Community Consent Index 2015: Corporate FPIC Commitments in Oil, Gas, and Mining

A policy briefing dataset examining public corporate commitments to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) for communities affected by extractive industry projects. The results suggest increasing commitments in the mining sector but disappointing trends in oil and gas and women's participation. The dataset was launched by Oxfam in July 2015 with an associated panel event.

Use Cases

• Benchmark corporate policy positions on community consent based on publicly available commitments.
• Analyze sectoral differences in FPIC adoption between mining and oil & gas companies.
• Assess gender representation in corporate community engagement decision-making frameworks.
• Track the evolution of industry standards for community rights and engagement over time.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific and critical policy issue (FPIC) for extractive industries.
• Analysis is based on publicly available corporate commitments, suggesting a defined data collection method.
• Includes a comparative analysis between the mining and oil & gas sectors.

Limitations

• Row count, column definitions, and sample data are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; the data reflects a 2015 snapshot and freshness is unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Oxfam (inferred from description of launch event).

Collection Method

Analysis of publicly available corporate commitments regarding community rights and engagement.

Time Range

2015 (launch year).

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown; data is from 2015.

Geography

Global (inferred from focus on multinational extractive industry projects).