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CommDev supports the implementation of projects that directly benefit communities and demonstrate good practice community development. The Information Clearinghouse brings together good practice examples, case studies and supporting tools on "what worked" as well as a process framework: practical and experience-based guidance on how to create community development programs, manage them, build support for them and communicate their efforts to partners and stakeholders.

 

For extractive industry companies, the Information Clearinghouse offers the following resources:

 

 

 

Sample Terms of References (TORs)

 

Sample Community Development Plans (CDPs)

 

 

 

 

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Center for International Studies and Cooperation

CECI provides services to support development in many of the poorest countries on the planet and has done so for many years. It has mobilized thousands of mostly volunteer cooperants, providing them with proper supervision in the field, in partnership with local organizations. CECI has also mobilized major financial and material resources. It is recognized for its expertise in economic development, social development and democratic development.

Mace Group

Mace Group provides a portfolio of property and construction-related services across a wide range of market sectors.

Partners for Democratic Change

Partners for Democratic Change (Partners) is an international organization that builds the platforms for communities, civil society organizations, government and business to resolve conflict and advance constructive change. Partners’ Centers combine global experience and local knowledge with innovative tools and techniques to build sustainable solutions and effective leadership. Partners focuses on: I) Accountable Governance; II) Inclusive Societies; III) Economic and Environmental Sustainability.

United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment

There is a growing view among investment professionals that environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues can affect the performance of investment portfolios. Investors fulfilling their fiduciary (or equivalent) duty therefore need to give appropriate consideration to these issues, but to date have lacked a framework for doing so. The Principles for Responsible Investment provide this framework. The Principles are voluntary and aspirational. They are not prescriptive, but instead provide a menu of possible actions for incorporating ESG issues into mainstream investment decision-making and ownership practices.

Global Leadership Network (GLN)
The Global Leadership Network (GLN) was created to advance excellence in corporate citizenship through the alignment and integration of responsible practices into the core business strategy of companies. GLN has created an internal planning and assessment framework that helps a company align its social, environmental and economic performance with its core business strategy to ensure performance excellence in corporate citizenship.
African Development Information Services

AfDevInfo is a research facility and software house working at the interface between cutting edge data capture, processing and distribution technologies and pragmatic politico-economic research.

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John Ruggie: Business and human rights – Treaty road not travelled
29 Jun 2008

John Ruggie explains why, at this time, a global treaty forcing companies to follow binding rules on human rights would not work and should not happen, despite calls from campaigners.

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Community Outreach Consultant
July 2008, CommDev

Community Outreach Coordinator Job Description
July 2008, CommDev

A Community Guide to Environmental Health
July 2008, Shirl Kennedy | Hesperian Foundation

Drawing the connections between people’s health and the environments in which we live, this groundbreaking book empowers health promoters, development workers, educators, activists, community leaders and ordinary people to take charge of their communities’ health.

 

 


Protect, Respect and Remedy: A Framework for Business and Human Rights
April 2008, John Ruggie

Responding to the invitation by the Human Rights Council for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises to submit his views and recommendations for its consideration, this report presents a conceptual and policy framework to anchor the business and human rights debate, and to help guide all relevant actors.


2008 Report on Revenue Transparency of Oil and Gas Companies
2008, Transparency International

The 2008 Report on Revenue Transparency of Oil and Gas Companies evaluates 42 leading international and national oil and gas companies operating in 21 countries, based on the transparency of their reporting, particularly on payments made to governments for resource extraction rights.


Global Leadership Network (GLN) Open Access Tool
2008, United Nations Global Compact, International Finance Corporation, AccountAbility and the Boston College Centre for Corporate Citizenship

This product shows the business benefits of sustainability by helping companies be more strategic about the CSR activities they choose to undertake and to achieve the greatest benefits of these through effective communication. The program provides tools and guidance to companies in designing integrated strategies and action plans, and helps them improve their transparency through guidance on best practice sustainability reporting, such as the Global Reporting Initiative. In particular, the program aims to promote better performance and reporting around community development, gender, labor, human rights, biodiversity, and climate change and more effective harnessing of the potential of the SRI market to reward companies who do so successfully.