by Gary | Mar 27, 2013 | Agriculture, Capacity Building, Community Development, CSR, Forestry, Local Content, Mining, Social Investment
A huge opportunity many companies miss By Trevor Kalinowsky If trade press and conference promoters are anything to go by, local content is the latest trend to hit the social performance landscape. Apparently if your project or company doesn’t have a ‘framework...
by Gary | Apr 27, 2012 | CSR, IFC, Mining, Social Performance Management
On Friday April 27, the Vancouver Sun published an opinion piece written by Monkey Forest principal Gary MacDonald and Marketa Evans, the Government of Canada’s Extractive Sector CSR counsellor, entitled: “Extracting the risk from mining – Current...
by Gary | Jan 5, 2012 | IFC, Social Performance Management
In the latest issue of Mining, People and the Environment, Monkey Forest’s contributor Angus Wong writes about the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Sustainability Framework update. The Framework came into effect on January 1st, 2012. Read the MPE Update...
by Gary | Oct 20, 2011 | CSR, Human Rights, Mining
How extractive companies handle stakeholder grievances about their overseas behavior is increasingly influencing global public perception about them. The recent release of the first report from Canada’s “voluntary” process underlines this point. In...
by Gary | Oct 5, 2011 | Human Rights, Indigenous People
It is increasingly clear that for companies, “getting it right” includes managing and mitigating impacts on indigenous or vulnerable people. And they’re not the only ones looking at such impacts. Last month, the UN body responsible for protecting the rights of...
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