Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.