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CSR and Mining from Canadian Pressures to African Impacts Tomas Frederiksen University of Manchester Ryerson University, October 2014
Outline
• The rise of CSR • CSR in the extracAve sector • InternaAonal voluntary standards • Changing accountability • Risk • Impacts? • CSR and mining in Zambia
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From Zambia to Canada
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The rise of CSR
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Images from: First Quantum Sustainability Report 2012 and Vale website
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Why the rush? • Changing regimes of accountability • Managing risk • Managing complexity • Some people are just nice
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Changing regimes of accountability
7 Image from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mimundo/5227541886/in/photostream/
Disclosure and Risk
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Images from: http://www.instituteartist.com/feature-Intruders-David-Chancellor, Google Finance and https://coporatesocialresponsibility.wordpress.com/category/industry-initiatives/
But what is the Impact? • CSR pracAce is changing • ShiJ from just PR • Changing discourse • New actors
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CSR in Ghana and Zambia • Changing approach to CSR • DifferenAated field • Different regulatory environments • The ghost of CSR past • Galamsey • Different definiAons of CSR
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CSR as PR
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Image from: http://mopani.com.zm/sample/?page_id=1921
CSR as instrumental
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Images from: First Quantum Sustainability Report 2014 and http://mopani.com.zm/sample/?page_id=1921
CSR as clumsy development
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Image from: http://africanfarming.net/crops/agriculture/fqm-to-enhance-conservation-farming-in-zambia
CSR as a political tool
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Image from: http://www.kibigoldfields.com
CSR and development • Obscures accountability • What does it miss? • Are states always best? In developing countries? • JusAce and equity?
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Conclusions • Corporate behaviour is changing • Results in extracAve sector uneven • We need to think carefully about the equity and jusAce implicaAons of new pracAces
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Outline
• The rise of CSR • CSR in the extracAve sector • Changing regimes of accountability • Disclosure and risk • CSR and mining in Africa • CSR as …. • CSR and development
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Thank you • [email protected] • @miningandcsr • Miningandcsr.wordpress.com
• The work described in this presentaAon was supported by a Government of Canada Commonwealth Post-‐doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Manchester School of Environment, EducaAon and Development Seed funding, the EffecAve States and Inclusive Development Research Centre at the University of Manchester and a BriAsh Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
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