Stakeholder management umbrella

stakeholder management umbrella

Stakeholder management can mean different things to different people – and the term has become interchangeable with many related stakeholder activities. Stakeholder management is really the “strategic umbrella” covering a group of tactics aimed at building relationships with important audiences that impact, or are impacted, by your organization’s business footprint.

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Indigenous Communal Enterprises Generate Jobs In Peru

As in many countries in the world, creating new jobs in Peru is costly and depends on economic growth. In most mining projects in Peru, it isn’t possible to offer direct employment to all community members in the area-of-influence of a mining site. For this, Indigenous Communal Enterprises are created to

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Mining in Peru

Peru is one of the most attractive countries in South America for mining. For 2017, the Peruvian mining portfolio consists of 46 mining projects with an estimated investment of over US$47 billion as indicated by the Minister of Energy and Mines, engineer Gonzalo Tamayo Flores, in a recent meeting with

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Stakeholder management in infrastructure projects – two case studies

Stakeholder management in infrastructure projects

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recently published a case study that analyzes the impact of stakeholder management in infrastructure projects during planning and development. To avoid infrastructure projects being considered a ‘failure’ due to lack of appropriate public support, integration of the wider community and more effective communication

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Using SaaS to manage stakeholder engagement communication

stakeholder engagement communication

Stakeholder engagement software is ideal for the cloud-based, externally hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model because the software tends to be used by geographically dispersed users with complex database and reporting requirements. Typically Software-as-a-Service falls into the category of “cloud computing.” The software and data exist on remote servers rather than

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Oil and gas local content planning

oil and gas local content

Local content requirements for the oil and gas sector now exist in many jurisdictions. The principal objective of local content strategies is to maximize local benefits from oil and gas development projects through increased participation of the local workforce and firms. Key features of local content strategies or plans include:

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Canadian exploration tax measure now includes community consultation costs

community consultation costs

On March 1, 2015 the Canadian Federal Government announced mining-sector tax changes that will impact consultation expenses. Canadian Exploration Expenses (CEE) will now include costs of environmental studies and community consultation. This is a benefit to mining and oil & gas companies which are increasingly required by provinces and territories to

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