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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ChevronTexaco Asia/Middle East/Africa (AMEA) Products Operating Company and the Caltex brand make sustainable contributions to Singapore through charitable giving, providing services and sponsoring events that underscore the ChevronTexaco vision “to be the global energy company most admired for its people, partnership, and performance.”
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In 1999, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) established the Local Business Development/Global Procurement Unit to help implement a Local Content Development (LCD) policy. The overall aim of the policy – and the creation of the unit – is to promote indigenous businesses, and to facilitate CNL’s purchase of local goods and services.
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Because of company donations to the School Pocket Money Fund in Singapore, about 1,250 children from low-income families can pay for school expenses such as food, books and transportation. Our company was the first corporation to support this fund through a donation of $30,000. Administered by the National Council of Social Service, the fund is distributed to 25 family service centers that provide financial and emotional support to those in need.
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Through grants to the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF). The company's grants assist the most disadvantaged people in Latin America and the Caribbean. PADF enables people to help themselves by providing disaster assistance, raising family incomes, improving technical training and health services, and strengthening democratic and social institutions.
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ChevronTexaco announced it is contributing $500,000 as a founding sponsor to a major initiative led by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to enhance corporate responsibility effectiveness in addressing some of the world's most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues.
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ChevronTexaco was honored by The Trust for the Americas, the nonprofit arm of the Organization of American States (OAS), for "exemplary corporate programs aimed at alleviating poverty in Latin America." OAS Secretary General Cesar Gaviria presented ChevronTexaco Latin America Upstream with an Honorable Mention award in the 2004 Corporate Citizen of the Americas competition for its Western Venezuela Development Program, a community partnership initiative that improves health and education opportunities for children in the region.
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Chevron Corporation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Cooperative League of the United States of America (CLUSA) today announced the basis for a new partnership aimed at supporting Angola’s continued focus on developing a diversified and sustainable economy.
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Chevron Corporation has announced the creation of the California Partnership, an initiative to invest in education and economic development in its home state. Under the new initiative, Chevron will expand and deepen its partnerships with nonprofits focused on supporting underserved communities, including relationships with 18 new nonprofit partners providing programs for education, entrepreneurs and job training.
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ConocoPhillips integrated sustainability into the project planning for a 2001 exploration appraisal project in the Orinoco Delta of Venezuela’s Gulf of Paria. The surrounding delta swamps are the homeland of the indigenous Warao peoples.
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Procuring uniforms for the employees of ConocoPhillips’ Matak Island operations was a costly and complicated effort. The uniforms were made in Jakarta – two and a half hours away by plane. A tailor had to be flown in to take measurements, and ill-fitting uniforms had to be returned to Jakarta for tailoring. ConocoPhillips and the Matak community solved this problem through a tailoring training program for the Matak women of Payaklaman, the village closest to the company’s base.
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