Across many industries, sustainability and stakeholder pressures are intensifying, putting significant value at stake for companies. In the resources sector in particular, such issues are increasingly giving rise to critical business risks and opportunities.
Our client work focuses on the areas below. Click on each for more detail and for brief examples of past projects, including some undertaken by our experts prior to joining Critical Resource. For confidentiality reasons, client names are not given. Please also see the News & Insights page.
- Rating, risk and impact assessment: assessments of the “socio-political license to operate” for resource projects using Critical Resource’s proprietary methodology, LicenseSecure™. Also analyses of social and human rights risks and impacts of projects.
- Policies, guidance & implementation: Development of policies, guidance and management systems on sustainability and stakeholder issues. Also support for on-the-ground implementation of these policies, including internal awareness building and training.
- Issue leadership: Content for advancing international debates across the range of stakeholder and sustainability issues.
Brief examples of past projects:
Client challenge: Professional services firm looking to establish thought leadership on the international CSR agenda
What we did: Supported development of thought piece for board-level executive
How it helped: Output in high-profile media influences international debate on the link between CSR and shareholder value and creates wave of positive reaction globally
Client challenge: Extractive industry organisation considering how to respond effectively to the challenges and international debate relating to the ‘resource curse’
What we did: Helped define and shape major research project; summarised findings in thought pieces; developed strategy for global roll-out of initiative
How it helped: Helped define client as leading & pro-active contributor to the debate, focused on ways to overcome the ‘resource curse’
Client challenge: Extractive sector organisation requires engagement approach in relation to major UN initiative on human rights.
What we did: Supported development of a series of formal submissions to the initiative, pinpointing industry challenges, successes and reforms needed
How it helped: Submissions well-received internationally and helped to clarify client’s approach and next steps on human rights
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