MTN Group Limited is commited to the sustainable development of communities in which it operates. To honour this commitment, MTN focuses on exploring and ensuring the responsible management of the social, economic and environmental aspects of its business by:
- Complying with all the relevant laws on sustainability issues and, in the absense of legislation, seeking out and observing appropriate best international practice.
- Regularly reviewing its business to identify sustainability issues, set performance goals and monitor and publish performance outcomes, and in doing so continously improving performance. This involves the decisive management of action plans and not superficial reporting on sustainbility issues.
- Conducting appropriate assessments and implementing recommendations. Assessments include environmental impace assessments and broad stakeholder engagement programmes.
- Training and encouraging our contractos and suppliers to support MTN’s sustainability objectives and targets by adopting sustainable practices in providing products and services.
- Educating and training staff in sustainability matters and raising their awareness of sustanable development.
- Increasing appreciation for the sustainable benefits of communication technologies among customers, legislators, opinion makers and the general public.
- Devising, implementing and monitoring group-wide management systems for implementing our sustainability strategy.
- Commiting to setting and achieving annual targets for sustainability improvement, using the 2004 reporting baseline reference point.
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