Our Sustainable Development Priorities

We are following a method called the triple bottom line, of analysing our performance against three distinct criteria: our environmental impact, our social impact, and our financial impact. Our aim is to try and continually improve every year across this balanced set of measures. Once this programme is established, the results will be made available and certified.

Specifically the areas are:

Our Environmental Impact:

Applying good agricultural practices

Testing and preserving the soil fertility
Maintaining and encouraging crop diversity
Using a multiplicity of pest management methods (thereby avoiding heavy pesticides)

Minimising our waste, our emissions and our pollution

Solid waste management practices (following the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover” methods)
Effluent treatment and testing
Emissions measurement and reduction

Minimising our resource usage, specifically:

Water
Fossil fuels
Power
Wood

Sustainable forestry is a critical part of our fuel resources

Promoting protection of biodiversity through:

Protection of water courses
Protection of natural habitats and wildlife

Finlays Hydro Electricity plant in Kericho

Creating safe and healthy products:

Product safety measures and standards
Measuring the health benefits
Applying clear labels

Our Social Impact

Following established labour standards (based on International Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions) in the following areas:

Health & Safety
Terms and conditions of employment
Wages & benefits
Working hours
Rights to freedom of association & collective bargaining
Non discrimination
No harassment
No child labour
No forced bonded labour

Mother and child in Finlays Chomogonday Hospital

Ensuring our employees’ welfare through:

Housing provision and standards
Medical provision
Education provision and standards
Welfare

Community

Providing funding for specific local social projects
Raising awareness and working with the local population on specific issues

Our Economic or Financial Impact:

Corporate Giving

Through a mix of donations, providing facilities, employee time and efforts
Education sponsorships

Financial

Statutory taxation
Measuring our direct impact on the community as well as the indirect impact of our involvement
Having a strict policy on no bribery or corruption