This Course highlights:

Essential of operationalising the Trust model from stakeholders’ perspectives.

Key responsibilities of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Commission (NUPRC)

Key responsibilities of host communities and the HCDT

Concept of Community Sustainability

The imperatives for fostering sustained development

Best practice in benefit systems management

Criteria for project selection

Concept of spatial planning and leveraging in community development, etc

Course Objectives

This course will enable participants from NUPRC, Communities and the HCDT to:

• Understand the essential requirements in the regulation of the Host Community Trust
• Understand the strategic approaches to regulating Community Trusts
• Understand the concept and principles of community sustainability and how Community Trusts can be guided to foster sustained and broad-based development
• Learn how to design context-specific community sustainability investment programmes
• Understand the criteria for evaluating host communities’ development plans (CPDs) and for carrying out sustainability audit of social investment undertakings

 

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professionals and aspiring professionals in the petroleum and mining sector particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for community relations
• Community relations personnel, officers and and Managers
• Legal Officers
• Community Liaison Officers
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Lawmakers
• Petroleum and Mining Industry Regulators
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreement, etc
• HCDT management and stakeholders

This Course will highlight:

General concepts and principles of community engagement

Relationship cultivation and management techniques

Issue mapping and profiling in community relations

Stakeholder principle; information sharing and messaging

Engagement content development

Best practice in community engagement

Course Objectives 

• Understand and/or enhance their understanding of the policy and strategy dimensions to community engagement.
• Learn about ways to integrate contextual and environmental peculiarities of specific projects for effective relationship
•  Understand the concept, principles and practice of community engagement
• Learn how to articulate a context- relevant community engagement framework for their business or specific operations
• Understand the content and structure of community engagement programmes
• Learn how to engage the community engagement process to gain dispute resolution mileage or advantage.

 

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professionals and aspiring professional in the petroleum and mining sectors, particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for Community Relations
• Community Relations Personnel, Officers and Managers
• Procurement and Contract Managers
• Legal Officers
• Government, Regulatory and Supervising Agencies
• Community Liaison Officers
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreements, etc

This Course highlights:

Understanding and contextualisation of community relations

Communications and information sharing

Triggers of conflicts

Nature and causes of conflict

Dispute prevention and management strategies

Best practice approach to community dispute management

Course Objectives

This course will enable participants to:

• Learn the principles of conflict risk prevention, reduction and management in project context
• Gain new skills on how to de-escalate pressured or stressed relationships between proponents and communities
• Learn how to grow or use “trust-capital” towards conflict prevention and management
• Leverage effective community engagement framework for relationship management
• Understand how to conduct engagement process audit and forecast

 

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professionals and aspirants in the petroleum and mining sectors particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for Community Relations
• Community relations personnel, office and Managers
• Procurement and contract Managers
• Legal officers
• Community Liaison Officers
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Lawmakers
• Petroleum Industry Regulators
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreements, etc

This Course highlights:

Nature of the host community trusts

Structure and management of host community trusts

Implementation of trusts

Functions and responsibilities

Fundamental of achieving sustainability under the trust model

Community engagement under the trust arrangement, etc

Course Objectives

This Course will enable participants to:

• Understand the rights-how structure, functions and fundamentals of a functional host community trust
• Understand important regulatory requirement in the management of trust under the PIA
• Understand the concept of fostering community sustainability
• Understand the role of the trust in community sustainability
• Understand the concept of spatial mapping and leveraging in project identification and execution
• Evaluate the role of community engagement in the implementation of the trusts objectives
• Evaluate community obligations under the trust arrangement
• Understand the potential impacts of breaches of statutory responsibility or disruptive behaviours by communities under the trust arrangement

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professionals and aspiring professionals in the petroleum and mining sectors particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professions responsible for Community relations
• Community relations personnel, officers and Managers
• Legal Officer
• Community Liaison Officers
• Government, regulatory, and supervising agencies
• Community Representatives Leaders
• Manager of Host Community Trusts
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreement

This Course highlights:

Petroleum sector sustainability

Concept of community sustainability

Best practice in benefit systems management

Sustainability practice in context petroleum development

Spatial planning and leveraging

Project choice and criteria

Course Objectives

This Course will enable participants to:

• Understand the concept and principles of community sustainability
• Learn how to operationalise community sustainability goals
• Learn how to design context-specific community sustainability investment programmes
• Embed the requirements of sustainability in policy documents and community agreements
• Evaluate and/or conduct sustainability assessments of social investment undertakings

 

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professional and aspiring professional in the petroleum and mining sectors particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for community relations
• Community relations personnel, officer and Managers
• Procurement and contract managers
• Legal officers
• Community Liaison Officers
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Lawmakers
• Petroleum and Mining Industry Regulators
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreements, etc

This Course highlights:

Community and other stakeholders’ rights in petroleum development

Community’s responsibilities in exchange for accrued rights and benefits

Options for stakeholders’ accountability in community relations

Risk prevention, reduction and management techniques

Course Objectives

This Course will enable participants to:

• Understand the rights and responsibilities context in community relations
• Evaluate the legal basis for industry-community relationship and the options for contract -based risk management
• Accurately access the community management dynamic and inherent options for accountability in case of violations
• More efficiently allocate community obligations under the relevant constituting agreements
• Understand the potential impacts of breaches of mutual understanding and disruptive behaviours on legal rights
• Improve the process of community engagement

Target Audience

This Course is recommended for professional and aspiring professionals in the petroleum and mining sectors particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for community relations
• Community relations personnel, officers and managers
• Procurement and contract managers
• Legal officers
• Community Liaison Officers
• Government, Regulatory and Supervising Agencies
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Manager of Host Community Trusts
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting community agreements

This Course highlights:

An introductory course on monitoring

Evaluation of host community projects

Principle of valuation

Evaluation essentials

Evaluation reporting

Course Objectives

This Course will enable participants to:

• Understand the concept of the basic requirement of monitoring and evaluations
• Learn and understand the principles of monitoring and evaluation
• Appreciate the importance of project monitoring and evaluation to community sustainability, etc

Target Audience

This course is recommended for professional and aspirants in the petroleum and mining sectors particularly:

• Oil, Gas and Mining Professionals
• Professionals responsible for Community Relations
• Community relations personnel, officers and managers
• Procurement and contract managers
• Legal officers
• Community Liaison Officers
• Community Representatives and Leaders
• Lawmakers
• Petroleum Industry Regulators
• Any other person responsible or connected with negotiation, structuring and drafting of community agreements, etc

• Planning Social Investment in the Oil and Gas Industry : A life Cycle Approach
• Creating Sustainability through Social Investment in Energy Sectors: The Best Outcome Approach
• Keying into PIA Opportunities: The Host Community Perspective
• Host Community Obligations under the PIA Era
• Energy Transitions and Community Development: Challenges and Prospect for Sustainability
• Legal Framework for HCDT: Key Statutory Obligations

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