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Article

3 Oct 2013

Author:
Andrew D. Kaspar, Irrawaddy (Myanmar) & Vicky Bowman, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business

‘It Requires Being Shouted at for Several Years—and Listening’

…[T]he Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business...sees its primary stakeholders as being Myanmar…businesses, both large and small, and then secondarily, international businesses of all nationalities…And then…Myanmar civil society, both its organized groups but also the communities who are affected by business investment…The final stakeholder is government…[T]he message that…[the Centre keeps] saying to…companies...is direct contact between company and community…[is] what you really need in order to establish trust...[Another advice to companies is] do your due diligence and extend it beyond anti-bribery into looking at the range of social and human rights issues you’re going to encounter…[refers to Coca-Cola, Rio Tinto, Wanbao Mining]