Community Impacts

Course Aims:

• The aim of the course is to equip participants with knowledge and tools to manage natural resource industry impacts on communities and to monitor and report on these impacts.

Course Content: 

• Overview of a management system and its application to natural resource-related impacts on communities. 
• Integration and engagement in management and monitoring. 
• Key standards and guidelines for management and monitoring of impacts within the natural resource industry. 
• Mitigation of natural resource-related impacts on communities (e.g. land take and displacement, local content, small-scale artisanal mining and mine closure).
• Developing social management and monitoring plans. 
• The relationship between organisational structure and culture and management responses.
• Monitoring indicators and approaches. 
• Reporting and accountability. 
• Strategies to sustain personal wellbeing in the management and monitoring of complex community issues. 
• Case studies in the management and monitoring of natural resource-related impacts on communities.

Learning Outcome: 

• At the end of the course the delegate should be able to:  
• Apply a general management systems approach incorporating integration and engagement. 
• Prepare an appropriate social management and monitoring plan. 
• Explain the relevance of standards and guidelines for management and monitoring. 
• Develop strategies to sustain personal well-being in the management and monitoring of complex community issues.