Our approach
Community consultation is key to our approach. We listen carefully to community members to understand their needs, concerns and perspectives, and seek to involve them in developing solutions that address the impacts, risks and opportunities. Because local conditions evolve during the course of a mine’s life, we re-evaluate our plans and revise them as needed throughout the project’s lifecycle, starting before exploration begins and continuing until after closure.
We identify our impacts on host communities, both positive and negative, using social and human rights baseline studies and risk assessments. When conducting these studies, we work closely with communities, governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development organisations to gain the benefit of multiple perspectives. We strive to address the concerns and impacts on the most vulnerable people affected by our operations.
Through our corporate social involvement (CSI) activities, we seek to deliver longer-term community outcomes that align with our core business objectives. We aim to:
- define and track socio-economic and business benefits
- partner with NGOs and other organisations to leverage our investment
- create stable programmes that become self-sufficient in time
Our Sustainable Development (SD) Policy and Standards describe our expectations for our businesses around community engagement and support. We audit each site’s performance against our SD Policy and Standards as part of our SD assurance programme.
