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Strategic Community Investment: Quick Guide
This Quick Guide is intended as a summary document, providing some of the key highlights and messages from IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Strategic Community Investment.
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.
Community Development Toolkit
The Community Development Toolkit was developed to support government, industry, and community efforts to realize more sustainable community development around mining and mineral processing operations. The Toolkit contains 17 tools which cover the assessment, planning, management, and evaluation phases of community development as well as stakeholder relationships. In addition, a background volume contains an examination of the mineral policies and mining laws necessary for mineral activity to contribute to sustainable development.
Guide to Successful, Sustainable Social Investment for the Oil & Gas Industry
Social investment (SI) programmes are defined as the voluntary contributions companies make to the communities and broader societies where they operate, with the objective of benefiting external stakeholders, typically through the transfer of skills or resources. This guidance document aims to address the question of how to create successful and sustainable community investments and how to measure their success.
Managing Risk and Maintaining License to Operate: Participatory Planning and Monitoring in the Extractive Industries
This study explores how communities and companies can engage in co-planning and monitoring to ensure sustainable local development benefits from the extraction of resources. Within the context of a spectrum of participation a variety of tools and mechanisms are presented in the paper. Some of these tools have been used primarily in the public sector, however companies stand to benefit from the tools in forms that are adapted to context, as they are potential vehicles to increase transparency, and thus accountability of companies, communities and governments.
Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT)
Improving the management of the social and economic impacts of significant mining and industrial operations has become an increasingly important public policy issue in recent years. It is a critical element in the sustainable development agenda. This manual provides a process designed to assist Extractive Industry operations to identify and manage their social and economic impacts (both positive and negative). It also provides guidance on how to improve overall social performance where this is necessary.
Community Engagement and Development Handbook
Enduring Value: The Australian Minerals Industry Framework for Sustainable Development. Guidance for Implementation
The Australian minerals industry developed Enduring Value – the Australian Minerals Industry Framework for Sustainable Development to enhance its commitment to sustainable development and to build on its Industry Code for Environmental Management, the industry’s platform for continual improvement in managing environmental issues
Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development
Breaking New Ground presents an analysis of a large and heterogeneous sector through the many stages of minerals and metals exploration, production, use, reuse, recycling, and final disposal.The project assumed from the start that sustainable development could provide a useful framework to guide the minerals sector.
Community Development Framework Study for the Mining Sector in the Republic of Guinea
Harnessing the opportunities that the mining sector can bring to community development is not an easy task, and not one that can be completed quickly. Within a limited time frame the activities of seven mining operations and two projects at the pre-operational phase were reviewed and lessons drawn from these experiences as well as from other community development and poverty reduction programmes in Guinea. Examples of good practice approaches to community development in the extractive industry in other countries have also been considered. This report and the framework presented are intended as a first step in establishing a new approach to community development and are dependent on the participation and commitment of all players.
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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.
The Foundation for Development Cooperation
The Foundation for Development Cooperation is an independent, not-for-profit international development organisation. Through partnerships and alliances, FDC undertakes a range of initiatives which seek to improve the lives of poor people in developing countries, foster innovative approaches to development, and connect policy work to self-help efforts at the grass roots level.
Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership
The Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership's (REEEP) goal is to accelerate the global market for sustainable energy by acting as an international and regional enabler, multiplier and catalyst to change and develop sustainable energy systems. REEEP works with Governments, Businesses, Industry, Financiers and Civil Society across the world in order to expand the global market for renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
Lighting Africa
Lighting Africa is a World Bank Group initiative aimed at providing up to 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa with access to non-fossil fuel based, low cost, safe, and reliable lighting products with associated basic energy services by the year 2030.
International Business Leaders Forum
The International Business Leaders Forum works with business, governments and civil society to enhance the contribution that companies can make to sustainable development. Their current areas of work include raising sustainable business standards, improving prospects for enterprise and employment, and enabling companies to contribute to health and human development issues.
IFC Launches New Publications
Please see below for recent publications launched by IFC. Please send your comments or suggesstions to abhalla@ifc.org.
New book by Luc Zandvliet, Mary Anderson: "Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work"
Sustainability: Extracting the best from Canadian Miners?
On 26 March, the Canadian government unveiled a series of measures to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the extractive sector.
Study says Newmont should Improve Community Ties
The report identified eight steps for the gold mining giant to take to foster better relations. Newmont is crafting a plan to conduct meetings in its host communities and discuss the study findings. Implementation plans are in the development stage.
Why Sustainability is Still Going Strong
Strategic Community Investment: Quick Guide
This Quick Guide is intended as a summary document, providing some of the key highlights and messages from IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Strategic Community Investment.
Financial Services Models in Papua New Guinea: Increasing Access to Finance in Rural Areas
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.
How to Design a “Return on Investment” Program in Factories
Mine Closure 2010
Follow-up Workshop on Participatory Planning & Monitoring in Community Development Related to Extractive Projects in Ghana
Financing Change. Changing Finance.
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.
Environmental Safeguards Unit Workshop: Resettlement, Consultation and Community Development in the Campos Novos Hydropwer Project, Brazil
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.
IFC Community Development Standardization
Module 1: Understanding the Business Case (Caroline Ashley)
- Business Case Matrix, SustainAbility, click here.
Module 2: Diagnostic and Assessment (Tunde Morakinyo)
Module 3: Stakeholder Engagement and Capacity Building (Alan Dabbs)
Module 4: Strategy Design (Alan Dabbs)
Module 5: Implementation Planning and Partnering (Tunde Morakinyo)
Module 6: Monitoring and Evaluation (Tunde Morakinyo)
DISCUSSION FORUM: Influx Management
Questions to Consider

1. It is clear that many aspects of influx management are the domain of local/regional government. To what extent should a Company go beyond promoting awareness of influx issues to managing them?
2. IFC/CommDev is trying to define a typology of influx situations? We would be grateful to receive your thoughts on the following key questions:
- Location
- Type of Operation (oil, gas or mining)
- Stage of Operation (exploration, construction, operations, closure
- Description of influc phenomenon: Who has arrived? Numbers? Where are
- they settling? What are they doing?
- Description of key impacts
- Any mitigation measures undertaken? Yes/No. If yes, please describe.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!



