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Chapter 2.4: Negotiations and Engagement with Companies
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Chapter 2.4
Negotiations and Engagement
with Companies
This chapter seeks to examine the issues around engaging
directly with extractive industry companies. The aim is
to share good practice in interactions, which explores the
definition of the term, and then viewing the issue from an
indigenous and non-indigenous perspective.
2.4.1 What Constitutes Good Practice?
There were not so many volunteers from indigenous peoples
who wanted to share their experiences on the application
of good practice in a positive light in a session in the 2009
Manila Conference. 1 The final text of the Manila Declaration
(see Appendix) makes clear the concerted strength of feeling
from conference delegates, which was not channelling a great
deal of good practice.