Event Calendar

The event will bring together a global cross-section of companies and practitioners to share experiences and best practices around corporate responsibility in emerging markets.

The Lonmin and IFC Women in Mining Program invites you to a learning event show casing the results and lessons learned from an innovative program to increase female employment at Lonmin’s platinum mine in South Africa.

The workshop, which is a joint initiative of the Compliance Adviser Ombudsman (CAO) of The World Bank Group and the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM), will focus on grievance mechanisms and participatory monitoring processes and their application to the resources sector.

The new Social & Environmental Risk Management conference is designed specifically for the mining, oil & gas, steel and other heavy industries. This conference brings together the most relevant case studies that address these very matters, and have them delivered to you by practitioners who had first hand experience.

IFC CommDev’s Veronica NyhanJones presented IFC’s newest handbook, “Strategic Community Investment” during the Asia - Pacific Regional Conclave in New Delhi, India.

In 2009, UNEP FI is proud to hold its first-ever Global Roundtable in the African continent, which will take place in Cape Town, South Africa from 22 to 23 October.

Now more than ever, innovative sustainability strategies are needed to deliver business value today, and position companies to successfully meet the greater challenges ahead. The BSR Conference is an essential opportunity to learn how to leverage your resources, implement changes, and succeed in a world where business as usual is no longer viable.

Multi-party conflict resolution is an acid test of leadership. This workshop will explore key themes, and build new insights and skills in the area of multi-party dispute resolution.

In this workshop students will study the concepts and practices of environmental dispute resolution. Three kinds of issues will be explored: energy problems; natural resources conflicts; and public health challenges.

The 2009 SDIMI Conference offers researchers and industry practitioners th opportunity to engage in dialogue about the future of the minerals industry and its contribution to society.

Follow-up workshop to reconvene multi-stakeholder teams including community development practitioners from extractive companies, local government, NGOs, and local civil society to share their experiences on participatory planning and monitoring.

The Responsible Business Summit is returning on 11 - 12 May 2009 for the eighth time. This conference brings together the leading minds in the corporate world to discuss the sustainability and CSR challenges facing business over the coming year.

There is a growing expectation globally that large scale investments by the extractive industries will bring broad-based benefits to local communities through Sustainable Development/Community Relations investments. In line with these efforts, IFC CommDev is previewing the Planning and Financial Valuation Tool for Sustainability Investments. The event took place on April 16th, 2009 in Washington, DC.

All too often, civil society groups and oil, gas, and mining companies act as adversaries on social and environmental issues. In this antagonism, shared concerns and opportunities for development are often missed. As one mining executive recently stated “we spend our time arguing with civil society groups, and poor people continue to suffer.” IFC, through training with all stakeholders, tries to cut down on the arguing and raise cooperation

The objective is to facilitate the extractive industries’ contribution to poverty alleviation and economic growth through the promotion of good governance and sustainable development.

The presentation by Ramon Ruediger, Social and Environmental Manager of Campos Novos Energia SA, is intended to show that projects that require involuntary resettlement can have a successful outcome that satisfies both the affected people and the project sponsors.

The International Finance Corporation and co-sponsors are hosting an event for networking and knowledge sharing with mining community development practitioners following the CSR Forum at Mining INDABA.

This three-day workshop is designed for business executives and those interested in working in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

With a stream on Energy, a stream on Green Procurement and a stream on Communications/Carbon, this conference encompasses all the relevant topics on every corporates' environmental agenda right now, akin to running several conferences side by side.

The Ethical Supply Chain Summit 2008 is the largest in a long line of ethical procurement and sourcing conferences run by Ethical Corporation.

This summit is a two day business event (with a post conference training workshop) that will show you how the leading companies are managing corporate social responsibility issues across the region.

Without question, CSR is becoming a vital issue for all stakeholders - employees, consumers, suppliers, NGOs, investors and your local community. How do you make sure that you are engaging with these stakeholders - letting them know what you are doing well, and getting the benefits of their expertise and advice?

The answer is in the Stakeholder Engagement Summit - taking place on the 13th and 14th October in Barcelona. With a truly European speaker roster, if you attend you not only get a view of the stakeholder engagement horizon. You get an in-depth examination from an international body of experts.

ECCHR is organizing an international conference in cooperation with "Bread for the World" and “Misereor” on “Transnational Corporations and Human Rights”. The Conference will take place on October 9 and 10, 2008 in Berlin. Since the 1970’s, the United Nations, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have developed international guidelines and set standards for corporations. These tools are intended to regulate or at least govern corporate activities in respect to Human Rights. In addition, a multitude of ‘codes of conduct’ were created through private (corporate) and national initiatives.

Topicality and the importance of the topic Corporate Social Responsibility itself in science and practice: The numerous scientific publications in recent years, the growing number of sustainability and environmental reports published by corporations as well as the efforts undertaken by various national governments and the European Commission underlined the importance of the topic.