The SIA identified that Odysseia-In were already taking numerous
policy and operational measures to manage the social impacts of their
business responsibly. It also enabled local community members to highlight
other actions Odysseia-In could do to maximise their local benefit.
However, going through the SIA process demonstrated that Odysseia-In had been approaching their activities in a rather ad-hoc and reactive
manner rather than having a strategic, proactive approach to identifying,
managing, monitoring and reporting on their social impacts. It
was hoped that the pilot SIMP would help Odysseia-In achieve a more
formalised, holistic and systematic approach to impact management
through embedding the proposed actions into their existing ways of
doing things. However, initially they struggled to implement this without
external support. Whilst the short, follow-up capacity building
phase provided to Odysseia-In staff did help in addressing this implementation
gap, it also identified that they faced resource and capacity issues
that limit their ability to implement the rest of their SIMP without
external assistance.