The extractives and primary materials sectors face unique social challenges and responsibilities, requiring strategic engagement with neighboring communities and other stakeholders.
Weak community engagement practices—or poor community development outcomes at an operations level—can threaten access to financial capital, access to the natural resource itself, and your "social license to operate."
With a long history of assisting companies across the globe design successful community engagement and development practices, we can help strengthen your corporate responsibility strategies and programs, build internal and external capacity, and provide guidance in developing productive and mutually beneficial relationships with local stakeholders.
Our Impact
Ghana Responsible Mining Alliance
Discover how we brought two mining companies and USAID together to develop an alliance aimed at improving the lives of Ghanaians in mining communities.
Sino Gold
Learn how we helped Sino Gold build its "social license to operate" by promoting long-term community development in remote villages surrounding its mine in China.
Focus Areas
- Stakeholder identification, interviews, mapping, and analysis
- Social risk and opportunity assessment
- Human rights risk assessment
- Community relations training
- Design of community relations plans
- Facilitation of stakeholder engagement programs
- Design and facilitation of community monitoring committees
- Evaluation of social management performance (including IFC standards)
- Strategic advice on community development program design
- Analysis of potential development partners and partnership structures
- Design of community development performance and impact indicators
- Identification of local economic development opportunities in supply chains
Dig Deeper
Sample Companies
- Anglo American plc
- AREVA Group
- Exeter Resource Corporation
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
- Kinross Gold Corporation
- Monsanto Company
- Newmont Mining Corporation
- Plum Creek
- Shell International B.V.
- Total S.A.
- Vale
- Yamana Gold, Inc.