{"id":2759,"date":"2014-04-20T02:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T02:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corporatediplomacy.com\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2014-04-20T13:11:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T13:11:22","slug":"anglo-american-seat-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporatediplomacy.com\/anglo-american-seat-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo American SEAT Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positive engagement with host communities can&#8217;t rely on good intentions alone. To make sure a company&#8217;s presence accords with your neighbours&#8217; own aspirations and best interests, you need an effective process to help create and implement your sustainable development policies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angloamerican.com\/development\/social\/seat\">Anglo American&#8217;s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT) <\/a>does just that.<\/p>\n<div>Core Objectives of SEAT<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide guidance and support for achieving full compliance with the Social Way \u2013 Anglo American\u2019s framework of requirements for social performance management during project development, operation and closure.<\/li>\n<li>Identify key social and economic impacts and issues that need to be managed and, thereby, improve risk management.<\/li>\n<li>Assess existing social performance initiatives, such as community development projects, and identify where improvements are required.<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate the capture and sharing of best practice across Anglo American.<\/li>\n<li>Improve each operation\u2019s understanding of the full range of local stakeholders, their views and interests; provide guidance in developing and updating annual Stakeholder Engagement Plans (SEPs), and increase trust and goodwill among host communities.<\/li>\n<li>Support sustainable socio-economic development in host communities and ensure that we respect human rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Key steps in SEAT<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>SEAT helps managers analyse their operation\u2019s sphere of influence and impacts, and provides a framework for formulating management responses and reporting back to stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The SEAT process is divided into seven steps, with each step supported by a number of tools.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Profile the Anglo American operation and the host community<\/li>\n<li>Engage with stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Assess and prioritise impacts and issues<\/li>\n<li>Improve social performance management \u2013 how we interact with our stakeholders<\/li>\n<li>Deliver enhanced socio-economic benefits to host communities<\/li>\n<li>Develop a social management plan<\/li>\n<li>Prepare a SEAT report and feedback to stakeholders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each of our operations runs a new SEAT assessment every three years.<\/p>\n<p>SEAT plays a central role in our programmes to meet the requirements of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) sustainability principle 9 (i.e. to contribute to the social, economic and institutional development of the communities in which the Company operates).<\/p>\n<p>All senior and site-based personnel who are responsible for community relations are trained in the use of the SEAT process.<\/p>\n<p>Access v3 directly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angloamerican.com\/~\/media\/Files\/A\/Anglo-American-Plc\/development\/latest_SEAT%20v3%20Toolbox.pdf\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positive engagement with host communities can&#8217;t rely on good intentions alone. To make sure a company&#8217;s presence accords with your neighbours&#8217; own aspirations and best interests, you need an effective process to help create and implement your sustainable development policies. Anglo American&#8217;s Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT) does just that. 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