Social investment
Social investment platform
Klabin's social investment platform focuses on implementing and supporting social programs that align with four core pillars: local development, citizenship, environmental education, and culture. The following are the main initiatives in 2022.
Support for Public Administration
Through the Public Management Support Program, Klabin works to ensure that priority municipalities (see criteria below) for the company's operations make significant progress through training and consulting to enhance their planning and the use of public funds (such as the allocation of resources from taxes paid by businesses). The goal is to promote participatory public management in order to foster regional development.
The program is present in 15 municipalities: Telêmaco Borba, Ortigueira, Imbaú, Sapopema, Tibagi, Reserva, Curiúva, Paranaguá, Rio Negro and Ventania, in Paraná; Otacílio Costa, Correia Pinto and Lages, in Santa Catarina; in addition to Angatuba (SP) and Goiana (PE).
In 2022, as part of the program, Klabin provided specialized consulting to develop the Multiannual Plans (PPAs) for the new municipal administrations in 14 cities. Together, they add up to 2,140 actions.
Priority municipalities
By 2030, Klabin has the goal of reaching 100% of priority municipalities through actions to strengthen public management. The criteria used to prioritize municipalities includes: having large or medium-scale operations of Klabin, having high or medium economic dependence on the Company, or having low development indices compared to other municipalities or a GDP lower than the Company's EBITDA. In 2022, 76% of the priority municipalities were contemplated with initiatives to support public management.
Social Progress Index
In 2022, the Social Progress Index (SPI) was launched for 12 municipalities in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, including Lages, Correia Pinto, Otacílio Costa, and nine surrounding municipalities (Painel, Urupema, Rio Rufino, Palmeira, Ponte Alta do Norte, Bocaina do Sul, Ponte Alta, São Cristóvão do Sul and Bom Retiro). The work is a partnership between Klabin and Fundación Avina, an organization present in 20 countries that promotes the generation of large-scale changes for sustainable development in Latin America.
The SPI has the differential of measuring only social and environmental results with a direct impact on the life of the population, considering three dimensions: Basic Human Needs, Fundamentals of Well-being and Opportunities.
For the SPI of the municipalities in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, official data from public sources were combined with a perception survey conducted in December 2020 with 1,500 people in 12 municipalities in the region. The results show that the average SPI of the territory's cities was 64.20 in 2021. This means that, on average, the region is over halfway to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals measured by the index.
Klabin has already conducted the SPI for 12 municipalities in the state of Paraná in 2021, as well as the municipality of Goiana, in Pernambuco, in 2019.
Local Development Forums
Since 2018, Klabin has been participating in and supporting the Local Development Forums "Angatuba em Movimento", from Angatuba (SP), and "Goiana em Ação", from Goiana (PE), composed of several representatives from civil society, governments and companies from these territories. The action is linked to the KSDGs for supporting participatory public management, reinforcing the significance of community involvement in enhancing democracy for the development and management of local public policies.
In the 2022 cycle, eight meetings were held with each of the municipalities. In the 2023 cycle, a differential has been the presentation and conceptual detailing of the budget revenues of the two municipalities. Through the meetings, the members gained an understanding of how budgetary logic operates, bolstering initiatives to suggest and propose to the local Public Authority.
Matas Sociais Program – Planning Sustainable Properties
A program that encourages family farming, rural permanence, the sustainable development of the production and consumption chain, and entrepreneurship among farmers in Paraná and Santa Catarina. It is a Klabin initiative developed in partnership with Sebrae and the NGO Association for the Preservation of the Environment and Life (Apremavi). In 2022, we highlight the support for advancing the regularization of the Municipal Inspection Service (SIM) of Products from an Animal Origin in the municipalities of Tibagi, Ventania, Imbaú, and Telêmaco Borba; the support for municipalities to better meet the requirements of the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) and the expansion to the Santa Catarina municipalities of Palmeira and Ponte Alta.
Another highlight of the program is the strategic planning of the Central de Cooperativas da Agricultura Familiar Centro Norte do Paraná, comprised of five cooperatives; and the continuation of the distribution of fruits and vegetables to various markets, including the Feira do Bem, hosted by the Municipality of Telêmaco Borba, which enables the exchange of recyclable waste for vegetables; and the procurement of food for employee meals in the Company's restaurants and for the animals under the care of the PEK - Klabin Ecological Park.
1,000+
properties served since the program began in 2015.
318,000
native seedlings were donated.
BRL 4.9 million
is the total sales that producers in the municipalities of Reserva, Imbaú, Ortigueira, Tibagi, Cândido de Abreu, São Jerônimo da Serra, Sapopema and Telêmaco Borba obtained, after receiving support for the planning and management of fruit and vegetable crops.
5 cooperatives,
with one thousand member families from 40 municipalities, supported by the program through the Central de Cooperativas da Agricultura Familiar Centro Norte do Paraná.
Klabin Semeando Educação
The program provides ongoing professional development for teachers of basic education in Portuguese and mathematics, and also supports the strengthening of school management, benefiting the municipal public school system. Its main objective is to improve the results of official indices, such as the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb). Klabin Semeando Educação is held in 13 municipalities where Klabin operates in Paraná, in five municipalities in Santa Catarina, two in São Paulo and one in Pernambuco. Five cities have already registered an increase in the Ideb. They include: Imbaú and Sapopema, in Paraná; Correia Pinto and Lages, in Santa Catarina; and Goiana, in Pernambuco. In 2022, the program was extended to the municipalities of Itararé (SP), Congonhinhas (PR), Palmeira and Ponte Alta (SC).
291
elementary schools assisted.
1,807
education professionals trained in Portuguese and mathematics.
22,000
education professionals trained in Portuguese and mathematics.
“The Klabin Semeando Educação Program was very important for the improvement of education here. We are delighted with the outcome of this partnership and are confident that the educational development of the municipality will continue to improve.”
Technical School of Forest Machinery Operations and Mechanics
The Ortigueira Forestry and Agricultural Technical School, Klabin's pioneering project in partnership with the State Government of Paraná and the city of Ortigueira, and the only technical school for forest machinery operation and mechanics in Latin America, held its third graduation at the Queimadas Cultural Center in December 2022.
Inaugurated in 2020 with the goal of becoming a benchmark in training forest operators and mechanics, 106 students have graduated so far, with 44 (41.5%) of them already hired by Klabin, demonstrating the company's commitment to promoting education and job opportunities in the areas in which it operates. The school has a capacity for up to 800 students and an exclusive boarding school for students who enter the full-time format courses.
The institution is the only technical school for mechanics and forest machine operations in Latin America.
Klabin Caiubi Program
The program is focused on training teachers to disseminate concepts of the environment and sustainability and to contribute to the formation of citizens aware of their responsibilities to the planet. The initiative is supported by municipal administrations in the cities where it is held, institutions and professional partners.
Klabin has been promoted the program in Paraná since 2001. In 2007, it was expanded to Santa Catarina and, since 2019, it is also being held in Feira de Santana (BA). Even in the face of the pandemic, the program was conducted virtually in 2021 and expanded to the city of São Leopoldo (RS) and, in 2022, to the municipalities of Angatuba and Jundiaí (SP).
Second edition of the Program held in 2022 in São Leopoldo (RS). Photo: Andrea Graiz.
Over the more than 20 years of the program's existence, 6,527 educators were trained, 499,514 students benefited and 1,804 schools were served.
Solid Waste Program
The purpose of the program is to enhance solid waste management, environmental education in communities, and the working and income conditions of environmental recycling agents. It is conducted in partnership with the Intermunicipal Consortium Caminhos do Tibagi in seven municipalities of Paraná, with the support of ViraSer, which provides specialized technical consulting to structure cooperatives and facilitate partnerships between these groups, the public authority, and society.
In 2022, the first class of Environmental Public Managers of the program was established, with representatives from the seven municipalities, when the Action Plans were drafted and the goals for the subsequent two years were established. Also in 2022, Klabin expanded its initiative to Goiana (PE), making progress in diagnosing the municipality's initial situation, creating a Municipal Plan for Selective Collection, and forming the "Recicla Goiana" recycling agent group.
Since 2021, the Solid Waste Program, which has undergone a new cycle of action and investment, has aided in a 63% increase in the average income of recycling agents, and if the period from 2012 to 2022 is taken into account, the increase was 86%.
Encouragement for sports
The Superação Atletismo project, promoted in Reserva (PR) with the support of Klabin, took athletes to ten competitions, winning more than 100 medals in regional, state and national competitions, one of them in gold, won by João Emanoel Domingues in the Brazilian School Games. He became the first athlete from the Regional Center of Telêmaco Borba to be crowned Brazilian school champion.
Paraná's Ariely Miranda also earned a gold medal in the children's division of the 41st National Artistic Gymnastics Tournament. She is a student at the Telêmaco Borba Artistic Gymnastics Training Center, which Klabin has been supporting for over a decade, and has over 100 children participating.
The Superação Atletismo project, promoted in Reserva, in Paraná. Photo: Rafael Chui.
