Functional CSR
CSR Community
Development & Education
Creating productive human environments
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Introduction
Our Ethos simple and practical: to find
common ground between company and
community, with real benefit for both.
“Too often CSR programs are not
sustained, expectations are unmanaged
and companies are seen as a source of
unlimited supply of benefits and services.”
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What is good CSR?
Good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) should assist and address key CSR
targets in alignment with GRI and G3.1 indicators to meet corporate
governance in areas of sustainability and community engagement.
Refer to: Global Reporting Initiative
https://www.globalreporting.org
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What is functional
CSR?
You want to achieve good outcomes and
returns on CSR investment. We can show
you how functional solutions can be applied
effectively.
We collaborate with you to meet local and
international performance indicators and to
meet your social license to operate.
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Benefits to you
Less expensive down time
less dependency on the
company
Human resource +
Carbon credits
reputation +
Reduced conflict
investors +
Cost benefit
staff +
governments +
local earth
restoration
Community +
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The worst decisions
Not addressing basic on the ground problems
starting then stopping a community program
before its complete
Culturally
inappropriate
CSR
No proper consultation with the local
women or men
Inaction
SHORT TERM
no longevity
Limited CSR
investment
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Best decisions
 Focus on the basic problems first
 Work with the women building on local traditional skills & knowledge,
provide common sense practical education & skills to allow them to
transition from dependency to sustainable self reliance
 Have a proven long term action plan that’s culturally appropriate
 Provide simple small scale effective proven solutions first
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Is it a good idea to address the basic
needs and problems of a community.
how do you know what
they
R?
Who will you work with to get the right info?
? What is the right CSR
strategy
Lets do it right and get common
sense on the ground outcomes
and a lasting Legacy.
what we see us a problem from a western point of view may not be a
problem in the developing world to the locals .
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On the ground
communities
• 65 to 90% of your host communities will be
subsistence farmers living below the
poverty line.
• Relying on rain fed agriculture.
• They will survive on what they can produce
• Women will do most of the farming in
developing countries
To achieve success, approval and permits for
projects, we need a paradigm shift to address
CSR from the beginning of a project and build
genuine relationships.
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Basic problems to address
Adequate shelter
Food security
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Water & food supply
Africa
Africa
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Erosion control & repair
Africa
Africa
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Livelihoods
Decisions
Action & Outcomes
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The right to a childhood
Africa
Australia
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CSR Solutions
“the solution to CSR is extremely
simple and company’s can be part of
the solution.”
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What is needed
 Simple, effective and proven CSR
strategies.
 Clear ideas of the end result: knowledge
that you are using proven common sense
strategies and techniques that produce
results.
 Confidence that the strategies used
address the real and basic on the ground
issues.
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Listen & Learn for what is
needed: The Right
Consultation
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The positive on the ground
outcomes to aim for
Education training & skills
Water harvesting
Teach design
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Supply skills training for
local food security
Intensive Gardens
Animal Breeding Programs
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The need to supply basic
land repair strategies
Erosion
Land rehydration
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Water storage and
harvesting
Simple earthwork /swales
For harvesting & storing water
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Plant Tree Systems
Tree education
Livelihoods/timber
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Deliver practical skills
Teach sustainable garden agriculture
Livelihood training
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Remember a lot of government officials and decision makers in the developing
world have come from poverty and want to see functional community
development strategies undertaken, the mining industry is in a prime position
to lead the way forward for clean and green sustainable community
development in project areas globally.
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Current & future impacts
Communities without a permanent sustainable garden agriculture base will
find it hard to have a stable social order while the increasing effects of poverty
and ever increasing fluctuation of climate impacts on their environment.
Unstable communities can lead to disruption of a projects success.
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The CSR we provide
Environmental design is our core approach, generating value from an
important mix of sustainable established design & garden agriculture systems
and community development.
We offer skills training for communities in project areas’ in permaculture
(permanent sustainable systems) to create systems that are culturally
appropriate, ecologically sound and economically viable, which provide for
their own needs for today and into the future.
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Real value from
community relations
projects
• Real skills
• Edge5 the personal touch
• Relevant programs transparent
& promoted
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Do you want positive CSR
outcomes ?
Let us show you how to get on the ground results.
Contact:
Greg Knibbs, Managing Director
www.edge5.com.au
Mobile : +61 413 310 717
Email : greg@edge5.com.au
Address : PO Box 501
South Fremantle WA, 6162
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