Membership Commitments

By joining the DSF, Members are committing to a number of actions.

These commitments vary according to the category of membership as set out below.

Implementing
Aggregating
Affiliate
  • Public endorsement of the 11 key sustainability categories and strategic intents.
  • Public endorsement of the 11 key sustainability categories and strategic intents
  • Public endorsement of the 11 key sustainability categories and strategic intents.
  • Establish the necessary internal structures and processes to implement the sustainability program.
  • Establish the necessary structures that ensure the Aggregating role can be fulfilled, such as LMG arrangements, materiality coordination, reporting and aggregation.
  • Develop the Local Multistakeholder Management Group (LMG).
  • Develop the Local Multistakeholder Management Group (LMG) for the organizations that are part of the aggregating efforts.
  • Undertake the materiality assessment, Criteria priority setting and mitigation/improvement program development and implementation.
  • Ensure that the organizations the Aggregating Member is working with are implementing appropriate improvement programmes that are focussed on delivery of the Strategic Intent for their prioritised criteria.
  • Ensure all programs are established with local milestones and KPI’s and the DSF Indicator Metrics.
  • Ensure all collaborating organizations’ programs are established with both local milestones and KPI’s and the DSF Indicator Metrics.
  • For organisations that operate in the same geographies as any DSF Aggregating Members, have a dialogue with the DSF Secretariat early in the DSF process to discuss reporting strategies to avoid any potential double counting.
  • Inform the DSF Secretariat the names of the organizations you are aggregating on behalf of and have a dialogue with the DSF Secretariat early in the DSF process to discuss reporting strategies to avoid any potential double counting.

The provision of the annual reporting as required by the DSF by March 31 each year.

Reporting consists of providing:

  • Company information (eg. number of supplying dairy farms, processing plants, milk volume processed)
  • details of which criteria you have prioritised
  • the indicator metrics for those criteria you have prioritised.

This data will be aggregated with all other DSF Members to produce the Annual reporting.

The provision of the annual reporting as required by the DSF by March 31 each year.

Reporting consists of providing:

  • Company information (eg. number of supplying dairy farms, processing plants, milk volume processed)
  • details of which criteria you have prioritised
  • the indicator metrics for those criteria you have prioritised.

This data will be aggregated with all other DSF Members to produce the Annual reporting.

  • Public communication of DSF membership and associated commitments (websites, newsletters, presentations, reports, etc.), including allowing the DSF to use members name and logo in public communications. Implementing Members can promote their organization as a ‘member’ of the DSF.
  •  Aggregating Members can promote their organization as a ‘member’ of the DSF. However the organizations they are aggregating for, unless part of an agreed scheme with the DSF, are not able to promote themselves as a member of the DSF.
  • As Affiliate Members do not make any commitments regarding the implementation of the DSF, they are not permitted to promote their organization as a ‘member’ of the DSF
  • Optional: provision of sustainability case studies from their organisation on any of their priority criteria
  • Compulsory: The provision of three sustainability case studies per annum selected from the organizations they represent in alignment with their priorities.
  • Optional: to get actively involved in the DSF Development Group activities
  • Compulsory: Be actively involved in the DSF Development Group activities.
  • Provision of feedback, as and when necessary, with regards to the DSF development initiatives.
  • Provision of feedback, as and when necessary, with regards to the DSF development initiatives.

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