social areas.

Sustainable development strategy
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. Furthermore, it reports consistently against all its targets.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company actively works on reducing its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with a set target and deadline in place. Regular progress reports are provided to track and evaluate their progress.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
The company discloses that it collaborates with farmers on three projects around organic, precision and sustainable agriculture to increase their yields while using less fertilizers.

Soil health and agrobiodiversity
The company discloses its activities and targets for improving soil health in its production practices and reports progress. For example, through its project OCP Africa School Lab, it trained 41,093 farmers in good agronomic practices, surpassing its target of 40,000.

Water withdrawal
The company showcases its commitment to reducing water withdrawal in its own operations. It has a time-bound target to reduce water withdrawal in its own operations and reports progress against the target. Moreover, the company provides transparent reports on the amount of water withdrawn in areas where water scarcity is a concern.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company is committed to implementing resilient and regenerative agricultural practices. These practices aim to increase productivity and the production of nutritious foods, while also helping to maintain ecosystems. The company mentions products and services such as fortified fertilizers (NPK, NP+) enriched with micronutrients – zinc, boron, silicon – and staple crop diversification. Furthermore, the company is expanding its product portfolio to include premium products that promote crop and soil health. For instance, its Agribiotech products enhance nutrient absorption, bolster resistance to various climatic stressors such as heat and rainfall, and increase the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables. To support farmers, including underserved communities and women, the company has implemented the Agribooster program and Farmers Houses. Through these initiatives, farmers have access to quality inputs and financial support.

Workforce nutrition
OCP has implemented the four pillars of workforce nutrition program: nutrition-focused health screening, nutrition education, breastfeeding support (i.e. parental leave of at least 6 months and an hour per day for breastfeeding), and healthy food offerings (i.e. providing healthy and diverse meals, which reviewed regularly by a nutritionist).

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company’s Fertilizer Relief program aims to restore the availability and affordability of key fertilizers in Africa. It sells to farmers at a reduced price and brings fertilizers closer to farmers by working with local partners which reduces the costs for farmers and enables responding to local needs. Also, its programmes provide access to financing and insurance, and tools to transition from subsistence farming to profitable and sustainable businesses. Further, it reports on the impact of these programmes on farmers’ income.

Land rights
The company has a commitment to respect ownership and use of land and natural resources and related legitimate tenure rights.

Act ethically
The company discloses a public commitment to protect personal data. Furthermore, it discloses a global tax strategy, and reveals an executive-level body responsible for overseeing this strategy. Additionally, the company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption, and incorporates anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. It has an established grievance mechanism for stakeholders to raise concerns and complaints regarding bribery and corruption. Moreover, the company discloses its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy statement.

Provide and promote decent work
The company publicly commits to health and safety of workers in a policy statement. Furthermore, the company expects its business relationships to adhere to the same policy and discloses its monitoring process for assessing supplier compliance.

Additionally. the company ensures employees receive a living wage according to the definition of the Global Living Wage Coalition. Furthermore, it sets limits on working hours to not exceed 48 hours in a regular work week or 60 hours including overtime. Moreover, it discloses the proportion of its workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements.

The company further reports the percentage of its workforce in each employee category by age group, gender and race or ethnicity. Furthermore, the company publicly commits to gender equality and women’s empowerment, and sets a target to increase the representation of women by 47% in management and 30% in senior management positions by 2030.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing to respect human rights and ILO core labor rights across its operations and supply chain. Furthermore, the company outlines its methods for identifying human rights risks and impacts within its operations and supply chain. It also elaborates on its process for assessing these risks and discloses salient human rights issues. The company provides a case study illustrating how it has addressed a salient human rights risk issue.

In addition, the company discloses categories of stakeholders, including employees, contractors, suppliers, women, children, local communities, and migrant laborers, whose human rights may be affected by its activities. Moreover, it indicates the existence of a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all workers and external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Governance and accountability for sustainable development
The company has an opportunity to link performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover environmental and social issues. Furthermore, it could disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Lobbying and advocacy
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets. Additionally, it can report any (potential) misalignments between the lobbying activities of its trade associations and its sustainability targets.

Sustainable development strategy
While the company discloses some sustainability targets such as those related to climate, water, soil health and social inclusion, it has an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain.

Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
The company has the opportunity to align its scope 1 and 2 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, it can also align its scope 3 emissions targets with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Fertiliser and pesticide use
Considering its leading market position in fertilizers, the company has an opportunity to disclose a target to optimise the use of fertilisers, and report progress against it.

Plastic use and packaging waste
The company has an opportunity to disclose quantitative evidence regarding plastic use reduction and use of sustainable packaging.

Water withdrawal
The company has an opportunity to engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal.

Availability of nutritious foods
The company has an opportunity to disclose the outcomes of its activities and demonstrate how they contribute to increasing the quality and variety of nutrient-dense crops.

Workforce nutrition
While the company discloses quantitative evidence of its nutrition-focused health screening, it could disclose quantitative evidence on healthy food offerings in its own operations and/or in its supply chain and to expand its nutrition initiatives to its supply chain workers.

Child labour
The company includes child labour requirements, including a prohibition on using child labour. In its sustainability report, It also discloses that before being authorised to access its sites, contractors should provide specific documents to have an access badge to its operations, including the age of employees. However, it could disclose a requirement of verifying the age of workers recruited. Moreover, it has an opportunity to disclose examples of remediation programmes when a case of child labour is found in its operations and to indicate how it is building the capacity of its suppliers to prevent child labour impacts.

Farmer and fisher livelihoods
The company has an opportunity to demonstrate how it identifies living income benchmarks and assesses living income gaps for some regions or commodities.

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.

Health and safety of vulnerable groups
The company has an opportunity to recognise and assess the health and safety risks to vulnerable groups, such as migrant and temporary labourers, women and young farmers. Furthermore, it could provide evidence of support activities that improve the health and safety of vulnerable groups.

Land rights
The company could require its business relationships to have a process to identify legitimate tenure rights holders paying particular attention to vulnerable or marginalised tenure rights holders, and to negotiate with them to provide adequate compensation.

Act ethically
The company has an opportunity to outline its approach for identifying bribery and corruption risks and impacts within specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Furthermore, although the company specifies that it only allows political contributions with prior approval and within the boundaries of applicable laws and regulations, there is an opportunity to clarify whether these contributions are exceptional cases. It could also detail the criteria guiding these exceptions. Moreover, the company could enhance transparency by disclosing its expenditures related to lobbying activities.

Provide and promote decent work
While the company has established wage expectations for its suppliers, there is an opportunity to introduce a requirement for them to adhere to a living wage standard. This opportunity can be paired with a disclosure of the company’s supports mechanism for implementing such the payment. Additionally, the company could enhance transparency by reporting information such as the ratio of the basic salary and remuneration of women to men.