Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Mining

A mine with every permit and no community agreement does not operate for long. This week covers the social side as an operational discipline rather than a public relations function: mapping stakeholders honestly, negotiating and keeping agreements, running a grievance mechanism people actually use, and designing local employment and procurement that survives the mine. Resettlement and human rights are treated as the high consequence topics they are.

It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Map stakeholders and their actual interests rather than their titles.
• Negotiate a community agreement both sides can perform.
• Run a grievance mechanism that resolves things before they escalate.
• Design local employment and procurement with lasting effect.
• Report social performance credibly.

Community and social performance managers, sustainability staff, mine managers, and HR and procurement leads carrying local content targets.

Short input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A stakeholder map and engagement plan.
• A grievance procedure fit for your own context.
• A local content plan with measurable commitments.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.