practice area 06
ESG, sustainability and grant advisory.
Two things that usually arrive together. A corporate customer starts asking for environmental and sustainability data, and the cost of answering properly is exactly what a Johor grant is there to help with.
ESG and Sustainability
For most of our clients, ESG is not an ideological question. It arrives as a questionnaire from a multinational customer, a bank, or a buyer who has their own reporting obligation and needs your numbers to complete it.
We treat it the same way we treat any other compliance scheme: work out what has to be proved, find out where you stand, build the system that produces the evidence, and train the people who have to keep it running.
- Environmental management. Programmes covering emissions, effluent, waste streams and the permits behind them.
- Sustainability reporting. Getting your data into a form a customer, a bank or a listing requirement will accept.
- ESG strategy and roadmap. A sequenced plan, so a small company is not trying to do everything in the first year.
- Waste management. Including scheduled waste collection under SW204.
- Green initiative programmes. Practical site level projects that reduce consumption and give the report something real to describe.
Grants and funding for Johor entrepreneurs
As an appointed Rakan Strategik Halal of Negeri Johor, we work with Johor businesses on the state assistance available to them. These are the categories we advise on.
Halal assistance
- Halal certification preparation assistance, toward application cost
- Halal industry development, for product, process and system development
- Premises and documentation system upgrades, including manuals and halal systems
- Johor halal entrepreneur development, covering training, mentoring and coaching
SME and cottage industry
- Machinery and equipment purchase
- Product development and packaging
- Entrepreneur training and development
- Business capacity improvement
Why businesses apply. To reduce business cost, increase productivity, meet market and certification requirements, open wider market access, and compete on something other than price.
Who qualifies
The programmes are aimed at:
- Small and medium enterprises
- Cottage industry and home based businesses
- Food and beverage manufacturers
- Registered companies and enterprises
- Johor entrepreneurs
What eligibility usually depends on
- SSM registration
- Between six months and one year of trading history, depending on the programme
- A healthy financial position
- Demonstrated potential and commitment, usually a business plan and a growth commitment
- Regulatory compliance
How we help
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Application guidance
Which programme fits what you are trying to fund, and what the assessors are actually looking for.
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Complete the documentation
Getting the submission complete first time, because an incomplete application is the most common reason for delay.
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Improve eligibility before submitting
Where a criterion is not yet met, fixing that first rather than submitting and hoping.
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Grow together with Johor entrepreneurs
Grant funding is a means, not an end. The work it pays for is where the return comes from.
Common questions
No. Approval is decided by the awarding body against its own criteria and its own budget. What we can do is make sure the application is complete, eligible and well evidenced, which is where most applications fail.
Some programmes cover certification preparation and documentation system development, which is the work we do. Whether a specific cost is claimable depends on that programme's terms, so we check it before you commit to anything.
With the questionnaire you were sent. It tells us exactly what your customer needs proved, which is a far more useful starting point than a generic framework. From there we build the roadmap backwards.
training · consultation · assessment
Tell us what you need to comply with, and we will tell you what it takes.
Send the scope and we will come back with a written quotation, a proposed schedule and the HRD Corp claim route where it applies.