Transform

The Transform by Action Platform is a commodity trade data platform designed to enable Business-to-Business verification of No Deforestation claims.

Mission

Transform Platform's mission is to serve as a central data hub for palm oil trader-refiners, their suppliers and buyers to credibly back-up public Deforestation Free Claims and to firmly address detected non-compliance - whilst documenting how liability for past harm is settled.

Vision

Transform Platform's vision is to transform commodity industries to delivering deforestation-free supply chains.

Independence

Transform Platform is owned and operated by Earthqualizer Foundation, an Indonesian Foundation registered in 2019. The Board of Directors and Supervisory Board are tasked to uphold the Foundation's vision and mission. Our data management will be independently audited and be overseen by a multistakeholder review committee.

Unique Value

Transform Platform offers the up-to-date, comprehensive and actionable data that is essential for effective supply chain due diligence, monitoring and stakeholder engagement.

Key Indicator Dashboard


Key Data and Basemap

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Concessions and Mills

We collect and update concession boundary and mills location from the best available data public include government portal, verified with field check and desktop analysis

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NDPE Monitoring

Spatial analysis on recovery liability generated from high resolution related to forest and peat loss for oil palm plantation in South East Asia since January 2016 in scale of 1:5000.

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Corporate and Supply Chain Database

Dynamically presents corporate data information, trade data, based on publicly available portal, companies annual report, mill lists, export statistics and other sources, summary flow charts that connect the key growers to known buyer

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Oil Palm Map

The analysis generated from high resolution satellite imagery, over 23 million ha of land in SE Asia-Pacific for both company (incl. schemed smallholder inside concession) and independent smallholder (planted areas outside concession) identified

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Forest Cover

The analysis generated from high resolution satellite imagery held in our data-set and integrated of publicly available HCV/HCS maps

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Satellite and Fleet of Drone

We organize and facilitate a fleet of drones operated by local communities located nearby non-compliance areas. This grassroots monitoring will generate alternative feed for spatial imagery to be used for non-compliance monitoring

Transform Core Tools and Products

The Transform Platform offers subscribers exclusive opportunity to engage potentially non-compliant suppliers to ensure that NDPE policies are duly implemented. For this purpose, the following core services are offered individually and in any combination.

User Dashboard

Transform offers more than maps. Transform is thegateway to a wealth of profiles of company groups operating in the oil palm industry. In its initial stage, Transform will focus on oil palm growers. It will gradually expand to profiles on traders and other down stream players.

Interactive Map

Transform platform provide most update spatialdata layers for sustainability reporting and verification with detailed and best available datasource. Transform Platform can leases API to atrader’s most recent supply base concessionmaps (1 baseline and 1 update annually).

Case Report

5-10 page detailed briefings on supplier groups corporate structure, sustainability policy andevidence of potential non-compliance with NoDeforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation (NDPE)procurement policies. Each case report is based onbest available concession data, satellie imagery andother research such as drone imagery.

Bi-weekly Monitoring Report

Monthly monitoring reports present our findings on suppliers potential non-compliance with NDPE policy based on forest cover and peat land development indicators. About 70-100 cases are identified and/or updated each month. Cases are subsequently selected and bundled (tailor made) according to subsribers mostrecent public supplier list.

Smallholder and Social Forestry Support

Independent smallholder maps and legalization: Our 1:5000 planted oilpalm map, combined with other layers, enables identification ofindependent smallholders that enables extension programs that support legalization and BMPs. Reduced Recovery Liability: Our Social Forestry Support (SFS) Program offers an accepted means to settle suppliers liability for non-compliant land development.

Verify Deforestation Free (VDF) Claim

Transform Platform is best positioned to develop V-DFC for your supply chains because of our comprehensive baseline datasets.