By far the fastest growing and most needed area of development is helping communities build the capacity to meet their basic needs such as infrastructure development, training, job creation, health education, sanitation and water supply. Many API member companies with global operations are forming more effective partnerships with communities, regions, host governments and international organizations to address these needs. The oil and natural gas industry plays a key role in cooperative technology development, transfer and capacity building. Often this means helping host communities in many different ways as illustrated in these partnership examples. Capacity building partnerships provide constructive “win-win” relationships between the public and private sectors, with the aim of developing the capability and skills to achieve sustainable development through the use of modern technologies, management systems, a competent workforce and appropriate laws and regulations.
There are numerous examples of capacity building. The Shell Oil Company Foundation recently announced the establishment of the Shell Center for Sustainability at Rice University in Houston. The Center with a $3.5 million endowment will be a hub for collaboration by experts dealing with societal and environmental issues arising as a result of economic activities. The Center will foster opportunities for improvement through new technologies, market-based incentives, and other initiatives. An ExxonMobil affiliate in Nigeria is partnering with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support micro-enterprise development and provide small business skills training through IFC’s Support and Training Entrepreneurship Program (STEP). ChevronTexaco is helping transfer western entrepreneurial knowledge to hundreds of local businesses in Kazakhstan. Joining with the United Nations, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the U.S. Government, ChevronTexaco created the Small and Medium Business Enterprise (SME) program. An infrastructure partnership involves BP Solar and the Brazilian Government’s PRODEEM program to address the challenge of providing access to energy in rural areas. Through PRODEEM, stand-alone, clean solar energy is being installed for community-based applications.
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The Burlington Resources Foundation has contributed $20,000 to Cook Children’s Medical Center to help fund its “Answers for Abby” family assistance program. This effort assists families with such post-hospitalization needs as medical supplies, prescriptions and emergency lodging, thus helping prevent readmission to the hospital or further illness or injury.
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The Colonial Pipeline Company actively participates in and supports a variety of community partnership activities. See link above for examples.
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A foundation formed by PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI) employees provided loans to fund the work. By 2002, after little more than three years, 25 houses had been renovated, each with clean water and electricity. Other developments were carried out, such as building a small mosque and youth recreation facilities. Flood control also was improved; Meranti Pandak has not flooded since.
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Evidencing ChevronTexaco’s deepening commitment to sustainable development, PT Caltex Pacific Indonesia (CPI) completed a 20-year blueprint for the future growth of Riau Province in 2003.
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Nigeria - ChevronTexaco is addressing energy poverty in the remotest sections of the Niger Delta, where many communities lack commercial electricity.
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CNL Nigeria Limited (CNL) is implementing the Western Niger Delta Development Program (WNDP) as part of its efforts to improve the quality of life in host communities.
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Through partnerships, ChevronTexaco helps transfer western entrepreneurial knowledge to hundreds of local businesses. Joining with the United Nations, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the U.S. Government, the company created the Small and Medium Business Enterprise (SME) program in Atyrau.
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ChevronTexaco/Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) Joint Venture, in partnership with the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH) and the Nigerian Opportunities Industrialization Centres (NOIC) – both initiated by the late Rev. Leon Sullivan – created the Technical Skills Acquisition Project in Warri, Delta State.
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Marietta Tavares Alvarenga started her business, Pastelaria Rosy, in 1975, just days after Angola celebrated its national independence. But, like any ambitious small-business owner, Marietta wanted to expand her operations. ChevronTexaco’s Angola subsidiary, Cabinda Gulf Oil Co. Ltd., gave Marietta and other local entrepreneurs six weeks of business training in management, accounting, and marketing. Marietta was sent to a conference for African entrepreneurs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The company signed a two-year, $200,000 catering contract with Pastelaria Rosy that helped Marietta renovate her bakery and expand to two other locations for restaurant and catering services.
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Sustainable small-scale farming is the goal of a ChevronTexaco-sponsored self-help agricultural program that seeks to change the lives of more than 1,500 families in Angola’s Cabinda province.
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