Publication: Jan 2025
Inputs for the Comprehensive Community Relations Plan for Drilling and Oil Exploitation Platforms
SOPROEN proposes a ten-year Comprehensive Community Relations Plan (PIRC) to address longstanding conflicts between oil companies and impacted communities. The plan focuses on fostering harmonious coexistence, promoting sustainable development, and ensuring continuous support for local populations. It emphasizes social infrastructure projects that preserve the environment, strengthen household capacities, facilitate access to social services, and provide effective emergency responses.
Aligned with national and local government social protection programs—and recognizing their operational and coverage limitations—the PIRC is designed to complement rather than replace these initiatives. In this way, it supports medium-term positive outcomes by reinforcing community well-being, mitigating inequalities, and helping compensate for the impacts of natural resource extraction.
The PIRC rests on three core pillars:
- Community Engagement Programs: Short-term initiatives that foster collaboration and yield rapid, visible benefits for local stakeholders.
- Household and Individual Capital Development: Strengthening physical (infrastructure, technology), human (education, skills), cultural (traditions, values), social (networks, trust), natural (land, water, forests), and financial (income, savings) capital.
- Social Assistance: Support for vulnerable households during emergencies and disasters, ensuring reliable protection in critical situations.
By coordinating these pillars, the PIRC seeks to create a supportive framework that enhances local capacities, respects environmental limits, and sustains the development of communities in resource extraction areas.
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