Site leadership is accountable for providing direction, resources and management systems to effectively implement the Social Way Policy as part of an integrated approach to identifying and managing impacts and risks. Accountability implementing the Social Way Policy requirements is multi-disciplinary and includes but is not limited to: Social Performance; Corporate Relations/Affairs; Risk; Operations; Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE); Security; Human Resources; Group Legal; Mine Planning and Supply Chain (or equivalent functions).
This section provides guidance on:
- Leadership’s role in delivering a site’s social performance objectives, alignment with Life of Asset Plan and Anglo American’s Sustainable Mining Plan, and compliance with the Social Way Policy;
- Appropriate social performance resources, including social performance (and other functions’) team size, skills and budget;
- Promoting an integrated approach to social performance, with appropriate accountabilities and reporting, through a Social Performance Management Committee (SPMC) or equivalent internal forum; and
- Overarching principles for monitoring and evaluation.
Intended users
The intended audience for this section is site leadership, including General Managers (GMs), Heads of Departments and site Social Performance Managers, as well as Business Unit (BU) Head of Corporate Relations/Affairs, Discovery Leads, Project Directors, and Closure Leads.
Relevance to other sections
This guidance tool is fundamental to all other sections in this toolkit as it defines the role of leadership, accountabilities, resources, systems and structures to implement the requirements of the Social Way policy. Historical analysis of sites’ social performance shows a clear link between having adequate human resources, management support and governance and effective social impact and risk management.
The Monitoring and Evaluation section of this guidance defines key principles and approaches for sites. Topic-specific monitoring and evaluation guidance is provided in the relevant Social Way toolkit Risk and Impact Prevention and Management sections such as Stakeholder Engagement, Land Access, Displacement and Resettlement, Cultural Heritage (see Section 4).