Risk Mitigation

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CSR Centre for Excellence

• Risk Mitigation CSR in Africa Striking a
  Balance
• 22 October 2009

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Context for a Canadian CSR Strategy

• Canada, its provinces and territories, still
  provide some of the most attractive jurisdictions
  to explore and extract worldwide
• Survey in 2007 shows there are even more
  operations run by Canadians outside Canada than
  in Canada
• TSX is host of more mining exploration and
  extraction companies than all the other stock
  exchanges
• A similar situation applies to Oil and Gas

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Context for a Canadian CSR Strategy
Building the Canadian Advantage A CSR Strategy
for the Canadian International Extractive Sector
The Strategy comprises 4 pillars
CSR Centre for Excellence
Promotion of Voluntary CSR Performance
Guidelines
Host Government Resource Capacity Building
Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor
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CSR Centre for Excellence
The Strategy calls for the development of a CSR
Centre for Excellence in an existing institution
outside government that will provide

• Up-to-date, relevant information on CSR for
  clients in government and industry
• Business-friendly tools to implement
  CSR/inventory of extractive sector regulations
  and policies
• Community of practice public platform for
  stakeholders to share information
• The centre will hosted by The Canadian Institute
  of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM)

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Proposed Mandate Objective

• To improve the social and environmental
  performance and reputation of Canadian companies
  by improving their capacity to address CSR in
  their operations internationally.

Mandate

• To encourage Canadian companies to implement CSR
  practices on the ground by facilitating access to
  CSR knowledge

Objective
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Proposed Definition, Roadmap and Metrics

• CSR will be interpreted in an inclusive,
  non-judgmental way and cover issues related to
  social, environmental and ethical business
  practices

Definition

• The Centre will be developed in phases over the
  next 12- 18 months
• Building on the GOC CSR policy and Roundtables,
  the immediate priority is for end-to-end mining
  and oil gas practices in Latin America and
  Africa
• Short term priority French version
• Mid term priority applicability to Canadian
  North, Spanish version
• Long term vision one-stop-shop across sectors
  and geographies

Roadmap

• Short term ? widespread use of Centre
• Usage metrics, survey results, etc.
• Long term ? changes in behavior on the ground,
  improved reputation
• Performance on key indicators, survey results,
  etc.

Possible Success Metrics
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Proposed Operating Model
Canadian Centre for CSR
Academics, Civil Society Organizations,
Companies, Indigenous groups, Educators, General
Public, Government, Foreign Governments,
Investors/ Financial Institutions, Media,
Practitioners

• Consumers of knowledge will have unrestricted
  access to the full range of information. Some
  information will be available free-of-charge,
  some of it will require registering, while some
  will be available for a fee (depending on source).

• Interim Committee
• Responsible for getting Centre established and
  building platform for its sustainability

Knowledge out

• Community of Practice
• A central web-based database of research, tools,
  best practices, training materials and experts

• Advisory Panels and Roundtables
• Represents a spectrum of interests, experience
• Provides unrestricted input on material issues

Knowledge in
Research
Tools
Case Studies
Training Materials
Contact Registry
Partner-ships
Contact centre

• Sources of knowledge will include but not be
  limited to national and international
  contributions from industry, consultants, all
  levels of government, indigenous groups,
  academics and civil society organizations

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Priorities for the interim committee

• Set immediate priorities for key operational
  issues
• Outline the Centres long term funding model and
  processes
• Set up initial Advisory groups for operational
  issues
• Content, functionality, funding, others
• Prioritize Roundtable issue topics
• Human rights, China, Junior Mining, Oil Gas,
  Competitiveness, Benchmarking, Mapping, others
• Confirm pace of roll-out to other industries
• Outline a marketing and communications strategy
• Formalize partnerships
• Detail roadmap and reporting framework, including
  performance indicators
• Others?

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• Questions?