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This study assessed the contribution of Acacia on the livelihood of local communities.
Specifically, it aimed at assessing the effectiveness of mineral investors on corporate
social responsibility a case study of Acacia Gold Mine, to determine the extent to
which Acacia has contributed on socio-economic development to the community. The
study has three specific objectives. First, to determine to which extent mining
companies providing services to the community and approaches used to ensure CSR‘S,
secondly, to determine the perception of community surrounding a mining site on the
CSR‘S of the company, thirdly, to determine the challenges facing Acacia Gold Mine
in achieving corporate social responsibilities. The study involved a total of 137
respondents and data was collected through focus group discussion, documentation,
observation from the area of the study and few respondents were interviewed.
The findings revealed minimal contribution from Acacia. However, significant
contributions were observed in the education and health sectors. The result also reveals
that most of the respondents are aware of the concept of CSR with a few exceptional
cases of those are not aware of it.
The study concludes, that together with what Acacia had contributed, much more
needs to be done as part of corporate social responsibility requires. This must be
accompanied with effective community participation as this frequently one of the
sources of the community being unaware of what Acacia was actually doing for them.
Therefore the study recommends that, Tanzanian government should step in
provide and increased involvement of government inspection in mining sites, finally,
there might be a way to actually encourage local community participation in
monitoring the success and impact of community development projects so that the
relationship between the value of those projects and the wealth taken from the location
should be considered and community projects should be well defined. |
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