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Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit
This document presents an Integrated Mine Closure Planning Toolkit for the mining and metals sector. The toolkit is intended to be used to promote a more disciplined approach to integrated closure planning and to increase the uniformity of good practices across the sector. The concepts apply equally well to both large and small companies.
Striking a Better Balance: The Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review
The Extractive Industries Review believes that there is still a role for the World Bank Group in the oil, gas, and mining sectors—but only if its interventions allow extractive industries to contribute to poverty alleviation through sustainable development. And that can only happen when the right conditions are in place. This report discusses the three main enabling conditions.
Striking a Better Balance: The World Bank Management Group Response to the Extractive Industries Review (Final Reprot)
International Finance Corporation’s Performance Standards on Social and Environmental Sustainability
International Finance Corporation (IFC) applies the Performance Standards to manage social and environmental risks and impacts and to enhance development opportunities in its private sector financing in its member countries eligible for financing.
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.
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.
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.
Meeting the Social Performance Standards of International Project Finance Institutions: Guidance for Energy Companies
This report provides guidance to upstream and integrated oil and gas companies on meeting the social performance standards and good practice guidance issued by international financing institutions (IFIs). It may also be of interest to smaller energy companies and joint venture partners who are considering approaching IFIs. The report presents the findings of a six-month study undertaken by the Overseas Development Institute between May 2004 and January 2005. The contents draw substantially upon recent work commissioned by Shell International. This work generated a ‘road map’ for Shell businesses to assist their project partners in meeting the social performance compliance requirements of international finance institutions, in particular the World Bank Group and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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GOXI
GOXI is a space to share, learn and connect for action towards greater accountability and, in turn, better development outcomes of extractive industries in Africa.
The Office of the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor (Canada)
The Office of the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Counsellor was established in 2009 as part of the Government of CanadaÂ’s CSR Strategy for the International Extractive Sector. Broadly speaking, the Strategy is designed to help Canadian mining, oil and gas companies meet their social and environmental responsibilities when operating abroad. The Office of the CSR Counsellor has a mandate to review CSR practices of Canadian companies operating outside of Canada and advise stakeholders on recognized best practices and endorsed performance standards.
Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
Many agencies are working to build a vibrant private sector, and to partner with business for development goals. But donor coordination is only possible if agencies share a 'world view' on how to do this most effectively; the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) exists to build that agreement.
Ecominerals Listserv
Center for Social Responsibility in Mining
Canada's PM announces initiative to help developing countries manage their natural resources
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the creation of the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development. This initiative will build on Canada's leadership in the mining sector to support and build natural resource management capacity in developing countries. The announcement was made on the margins of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
President Obama: The US will implement the EITI
At the launch of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in New York today, US President Obama declared that the United States will implement the EITI.
Peru's president signs consultation law
Peru's new president signed a law Tuesday that will require energy and mining companies to consult local communities about projects on their lands.
Kampala calls for Local Content
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.
Water Management
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook acknowledges water is integral to virtually all mining activities and typically the prime medium that can carry pollutant into the wider environment. Consequently, sound water management is fundamental for all mining operations. Water must be managed at all stages of the life cycle of minerals operations. A key principle to sound water management is the recognition of water as an asset with social, cultural, environmental and economic value.Working with Indigenous Communities
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook acknowledges within the exploration and mining sectors, there is growing recognition that relationship building and agreement making with Indigenous people and other people with rights and interests in land and waters are more practical ways of dealing with native title matters than litigation and costly legal processes. Similarly, requirements for the appropriate recognition and handling of Indigenous cultural heritage issues will be better managed by building on sound relationships.Mine Rehabilitation
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook acknowledges rehabilitation is the process used to repair the impacts of mining on the environment. The long-term objectives of rehabilitation can vary from simply converting an area to a safe and stable condition, to restoring the pre-mining conditions as closely as possible to support the future sustainability of the site.Risk Management
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook acknowledges risk is an unavoidable consequence of mining operations and there is a business case to embrace a robust and comprehensive risk management approach. The mining and minerals processing industry faces several different types of risk including economic, environmental, social and regulatory risk. Stewardship
Following consultation with the Australian mining industry and other interest groups on the key issues affecting sustainable development, the “Leading Practice Sustainable Development” Program developed 14 handbooks. This handbook acknowledges stewardship involves the care and management of a commodity through its life cycle. Stewardship needs to be an integrated program of actions aimed at ensuring that all materials, processes, goods and services are managed throughout the life cycle in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.How To Manage Social and Environmental Risk for Oil, Gas And Mining
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Workshop on Community Investment in Francophone Africa
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.
International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining, Santiago Chile, October 2011: Call for Papers
International Seminar on Social Responsibility in Mining
Interested authors are invited to submit a 300-word abstract in English to srm@srmining.com. Abstracts must clearly state the objectives and describe a summary of the obtained results. Abstracts are to include a title and full details of the corresponding author. Abstracts are due by 21 January 2011.
Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development: the Challenges of Implementation
The shared goal of companies, host-country governments and civil society is an investment framework that promotes sustainable development and the mutual trust needed for long-term investments. The extractive industries face a special need for such trust, given the massive long-term investments that they undertake in poor and potentially unstable countries.
The purpose of this conference is to discuss and assess how past and ongoing initiatives to promote cooperative, transparent, equitable, and efficient FDI in the extractive industries have succeeded, how success is measured, and how success can be scaled up and better implemented in the future to achieve real development outcomes. It is time to take stock, ask the critical questions and build on what has been done in order to move forward with this more holistic approach to the problématique of implementing sustainable development in resource rich countries.
The conference will be a Davos-style discussion that will be forward looking and solution-oriented.
