BCS News / 2008
November 3, 2008
BCS partners with London School of Economics (LSE) in a new project that seeks to maximize community benefits from extractive industries. Read more.
October 10-14, 2008
James Van-Alstine presents on “Sustainable Synergies: Building Capacities for Community-Company Engagement” at the Advancing Sustainability Conference, Barcelona Spain.
September 2008
BCS is seeking part-time Research Assistants. Read more.
August 2008
BCS partners with London School of Economics (LSE) in new project that seeks to maximize community benefits from extractive industries. Read more.
June 9, 2008
BCS welcomes 2008 Sustainable Development interns, Kate White and Daniel Figg.
To download a copy of this press release as a PDF, click here.
May 21, 2008
Rani Parker speaks at 2nd Annual Women in Global Leadership Forum, World Trade Center Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
This conference featured the latest insights and learning of successful women in global roles.
May 2008
BCS, along with Public and Private Stakeholders in Africa’s Extractive Industries Agree that Collaboration is Critical to Successful Community Development. Read more.
May 12-16, 2008
BCS training materials on multi-stakeholder engagement are tested in IFC workshop, “Participatory Planning—Monitoring in Community Development Related to Extractive Projects in Anglophone Africa,” Cape Coast, Ghana.
Industry professionals from Chevron, Gold Fields Ghana, Newmont Mining, Rio Tinto Alcan, and the Ghana Chamber of Mines sponsored the event led by IFC’s Oil, Gas, and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund (CommDev) in cooperation with Business-Community Synergies and Environmental Resources Management.
April 14, 2008
BCS recognized at Montgomery County, Maryland Business Appreciation Week.
The County Executive of Montgomery County, Maryland recognized Business-Community Synergies as one of Montgomery County’s outstanding companies during the Business Appreciation Week.
April 1, 2008
BCS Core team member Rose Dakin publishes “Mining for Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Sector” in SAIS Perspectives: Sustainability in Development.
The mining, oil, and gas industries often get an understandably bad report card, given their checkered track record on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Demonizing these sectors is a dangerous move. Read more.
February 7-9, 2008
Rani Parker speaks at the World Bank-sponsored National Workshop on Social Accountability in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Rani Parker’s presentation addressed the importance of transparency and social accountability in insuring that communities benefit from mining. BCS also facilitated detailed discussions about mining revenue transparency.
The workshop included regional meetings in Fort Dauphin where Rani Parker along with other national and International experts presented and led discussions on the relevance of the EITI at the community level and on tools for accountability such as participatory budgeting.
February 1, 2008
BCS moves to Rockville Innovation Center in Rockville, Maryland after being selected to join Montgomery County’s small business incubator program.
January 10, 2008
BCS in cooperation with the London School of Economics, leads a workshop on Rights, Risk and Responsibility: Multi-directional Accountability in the Extractive Industries. Read more.
To download a copy of this press release as a PDF, click here.