Corporate Social Responsibility and development in Africa: Redefining the roles and responsibilities of public and private actors in the mining sector

Campbell, Bonnie

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2011.05.002

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“…Failing to engage with the policy framework for activities means that the project runs the risk of forcing or undermining a policy agenda, as is shown in the case of the Kalumbila Joint Forest Management. Such findings are in accordance with existing framings of politicized CSR that highlight that CSR bypasses state policy and exacerbates development problems for communities (Campbell 2012, Hilson 2012. The practical implications are that engagement between the mine, the communities and government actors should be improved from early in the project planning cycle (Luning 2012), and that the companies should improve long-term, coordinated and facilitative approaches to their CSR planning (Muthuri 2008).…”

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“…locally sourcing resources and manpower), or outwardly oriented, for example partnership projects, which provide infrastructure or livelihood diversification with communities impacted by a company s activities (UN Global Compact 2013). Externally-oriented CSR has evolved as an international norm where it is thought that through CSR activities extractive firms can provide local socio-economic development where the government is unable or unwilling to do so, and thus may help mitigate against the potentially harmful impacts of resource-led growth (Campbell 2012). However, without government guidance, there is a danger that CSR becomes politicized, positioning MNCs as political players who shape development agendas, in order to fill a governance gap (Scherer and Palazzo 2011).…”

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“…Indeed, CSR activities may become part of local socio-political dynamics, causing divisions, conflict and dependency (Gilberthorpe and Banks 2012). Bypassing the state through industry-led CSR activities has been criticized as eroding the developmental functions of the state and created dependency on mining companies (Campbell 2012). Instead, best practice CSR activities should reinforce state-led development policy in low income host countries (Newell and Frynas 2007), though this remains poorly implemented (Pegg 2006, Buxton 2012.…”

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The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

Leventon

Dyer

Alstine

2015

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Globally, the sustainable development agenda is undergoing a process of climatisation. This means that climate change mitigation and adaptation are influencing the design and delivery of development initiatives. This paper explores the extent to which climate governance influences the role and practice of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in development. We draw on case study evidence from copper mining concessions in Northwestern Zambia in order to examine how CSR activities are adopting norms of climatised development. Our results show that the extractive industries are increasingly initiating CSR activities to align with local livelihoods, and therefore play a key role in climate compatible development (CCD). In addition, they act as context changers through for example, in-migration, which increases pressure on local forest resources. However, these roles go unacknowledged by both industry and government as CSR activities are disconnected from broader CCD priorities. We discuss the positive and negative implications of drawing the extractive industries into the CCD arena. We link to critiques of politicized CSR and consider practical implications, both for the sector and the achievement of climate development goals. We conclude that CSR activities should be seen as a local manifestation of multilevel engagement between the extractive industries and broader development sectors.

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“…That mining has been at the CSR vanguard also reflects the fact that it increasingly takes place in the developing world, in countries with weak governance, legislation and institutional capacity (Kolk & Lenfant., 2012). Within the growing body of literature on mining, CSR and sustainable development, significant themes include: community sustainability (Owen & Kemp., 2012); environmental practices (Wan, 2014); governance and the political economy of mining investment (Prno & Slocombe, 2012); and the effectiveness of local development interventions (Campbell, 2012).…”

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“…In relation to Southern Africa this work has often focussed on South Africa (Kapelus, 2002;Hamann, 2004;Cronje & Chenga 2009;Campbell, 2012), although studies have also examined other countries in the region including Zambia (Lungu, 2008);Botswana (ICMM, 2014), and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Perks, 2012), as well as cross country comparison (Hamann & Kapelus, 2004). CSR, sustainable development and the mining industry in Namibia have also received some attention.…”

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Corporate social responsibility, mining and sustainable development in Namibia: Critical reflections through a relational lens

Littlewood

2014

Development Southern Africa

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Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry: Evidence from Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector during the colonial period

Tuffour,

Patnaik,

Ayikoru

2024

Can J Adm Sci

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In this paper, we draw on the accountability and institutional theories to explicate the informalized state of Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector as an exemplar of informalization of the extractive industry in Africa during the colonial period. We present a critical and historical perspective on the role of colonial subjugation that took the form of discriminatory policies and lack of accountability, in laying the foundations for the current challenges of continuous informalization of the indigenous gold mining sector and its implications on livelihoods, the economy and the environment in Ghana. We analyzed archival data on the mining industry in Ghana, consisting of official correspondences between colonial bureaucrats in Britain and Ghana, as well as colonial policies on mining, interpreted through the lenses of institutional theory. Specifically, we used records comprising letters, mineral policies, mineral output, and labor relations in the Gold Coast during the colonial period as well as minutes of meetings held by those governing mining enterprises that operated in Ghana before 1957. We also drew on periodic reports of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and their member enterprises, Government of Ghana white papers, parliamentary records among others. We found that the colonial authority, as the new institutional power with vested interest in the extractive industry, adopted discriminatory policies that banned small‐scale gold mining by indigenous population in Ghana, marginalizing the sector's operation to the advantage of foreign large‐scale gold miners. We demonstrate that the control of mineral resources by the colonial authority under new ownership structures disenfranchised the indigenous population and their right to the mineral resources of the Gold Coast. We argue that this institutionalized discriminatory policy, and the resulting lack of accountability is largely responsible for the ongoing informalization of Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector. This paper contributes to the corpus of critical and historical scholarship that investigates the role of racialization and accountability during colonial period, but with notable distinction that departs from specific professional or disciplinary perspectives. Instead, it focuses on the colonial subjugation and exploitation of the small‐scale gold mining sector and its ongoing informalization that traces its roots to the era of British colonial rule in Ghana. It reiterates the need for accountability for these historical inequalities affecting the small‐scale mining operators, to facilitate the sector's formalization and to effectively control and manage the myriads of negative impacts associated with it.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and development in Africa: Redefining the roles and responsibilities of public and private actors in the mining sector

Cited by 165 publications

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The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

The private sector in climate governance: opportunities for climate compatible development through multilevel industry-government engagement

Corporate social responsibility, mining and sustainable development in Namibia: Critical reflections through a relational lens

Accounting for informalization in Africa's extractive industry: Evidence from Ghana's small‐scale gold mining sector during the colonial period

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