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Africa The Dow Africa 2022 Report Message from Sami Mainich Welcome to our second edition of the annual Africa product availability challenges and price competitiveness.Volume also newsletter. In this report, you will find information on dropped by 10 percent. our business performance, sustainability initiatives, community engagement and employee development efforts As we look to the future, we remain committed to driving sustainable across the continent. growth and positive impact in Africa, and we look forward to continuing our work with our partners and stakeholders to build a I am incredibly proud of what Dow Africa team has achieved by better future for all. remaining committed during the difficult economic characterized by the impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict on our business and Business Outlook global supply chain disruptions, market corrections post Covid-19, We are still executing our long-term growth strategy, which includes forex challenges, inflationary pressures, effects of climate change 7 strategic pillars: a 3-year growth plan, talent management, cross- including drought in East Africa and severe flooding in West Africa. business collaboration, distribution rationalization, operational excellence, technical support, ESG and digitalization. Despite these harsh realities, our team worked tirelessly in supporting customers, thereby defending our market share. Despite the challenges expected to persist into 2023, the Africa Additionally, we collaborated internally to create more synergies Development Bank projects a 4% economic growth in Africa, which and also launched unique projects to drive value and growth. gives us optimism. Employee resource groups (ERGs) remained active and engaged within the company to support our strong ID&E culture and we We want to express our gratitude to all our supporters who have made a continued effort to give back to the communities across contributed to Dow Africa’s growth journey, and we look forward Africa through numerous Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. to continuing our collaborations with our Dow colleagues globally. Most importantly, we kept safety as a priority in everything we do, and thankfully had no incidents during the year. Sami Mainich, President, Dow Africa. The region delivered a revenue of $781MM, a slight drop of 10 percent as compared to 2021. This was due to PU and P&SP Africa Leadership Team Sami Mainich Cicelia Van Rooi Adebisi Adeoti Yasmine El Shalakany Leonard Kareko President,  Managing Director, Managing Director, Managing Director, Dow Eastern Africa Dow Africa. Dow Southern Dow Western Africa Dow North Africa Managing Director Africa and DIS Sales and Customer Business Finance Credit and Customer Director IMEA. Manager, DCM, East Leader, IMEAT & APAC, Manager for Dow and West Africa. Industrial Intermediates P&SP. & Infrastructure.

Environment, Health and Safety Our strategy is to reduce or eliminate the bounce rate by running a campaign with the account teams to clean up invalid or incorrect emails, closely following up with the account team to ensure surveys are completed on time, and working with the commercial discipline function to optimize and tailor the survey to the realities of Africa. Africa - EH&S Metrice Breakdown 2022 Injury / illness YTD Life changing injury and fatality events pLife (potentially life changing events) L1 0 Other reportable events L2 0 L3 0 Process Safety Containment Event (PCSE) L1 0 L2 0 Motor Vehicle Accidents (Preventable MVA’s) L3 0 L1-L3 0 Business Update 10th largest wgaosrldre. servRees gional Business Contribution in the T5o0tbanl RmeetvricentounseasndC7o5m% opfathreison $45bn the estimated cost of An opportunity to help create sustainable and $56MM world's phosphate rock reserves. cost-efficient oil and gas exploration. Egypt’s new administrative capital. Opportunity to expand agricultural science expertise $152 bn. (+2.3%) Opportunity to participate in smart cities technologies and solve global food supply chain issues. and development. $126 bn. (+3.5%) $394 bn. (+4.5%) 2Mt of cocoa beans harvested annually: MOROCCO $154MM 6,4R5e0naMisSNWsooaunrtGcthhereaeDrnrnandmAEA’fstfhrripiicocoapawiaenr 4$0%86o6fMtheMglobal c$ro7p8. 1MM $341MM FY Sales 2021 EGYPT geneEraatisotnecrnapAacfritiycais the Opportunity for sustainable packaging and agro- ALGERIA 7th Wlaregsetsetrnin Athfericwaorld. $230MM processing innovations in the cocoa industry. FY Sales 2022 $71bn. (+6.8%) Dow’s opportunity to support industrialization and grow sustainable business. $111MM in venture capital investment $94 bn. (+5.3%) raised by tech startups in 2020. COTE GHANA NIGERIA Performance EbTHyIOPBIAusiness and Comparison D’IVOIRE SOpupobrtu-nriety gtoileovenragPe eSTrEfMotmo bauilnd icnneovaCtioon mparison Sales ($MM) KENYA 73% of installed power generation essential to human progress. capacity from renewable energy. 900 Sale$s74($bnM. (M+2.)7%) 90% of electricity in use is from 400 green energy. 203M50 un3i4t1s35h8ousing deficit. Population 800 Opportunity to contribute to Dow's net-zero carbon 700 emission targets througihntpearnrtanleo3rps7eh3ripastioannsd. exp3e00cted to reach 400M by 2050. A6N0G0OLA Odepvp2eo5lort0pumnietyntto. engage value cha2in3p0lay2e3r1s in innovation 500 $106 bn. (+5.0%) 20$0514 bn. (+2.9%) 186 400 247 150 154 300 100 91 484 56 200 Oil p5r0oduction accounts for 50% of GDP 39 14 8,4004M9 Wanodf inw2s5int3adllepdowseorlabrye2n0e3rg0y. and 90% of exports. Eastern Africa 100 SOUTH5A9FRICA Western Africa 0 58 30 D7ow’s opportu3n4ity to explore multifaceted commercial 0 Hoyp&dproEornctuearrngbityoienss in goDvISernment’s mP&aSrkPet forPsUol&aCrhCeeomxnpsicatranulsscitoionn. Explore driNllionrgth, eorinl rAefcriocavery, miSdosutrtehaermn Aafnridca Coatings & Dow refining opportunities. Performance Consumer 2022 2021 $330 bn. (+1.4%) Solutions 2022 2021 Monomers $66 bn. (+2.8%) GDP size (2023 projected growth) DOW IN AFRICA AS OF 31ST DECEMBER 2022 2 $781MM ERG participation 120 7 6 Manufacturing sites 2022 FY revenue 61.4% 100% Employees People Leaders Employees Offices Countries 2

2023 GDP outlook Central Africa’s Southern Africa’s West Africa’s North Africa’s East Africa’s growth in 2022 was growth decelerated to growth is estimated to growth is estimated growth is estimated estimated to have been about 2.5% in 2022 from have slowed to 3.6% in to have declined by to have moderated the continent’s fastest at 4.3% in 2021, due to 2022 from 4.4% in 2021, 1.1 percentage points to 4.2% in 2022 from 4.7%, up from 3.6% in subdued growth in South reflecting decelerations in to 4.3% in 2022 from 5.1% in 2021, but it is 2021, due to favorable Africa, as higher interest Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria, 5.4% in 2021 because projected to recover to commodity prices. rates, weak domestic the region’s two largest of sharp contraction in above 5.0% in 2023 demand, and persistent economies. Nigeria’s Libya and the drought and 2024, supported power outages weighed on growth in 2023 could in Morocco, but it is by a relatively diversified the economy. benefit from ongoing projected to stabilize at production structure efforts to restore security 4.3% in 2023. and a projected strong in the restive oil-producing rebound in the region. region. CX Africa performance 2021 2022 Highlights: 73 81  Overall CX score in 2022 was 69, compared to 62 in 2021. CX Africa Performance 79 77  Scores increased for key and foundational customers, but Customer Category 54 65 Key slightly decreased for priority customers. Priority  All business saw an increase in CX scores in 2022 (except Foundational PU and Construction chemicals).  CX scores improved in the second half of 2022 compared to the first half, despite a similar number of responses. People increase from 2021 to 73. The VOICE focus areas for each country have been determined locally, and the common Pan- 2022 - Voice results African focus will be reviewed and implemented. T he Africa participation rate in VOICE 2022 was 92%, a great result with strong involvement from the Operations teams. Overall satisfaction has also improved annually with a 4% Overall satisfaction 20’ 21’ 22’ Vs. 21’ Vs Dow EX 20’ 21’ 22’ Vs. 21’ Vs Dow Africa Africa 66 69 73 +4 -1 South Africa 78 76 79 +3 +2 Egypt South Africa 63 71 72 +1 -2 Nigeria 74 77 76 -1 -1 Egypt 64 71 77 +6 +3 77 75 84 +9 +7 Nigeria 77 62 80 +18 +6 92 80 85 +5 +8 Investing in talent and building a strong workforce The Dow Africa Leadership Program (DALP) develops future leaders: Lennon Devraj Chucks Onedibe Zanele Xaba In 2021, we successfully developed and implemented the South Africa Nigeria South Africa first edition of Dow Africa Leadership Program (DALP). This program mirrored similar initiatives in other regions Aya Attia Surendren Pillay Farid Kennouche such as India, Middle East and Turkey. Egypt South Africa Algeria The skills were imparted through a combination of blended learning opportunities, cross-functional and cultural, and business aware sessions, as well as other competency based skills training. Participants were selected based on leader nominations and were aligned to a specific criteria set by the program committee. Projects assigned to the participants were diverse, featuring areas such as: asset integration and scale, raw material sourcing, packaging, logistics, information systems and labor. All the participants developed tangible and practical recommendations in addition to gaining from internal and external coaching. 3

On-the-Job learning: How job We developed an initiative to foster Led by Yasmine El Shalakany, the shadowing in Egypt provides increased alignment and provide program broke down silos and provided unique learning opportunities opportunities for employees employees with better clarity on their to experience desired roles within the career development. Twelve employees New Board Appointments organization. The voluntary 3-month program from different departments, such included 16-32 hours of on-the-job training as credit, finance, commercial and for employees to shadow their colleagues in marketing, signed up and completed the preferred roles. training. Our team serving in various boards: Malan Mudaly Board Member, Plastics South Africa. Cicelia Van Rooi Leonard Kareko Mumbi Keega Zanele Xaba Chairperson, Cicelia Van Rooi was Leonard Kareko joined Mumbi Keega, Public American Chamber elected Vice-Chair, the board of Mr. Green Affairs Manager for of Commerce, American Chamber Africa, replacing Africa was appointed to South Africa. of Commerce, Adwoa Coleman. the Advisory Board of South Africa. She He will continue to Young Africa Leaders Oratile Nongena also serves on the drive a key Dow Initiative East Africa Member, board of Chemical focus on creating an Regional Center. Global Foodbanking and Allied Industries’ eco-system to allow She also serves as Network Stakeholder Association (CAIA) design for recyclability, Vice-Chair, Trade and Council. and Manufacturing advocacy and brand Industry Sector Board, Circle. owner engagement. Kenya Private Sector Alliance. Empowering our talent: Sisonke’s approach to unifying employee experience Dow New Germany in South Africa developed an initiative called “Sisonke” (we are one) to address employee concerns on engagement, recognition, access to training opportunities, and career development, in line with their robust employee experience strategy.with their robust EX strategy. The initiative helped raise ERG participation by 63% and delivered 90% positive VOICE results. Our Assets: Update on New Germany Site E H&S performance was outstanding with no incidents On productivity, DCM generated Mergan Chetty or PSCE, thanks to improved reporting and BBP 19.7 KT with a record 2,500 MT in Site Leader, participation and positive interventions. October and shipped 2,600MT with New Germany 100% on-time bulk delivery and Operations, Quality performance was strong with only one devalued 98% long-distance packed delivery. Southern Africa (Pty) batch and a significant drop in DCM SMOG. PUSH had PUSH had 1.9 KT production and Limited. no quality notices, special releases, or DEV2 batches introduced a new automated pack- and received ISO9001 certification. out station. 4

Corporate Streamlining Navigation: Boosting engagement and elevating the digital experience Our collaborations and partnerships in sustainability and innovation are creating a positive impact in the communities we serve. Our new web platform will help communicate these efforts to stakeholders. The platform now includes a section for science and sustainability projects and collaborations in Africa, as well as a news section for proactive communication of our impact in the communities we serve. Building the buzz: africa.dow.com; Reference the platform to understand and share our engagements across Africa. 125 Years of Innovation: Our evolution and impact on industry and society Celebrations were held across our offices in Africa, with many sharing the quote of our founding father, H.H. Dow, “If you can’t do it better, why do it?”. In Egypt, the 125th anniversary celebration coincided with a visit by Luciano Poli, MEAT President and Christina Yu, EMEAI Senior Commercial Director, PU & CAV. Dow South Africa celebrated the 125th Anniversary by putting smiles on the faces of children at Oliver’s Village, Johannesburg. Dow Kenya team joined Amref and Child Fund to build WASH station at a Nairobi school. Our 125th anniversary celebration in Nigeria. 5

Leading the way: Our thought leadership in the spotlight Dow Africa’s President, Sami Manich, continues to advise the US President on doing business in Africa with reappointment to PAC-DBIA Sami with Lisa Schroeter, our Global Director of PAC-DIBA brings together industry of Dow’s key efforts in Africa and share Trade and Investment Policy, at the US-Africa expertise to build capacity and expand experiences with African counterparts to Business Forum. market creation in Africa, from trade better address the common challenges to regulatory cooperation to circular and vast opportunities in the region. economy. The Prosper Africa initiative, a U.S. Government initiative, is a priority for the Biden-Harris Administration, which aims to connect U.S. and African businesses with new buyers, suppliers, and investment opportunities. As part of PAC-DBIA’s initiatives, Sami, participated in the US-Africa Summit in Washington DC, where he interacted with different stakeholders; Heads of States, Government Officials, Business Leaders, and Civil Society. The summit provided unique opportunities to showcase some Dow at the Forefront of Environmental and Social Progress: Participation in the ESG Africa Conference Dow participated in the ESG leaders can and should play in Adebisi Adeoti participated in a panel discussion Africa Conference which ensuring their organizations better on Circular Economy: Closing the Loop with focused on ‘Sustainable integrate ESG principles into Plastic Recycling at the 2022 Propak West Africa Future Through Leadership’ their value system and overall Conference. The panel session brought together and the significant role African organizational strategy. Senior Management of FMCG companies, Waste Management stakeholders, and other players in the Over 40 private and public sector plastics, paper packaging and labelling value chain. leaders and 250 delegates from the African continent participated. Leonard Kareko participated in Twitter Cicelia Van Rooi, underscored the Spaces discussing need to incorporate the youth, who science, innovation, are highly entrepreneurial and who and collaboration. Over form 70% of the population, in 400 people listened in. sustainability leadership. Sustainability SOUTH AFRICA We successfully conducted the first paving trial using PCR (Post Consumer Resin) at The future of the University of Pretoria, South Africa in circular roads 2022. This was a significant step towards implementing ELVALOY™ RET and PCR in plastic roads across Africa. The Dow Impact Fund’s $50,000 award enabled research into the performance of asphalt incorporating recycled plastics. The second paving trial is underway at Dow’s site in New Germany, South Africa. 6

NIGERIA, KENYA, GUINEA, SOUTH AFRICA & EGYPT profit organization that collects and sorts flexible waste. The waste is then used by Project REFLEX Verigreen to create a PCR, which is used to create bin liners. This project is supporting We are also working with a brand owner the empowerment of an additional 100 to use the PCR in detergent pouches – women, women who collect recyclables for the detergent packaging is fully recyclable the Supa Mama® program, and divert 50 and made up of 20% recycled water MT/month of waste from landfills by providing sachets. training on sorting and waste collection. The expanded Project REFLEX, which was The expansion into Egypt is in partnership first launched in Nigeria in 2020, specifically with WasteAid, which shares waste targeting flexible packaging such as management and recycling skills in lower- plastic water sachets, key to ensure local and middle-income countries, to advance communities have access to clean water, plastic waste recovery and recycling. to demonstrate that it can be collected and recycled to be used in new, quality packaging In Guinea, EuroGuinea was able to collect applications. and bale flexible waste. This waste was then transformed to create water buckets and flower pots, diverting it from landfills. In South Africa, Dow’s Business Impact Fund supported Invest in Dignity, a non- KENYA Advancing our circular economy commitments: The impact of our partnership with Mr. Green In 2022, Dow continued to partner with Mr. and benefit 250,000 consumers through Green Africa (MGA) as part of its ongoing on-demand waste picker collection. These commitment to divert plastic waste from the local benefits are also delivering on Dow’s environment and close the loop on plastics corporate sustainability commitments by waste across Africa. diverting 90 KT of plastic waste from illegal dumpsites and landfills, with 12 KT of that Dow and MGA are already creating tangible waste contributing to Dow’s Stop the Waste impacts that are delivering change at the goal in the next 4 years. At least 50% of local level. The waste picking model is this waste will be mechanically recycled or expected to create 200 jobs and empower used for alternative local end-uses in the 5,000 waste pickers through regular and communities where waste is being recycled. reliable employment in the next 4 years, Amount of plastic sourced (kg) ‘20 ‘21 ‘22 (Q1&Q2) The future of recycling: HP 1,486,390 2,940,227 1,577,564 How technology is PET 13,323 driving efficiency and Flexibles 297,710 73,164 4,061 effectiveness Others 50,131 308,315 482 Plastic from AAP 59,734 273,207 We helped Mr Green Africa Total 0 18,619 1,868,637 develop a residential plastic 82,985 waste collection app called Amount of plastic processed (kg) 1,893,964 3,423,310 Plasticoin, which was Processed Hard Plastic (Pellets) piloted in 2020 and is now Processed PET ‘20 ‘21 ‘22 (Q1&Q2) being scaled up. The app Total 678,975 1,857,027 1,066,766 uses virtual coins that give 38,586 exchange value to plastic 59,847 0 1,105,352 waste and provides a 738,822 1,857,027 cash-free, digital means of paying waste pickers. 7

SOUTH AFRICA Award for excellence: Oliver’s Village Business Impact Project wins Responsible Care® prize in Africa Together with AECI, a strategic distributor across Africa and major agricultural solution provider, we partnered to empower Oliver’s Village with sustainable agriculture, enabling 200,000 beneficiaries living in informal settlements to access clean food, potable water, childcare, education and enterprise development. We won the 2022 Responsible Care® Award in Africa from the Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association (CAIA) in South Africa. Innovation KENYA Innovating for sustainability: How technology and design are shaping the future of construction Mavuno Bora hermetic bags, used in the inside PE bag give it the supported by Dow innovation, high strength and toughness needed protects dry grains against infestation for multiple use and can be reused in Kenya. The bags are made of an for up to three seasons, making it a outside polypropylene woven sack cost-effective and easily accessible and an inside high hermetic PE-based option for farmers. liner, preserving harvests for up to two years without the need of chemicals and pesticides, helping to ensure food security and income opportunities through all seasons. Dow products NIGERIA Innovating for sustainability: How technology and design are shaping the future of construction In partnership with Covenant University Centre for Research, Innovation and Discovery (CUCRID), initial studies indicated that sawdust and plastics waste can form viable building blocks as an alternative building material. Our team developed a building block prototype, and in order to reduce the cost of production, we worked with a solar power system during the processing. 8

In the community 17 NGO 18 Programs 100,000+ Lives Positively Partners Impacted 1 Accelerating our sustainability commitments in Africa: Dow and the Youth in Action Youth Day on Service (YDoS) is an annual event celebrated Map and Project alongside United Nations’ International Youth Day on Numbers for August 12th. It aims to inspire African youth to be active YDoS 2022 agents of social change by fostering the spirit of service to the community and volunteerism, with a focus on contributing to 24 CAforuicnatnries the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 17 ScoDvGesred Dow partners with youths to create social impact by advancing 210 ePxroejceucttesd sustainable solutions, building inclusive communities, and 4100 rVeogluisntteereerds developing tomorrow’s innovators. YDoS is designed to ignite the passion and creativity of young Africans, activate their voices, renew the spirit of active citizenship, and promote a culture of service. 4500+ pTrlaenetsed Dow Nigeria 5,764,071 rInedaicvhideudals employees planted over 200trees at Kids Beach Garden in Lagos 2 A partnership for positive change: Dow and Child Fund’s efforts to promote circularity and improve wellbeing of women and youth Child Fund and Dow have created various programs that are enabling safe and clean environment, and ensuring supporting inclusion in the community. These are: Expansion of Taka Hub (plastics Educating for sustainability: waste Mitigating the spread of COVID-19: How collection system) management in the classroom supporting schools with clean, accessible We upgraded the Taka Hub to a plastic We engaged various schools to create water made a difference This project waste drop-off and pick up center. Fostered supported smooth running of schools and linkage for youth groups with brand owners awareness and reinforce positive and recyclers. The hub also serves as keeping students safe from COVID-19 and a trading and training point for youth to environmental practices in the community. expand entrepreneurship opportunities. waterborne diseases. Created awareness on Established a program to change Outcome: 15% income increase among appropriate disposal of masks and keeping the 100 + waste collectors; 70%of waste behavior. collected will be recycled. environment clean from waste. Outcome: Established safe and Outcome: 20,000 community members attractive green school environments. sensitized and 13,119 school going children Makini school, in Nairobi, Kenya got access to handwashing facilities in 10 became a centre of excellence for waste public primary schools in Mukuru and Kasarani management innovation for young people. areas of Nairobi County, Kenya. Building inclusive societies in Ethiopia. 9 We upgraded Jimma CFAI orthopedic workshop’s capacity so as to enhance inclusivity of children living with disabilities in the community. Outcome: Workshop output increased by 30%.

3 Pulling our weight We partnered with the World Learning –Algeria, Leap Africa- Nigeria, and Waste Free Ocean in Egypt and Nigeria to carry our clean-ups which brought together over 80 participants and generated over 500kg of assorted waste. Recyclable plastics were directed to partner recyclers. KENYA Closing the skills gap in the construction industry Dow Eastern Africa and Child Fund Kenya launched “Fundi Fiti” project to develop future- ready construction workers and reduce costs in Kenya. The project works with TVET institutions to deliver sustainable and modern construction education to close the skills gap in the infrastructure industry. NIGERIA Empowering educators: How Teach for Nigeria is improving education In partnership with Teach For Nigeria (TFN), we sponsor STEM teacher recruitment, professional development, and placement in underserved schools in Lagos. So far, TFN has recruited, trained, and placed 9 fellows in low-income communities in Lagos state. These fellows were supported to be effective STEM teachers, improving the learning outcomes of children in these communities. SOUTH AFRICA Empowering ability: Workplace inclusion and increasing employability of differently abled people We partnered with Training and Empowerment Academy (TEA) to provide tuition to 33 students with disabilities. Students increased their competences in Microsoft office applications, business and finance management. Seven students are already participating in the job market. 10

ALGERIA EGYPT Fostering innovation: Integrating Preparing for success: Algeria’s young technologists into Empowering Egyptian youth with the economy work readiness skills In partnership with World Learning Algeria, we have impacted We developed a program, “Your Journey to Success,” that 3,214 students through in-person activities and over 1,200 portray coherent market-based experiences in a highly youth across Algeria interacted with online learning programs. engaging learning environment. Fifty-three participants from This year, we had over 100 workshops with more than 500 Al Azhar University in Cairo gained insights into their career students participating. Twenty-five high school students joined journeys through a simulation process, helping them discover WE Are Innovators 2022, an innovation through entrepreneurship their potentials and exposing them to important employability program that allows participants to identify, innovate and develop skills. The 10 best students undertook a job shadow visit at our solutions to the world’s most pressing issues. chemical factory. Additionally, we developed robotics training content and and We partnered with FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition delivered it to 26 students between 14-18 years of age. Twelve of Science and Technology) to sponsor the 2022 Open Arab students were selected to represent Algeria in the FIRST Global Robotics Championship, the largest annual robotics and LEGO Challenge 2022. Five students who represented Algeria in championship across the Arab world, held in Sharm El Sheikh. Geneva, Switzerland, at the Robotics competition won gold Egypt emerged as the winner clinching seven trophies, followed medal and several awards. Additionally, over 100 workshops by Jordan with two trophies, and Iraq, Libya, and Qatar tying with more than 500 students participated in STEAM educational for third place. programs. Report by Mumbi Keega Public Affairs, Africa. 11

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