by Gary | May 22, 2013 | Communications, Community Relations, Crisis, Social Performance Management
By Gary MacDonald You probably already know how it starts. You’re sitting at your desk when the reception or front gate calls to say that the road is blocked by a group of angry people. You may not have known that it was coming – that’s a separate problem for a later...
by Gary | May 9, 2013 | Community Relations, Crisis, IFC, Risk Management, Social Impact Assessment, Social Investment, Social Performance Management
Financial advisors count social performance By Carol Odell and Zoe Mullard You already know the markets have cooled off for most natural resource organizations and that means it is getting harder to find funding – but do you know what you can do about it? Improving an...
by Gary | May 2, 2013 | Social Performance Management
A GEMM of an idea grounds performance By Zoe Mullard and Janis Shandro There is no shortage of reporting frameworks you can use to demonstrate social and environmental performance. But how do you know which ones are credible? That was one of the key questions debated...
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...
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