Maps and indices

With over 160+ risk indices and interactive maps, Maplecroft analyses the most pressing issues impacting the agro-commodities sector down to site specific levels. Indices and maps include: climate change vulnerability; natural hazards; water stress; food security; corruption; legal and regulatory risks; political risks; poverty and development; and reputational threats arising from complicity with labour rights and human rights violations in the supply chain.

Maplecroft’s indices and interactive maps are available individually or can be accessed through seven thematic risk atlases, which aggregate key issues.

Atlases

Maplecroft’s Atlases are updated annually and provide maps, indices and scorecards for up to 197 countries, as well as analysis of the key issues, methodologies and data sources.

Reports and analysis

Maplecroft’s briefings and in-depth reports help ICT and telecoms companies to monitor and manage a wide variety of operational and reputational risks across their value chain in consistent and comparable ways in all countries.

Maplecroft monitoring and reporting system

• Baseline in-depth reports (25+ pages): Produced at the outset of the year or at an agreed alternate annual date to provide substantive background analysis and due diligence review of key issues and risks (the governance framework; political risk and violence; the economy; the regulatory and business environment; human rights and society; and natural hazards, environment and climate change). In addition the reports integrate GIS derived, sub-national maps and provide stakeholder viewpoints on risk and key recent events.
• Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly Monitors (1 page scorecards for key watch countries): Offering quantitative country risk scores and trends of increasing, unchanged or decreasing risk across key risk areas and qualitative analysis of significant recent events and outlooks across the core risk areas. Developed to focus on issues driving changes to risk scores and our forecast for the next quarter including implications for sectors.
• Trigger briefings (2-4 pages): Concise analysis and forecasts that are activated when the risk within a country changes significantly, as shown in the monitor. These focus on the issues driving changes to risk scores and the implications for business.
• In-depth update reports or tailored specific reports (25+ pages): Produced when more in-depth analysis is required on the back of the trigger briefing and pertaining to sectors or business specific

Issue specific reports

• ICT and telecoms country risk reports: In-depth analysis of the specific operational and reputational risks within a country. These include: legal and political barriers to foreign ownership of telecommunications; regulatory issues; labour rights challenges facing manufacturers; incidence rates of material theft (e.g. copper wires and fuel); as well as natural hazards and environmental threats. They also include trends, forecasting, stakeholder views, recent events and GIS-derived sub-national maps, including overlays of infrastructure, rates of digital inclusion, material theft, topography, etc.

Further products for the ICT and telecoms sector are available via the Global Risks Portfolio and include: labour standards reports, corruption risk briefings, election monitors and quarterly monitors for political risk and human rights. Reports and briefings are available for all countries and issues.

Interactive Tools

Custom country / sovereign risk calculators enable ICT and telecoms companies to select and compare risk indices to create scorecards that quantify risk for all countries. The Interactive Dashboard also allows companies to combine their own compliance and country risk data with Maplecroft’s indices in a central repository where they can create bespoke indices, maps and risk scorecards using a proprietary online interface..

Services

Maplecroft’s advisory services help ICT and telecoms companies to minimise risk exposure and identify opportunities throughout key markets. We conduct bespoke risk assessments, human rights due diligence, political risk monitoring and offer an award-winning sustainability reporting service alongside client-specific advisory services.

Ethical supply chain services and risk calculator

Maplecroft’s supply chain management tools and services allow companies to use an extensive bank of indices to comprehensively assess their supply chain risk across all countries and industries, from a national and sub-national level down to individual suppliers. This includes both ethical supply chain issues (e.g. human rights, health and safety) as well as supply chain continuity, influenced by political risk (e.g. regime instability, terrorism) and operational risks, for instance, relating to natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes and floods).

Key ethical supply chain services include:

• Initial pre-screening and risk assessment based on country risk, sector and product area, supplier size, volume and spend, as well as strategic significance.
• A self-assessment questionnaire that is completed by suppliers and producers to allow company-level risk assessment.
• An in-depth and targeted audit of suppliers flagged as high risk during the previous two stages.

Business can weight different indices according to their own priorities (e.g. labour rights, corruption, natural hazards risks) in order to produce a risk assessment that reflects their individual operational/business drivers and corporate codes of conduct. This allows them to measure their progress towards their corporate and social responsibility targets. These tools are particularly useful for ICT and telecoms firms working in emerging economies that display a highly dynamic risk environment.