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Main topics to guide Sustainability practices in the Unimed System.
This report has been developed following the new G4 guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which enabled Unimed do Brasil to focus on the Unimed Systemmaterial im-
pacts, risks and opportunities in its value chain too. Besides the stronger focus on materiality, this process provided the reporting process interested parties with higher representation.
For this, Unimed do Brasil invited its relationship publics to opine about the relevant topics for this report. ;
Materiality survey
2014 2015
Step 1 – Identification Step 2 – Validation Step 3 – Analysis Step 4 – Prioritization Step 5 – Revision
Based on GRI guidelines
and indicators, Unimed
do Brasil took as basis a
pre-selection of 29 topics
deemed to be relevant.
A survey displayed these pre-
selected topics and asked the
engaged publics to list them by
order of importance. The survey
happened from April 09 to June
24, 2014.
Based on the survey 572 answers crossing - 398
answers in the first round, and 174 in the second
round - the Materiality Matrix was created, which
indicated 11 topics deemed to be extremely
relevant for sustainability insertion in the Unimed
System, which were named as “Material Aspects”.
The survey result was validated
with the upper management and
the topics deemed to be highly
relevant were then prioritized in
the report development.
In 2015, Unimed do Brasil revised the topics considered to be
material in the previous year, and based on a benchmarking survey
carried in the market and on international standards, such as
GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) and the AA1000 standard from
Accountability, it was defined that three of the topics deemed
“material” will be defined as “transversal topics” for sustainability
management.
Exhibit II Materiality