Suzano recognizes that it has an important role to play not only in supporting economic development, but also in promoting social transformation in the more than 200 communities in which it operates. Our strategy is driven by investing in scalable solutions, building partnerships through networks, territorial arrangements and coalitions, and identifying opportunities for our business to contribute to poverty alleviation through its value chain.
Suzano's social investment is a strategic tool to generate value both for the company and for the neighboring communities and regions where the company operates, ensuring stakeholder involvement.
The focus is on solutions with a direct impact on poverty alleviation, guided by its multidimensionality - which affects the spheres of income, health and education - and can also be reproduced and scaled up in different municipalities. The projects fall under six programs that cover regional specificities and their socio-economic potential. These include: inclusive recycling, sustainable extraction, entrepreneurship, supply and service networks and access to employment.
The table below consolidates the following data:
- Number of participants and beneficiaries in social income-generation programs and projects;
- Total revenue generated through social income-generation programs and projects.
Consolidated results of income generation programs¹
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022⁶ | 2023⁶ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants² | beneficiaries³ | Total revenue generated⁴ | Number of participants² | beneficiaries³ | Total revenue generated⁴ | Number of participants² | beneficiaries³ | Total revenue generated⁴ | Number of participants² | beneficiaries³ | Total revenue generated⁴ | |
| número total | número total | R$ | número total | número total | R$ | número total | número total | R$ | número total | número total | R$ | |
|
Total⁵ |
4.296 |
24.467 |
48.695.194,76 |
4.825 |
30.736 |
93.016.679,85 |
14.100 |
47.237 |
79.306.566,37 |
49.212 |
114.522 |
85.998.729,00 |
- This indicator monitors the total number of participants and beneficiaries of income-generating programs in which Suzano invests.
- The number of participants includes the people directly supported by the income-generating programs in which Suzano invests.
- The number of people benefiting is calculated by counting those who live in the same household as the participants in the income-generating programs and projects and who benefit from the results obtained from them (improved income, food, housing conditions, acquisition of assets).
- Revenue generated is calculated from the sum of the total annual income resulting from sales of products and/or services from activities related to the programs and projects.
- Reflects the overall results of the Bahia, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul and São Paulo regions.
- The revenue generated was calculated using census data and by extrapolating the sample data collected in the process of evaluating the social income-generating programs and projects invested in by Suzano. In 2022, the drop in total revenue generated compared to 2021 may have been an effect from the method applied, but the results show an increase in the number of participants, beneficiaries and people lifted out of poverty in relation to previous years.