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Tool 5 – Working with Communities

This tool provides guidance on how companies should consider working with communities as important stakeholders in implementing the VPs. There is also a useful reference and guidance tool, which can be used throughout the entire engagement process to help you understand how your company could approach stakeholder challenges.

Step Guide

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1

Download the Action Planning worksheet 1.5 (p19) on how companies should consider working with communities

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2

Review the considerations column to determine relevance to your company

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3

For considerations where your company is likely to take measures, review the possible steps your company could take

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4

Select those steps most appropriate

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5

You can add company-specific measures in the “other (specify)” area

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6

Prioritise the steps in the third column to help create an action plan for how your company will work with communities

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7

Download the Stakeholder Engagement Challenges table (p21) it has been designed to be a useful reference and guidance tool but by no means, is the list exhaustive