SoL Sustainability Consortium

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SoL Sustainability Consortium
Dr. Brigitte Tantawy Monsou 27 April 2005
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Unilever
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• One of the largest consumer goods companies in
  the world
• Global, regional and local brands
• 223 000 employees world-wide
• Brands on sale in 151 countries
• 2/3 of 40.4 billion turnover from developed
  world, 1/3 from developing and emerging markets
• Consumers choose our products 150 million times
  every day
• 65.3 million spent on community projects in
  2003 (1.7 pre-tax profits)

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Mission
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• Unilevers mission is to add vitality to life. We
  meet everyday needs for nutrition, hygiene, and
  personal care with brands that help people feel
  good, look good and get more out of life.

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Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna
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• The Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna or Health
  Awakening programme is the biggest rural health
  and hygiene educational initiative in India.
• The five-year campaign aims to help educate 200m
  people (20 of the population) about basic
  hygiene habits, including washing hands with
  soap. We work with parents, health educators,
  teachers, community leaders and government
  agencies.

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Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna
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• Results
• For the second year the programme covered 15 000
  villages in eight states and reached 70 million
  people
• Sales are starting to show directly attributable
  growth

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Lifebuoy Swasthya Chetna
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Shakti
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• In India, Unilever is working with 13 000
  underprivileged women, training them in skills to
  become entrepreneurs distributing Unilever
  products to more than 70 m consumers
• Working through the growing number of womens
  self-help groups, the women are trained in
  selling, commercial knowledge and book keeping.
  They earn enough to double their household
  income, which is traditionally based only on
  their husbands employment.

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Shakti
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• Results end of 2004
• 12 states, 50 000 villages, 13 000 Shakti
  entrepreneurs covered through a partnership
  between HLL, local governments and womens
  self-help groups
• 30 more of the rural population than at the
  start of the initiative in 2000
• 300 partners including NGOs, banks and both state
  and local government departments
• Goal end of 2008
• 400 000 villages and 400 millions of consumers

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Shakti Product Training
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i - Shakti
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• In 2004, we started i-Shakti an IT-enabled
  community portal across the state of Andhra
  Pradesh. i-Shakti is designed to give rural
  people access to information via a network of
  village kiosks containing internet linked
  computers run by entrepreneurs.
• Villagers can access free content, developed in
  their local language, or email questions on a
  wide range of topics, including Unilever
  products, health and hygiene, agriculture,
  education, finance and employment.
• The aim is to have 1 500 i-Shakti kiosks on
  stream by the end of 2005 covering 7 500 villages
  and 10m people.

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Bhavishya
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• Malnutrition among Indian children is extremely
  high compared to other countries.
• Around 47 of children under the age of 5 years
  are moderately or severely underweight.
• More than 50 of children suffer from vitamin A
  deficiency which can lead to impaired immune
  defence.
• 26 of children suffer from iodine deficiency,
  the risks of which include increased mortality
  and retarded physical and mental development.

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Bhavishya
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• On the 19th of April, representatives of
  Unilever, UNICEF and Synergos sign a partnership
  for child nutrition PCN India.
• The Bhavishya partnership, meaning future in
  Hindi, has the target of halving child
  malnutrition in India within 10 years.

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Ethical Tea Partnership
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• Started in 1997.
• 17 members, including Unilever, and 47 brands
  sold in 30 countries.
• Funded by contribution of members over GBP 1m.
• Independent monitoring, checking that living and
  working standards on tea estates meet local laws
  and union agreements.
• Covers employment (minimum age and wage levels)
  Education, Maternity, Health and Safety, Housing
  and Basic Rights.

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Ethical Tea Partnership
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• Monitoring estates in 7 countries producing 65
  of world tea exports
• Kenya 95 selling marks,
• Malawi 27 selling marks,
• Sri Lanka 223 selling marks,
• India 157 selling marks,
• Indonesia started in 2004,
• Tanzania 17 selling marks,
• Zimbabwe started in 2004.
• In the 7 countries 500 estates monitored out of
  800.
• In 2005, a new monitoring programme in
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