Partnership with Tunas Sawa Erma Group to accelerate NDPE implementation

Yahywa is pleased to announce that it is now working with one of the largest growers in eastern Indonesia, Tunas Sawa Erma Group, to support a programme accelerating the implementation of NDPE, the group's core policy.

The multi-year collaboration between Yahywa and Tunas Sawa Erma Group will comprehensively cover the following:

1. Reformulating the NDPE policy and drawing up a Timebound Plan,
2. Designing implementation and monitoring tools, consisting of: a. the TSE Comprehensive Sustainability Standard, a self-assessment tool whose verification and validation will involve academics to ensure independence. TSE-CSS derives from every aspect of NDPE and is linked to the ISPO, RSPO and ISCC certification standards, as well as non-certification criteria (FPCA and the SDGs); b. the TSE Grievance Tracker, to ensure that the history of grievance resolution is transparent and accountable; c. the TSE Traceability Tracker, to ensure that the Traceability to Plantation programme runs systematically;
3. Implementing all tools in the field continuously and consistently, to establish where TSE stands in relation to sustainability practices based on its NDPE policy. Although TSE has de facto applied a Stop Work Order since 2017, as part of this acceleration programme TSE will also develop a Liability Assessment and Recovery Plan as part of its major commitment to remediate and compensate for land cover change since January 2016.
4. Monitoring and continual improvement. Yahywa will monitor every level of the NDPE policy implementation, involving experts from academia.