In designing a community development program or other programs for local stakeholders, consultation is a necessary step to conduct. A stakeholder consultation provides a forum for relevant parties to voice their concerns and communicate their ideas for possible solutions. Engaging local leaders and their respective constituents, as well as NGOs and other stakeholders, will assist OGM companies in developing an integrated and effective plan addressing social and environmental issues. Stakeholder consultation early in extractive projects is essential but typically longer-term engagement is required for the company and the community to benefit from those relationships and investments. An effective approach to institutionalize stakeholder engagement is through participatory planning and monitoring.
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Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work
The Corporate Engagement Project (CEP) works to ensure that the presence of companies has a positive, rather than negative, impact on the communities with whom they work. Since 2000, over 60 international companies, mostly from the extractive industries - operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and North America - have participated in the Project. Insights from Corporate Engagement Project were published in May 2009 in Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work by Luc Zandvliet and Mary B. Anderson. CEP is part of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, a non-profit organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Stakeholder Engagement: A Good Practice Handbook for Companies Doing Business in Emerging Markets
This handbook aims to provide the reader with the good practice “essentials” for managing stakeholder relationships in a dynamic context, where unexpected events can and do occur, and facts on the ground change. The focus of this handbook is on stakeholder groups “external” to the core operation of the business, such as affected communities, local government authorities, non-governmental and other civil society organizations, local institutions and other interested or affected parties.
Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects
From Words to Action: The Stakeholder Engagement Manual
From Words to Action: The Stakeholder Engagement Manual is comprised of 2 main documents: Volume 1 The Guide to Practitioners' Perspectives on Stakeholder Engagment and Volume 2 The Practitioners' Handbook on Stakeholder Engagement.
Guide to Engaging with NGOs
Part One of this report traces the emergence of such partnerships, explores the benefits and risks to companies, provides insights into the motivations for NGOs to partner, and describes lessons learned from ongoing engagements. Part Two outlines practical steps and key considerations to help companies identify relevant NGOs, assess and select among potential NGO partners, and implement in effective project involving NGOs.
Partnerships in the Oil and Gas Industry
Partnerships in the Oil and Gas Industry (2006) communicates how the oil and gas industry is using partnerships to respond to challenges of meeting global energy demand and to contribute to sustainable development.
The Case Study Toolbook: Partnership Case Studies as Tools for Change
The Case Study Toolbook is designed to help individuals to create their own case studies more successfully. It is aimed at partnership practitioners worldwide, irrespective of their sector or their partnering role(s), whether they are working on partnerships at an operational or a strategic level and whether they are ‘internal’ or ‘external’ to the partnership being studied.
The Partnering Toolbook
The Partnering Toolbook builds on the experience of those who have been at the forefront of innovative partnerships and offers a concise overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering.
Working With Multilaterals
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has commissioned this report to better understand the trends unfolding in corporate-multilateral partnerships, focusing on the potential benefits of such relationships, and how best to achieve them.
Principles for Engagement with Communities and Stakeholders
This document sets out principles for effective liaison between the resources sector, the community and stakeholders. It is intended as a guide for anyone associated with the exploration and development of mineral, coal, oil and gas resources.
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Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM)
The Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) was established by the University of Queensland in 2001 in response to growing interest in and debate about the role of the mining and minerals industry in contemporary society. CSRM’s focus is the socio-economic and political challenges that confront companies, communities and governments when change is brought about by resource extraction.
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Critical Resource
Critical Resource is an advisory firm specialising in sustainability and stakeholder issues.
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New book by Luc Zandvliet, Mary Anderson: "Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work"
Resources slump: Why oil and mining must garner social capital
Many oil and mining companies are slashing investments as commodity prices collapse. For their own sake, the socio-political fall out will need to be sensitively managed.
After several years of headlong expansion, big oil and mining companies are pulling up abruptly. Soaring commodity prices, which during the past year have broken records in markets from crude oil to copper, have slumped across the board since July 2008.
Together with the impact of the credit crunch on project finance, this drop has forced scores of extractive companies to cut back on new investments and scale down production at many existing operations.
IFC-Lonmin Partnership Wins Nedbank Green Mining Award
A joint IFC-Lonmin supplier development program that supports sustainable growth in mining communities in South Africa has taken top prize in the socio-economic category at the Nedbank Green Mining Awards, which celebrates responsible mining.
At IFC Workshop, Key Stakeholders in Africa’s Extractive Industries Agree that Collaboration is Critical to Successful Community Development
Companies, local communities, and governments must work together to ensure that people benefit from oil, gas, and mining projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, if the industry is to continue expanding in the region, experts agreed at a recent workshop held in Ghana. The workshop was led by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group.
UC RUSAL launches large-scale social investment programme in Nigeria
Ikot Abasi, Nigeria September 18, 2007 – UC RUSAL, the world’s largest producer of aluminium and alumina, launched an extensive social investment programme designed to support development of the local communities of UC RUSAL ALSCON, the aluminium smelter in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State which was acquired by UC RUSAL in February 2007.
Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work
The Corporate Engagement Project (CEP) works to ensure that the presence of companies has a positive, rather than negative, impact on the communities with whom they work. Since 2000, over 60 international companies, mostly from the extractive industries - operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and North America - have participated in the Project. Insights from Corporate Engagement Project were published in May 2009 in Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work by Luc Zandvliet and Mary B. Anderson. CEP is part of CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, a non-profit organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work
Breaking Ground: Engaging Communities in Extractive and Infrastructure Projects
Extractive Industries Week- Improving Extractive Industries Benefits for the Poor
The objective is to facilitate the extractive industries’ contribution to poverty alleviation and economic growth through the promotion of good governance and sustainable development.
Sharing Experiences: Enhancing the Benefits to Communities from Extractive Industry Projects
Rights, Risk and Responsibility: Building Community Capacities for Engagement with the Extractive Industries
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
Stakeholder Engagement: How to Make it Work for You
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.
19th World Petroleum Congress to Host Social Responsibility Global Village - Call for Social Responsibility Partnership Projects
CALL FOR COLLABORATIVE NGO & OIL AND GAS PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS AT THE 19TH WPC!
