OUR ENGAGEMENT

Our goal is to increase energy efficiency at our sites and reduce the carbon footprint of our travel. This includes the following actions:

• Energy audits of our sites and setting up improvement plans 
• Generalization of recycling of waste and setting up of solutions taking into account the context and regulations of each country. 
• Reducing paper consumption for internal use and in marketing and communications.

• Training and raising awareness among employees about eco-friendly practices in the office and at home is essential.
  Rolling out teleworking across all our sites and entities.

It's cover :

• Introduction of controlled management for paper consumption, both internally and for marketing and communication purposes 
• Developing a responsible purchasing policy that will gradually be extended to all our subsidiaries, while fostering ongoing dialogue with Sofrecom's suppliers to ensure that their commitments are met 
• Application of a Green It and circular economy policy :  Use of reconditioned equipment for our IT equipment

• Digital solutions : web conferencing, digitizing expense reports, electronically signing contracts, digitizing consultants' tools, ...

• Extending home-working to all our sites and entities

• Introduction of a responsible mobility package and public transport (company shuttle) to encourage employees to use environmentally-friendly modes of transport 

We promote the development of digital infrastructures and environmentally friendly products and services :

• Benchmarking of industry best practices

• Assistance in defining and deploying CSR strategies

• Extra-financial reporting and carbon footprint measurement 

• Development of responsible products and services : green, compliant and available for all, safe safety personal data, safe and responsible uses

• Development of infrastructures respecting environment : our engineering teams are systematically reinforced with environmental experts.

• Encouraging the circular economy : we advise our clients to set up responsible equipment and telecom fleet management policies (reconditioning policy, use of reconditioned equipment, sorting and recycling of mobiles and PABXs, etc. ).

• Ensuring the know-how transfer at the end of our projects.

You can't improve what you don't measure. We are implementing regular energy audits and carbon footprint measurements across the Group,We are implementing regular energy audits and carbon footprint measurements for all our geographies. 

We want to find ways to optimize and keep improving so we can reach our goals and really contribute to Orange's Net Zero Carbon challenge.  Here's how we're doing it: 

• Conduct an annual carbon assessment: Calculate the carbon footprint of all our activities to identify the main sources of emissions (transport, energy, raw materials) based on international standards.
• Set reduction targets: Define clear and ambitious targets based on the data measured and implement action plans to achieve them.
• Engage employees and empower them: our profit-sharing agreement now includes a criterion for reducing our carbon footprint. 
• Communicate progress: Share the results of our carbon assessments and the actions we have taken in a transparent manner, both internally and externally.

We have partnered with Greenly to calculate our carbon footprint and manage our climate strategy.

We build digital strategies that support inclusion

• We assist our clients in developing regulatory frameworks that effectively support economic and social development ambitions.

• We drive the transformation of public infrastructures and operators into levers of digital transformation

• We are involved in the development of e-gouv strategies (digital identity, digital payments) and of the most useful e-services for citizens and companies

• We accompany the implementation of data hosting strategies and personal data.

We contribute to job's creation in the digital sector

• Through the Sofrecom Academy in Morocco and the partnership with Smart Tunisia, we help young graduates to acquire digital skills and find a first job.

• We are partnering with several universities to facilitate the access of young people to employment through multiple internship offers and work-study roles.

• We support the creation of digital schools to develop the digital skills of local populations.

We act to develop talent from all backgrounds, with different experiences and viewpoints

• We facilitate and encourage women's access to digital professions: 55% of our engineers in Tunisia are women, 47% in Morocco.

• Sofrecom is a partner of several associations that offer young people guidance and that help people who have greater difficulty accessing employment, such as young people from disadvantaged backgrounds or people with disabilities, to find and settle into work.

• In choosing its partners and suppliers, Sofrecom strives to work with companies that respect the values and principles of equality, inclusion and ethics that our company promotes.

We improve gender equality

• We ensure equal pay for employees for both recruitment and training,

• Through our projects, we contribute to the social development of the countries in which we operate by facilitating women’s access to technical jobs. For example, 31% of workers hired to deploy the Backbone project in Sub-Saharan Africa are women, and 47% of our engineers in North Africa are women.