A practical guide on Technical aspects

Cordaid / RTENN (2016), Informing local communities, civil society and local government about oil & gas. A practical guide on Technical aspects, February 2016. 

Addressing Social Impacts of Resource Developments

Franks, D, Fidler, C, Brereton, D, Vanclay, F and P, Clark. 2009. Leading Practice Strategies for Addressing the Social Impacts of Resource Developments. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. Briefing paper for the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, Queensland Government. November. Brisbane.

Akwe´: kon – Voluntary guidelines ...

Convention on Biological Diversity. 2004. Akwe´: kon – Voluntary guidelines for the conduct of cultural, environmental and social impact assessment regarding developments proposed to take place on, or which are likely to impact on, sacred sites and on lands and waters traditionally occupied or used by Indigenous and local communities.

Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation

David Bloomfield, Martina Fischer & Beatrix Schmelzle (eds.) Dialogue series number 4 (2005). New Trends in Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA). Short reflection papers by all authors shed light on progress and controversy regarding the new trends in peace and conflict impact assessment. http://www.berghof-handbook.net/dialogue-series/no.-4-new-trends-in-peace-and-conflict-impact-assessment-pcia

Boomtown Toolkit

UQ Boomtown Toolkit (2015) from http://boomtown-toolkit.uq.edu.au

Community Grievance Mechanisms (CGMs) Toolbox

This toolbox enables oil and gas companies to create, implement and raise awareness of Community Grievance Mechanisms (CGMs).

Community grievance mechanisms in the oil and gas

Community grievance mechanisms in the oil and gas industry IPIECA January 2015

IPIECA’s new manual provides practical step-by-step guidance on how to plan and implement operational-level community grievance mechanisms (CGMs), and how to design and manage corporate CGM frameworks.

Community Health and Shale Development Guidebook

Community Health and Shale Development Guidebook, 2015 by RESOLVE’s Solutions Network.

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

The CHRB’s Pilot Methodology is the result of extensive multi-stakeholder consultation around the world over two years, involving representatives from over 400 companies, governments, civil society organisations, investors, academics and legal experts.

Cumulative Impacts Good Practice Guide

Franks, DM, Brereton, D, Moran, CJ, Sarker, T and T, Cohen. 2010. CUMULATIVE IMPACTS - A GOOD PRACTICE GUIDE FOR THE AUSTRALIAN COAL MINING INDUSTRY. Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining & Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland. Australian Coal Association Research Program. Brisbane.

Ecosystem Services Review for Impact Assessment

New method to address both environmental and social aspects of ecosystem services throughout the impact assessment process. Introduction to method and instructions for scoping

Environmental and Social Management System Implementation Handbook

New publication from the IFC: Environmental and Social Management System Implementation Handbook

Global Technology Assessment

The Converging Technologies (Indo, Bio, Cogno, Nano) pose a serious risk to both social and environmental systems, unless and until methods are adopted to distinguish the prospective benefits from the detriments, and take active steps to avoid or ameliorate the detriments.

Good Practice Guidance on Health IA

This ICMM Good Practice Guidance sets out an overview of how mining and metals operations can affect the health and wellbeing of local communities, describes typical health impact assessment processes and outlines a methodology for undertaking a rapid assessment so that in-house practitioners are involved from the start. The Good Practice Guidance recognizes the imperative to integrate health impact assessment with environmental and social impact assessments and provides the reader with management tools to achieve this.

Good Practice Guide: Indigenous Peoples and Mining

This ICMM document provides information and practical direction to mining companies, to guide appropriate and respectful engagement with Indigenous Peoples.

Good Practice Handbook Cumulative Impact Assessmen

This Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets proposes a six-step process to assist private sector companies in emerging markets identify cumulative impacts and guide them in the effective design and implementation of measures to manage such cumulative effects.

Good Practice Note on Cumulative Impact Assessment

IFC has prepared this draft Good Practice Note on Cumulative Impact Assessment and Management for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets, with the intention of providing practical guidance to companies investing in emerging markets to improve their understanding, assessment, and tools to manage cumulative environmental and social impacts associated with their projects or business activities.

Guide to Human Rights IA & Management

The aim of the revised Guide to HRIAM is to provide companies with guidance on how to assess and manage human rights risks and impacts of their business activities. While the Guide may benefit different types of organisations, companies are the main and intended audience of the Guide to HRIAM. The Guide to HRIAM can be accessed free of charge, following registration on the website. Downloadable booklets on the Guide to HRIAM are available in all official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Guidelines for SIA for mining in Greenland

These guidelines have been prepared to assist mining companies and their consultants with
guidance in preparing SIA of mining projects in Greenland.

Guidelines Implementing Right of Indigenous People

Guidelines on Incorporating Traditional Knowledge

The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board (Review Board) is the main organization established to carry out environmental assessment and environmental impact review in the Mackenzie Valley, Canada. In order to ensure that aboriginal cultures, values and knowledge play an appropriate role in its determinations, the Review Board is committed to fully consider any traditional knowledge brought forward in its proceedings. The Review Board has produced the Guidelines for Incorporating Traditional Knowledge into the Environmental Impact Assessment Process. This document outlines the steps for traditional knowledge’s inclusion in the EIA process, including preliminary screening, environmental assessment and environmental impact review.

Handbook for Product Social Impact Assessement

Social metrics are the new vanguard of sustainability. In a world of fast-paced communications and increasing transparency, businesses need measurable social impact data to make better decisions around social sustainability, find improvement opportunities and differentiate their products in the market. The innovative Product Social Impact Assessment methodology enables concrete, objective information at a product level. 

Handling and Resolving Local Concerns & Grievances

This ICMM document sets out good practice approaches on a specific, but important, issue in this area Human Rights in the Mining & Metals Sector: the development of company procedures for handling local level concerns and grievances

Health impact assessment (HIA) guide

'Health impact assessment guide'(2016), The global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues (IPIECA) and International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP).

How to use UN Guiding Principles on Business & HR

This guide aims to provide concrete support, guidance and a uniform reference framework for civil society organisations (CSOs)to use the United Nations Guiding Principles to address the responsibility of business to respect human rights and thereby support local communities, workers and other rights holders to ensure fulfilment of their human rights.

Human rights impact assessment guidance & toolbox

The Toolbox provides those who are involved in human rights impact assessments of business projects and activities with guidance and practical tools for conducting such assessments.

Impacts Benefits Agreements Community Toolkit

The IBA Community Toolkit: Negotiation and Implementation of Impact and Benefit Agreements is authored by Ginger Gibson and Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh (2010). The toolkit is designed for communities engaged in negotiating these agreements with mining companies. It is written for community negotiators, members of community negotiating teams, and consultants working with Aboriginal communities and organisations. The goal of the toolkit is to provide materials, tools and resources for communities to help them address the process and content issues relevant to negotiating agreements in Canada. The focus is on private commercial agreements, where the parties are Aboriginal communities and mining companies.

Indigenous People and Mining

Indigenous People and Mining: good practice guide (2015), ICMM.

Informing Local Communities, Civil Society & Local

The guide is specifically designed for facilitators and trainers wanting to raise awareness of local communities in oil and gas producing regions. Relevant activities are described from a non-technical point of view.

Written by Jeroen de Zeeuw (Extractives Associate) and Elly Rijnierse (Senior Extractives Advisor) of Cordaid. And Karidewa Nyeinga (Regional Programme Coordinator) from RTENN. 

Integrating human rights into impact assessments

Integrating human rights into environmental, social and health impact assessments. A practical guide for the oil and gas industry.

Large-scale projects in the Amazon: lessons learned and guidelines

The initiative aims to organize knowledge and shed light to lessons learned, for public policies as well as business practices, that can help establish a new relationship between large-scale projects and the territories hosting them, within the Brazilian Amazon region. Lead by a partnership between the Center for Sustainability Studies of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (GVces) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, this path was made possible through the engagement of over 300 people, representing around 130 institutions of varied backgrounds.

Measurement and Reporting of Social Investment

Mining & Communities: Supporting human rights

Mining & Communities: Supporting human rights-based development in the context of industrial mining in Guinea, 2015 by American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI).

Mitigating human rights impacts

Ethical Corporation has released an eight-page briefing on how extractive companies can reduce incidents of human rights infringements in their operations.

OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct

The objective of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct (Guidance) is to provide practical support to enterprises on the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by providing plain language explanations of its due diligence recommendations and associated provisions. Implementing these recommendations helps enterprises avoid and address adverse impacts related to workers, human rights, the environment, bribery, consumers and corporate governance that may be associated with their operations, supply chains and other business relationships. The Annex to the Guidance includes additional explanations, tips and illustrative examples of due diligence.


Available at: http://mneguidelines.oecd.org/OECD-Due-Diligence-Guidance-for-Responsible-Business-Conduct.pdf

Planning for Integrated Mine Closure

The tools and guidance provided in this ICMM document bring community engagement, early closure planning, operational implementation of progressive mine closure planning, and a cross-functional approach into effective exit strategies.

Practical Guide for Communities, CBOs & Local Gov.

Cordaid (2016), When Oil, Gas or Mining Arrives in Your Area. Practical Guide for Communities, Civil Society and Local Government on the Social Aspects of Oil, Gas and Mining.

Renewable energy investor briefing: Managing risks & responsibilities for impacts on local communities

The briefing sets out how investors can manage their human rights risks and responsibilities related to their investments in renewable energy. 

Rio Tinto - Why Human Rights Matter

A resource guide for integrating human rights
into Communities and Social Performance work
at Rio Tinto.

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

Social Assessment of Protected Areas: Early Experience and Results of a Participatory, Rapid Approach by Phil Franks, Dilys Roe, Rob Small, Helen Schneider. November 2014.

Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Guidelines on the process and preparation of the SIA report for mineral projects (Government of Greenland)

Greenland wants to develop the mineral resources area into one of the country’s primary and principal business sectors. This is to be done in close collaboration and dialogue with the Greenlandic population. Understanding the interaction between mineral projects and Greenlandic society is therefore essential in order to create sustainable relations between mineral resources companies, municipalities, affected individuals, other stakeholders as well as Greenlandic society in general.
Available at: https://www.govmin.gl/images/stories/minerals/sia_guideline/SIA_guideline.pdf

Social Impact Assessment Books: New and Revised

Social Impact Assessment Books—New and Revised.Rabel Burdge has updated and revised his two books on Social Impact Assessment.

The SIA textbook: The Concepts, Process and Methods of Social Impact Assessment. Reprinted in 2016, bound, 305 pages, $US 24.95.

The SIA Manual: A Community Guide to Social Impact Assessment: 2015 4^th Edition, 194 pages, spiral bound, $US 19.95.

Social Impact Assessment: Guidance document

Vanclay, F., Esteves, A.M., Aucamp, I. & Franks, D. 2015 Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for assessing and managing the social impacts of projects. Fargo ND: International Association for Impact Assessment.

Published by the International Association for Impact Assessment, this 100-odd page document will become the definitive statement on best practice in social impact assessment.

Social Impact Assessment: Integrating Social Issues in Development Projects

Recent publication from the IDB on how to use SIA to Integrating Social Issues in Development Projects
Available for download at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=EZSHARE-334535688-5

The Beyond Zero Harm Framework

The Beyond Zero Harm Framework (BZH) is a participatory process for discussing, defining, measuring and analyzing community well-being. The framework was created by a group of participants from mining companies, civil society organizations and academics, many of whom are members of the Devonshire Initiative.

The New Social Impact Assessment Handbook

A guidebook for social impact assessment practitioners, decision makers and individuals concerned about the social impacts of particular proposals.

This handbook takes a new approach to the accepted methodologies integrating practical experience with theory and evidence.

Use of Security Forces: Assessing and Managing Risks and Impacts

This Good Practice Handbook on the Use of Security Forces: Assessing and Managing Risks and Impacts has been developed for IFC clients and other private sector companies and their consultants. Available at: http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/topics_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/ifc+sustainability/learning+and+adapting/knowledge+products/publications/publications_handbook_securityforces