risk mitigation & csr in africa and emerging markets 28 april 2011
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Risk Mitigation & CSR in Africa and Emerging Markets 28 April 2011. Centre for Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility. Canada, its provinces and territories, still provide some of the most attractive jurisdictions to explore and extract worldwide - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Risk Mitigation & CSR in Africa and Emerging
Markets
28 April 2011
Centre for Excellence in Corporate Social
Responsibility
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• Canada, its provinces and territories, still provide some of the most attractive jurisdictions to explore and extract worldwide
• Survey in 2007 shows there are even more operations run by Canadians outside Canada than in Canada
• TSX is host to more mining exploration and extraction companies than all the other stock exchanges (Canada: 1557, Rest of World: 992)
• A similar situation applies to Oil and Gas
Context for a Canadian CSR Strategy
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Canada’s CSR Approach
Canada encourages and expects Canadian firms operating abroad to respect all applicable laws, international standards,
and to reflect our values and international commitments.
Canada is active in fostering and promoting CSR at bilateral and multilateral levels.
Host governments are responsible for legislation that meets the needs of their citizens.
There is, however, a limit to what companies can provide to support social, health, environment, and education
concerns of the communities within which they operate.
Canada supports and encourages the Canadian business community to develop and implement CSR standards, tools, and best practices.
Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
4Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
Role of Missions Abroad in CSR
Foster informed
debate withoutgetting in front
Canada
Advise companies
of Canada’s CSR
expectations
Refer clients to information,
tools, guidelines
Facilitate dialogue
without getting
in the middle
Engage host governments
Report on local CSR
issues
Invite experts and speakers
on CSR
Support internationally
accepted standards &guidelines
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Context for a Canadian CSR Strategy
Building the Canadian Advantage
CSRCentre
for Excellence
Promotion of Voluntary
CSR Performance
Guidelines
Host Government
Resource CapacityBuilding
Extractive
Sector CSR
Counsellor
The Strategy comprises 4 pillars:
A CSR Strategy for the Canadian International Extractive Sector
6Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
Role of Missions Abroad in CSR
Foster informed
debate withoutgetting in front
Canada
Advise companies
of Canada’s CSR
expectations
Refer clients to information,
tools, guidelines
Facilitate dialogue
without gettingin the middle
Engage host governments
Report on local CSR
issues
Invite experts and speakers
on CSR
Support internationally
accepted standards &guidelines
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CSR Centre for Excellence
• Identify, develop, and disseminate, in collaboration with stakeholders, relevant information on CSR for clients in government, civil society and industry
• Develop CSR information packages for targeted markets and proactively sponsor briefings
• “Community of practice” web-based public platform for stakeholders to share information
• Develop an in-house inventory of Canadian company CSR contacts, activities and best practices
The Strategy calls for the development of a CSR Centre for Excellence
in an existing institution outside government that will provide:
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• Provide information and tools for all, including multi-stakeholder organizations, companies, government, civil society organizations and communities
• Based on cooperation between the multi-stakeholder organizations
• Assist in difficult discussions
Emphasis on multi-stakeholder organizations
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• 3 consultation session with multi-stakeholder organizations were held:• July 2009 – Ottawa• August 2009 – Vancouver• November 2009 – Calgary, Toronto, Montréal
• Established the Interim Executive Committee
• Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) to host
Build the basis
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Interim Committee•Responsible for getting Centre established and
building platform for its sustainabilityCommunity of Practice•A central web-based database
of research, tools, best practices, training materials and experts
Knowledge in
Research Tools Case
StudiesTraining Materia
ls
Contact Registr
y•Sources of knowledge will include but not be limited to national and international contributions from: industry, consultants, all levels of government, indigenous groups, academics and civil society organizations
Knowledge out
Academics, Civil Society Organizations, Companies, Indigenous groups, Educators, General Public, Government, Foreign Governments, Investors/ Financial Institutions, Media, Practitioners
•Consumers of knowledge will have unrestricted access to the full range of information. Some information will be available free-of-charge, some of it will require “registering”, while some will be available for a fee (depending on source).
Advisory Panels and Roundtables•Represents a spectrum of interests, experience•Provides unrestricted input on material issues
Proposed Operating Model
Partner-ships
Contact centre
Canadian Centre for CSR
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• Set immediate priorities for key operational issues
• Outline the Centre’s long term funding model and processes
• Prioritize Roundtable issue topics
– Human rights, China, Junior Mining, Oil & Gas, Competitiveness, Benchmarking, Mapping, others
• Confirm pace of roll-out to other industries
• Outline a marketing and communications strategy
• Formalize partnerships
• Detail roadmap, function and reporting framework, including performance indicators
Priorities for the interim committee
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Current status of the Centre
• Interim Executive Committee dissolved
• Executive Committee established (members have terms ranging from 1 to 3 years)
• Sub Committees established:• Funding• Strategy & Governance• Content & Communication• Nominating
• Co-Chairs• Julie Gelfand, MAC (industry)• Ian Thomson, Kairos (Civil Society)
• Website (http://www.cim.org/csr/)
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CSR CFE Website
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Thank you for your attention
Questions?