Partnerships overview
Engaging with and supporting the development of our partners and local communities helps us gain a better understanding of their needs and concerns. This matters to us because we employ local people and serve local businesses and individuals. Leading by example across our value chain is key to us achieving our vision to be Africa's leading and most respected energy business.
We have three key priorities in our Partnerships pillar. These are:
Partnering with communities
We want to make a real and lasting difference to our communities, engaging with them to earn their respect and trust, supporting them and promoting a better quality of life and more sustainable future. Our community investment programme is primarily focused on Education, Health and Renewable Energy.
Enabling local enterprise
We are focused on supporting the growth of our dealer and transporter network and other local businesses – creating tens of thousands of indirect jobs across our network.
In order to manage our retail network efficiently, we utilise local dealers to operate approximately 95% of our sites to our exacting standards. We support our dealers to ensure they have a platform to succeed and regularly check that they’re maintaining the standards that we require.
Responsible purchasing
We place great emphasis on operating our business with high ethical standards and in a socially responsible way, and want to work with Business Partners that share our values. We have developed a supplier code of conduct for our partners to adhere to, which covers minimum standards on areas including: human rights and modern slavery, respect, child labour, and discrimination.
Read our supplier code of conduct