When: June 5 - 8, 2016
Where: Vancouver, British Columbia
The goal of this event is to address the relationship between between mining operations and their local communities.
Topics include:
- Environmental, social and cultural risks assessment
- CSR standards and governance, as applied to community relations
- IFC Social Performance Standards
- UN Sustainable Development Goals and its relevance and application to mining
- Impact benefit agreements
- Social license to operate
- Conflict prevention and resolution
- Managing community expectations
- Assessment of social performance
- Grievances
- Indigenous peoples and indigenous rights
- Public consultation (scope, frameworks)
- Community investment and sustainable benefits
- Local procurement and sustainable supply chains
- Public policy, regulatory issues
- Engagement processes and measuring success
- Skills training and social hiring
- Cultural heritage and historic preservation
- Biodiversity and conservation, efficient use of resources
- Communities and mine closure: life after mining
- Involuntary resettlement
- Public health
- Artisanal and small-scale mining
- Human rights in mining
- Mining operations and community preparedness to deal with large environmental releases
- Case studies – what works and what does not.
For more information, visit the event website.
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