| Name | CIDA's Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits |
| Author(s) | Coumans, Catherine |
| Editor | |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Web Location | http://www.cbern.ca/kr/One.aspx?objectId=15519225&contextId=677979&lastCat=10522100 |
| Keywords | MiningWatch, mining, corporate social responsibility (CSR) |
| Areas of Interest | Corporate Social Responsibility; Resource Extraction |
| Citation | Coumans, Catherine. 2012. CIDA's Partnership with Mining Companies Fails to Acknowledge and Address the Role of Mining in the Creation of Development Deficits. MiningWatch Canada. |
| Summary | In late 2011 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development started to study the "Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Canada's International Development Interests." Among others, the Committee heard from the Executive Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, as well as from a senior vice president of Teck Resources. Mining companies argue that they can deliver on Canada's international development interests in partnership with development NGOs. The Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA, is now funding three "Corporate Social Responsibility" (CSR) projects at Canadian mine sites overseas. MiningWatch does not believe that this constitutes a responsible use of public funds and that these CSR projects do not address the development deficits created by mining at the national and local levels in developing countries. This is our submission to the Standing Committee. |
| Abstract / Description | In late 2011 the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
and International Development started to study the "Role of the Private
Sector in Achieving Canada's International Development Interests." Among
others, the Committee heard from the Executive Director of the
Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, as well as from a
senior vice president of Teck Resources. Mining companies argue that
they can deliver on Canada's international development interests in
partnership with development NGOs. The Canadian International
Development Agency, CIDA, is now funding three "Corporate Social
Responsibility" (CSR) projects at Canadian mine sites overseas.
MiningWatch does not believe that this constitutes a responsible use of
public funds and that these CSR projects do not address the development
deficits created by mining at the national and local levels in
developing countries. This is our submission to the Standing Committee. |
| Publisher/Organization | MiningWatch Canada |
| Cluster Library | Ethics of Resource Extraction |