Decision Making
Resource Mining Corporation respects the decision making processes of the local stakeholders we deal with on a daily basis.
Our corporate social responsibility policy is to generate and distribute social and economic benefits with the local host society.
Village life in the host society is influenced by Chiefs who preside over village affairs. Most villages are small and typically isolated so language groups abound and the key issues for the villages are: prestige, pigs and gardening.
We believe in the positive impacts at a local level of benefit sharing. Ownership is based at the family and village level where ownership in the traditional Western sense does not exist. Wealth is often shown by the wearing or display of traditional valuables demonstrating prestige.
Further demonstration of prestige is achieved through lavish feasts where dozens of pigs are slaughtered, cooked and the food shared in the village.
Chiefs do not inherit their titles; they earn them through activities such as war, demonstration of wisdom in village council meetings or by the possession of mystical powers and magic.
In the host society, overt and ostentatious display of ceremonial garb and behavior during a ceremonial welcome is used by the chiefs as a means to display their importance. This is often linked with singing and dancing and often held prior to important meetings.
An example of the respect shown to our company by local village leaders was a ceremonial welcome performed during a visit to Embessa and highlighted in our first Tok Tok newsletter.