Sustainability Report 2016
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In 2015, Drummond Ltd. accepted the invitation from the Presidential Advisor on Human Rights to participate in a pilot program in which, along with other companies in the sector, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the National Mining Agency, it would share best practices on human
rights and business, and generate inputs to foster that National Action Plan (PNA, in Spanish) on human rights and business. The national government published the first version of this plan on December 9, 2015. The pilot program addressed four specific topics:
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1 Complaints and claims systems
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Relationship between the national government, local governments and businesses.
3 Analysis of risks and impacts.
This pilot program has been supported by organizations specializing in human rights, such as Ardura and the Ideas para la Paz Foundation (FIP). In addition, CREER-IHRB has acted as an observer. In 2016, it was migrated into a permanent initiative called the Human Rights and Coal Working Group, and the company is working with CREER based on the recommendations that came out of the Sector-Wide Impact Assessment
(SWIA). This includes developing the framework of the significance of the non-judicial remediation processes as part of the PNA, as well as the methodology to improve what has been called the “four-part dialogue,” involving the national government, the regional and local governments, the communities and private businesses.