Community Organisations
Who are They?
Community organisations are generally established to represent the local and indigenous communities near our operations.
Interests and Concerns
Community organisations are concerned with ensuring that any potential environmental and social impacts associated with our operations are mitigated and that opportunities presented by our operations are optimised; for example, ensuring sustainable community development opportunities can be maintained after mine closure.
Dialogue
In conjunction with developing community relations plans, sites are required to develop suitable engagement mechanisms with their host communities. Generally this results in community engagement forums and community consultation groups.
The majority of our community support is through local foundations, which currently exist in Chile, Peru, South Africa, Colombia and Mozambique. We also have a Corporate Community Program that focuses on Australian and international partnerships and projects.
Examples of our current community partnerships and projects are:
- Port Hedland Community Patrol – partnership with Port Hedland Sobering Up Centre Group Inc to promote community service (read more).
- Illawarra Coal Community Partnerships Program – community helps to determine allocation of funding (read more).
- Villa Esperanza – social project developed by employees of Escondida, Chile (read more).
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