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A Strategic Approach to Early Stakeholder Engagement - Good Practice Handbook for Junior Companies in the Extractive Industries (IFC, 2013)

This Draft Good Practice Handbook is aimed to support extractive companies in the early stages of project development and stakeholder engagement. While the Handbook is specifically targeted at junior companies with limited resources and experience, the good practices and tools identified are likely to be useful to senior companies as well. The Handbook provides an overview of the different stages of early strategic stakeholder engagement and highlights key differences between company and community perspectives and expectations. In order to bridge these differences and assist a productive stakeholder engagement, the Handbook outlines key principles and performance standards and provides good practice approaches and tools focused on the early project planning stages.