We work to maintain transparent and regular communications with our stakeholders to ensure a mutual understanding of issues, concerns and opportunities.

Feedback from the communities where we operate is vital to our ongoing operations, so our locations use the Alcoa Stakeholder Engagement Framework to manage risks and opportunities associated with community rights and interests. The framework provides a systematic process to ensure active interaction with our stakeholders to achieve mutual success.

To incorporate community rights and interests in our everyday activities in a systematic manner, we published the Alcoa Social Policy and updated our Indigenous Peoples Statement to an Indigenous Peoples Policy in early 2021 to enhance our commitment to this particular minority group. We will implement both in 2021 through a set of standards that will further systematize our approach to community engagement with measurements on our social performance.

We also engage with stakeholders, primarily local communities and non-governmental organizations, through Alcoa Foundation globally and Instituto Alcoa in Brazil. The aim is to understand stakeholder needs and contribute to the social, economic and institutional development of our host communities.

In 2020, the pandemic impacted our host communities at varying levels. We decided to focus our efforts on supporting local organizations that were working on health care and food security. Our stakeholder engagement helped us identify the key players and their needs quickly and then react rapidly to navigate through the crisis.