Carrefour - 2017 Registration Document

2 CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Supporting our partners CARREFOUR | 2017 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 67 Being a socially responsible retailer 2.4.6 Actions addressing SDG 2 Carrefour is working towards food security through the actions of the Carrefour Foundation (target 2.1). Carrefour’s policy and its corporate foundation Created in 2000, the Carrefour Foundation conducts sponsorship programmes in countries where the Group operates. As a retailer, Carrefour’s efforts are focused on three major areas: food solidarity, emergency humanitarian aid and protecting biodiversity. The Foundation supports, develops and coordinates solidarity initiatives run by teams in Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, and local Foundations: Carrefour China Foundation for Food Safety, Carrefour Taiwan Cultural and Educational Foundation, Fundación Solidaridad Carrefour in Spain, Fundación Carrefour Argentina and Instituto Carrefour in Brazil. These Foundations draw on their local connections to work on solidarity projects with organisations in the field. Requests for funding are assessed on the basis of a set of objective criteria which are shared with project leaders when the requests are being examined. Country managers approve the project and work with the Foundation and the project leader to determine the appropriate financial, technical and material assistance required to successfully implement the programme on the ground. Once the project has been approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors, an agreement is signed with the local organisation. Each country management team tracks and assesses these projects regularly. The Carrefour Foundation ensures that the resources allocated are put to good use and reviews the results achieved. It also determines the benefits of pursuing or adapting the project over the medium or long term. All of the Foundation’s actions and partnerships are described in detail in the Carrefour Foundation’s annual report and on its website at: http://www.fondation-carrefour.org . Carrefour’s performance In 2017, the Carrefour Foundation’s annual budget was increased by an additional 1 million euros devoted to protecting biodiversity in France. The Foundation’s Board of Directors also voted for 1.4 million euros of unallocated funds to be earmarked for food solidarity and emergency humanitarian aid. In total, the Foundation’s budget in 2017 stood at 6.3 million euros, with operating expenses accounting for 9%. The Foundation supported 73 programmes in nine countries. Each programme is monitored and supported by Carrefour’s teams. Highlights Social innovation and Carrefour’s business lines The Carrefour Foundation also supports social innovation projects, putting the Group’s resources to use to serve the general interest and tackle social issues. To this end, it lends support to organisations at the start-up phase of projects and coordinates the ramp-up phase in conjunction with Carrefour management teams. Since 2011, the Foundation has worked with Emmaüs Défi to offer employment to homeless people. It supports the organisation’s Premières Heures scheme, a reintegration programme to help the homeless find their way back into employment. Carrefour volunteers also work with the organisation to meet its logistics and human resources needs. Since the programme’s launch, Carrefour and its Foundation have contributed over 600,000 euros and provided more than 75,000 pieces of equipment corresponding to more than 5,600 sales, equivalent to a contribution of almost 500,000 euros and equipment for more than 3,000 families. In 2017, approximately 12,000 products were donated to the Equipment Solidarity Bank. Similarly, 7,000 toys were donated during the festive season. Carrefour’s supply chain teams transport the pallets of donated goods and give over 100 hours of their time annually on a sponsorship basis to Emmaüs to share their know-how. Carrefour’s employment centre teams help Emmaüs Défi’s staff and beneficiaries through numerous schemes, including running workshops to provide information and raise awareness, giving presentations of retail sector jobs, providing coaching sessions and reviews of CVs, simulating and preparing for interviews, and offering store visits. Since 2011, it has therefore been able to run 28 job discovery immersion schemes at six different sites, and offered short work placements in Carrefour stores and warehouses to Emmaüs Défi staff. Five people have benefitted from this scheme and found long-term employment with Carrefour. In 2017, four job discovery immersion schemes were run, as well as two progressive job schemes. As an extension of this project, the Carrefour Foundation has lent its support to the Lulu dans ma rue project which brings together small business owners previously without work and customers looking for help with small jobs on a daily basis. The Foundation also helps those seeking to run solidarity programmes get them off the ground. It supports the Ticket for Change organisation, which launched almost 100 social initiatives in 2017, including around ten food solidarity programmes, such as Les Petites Cantines in Lyon which promotes social contact and combats food waste. In China, the Foundation supported the One Store, One School, One Farm project developed by the China Youth Development Foundation which teaches children about healthy eating. It also continued to support the third edition of the University of Warsaw’s “ABC’s of Healthy Eating” programme, which calls upon nutritionists and Carrefour staff to combat unhealthy eating among some 6,000 people living in difficult circumstances.