CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OBJECTIVES
Le Groupe Lyceum/The Lyceum Group functions on the premise of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for all of its activities in West Africa. It has invested three years to develop sustainable corporate and social programs. These programs are now available to companies and agencies with on-going business development programs in West Africa on a contract basis. Programs include wellness and health care, education, social impact analysis, and environmental sensitivity.
Adherance and services to provide compliance to "The Equator Principles." These are defined as A financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing social and environmental risk in project management, and project financing. "The Equator Principles Financial Institutions (EPFIs) have consequently adopted these Principles in order to ensure that the projects we finance are developed in a manner that is socially responsible and reflect sound environmental management practises. By doing so, negative impacts on project-affected ecosystems and communities should be avoided where possible, and if these impacts are unavoidable, they should be reduced, mitigated and/or compensated for appropriately." www.equator-principles.com
Examples of industry that can benefit from compliance to CSR and the Equator Principle are power plants, chemical processing plants, mines, transportation infrastructure, environment, and telecommunications infrastructure.
Le Groupe Lyceum/The Lyceum Group is ideally suited to assess, design, and implement programs with sensitivity to all stakeholders with experienced on-the-ground staff and consultants.
The Loos Islands off the coast of Guinea provided an ideal location for Le Groupe Lyceum/The Lyceum Group to model CSR principles in its own work and create a blue-print to eventually roll out to other rural areas of Guinea. To do this, it became necessary to understand and celebrate the unique historical culture of the island people, explore the influence of the Muslim and Christian faiths in the communities, and follow with the formation of an islander self-driven Community Development Organization (CDO). This project delved deeply into the fabric of the local people, and is exemplified by the noted website sections on the Waliou de Gomba, and the fascinating history of the Anglican Church both on the Loos Islands, and in Guinea. Defying stereotypes, these communities co-exist in a unique way.