Programme Officer
Engineers Without Borders Canada
Caroline MacIsaac is a Programme Officer for the Mining Shared Value programme of Engineers Without Borders Canada. This non-profit initiative works to improve the development impacts of mineral extraction in host countries through increasing local procurement by the global mining industry. Through this work Caroline leads on MSV’s Indigenous and local procurement efforts in Canada, local procurement and manufacturing work in Ghana and contributed to MSV’s recently released guidance on Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) in mining sector procurement. Before Engineers Without Borders, Caroline worked in the climate financing space, and for women’s rights organisations in the UK, Guyana, Zambia and Canada.
Originally from Canada, Caroline holds a master’s degree in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom, and now resides in London.
Sourcing Mining's Social License to Operate: Needs and Opportunities to Increase Local Procurement
The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) has modelled that forty-five percent of all spending by mining companies goes to procurement of goods and services globally, and as a proportion of spending in individual countries, procurement is usually the single largest payment type. It is in this context, that the session will explore the crucial role of local procurement in mining to ensure companies obtain and maintain their social license to operate, especially in new jurisdictions across Europe where the sector may face local distrust. By the end of the session, participates will walk away with straightforward, practical examples and tools for how they can improve local procurement, and the accessibility of procurement information for suppliers and other stakeholders.
