Social & Governance Advisory
Strengthen the policies, responsibilities and information used to manage people, community relationships and organisational conduct.
Discuss Social and Governance Priorities
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Bring people and accountability into your ESG programme
Environmental measures are only part of an ESG programme. Organisations also need to understand how they support their workforce, engage with communities and oversee decisions. Land Sterling helps UAE businesses review these practices and establish a clearer basis for action and reporting.
We work with management and relevant functions to connect policy commitments with day-to-day processes. The scope can focus on a specific concern, such as contractor welfare or board oversight, or form part of a wider ESG strategy.
Our social and governance services
We agree the populations, organisational boundaries and information required, then assess how responsibilities, procedures and performance indicators work together.
Workforce indicators and engagement
Review the workforce information needed to understand employment, retention, learning and engagement. Define indicators and collection methods that suit the organisation, with appropriate handling of personal information and clear limits on what can be concluded from the available data.
Health safety and welfare
Assess the governance and reporting of health, safety and welfare practices, including contractor interfaces where relevant. Identify how responsibilities, records, escalations and improvement actions are managed. Specialist technical or legal assessments are scoped separately when an issue requires them.
Inclusion and development
Review policies and activities relating to inclusion, access to opportunities and skills development. We help organisations identify meaningful measures and actions, avoiding conclusions based solely on policy wording or a headline indicator without its wider context.
Community and stakeholder relationships
Examine how the organisation understands community impacts, gathers feedback and responds to concerns. Engagement records, complaints and action tracking can provide evidence for improving relationships and reporting outcomes rather than reporting activity counts alone.
Board oversight and management accountability
Review how ESG matters reach the board or relevant committee and how decisions are followed through. Define responsibilities, reporting frequency and escalation routes so that material issues and unresolved actions receive appropriate attention.
Ethics and responsible business policies
Review the policy framework for ethics, anti-corruption, whistleblowing, responsible procurement and relevant privacy or cyber governance responsibilities. The work focuses on ownership and implementation evidence; it does not replace specialist legal advice, security testing or formal investigations.
Improvement actions and reporting outputs
Deliverables can include a social KPI dashboard, governance review, policy recommendations, welfare assessment and committee framework. We prioritise actions with owners and review dates, then establish what evidence is needed to show whether the changes are working.
Related services
Connect policy commitments with operational practice
Land Sterling brings social and governance questions into the same evidence-based programme as environmental performance. For property and community clients, the work can connect corporate responsibilities with resident experience, contractors and the operation of the built environment.
Identify your social and governance priorities
Tell us which policies, stakeholder requirements or reporting gaps your organisation needs to address.
