Corporate Community Engagement
Assheton Stewart Carter
Senior Vice President, Global Engagement
Pact is committed to supporting and enhancing the positive role that the private sector can play in social, economic development, and good governance.
Pact realizes that this will most effectively be achieved if all parties stand to benefit. Through its
Corporate Community Engagement (CCE) Program, Pact builds bridges between communities and companies, linking with government and other development and civil society partners to find appropriate and sustainable ways to generate social benefits from commercial enterprise.
UPDATES
Pact at CSD-18: Assheton Carter, Pact’s Senior Vice President of Global Engagement, recently spoke at the 18th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-18), at an Intergovernmental Forum on Mining (IGF) Learning Centre. Carter offered high-level analysis of global, ASM-related activities over the last decade.
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PROMINES: Pact's Yves Bawa recently spoke at the Conflict Minerals Forum about Pacts work designing the ASM portion of PROMINES. PROMINES is a World Bank technical assistance project working with the DRC government to restructure and improve the Congolese mining sector. PROMINES aims to strengthen the capacity of the state to manage its mineral resources responsibly and transparently, and to promote sustainable development based on mining.
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Pact and Chevron
Since 2005, Pact and Chevron have collaborated to improve people’s lives throughout Southeast Asia. In Myanmar, Pact and Chevron are working to empower communities to design, and implement sustainable village-based programs to reduce the incidence of TB, HIV, malaria, and other preventable diseases. In Cambodia and Indonesia, Pact is working with local NGOs and community groups to strengthen their ability to address TB and HIV/AIDS.
Pact envisions a world in which communities and businesses work together to create opportunities to build better lives. Chevron plays an important part in realizing that vision.
Learn more about the Strengthening Community Responses to Diseases Program.
See Pact's work in Myanmar, as profiled in Chevron's 2008 Corporate Responsibility report.
Artisanal Mining
View our photos of artisanal and small-scale mining (below) and learn more about Pact's Corporate Community Engagement work with the mining industry in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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