*Raise awareness in your supply chain

Review Action 23 on Page 22 of ‘Businesses: actions to help pollinators’ guidelines for ideas on how to encourage suppliers in your ‘value chain’ to engage further with nature.

To start with, consider promoting the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan to suppliers by sending them the AIPP business guidelines.

SMART targets to assess supplier progress might include:

• • Have you sent your suppliers the AIPP ‘Businesses: actions to help pollinators’ guidelines plus relevant sector-specific/ ‘thematic’ guidelines?
  • How many of your suppliers are signed up to the AIPP? What is the increase in number signed up to the AIPP annually?
  • How many suppliers have reported/mapped (now mandatory) to AIPP?
  • Have you engaged your suppliers in an AIPP ‘Lunch & Learn’ session?
  • Are your suppliers SMART targets included in your ESG/CSR for the year?
  • Do your suppliers have a pollinator-biodiversity policy aligned with the AIPP guidelines (Action 32)? 
  • Does your tendering process include AIPP participation as part of the Award Criteria/’Criteria of Evaluation’ (Action 32)? 

Review Procurement/Tendering suggestions on Pages 28 & 29 of ‘Businesses:actions to help pollinators’ guidelines.

N.B. Agri-food Processors should guide farm suppliers and growers to review specific evidence-based Farmland: actions to help pollinators guidelines. There are also step-by-step guidelines for Food Processors supply chains developed in conjunction with Bord Bia Origin Green’s food sustainability programme. Also direct farm suppliers growers to the new online course on ‘pollinator-friendly farming‘.