IWA is pleased to announce the launch of the new Extractive Industries and Human Development Center. The Center seeks to promote best practices in the extractive industry sector to ensure countries, communities and businesses prosper by helping new and ongoing mineral, petroleum and gas projects implement in a manner that benefits the interests of stakeholders. The Center will focus on facilitating cooperative relationships between public and private sector actors and by anticipating and proactively addressing contending interests, mindful of power disparities between local, national, and international actors.
The Center will be led by Dr. Gregory Pirio, a global leader in the use of communications and the media for constructive social change, and supported by Senior Advisors from around the globe with extensive experience in social and economic change, natural resource management, community organizing, and local governance.