How to communicate with locals

Health and safety
Land-use planning
Permitting processes / policy integration
Reporting official statistics
Socio-economic and environmental impact assessments

Challenge the practice is addressing: There is minimal guidance on what the best approaches are in communicating with local communities

Concrete practice to achieve the expected goal: Companies should use physical meetings as an opportunity for listening to community members. Sessions dedicated to brainstorming about topic of concern are useful as is communicating relevant and honest information and the exploration activities and its expected impacts.

Who is the target user group of the practice/intervention or implementing the practice/intervention? Industry

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Source

D5.5 A Practical Toolkit addressed to Mineral Exploration and Mining Companies (p. 62)

Year

2021

Data item type

Practice base

Practice type

Industry

Format

Report / document

Learning relevance

Guidelines / guidance document

Tool(kit)

Commodity

Unspecified (universally applicable)

Extractive life-cycle

Pre-exploration (land-use planning)

Exploration

Sustainability scope

Accountability

Stakeholder engagement

Transparency

System change potential

physical meetings as an opportunity for listening to community members, consultative and information gathering