The programme is
engaging with construction and engineering services companies
to develop a new client-contractor partnership approach to
improving social performance in engineering projects. The
approach targets projects undertaken for brand-sensitive private
sector clients and development-driven public clients, with
the principal engineering contractor gaining commercial advantage
in tendering or repeat contracts by offering a social performance
‘service’. This service is based on exploiting
the contractor’s often substantial role in project management
as well as its close physical interface with local society
in relation to employment, procurement, training, technology
transfer and infrastructure development.
Recent work includes:
- changes to the tendering process to incentivise contractors
to innovate and release their competencies in skills development,
supplier and SME support and local infrastructure development,
with different emphases during construction and operations;
- modifications to the methodology of project risk and
opportunities analysis to give greater consideration to
social performance issues (based on field research with
Engineers Against Poverty and Balfour Beatty in Indonesia
in the context of a power transmission line construction
project);
- guidance on how to reposition engineering contractors
as a positive force for social performance during construction
activities, rather than a reputational liability for brand-sensitive
clients (based on research with the Shell Social Performance
Unit, London);
- innovation by contractors to enhance social performance
within asset maintenance contracts, including supply chain
development and government institutional strengthening (based
on field research with Engineers Against Poverty and AMEC
in relation to the Shell ‘Malampaya’ gas-to-power
project, Philippines).
Oil Field Services Expenditure and Economic Growth:
Prospects for Developing Countries
Governments in oil-exporting developing countries find the
task of transforming oil revenues into productive and sustainable
economic growth significant challenge. At the same time, the
other key contributor of this sector to the domestic economy
– the market for oil and gas field services expenditure
– continues to expand. This paper provides an overview
of the procurement market in oil and gas exploration and production
and asks if sufficient effort is being made to realise its
potential to grow the domestic economies of developing countries.
Enhancing Social Performance in the Engineering
Services Sector Briefing Note 10:
Oil Field Services Expenditure and Economic
Growth: Prospects for Developing Countries
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190KB Programme Briefing Note 10
The underutilised value of multinational engineering
firms in supporting oil companies to tackle poverty
(ODI with Engineers Against Poverty and AMEC)
Enhancing Social Performance in the Engineering Services
Sector through the Process of Risk (and Opportunities) Analysis
(ODI with Engineers Against Poverty and Balfour Beatty)
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Enhancing
the Social Performance of the Engineering Services Sector Through
Multi-Sector Partnering: Lot 3 Transmission Line Research Project,
Indonesia
(ODI with Balfour Beatty and Engineers Against Poverty)
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386KB Full Report
Infrastructure in Africa: The UK Commission for Africa
Report and a Role for Private Engineering Contractors
(ODI)
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113KB Programme Briefing Note 5
Enhancing Social Performance in the Engineering
Services Sector Briefing Note 3:
Levers & Pulleys: Extractive Industries & Local Economic
Development
Incentivising Innovation by Lead Contractors through
Contract Tendering
(ODI)
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305KB Programme Briefing Note 3
Enhancing Social Performance in the Engineering
Services Sector Briefing Note 2:
Involving Large Contractors in Enhancing Social Performance
During Construction
(ODI with Shell)
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215KB Programme Briefing Note 2
Enhancing Social Performance in the Engineering
Services Sector Briefing Note 1:
Modifying Project Opportunities and Risk Analysis for Enhanced
Social Performance
(ODI with Engineers Against Poverty)
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230KB Programme Briefing Note 1
The Multi-National Construction and Services Industry
and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Scoping the
Partnership Options
(ODI with Engineers Against Poverty)
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245KB Presentation
Partnerships for Managing Social Issues in the Extractive
Industries:
Learning from Project Partnering in the Constructive Industry
(ODI with Engineers Against Poverty for Business Partners
for Development Natural Resource Cluster)
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