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 | Mar 18, 2013 | Capacity Building, Community Relations, CSR, Social Performance Management
By Gary MacDonald CSR is dead to us. Now, I know you may be wondering if that means we are heading in a new direction. Not at all. We just don’t do CSR. Okay, some people would characterize what we do as working on issues related to corporate social...
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 | 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...
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