Implementing the Ahafo Benefit Agreements: Seeking Meaningful Community Participation at Newmont's Ahafo Gold Mine in Ghana

Boakye, Benjamin; Cascadden, Maggie; Kuschminder, Jordon; Szoke-Burke, Sam; Werker, Eric

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3661951

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“…At the time of this study, there existed an uneasy relationship between the NGGL and mostly the youth of the five mine-affected communities. The youth group calls attention to discrimination in employment, negative environmental effects, and the NGGL’s failure to adequately implement its social agreement (Boakye et al, 2018). The resistance by concerned residents of Kenyasi (n.d.) coupled with the Ghana Chamber of Mines’ recognition of Newmont as the best performer in sustainability practice suggest struggles over how to link Newmont’s actions to human well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Newmont Ghana Gold Limited Project ([NGGL], as it was then called) is a greenfield project in the Ahafo Region of Ghana (Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd, 2005). NGGL operates deep cut mining at its Subika site and open-cut mining in various communities including Ananekrom, Dokyikrom, Yarogrumah, and Kantinka (Boakye et al, 2018). The choice of the NGGL Ahafo Project is motivated by the paradox of Newmont winning the Best Mining Company of the Year Award for the year 2015 and local community activists’ protest over inadequate corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental performance (Boakye et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…NGGL operates deep cut mining at its Subika site and open-cut mining in various communities including Ananekrom, Dokyikrom, Yarogrumah, and Kantinka (Boakye et al, 2018). The choice of the NGGL Ahafo Project is motivated by the paradox of Newmont winning the Best Mining Company of the Year Award for the year 2015 and local community activists’ protest over inadequate corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental performance (Boakye et al, 2018). Newmont’s award as the best mining company of the year 2015 is attributed to its Ahafo Project CSR, occupational health and safety, and environmental sustainability performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?

Dordah

Horsbøl

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article suggests that the understanding of an interview as a social practice can be enhanced by the notion of social action mediated by language and material tools as proposed in nexus analysis methodology. Interviews can be viewed either as a source of gathering information or social practice. The latter approach advocates for a greater sense of reflexivity about the interview situation. This article suggests that nexus analysis methodology can help concretize the greater reflexivity about interactional resources of an interview in different ways. One such way is to explore how parties in an interview interaction use material places to bring out discourses that may otherwise not have been triggered if conventional qualitative interview approaches were used. This is illustrated with interviews about the impact of gold mining on human well-being in the Ahafo Region of Ghana, carried out on a gold mining site. This article concludes that paying attention to the interview site has an unrealized potential to strengthen the reflexivity about the interview situation.

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Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?

Dordah

Horsbøl

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…Newmont Ghana Gold Limited obviously played an important role in the advancement of communities around the Ahafo mine by indicating that in 2009 alone, it given almost US$ 6 million in contracts to 99 local companies, promoting more than 400 jobs, not including direct mine jobs [4,15,16].…”

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Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Competitive Advantage: A Case of Newmont Ghana Limited

Adjei¹

2021

TIJMG

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Corporate Social Responsibility has taken part in the operations of businesses, but there is a need for research on why CSR is and how advantageous it is for a firm in a competitive market. The paper investigated the use of CSR as a stronghold for firms in a competitive environment using Newmont Ghana Limited as a case study. The study further seeks to identify the impact of Newmont Ghana’s CSR activities and its impact on both the firm’s output and reputational image. These objectives are explored through the evaluation of the effect of Newmont Ghana’s CSR activities. Using a purposive and convenient sampling method, 120 questionnaires, both open and close-ended questions, were distributed to the employees of Newmont Ghana across all levels. The questionnaires were collected and analyzed. The outcome showed that corporate social responsibility gives Newmont Ghana an advantage in positioning and diminishing of competitive attack in the market. Also, the results showed that Newmont Ghana’s CSR activities have a positive impact on its reputation at both the local and national level. Also, CSR activities had a positive impact on its output as it draws in more investors and makes them perform better. The study recommended that firms should integrate CSR into their basic operations and to educate their employees on the firm’s social responsibilities, the general public should be educated on the different duties of all other actors, and the topic should be expanded to include all firms in the mining industry in Ghana and how they benefit from CSR.

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“…NADeF is a sustainable community development foundation formed in 2008 and based on company-community agreements viewed as part of Newmont's efforts to acquire the initial SLO for its operations (Andrews, 2019;Boakye et al, 2018). NADeF has as a vision to empower communities through grants, knowledge sharing, and capacity building to promote sustainable development (Danso et al, 2016).…”

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Examining Host Communities’ Perceptions on Trust Funds as Corporate Strategies for Community Development in Ghana

Kasimba

Lujala

2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Mining companies increasingly adopt trusts, foundations, and funds as part of their efforts to obtain and maintain a social license to operate and corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies for community development. Using qualitative methodology, this article examined host communities’ perceptions of two mining company-financed trust funds in Ghana. The interviews revealed that although the community members considered some aspects of the trust funds positively, the trust funds’ overall objectives to promote meaningful participation of local community members and contribute to local development had not been met. Inadequate planning and needs assessments, and inflexibility in externally framed CSR practices that were unfavorable to the operational contexts, were among the key factors undermining the success of the trust funds.

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Implementing the Ahafo Benefit Agreements: Seeking Meaningful Community Participation at Newmont's Ahafo Gold Mine in Ghana

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?

Interview as Social Practice: How Can Nexus Analysis Enhance Reflexivity?

Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Competitive Advantage: A Case of Newmont Ghana Limited

Examining Host Communities’ Perceptions on Trust Funds as Corporate Strategies for Community Development in Ghana

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