The communities around our sites are our key stakeholders. They are an integral element of how we conduct business and the development of our medium and long-term plans and strategies at unit and group level.
Partnerships are the core driver of our work within our communities. A resource-based multi-location company like ours navigates through a complex and evolving set of social and stakeholder challenges. Our unique approach and our ability to work collaboratively has been an important element of our licence to operate and long-term success.
We have a three-tier approach to our community investment - local, regional and state level, for meeting areas’ macroeconomic and microeconomic needs and identifying and closing gaps. The Public Private People Partnership (4P) model helps us enhance relationships and networks and converge ideas through collaborations for sustainability. Our key focus areas are social investment - education, health and livelihood - and bio-investment - agriculture, water, harvesting and social forestry. We have 96 full-time employees and 454 volunteers working on this area of our activities.
Our approach to community development is holistic, robust, integrated, intensive, long-term and sustainable. Our stakeholder engagement process, coupled with baseline study and needs assessment helps us develop and shape our programmes for a three- to five-year period for select villages. A village-wise matrix plots annual performance indicators against set targets. The other villages are covered under our Good Neighbourhood Programme and eventually, in a phased manner, are aligned with the Integrated Village Development Programme.
Detailed information concerning our systems and performance in this important area can be found in our latest Sustainable Development Report and within the Case Studies section of this website.
Vedanta - Changing the face of Kalahandi