by Gary MacDonald | May 21, 2016 | Agriculture, Capacity Building, Community Development, Community Relations, Crisis, Environmental Impact Assessment
HANOI, JANUARY 1, 2016–International funders and organizations looking for funding got a break last week when an internationally recognized consulting company founded a company in Hanoi. The company, Monkey Forest Consulting Vietnam Limited (MFC-VN), started...
by Gary MacDonald | May 14, 2013 | Capacity Building, Community Relations, Local Content, Social Investment
By Rebecca Reiber When it comes to enterprise development, I wouldn’t recommend basing credit decisions on indoor toilets or gifts from relatives living abroad. That’s why a recent article on creditworthiness indicators and how lenders use data from informal channels...
by Gary MacDonald | Mar 27, 2013 | Agriculture, Capacity Building, Community Development, CSR, Forestry, Local Content, Mining, Social Investment
A huge opportunity many companies miss By Trevor Kalinowsky If trade press and conference promoters are anything to go by, local content is the latest trend to hit the social performance landscape. Apparently if your project or company doesn’t have a ‘framework...
by Gary MacDonald | Mar 18, 2013 | Capacity Building, Community Relations, CSR, Social Performance Management
By Gary MacDonald CSR is dead to us. Now, I know you may be wondering if that means we are heading in a new direction. Not at all. We just don’t do CSR. Okay, some people would characterize what we do as working on issues related to corporate social...
