Describe the process(es) your organization has in place to ensure that your engagement activities are consistent with your overall climate change strategy[…]Telkom's stakeholder engagement framework and policy guides how we manage our stakeholder engagements, as well as direct and indirect activities that influence policy. All engagements are actively monitored through our Stakeholder Management Programme which involves identifying stakeholders, engaging with them, understanding their expectations, and aligning these to Telkom's strategic and operational objectives and targets. For climate-related policy engagement, our publicly disclosed Corporate Citizenship Policy, Environmental Policy and Climate Change Policy Statement explicitly indicates the group's position and commitment to climate change and related environmental issues. This publicly clarifies Telkom's climate change position to all stakeholders and provides direction and confidence to management and employees across business divisions and geographies to engage in a consistent manner.
In terms of the engagement governance structure, the board-level Social and Ethics Committee, with support from Group CEO, is responsible for ensuring that key stakeholder relationships are effectively managed. The Group Executive Committee actively reviews and discusses the stakeholder management profile regularly and ensures the implementation of the overall stakeholder engagement process through the approval of the stakeholder engagement framework and policy. Certain Group Executive Committee members are assigned to monitor specific stakeholder groups. Management is responsible for implementing the overall stakeholder engagement process.
In addition to the engagement framework, we have various mechanisms within our risk and compliance function to ensure a consistent engagement approach on policy issues. These include continuous employee training and awareness documentation on key policy and legislation matters; a mandatory compliance management framework; ongoing regulatory risk assessments; and control identification and compliance monitoring exercises. Policy activities affecting business risks and opportunities are monitored, recorded, and tracked quarterly (at minimum) through our risk management systems. In this way, Telkom ensures that multiple engagement activities around climate change across the business divisions have a common strategic approach and are consistent with our strategy on climate change.