SAMARCOName: SAMARCO Pact implemented its innovative Engagement to Action Process (E2A) in Brazil with the national mining company, SAMARCO. E2A provides a highly interactive, comprehensive process that combines the diverse objectives of stakeholder engagement, social investment, and community development. Pact approach with SAMARCO requests incorporated strategies and specific tools to encourage regular analysis of the partnership experience with local community. Pact promoted a workshop brought together a wide variety of actors from the local community including representatives of the municipal government, civic leaders, NGOs representatives, and employees of the company, to form a common vision for the future of their community and aspects important to effective engagement. Pact also provided technical support to collect and review key demographic and organizational data and map stakeholders and community resources; to design and validate an assessment tool that measures the effectiveness of engagement and inform social investment through collaboration with stakeholders; to conduct debriefings on findings about community perceptions; and, to enhance effectiveness of the company-community interactions. The main results of this partnership was the teams formed to focus on key issues of concern to the community - health, the environment, and youth employment - which assessment results and work plans were used by representatives of the both the company and the community to implement local activities in these priority areas. Staff contacts
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