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Partnerships are ubiquitous within business, government, civil society and communities. They generally involve voluntary agreement, shared objectives, distinct accountabilities and reciprocal obligations and are expected to add value to what each partner could achieve alone. Less common are partnerships between industry, government, civil society, and communities--though when well planned and managed, such arrangements can build on the strengths and capabilities of each actor to produce greater and more sustainable development impacts as well as profits. Strategic partnerships can help define local priorities for social investment, assign responsibilities, apportion costs, mitigate risks, establish accountabilities, improve productivity and resolve conflicts. Ideally, partnership avoids duplication of effort, capitalizes on each actor’s expertise, and pools resources to tackle the most challenging and complex social and business problems. Partnership is nonetheless challenging, requiring significant communication and commitment from all parties. Stakeholder engagement is vital to community development planning, implementation, and evaluation, ensuring that development projects are appropriate, effective, and sustainable.

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Business Partners for Development (BPD)
Business Partners for Development (BPD) was a project-based initiative set up to study, support and promote strategic examples of partnerships involving business, civil society and government working together for the development of communities around the world. It was created, believing that tri-sector partnerships could provide long-term benefits to the business sector and at the same time meet the social objectives of civil society and the state by helping to create stable social and financial environments.
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects
CDA Collaborative Learning Projects is committed to improving the effectiveness of international actors who provide humanitarian assistance, engage in peace practice, and are involved in supporting sustainable development.
Partnering Initiative

The Partnering Initiative focuses on developing and disseminating cutting edge knowledge and methodologies for effective cross sector partnerships for sustainable development through hands-on action research. It provides tailored learning programmes, professional skills development and partnership review and evaluation. The Partnering Initiative also provides support and advisory services that help to build capacity for effective collaboration for sustainable development. The approach is unique, combining thought leadership, professional learning opportunities and the coordination of innovative joint ventures.


IFC-Lonmin Partnership Wins Nedbank Green Mining Award
13 Nov 2008

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.


Mining: Partnerships for Development - Toolkit to analyze the social and economic contribution of the mining sector
April 2006, ICMM

Many mining companies are already involved in a wide range of in-country partnerships. One of the main challenges preventing broader uptake of the Mining: Partnerships for Development approach is a general lack of awareness of the potential benefits that
partnerships can bring. Without understanding how livelihoods or governance have changed in a target community, how can a partnership claim to be effective? Making this assessment is not easy in an environment where data and analysis on the social and economic impacts of mining either do not exist, or are weak and fragmented. Presenting information around the six priority themes can improve this situation by providing an objective evidence base for assessing the social and economic contribution mining has had, or will in future make at the community, regional and national levels.


Training Overview
April 2009, CommDev
The London School of Economics (LSE), Business-Community Synergies, and CommDev (the Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund of the International Finance Corporation) are co-sponsoring an international training program on community-company engagement in the extractive industries in late March/early April 2009 in South Africa.

Getting it Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work
March 2009, Luc Zandvliet and Mary B. Anderson
Corporate-community relations in poor, unstable countries is an area fraught with problems for managers despite their best intentions. Based on seven years of on-the-ground research, a new book is about to be published that will help corporate managers get it right.

Developing a Transparent System for Local Contracting

This manual provides a step-by-step guide on how to enable local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies to get access to procurement opportunities with large companies through a transparent system for local contracting. An important component of this system is the company’s electronic procurement (eProcurement) system.

 


Social Investment Working Session Report: Tackling Challenges to Successful Social Investment

IPIECA’s Social Responsibility Working Group organized a working session on Tackling Challenges to Successful Social Investment on 27th June 2008. The IPIECA Guide and this workshop seek to assist companies in understanding the challenges,
addressing them, and engaging with relevant stakeholders in dialogue to further improve communication and practice
in this area.


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.


Knowledge Forum on Engaging the Community: Best Practices in Community Engagement
May 2008, Research Network for Business Sustainability

The purpose of this event was to bring together experts from academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss an important issue in business sustainability.


Stakeholder Methodologies in Natural Resource Management
1998, Robin Grimble | Natural Resources Institute, UK
Stakeholder analysis recognizes the different interest groups involved in the utilization and conservation of natural resources and provides tools that help to identify and resolve trade-offs and conflicts of interest.

Building Consensus: History and Lessons from the Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca, Peru: Monograph 3 - Independent Water Monitoring and the Transition of the MESA (2004-2006)
2007, Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) | The World Bank Group
Although the concerns, dilemmas, and demands brought forth in the Mesa were numerous, by all accounts, the mine’s impact on water was a central source of conflict. The Mesa’s participatory water monitoring program aimed to address this common concern by monitoring water quality in the mine’s area of influence, providing quality assurance for the water monitoring programs conducted by other institutions, communicating the results directly to communities, and arriving at practical solutions to water quality concerns in a participatory manner.

Building Consensus: History and Lessons from the Mesa de Diálogo y Consenso CAO-Cajamarca, Peru: Monograph 2 - The Independent Water Study (2002-2004)
2007, Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (CAO) | The World Bank Group
This monograph is divided into two main chapters. The first provides the context and background information on the mine and community concerns about water issues. The second analyzes the major challenges that the Mesa, the water study team, and the CAO confronted during the water study process, the actions taken to overcome these challenges, and lessons learned during the process.

Working With Multilaterals
June 2002, Simon Zadek and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

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.

 

 

 


Building Effective Relationships with Indigenous Communities

BSR and First Peoples Worldwide (FPW) partnered recently to present a lively, practically focused training on how companies operating in areas inhabited by Indigenous peoples can practice engagement in ways that benefit both companies and communities.

The training focused on gaining a social license to operate, underscoring how companies that do not directly and skillfully address social issues risk losing access to the resources that are fundamental to their businesses. Simultaneously, the training looked at how Indigenous communities are attempting to identify how they might engage with companies to increase their own peoples’ well being, and begin constructive dialogue with companies to foster mutually beneficial relationships.


Tri-Sector Partnerships: A New Way to Manage Social Issues In the Extractive Industries

Corporate operations face a new reality throughout the world. Social issues are increasingly affecting the future of their core business. Issues include how to: demonstrate compliance with requirements to manage the social impacts of operations on communities; reduce the risks to production posed by local disputes and tensions; and improve the contribution operations make to local and regional development.


Stakeholder Communication and Consultation
February 2004, The World Bank

These were materials used during a workshop which had the objective to build capacity such that participants could initiate and maintain on-going processes of stakeholder communication and consultation on local, mining-related, environmental and social issues. Training handouts and presentations are included.


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.


Guide for Effective Public Involvement

The purpose of this Guide is to introduce the fundamentals of public involvement, to help design an effective public involvement program and to serve as an on-going reference for public involvement activities.


Doing Better Business Through Effective Public Consultation and Disclosure: A Good Practice Manual

A publication providing practical, "how to" guidance for IFC clients and the private sector in planning and carrying out public consultation activities. The Manual offers advice on managing the expectations of local communities, tailoring consultation to a private sector context, and encouraging consultation between companies and their local stakeholders throughout a project's lifecycle.


Partnership Brokers Accreditation Scheme (PBAS)

Strategic alliances between business, government and civil society are a growing feature of both developed and emerging economies. Such multi-sector partnerships are necessary because it is increasingly clear that no one sector in society can deliver the goals of sustainable development alone.


Measuring the 'Added Value' of Tri-Sector Partnerships
October 2001, Jol Mitchell, Jill Shakleman, Michael Warner / Business Partners for Development (BPD)

This paper sets out a methodology for measuring the impact of a tri-sector partnership model of social management in the extractive industries. The emphasis is on measuring the 'added value' of a partnership approach, over-and-above the alternative ways in which business, government and civil society organization could meet their social objectives.


Monitoring Tri-Sector Partnerships
February 2002, Michael Warner / Business Partners for Development (BPD)

This paper provides guidance on how to monitor the complexities of tri-sector partnering to manage social issues in the extraction industries.


Training Modules: Tri-sector Partnerships for Managing Social Issues in the Extractive Industries
March 2001, Alex Grzybowski, Daniel Johnston, Norman Macleod, Richard Roberts, Michael Warner / Business Partners for Development (BPD)

The Natural Resources Cluster of Business Partners for Development is developing a set of training modules to create awareness for a tri-sectoral partnership approach to the management of social issues in the extractive industries. The modules build capacity and skills to navigate the complex task of exploring, building and maintaining this new type of partnership.


Guidance Note for “Getting Started”: Tri-sector Partnerships for Managing Social Issues in the Extractive Industries
March 2000, Michael Warner / Business Partners for Development (BPD)

This paper provides guidance on how to develop partnerships to manage social issues in the extractive industries. The guidance is targeted at environment and/or community affairs managers in oil, gas and mining operations around the world.


Mineral Exploration, Mining and Aboriginal Community Engagement: A Guidebook

More than two years in the making, this guidebook was drafted with input from a broad range of aboriginal, industry and government sources to encourage sustainable relationships between the mineral sector and First Nations.


The Business Guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations

Partnerships on environmental issues account for a third of all business corporate social responsibility partnerships on a global level and education projects are the preferred corporate social responsibility partnerships at a local level. These are some of the key findings of "The Business Guide to partnering with NGOs and the United Nations", the first ever global effort to scan and rate NGOs, UN agencies and other social actors from a business partnership perspective.


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


Working with Indigenous Communities Handbook (DRAFT)

This module of the Sustainable Minerals Publications Series, previously titled the Best Practice Environmental Management in Mining series, provides a guide to the community consultation process. This handbook provides guidance for resource developers on how to work effectively with Indigenous Communities.


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.

 

 


Doing Business with the Poor: A Field Guide

This report applies some basic business questions to Sustainable Livelihoods business projects. It shows how leading companies are answering them and innovating to overcome the barriers to doing business in this new territory.


A Business Guide to Development Actors: Introducing Company Managers to the Development Community

A Business Guide to Development Actors aims to introduce the business community to potential partners in the development community. It is a first port of call for managers who are interested in working with a development organization, but unsure of how to begin.


Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT)
December 2003, Anglo American plc

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.


AA1000 Framework

The Framework provides guidance to users on how to establish a systematic stakeholder engagement process that generates the indicators, targets, and reporting systems needed to ensure to ensure greater transparency, effective responsiveness to stakeholders and improved overall organisational performance.

Workshop on Community Investment in Francophone Africa
June 14 - 15, 2011
Dakar, Sénégal

As part of the knowledge sharing component of IFC’s Strategic Community Investment Program in Africa, the proposed regional workshop is designed to share IFC’s new business model on strategic community investment and newly developed tools to measure return on sustainability investments.