the importance of social welfare to anglo american
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Jon Samuel, head of social performance talks about social welfare at Anglo American. At Anglo American we have developed policies and initiatives to help improve the welfare of employees and host communities we operate in. These include: our approach to managing social performance risk management, efficient utilisation of resources, delivering socio-economic benefits, and collaboration. You can find out more about Anglo American here: http://www.angloamerican.com/ http://www.facebook.com/angloamerican http://www.twitter.com/angloamerican http://www.youtube.com/angloamerican http://www.flickr.com/photos/angloamerican http://www.linkedin.com/company/anglo-americanTRANSCRIPT
SOCIAL WELFARE Jon Samuel - Head of Social Performance
AGENDA • The importance of employee, contractor and community welfare issues to
Anglo American • Anglo American’s approach to managing social performance
– Risk management – Efficient utilisation of resources – Delivering socio-economic benefits
• Our requirements • Opportunities for collaboration
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• In recent years employee, contractor and community welfare issues have become increasingly important for our business
• Group-wide key issues of concern for Anglo American include:
– Growing expectations from communities and our host governments for an increasing share of the benefits of mining to go to host communities and countries
– High levels of in-migration to mining areas and associated social ills, including informal settlements, crime, community health impacts and tensions between resident and migrant communities
– Inadequate provision of basic services by local governments, especially when they are confronted with rapid growth driven by mining investments
– Failure to maintain positive relationships with host communities and governments
IMPORTANCE OF WELFARE ISSUES TO OUR BUSINESS
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• These issues are leading to direct impacts on our ability to operate profitably, including:
– More challenging permitting processes, including politicisation of the permitting process with delays becoming more common and significant socio-economic contributions increasingly required, often under the umbrella of mitigation
– Governments seeking to secure extra benefits through increased taxation, free carry equity interests, indigenisation requirements, local content rules etc
– Increasingly stringent / onerous regulation, and increasing legal challenges from various sources
– Disruption to operations
IMPORTANCE OF WELFARE ISSUES TO OUR BUSINESS
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OVER-ARCHING ‘SOCIAL PERFORMANCE’ OBJECTIVES
Manage socio-political risks to our projects
and operations
Ensure we utilise the resources we have available for social
performance effectively
Create opportunity for Anglo American by
becoming a partner of choice, in particular through delivery of
enhance socio-economic benefits
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DELIVERING OUR SOCIAL PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
• Clear link between the prosperity and welfare of host communities and the success of our operations
• Our ambition is lead the mining industry on social performance issues, so that we are the employer of choice, and the partner of choice for host communities and governments
Anglo American Values and Good Citizenship Business Principles
Group Social Strategy: Partner of Choice for Host Governments and Communities
Policies and Standards: the Anglo American Social Way
1. Education and Training:
• SEAT training • Post-grad
diplomas • Advanced Social
Management Programme
• ABET
2. Guidance Documents:
• SEAT • Mine Closure
Planning Toolbox
3. Social Initiatives:
• Enterprise
Development • Social Investment • Capacity
development • HIV/AIDS • Housing
6. External Engagement:
• Communities • Governments and
multi-laterals • Industry
associations • Multi-lateral
initiatives
5. Internal Alignment:
• Business Units • Functional liaison
4. Leverage Core Business:
• Local
procurement • Local workforce
development • Synergies from
infrastructure provision
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MANAGING SOCIAL RISK
Respect human rights
Deliver lasting, positive net benefit
Identify and manage social impacts
Efficiently utilise resources
Obey all laws and regulations
Ensure contractors follow our standards
Set targets, review performance
Develop staff competencies
Engage employees and stakeholders
Report and investigate incidents
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OUR GUIDANCE ON MANAGING RISK AND USING RESOURCES EFFICIENTLY
• Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT) is at the heart of our management of social performance issues SEAT is an award-winning manual that provides extensive guidance on: – Profiling and engaging with host communities – Assessing positive and negative impacts – Managing relationships with host communities – Contributing to community development
• SEAT Tool 4F presents our approach to contractor management. But many other tools are relevant to our contracting partners
• Hard copies are available here today (and on your USBs). Also freely available at www.angloamerican.com/seat
• Anglo American willing to provide training on SEAT to contractors. Plan to run two free sessions in 2013, and can arrange a tailored session for your business at cost
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EXAMPLE GUIDANCE IN SEAT
All of these tools cover circumstances where contractors may be active
4A Complaints and
Grievance Procedures
4B Stakeholder Engagement in
Emergency Planning
4E Managing the Social
Dimensions of Mine Closure
4C Conflict Assessment
and Management
4D Resettlement Planning and
Implementation
4G Indigenous Peoples
4F Contractor Management
4H Voluntary Principles on Security and
Human Rights
Relationship Management
Tools
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DELIVERING SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFIT
Our approach to enhancing the welfare of host communities is based on leveraging our core business to create sustainable economic opportunity
• Leveraging our $13.8 billion supply chain (approximately 100 x social investment budget each year)
• Ensuring that host communities have the best possible chance of securing increasingly skilled jobs on our operations
• Focusing in particular on how local municipalities can use tax revenues to provide effective public services
• Offering equity and loans on a commercial basis to support local entrepreneurs, both within and outside our supply chain
• Providing grants to welfare-enhancing initiatives where more market-based approaches are not possible.
Local Procurement
Local Training and
Recruitment
Governmental Capacity
Development
Enterprise Development
Social Investment
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE: POTENTIAL COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES
Employee Housing • Commitment to build
approx. 23,000 homes for employees
• Looking at enterprise development and micro-credit options for other stakeholders
Social investment: • Driven at both Anglo
American and site level • Often driven by SLPs in SA • Focus on support where there
isn’t a more commercial option to provide upliftment
Local procurement: • Ring-fencing • Targets • Supplier development • Localising suppliers • Supplier development toolkit
being piloted across Anglo American
Enterprise development: • Equity provision • Loans at concessionary rates • Mentoring and technical
assistance
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HOUSING
• Decent housing for employees and their families is the foundation for healthy, stable workforces and communities
• Committed to building approximately 20,000 homes for lower income employees in our Platinum business, and approximately 3,000 in our Kumba Iron Ore and Thermal Coal business units
• Unable to make similar commitments to communities in general, and recognise that most contracting companies will not be able to afford the type of commitment that Anglo American has made
• We are exploring options to widen the availability of home ownership in our mining communities
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HOUSING
Anglo American is developing a low-income home ownership model aimed at those who aren’t eligible to benefit from company housing programmes: • The fund: finance smaller, sustainable houses with room renting facilities that
can be transformed into part of the main house or other small businesses once the loan is repaid (targeting a 10 year repayment period)
• Greater access to finance for households: the scheme would be funding a revenue generating business (i.e. room rental) and not personal consumption, so is an easier financing proposition than a mortgage as less reliant on households being employed
• How contractors can participate: help us to test the model, provide additional finances for the fund, commit to renting rooms for your workers or provide in-kind contributions
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
• Anglo American has developed an extensive suite of policies and initiatives to help improve the welfare of employees and host communities
• Some of these apply to our contractor partners, while other represent potential opportunities for collaboration
• Prepared to share our resources on social welfare: – to ensure that contracting companies can meet our standards – to help raise standards in the industry, and to strengthen our collective licence to
operate • Given the rising importance of these issues to the mining industry, we believe that the
offer to share some of our resources is in the interests of our contractors and should be attractive you
• We are also looking to learn from good practices that our contractors have. We have done so in the past and hope to continue to do so
• We look forward to discussing some of these issues with you in more detail this afternoon
THANK YOU