Enhancing Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry

March 2009, Dafna Tapiero, CommDev/ International Finance Corporation

Please click here to view Enhancing Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry by Dafna Tapiero, which was presented during the Extractive Industry Week - Improving Extractive Industries Benefits for the Poor (March 3-5, 2009).

Topics include:

• Extractive Industry Projects are Often Seen as "Controversial"



• Sustainable Approach to Extractive Industry Projects;A Business Imperative



• Extractive Industry Yields Benefits to Communities



• Evolution of How to Acquire a Social License to Operate



• What Companies say about Community Investment (CI) Challenges



• What Causes these Problems?



• What is IFC CommDev?



• Results



• CommDev.org



• CommDev Tool: Financial Valuation of Sustainability



• Capacity Building: Ghana Workshop