Responsibility and Accountability of Private Companies in Resource Extraction Mon State

Responsibility and Accountability of Private Companies in Resource Extraction Mon State

This research report is one of three reports conducted in 2018 by aspiring youth through Land Core Group’s (LCG’s) youth capacity development program on “Research and Advocacy related to Land Governance and Land Issues in Myanmar”. To enable them to conduct the research, the youth are provided training through a series of four sessions, on: (1) basic research concepts and proposal writing, (2) data collection methods, (3) data analysis, and (4) report and policy brief writing. This research report was completed by one of three teams of interns. It explores the impacts of resource extraction and to investigates issues of company accountability, using a case study of companies operating on land along the Kalama upland in Mon State. The report identifies many types of damage that this activity has created for local people and the nat¬ural environment. The study also identified community desires for the company to show greater concern over the im¬pacts, to find ways to reduce the impacts, for greater transparency and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The study went on to investigate the roles and actions of respective government departments and how they monitored the quarrying companies.

Responsibility and Accountability of Private Companies in Resource Extraction Mon State (ENG)

Responsibility and Accountability of Private Companies in Resource Extraction Mon State (MM)