Focus Areas
Extractive Industries
Oil, gas, and mining companies have their own challenges and pressures unique to the industry. Alex Burger Consulting helps you design and implement community engagement and development programs that bring real benefit to local communities and support the operations of companies in their host countries. Example
Conflict Affected-States
Development in conflict-affected states has its own set of challenges. Poor infrastructure, changing conditions, and huge social demands make working in this environment unique. With experience working on the ground in these conditions, we help you develop appropriate strategies and practices suited to the environment. Example
Local Supplier / Local Economic Development
Local economic development can dramatically enhance a community's ability to provide and care for itself. Local entrepreneurs can be developed through the local supply chain to a large local company, through the development of value chains, or other local economic development. Alex Burger Consulting brings the rigour of an MBA trained private sector specialist, with a deep sense of community development, to develop real local solutions.
Example
Gender
Increasingly women are joining the workforce in the extractive and heavy industries and companies need help to make this transition. I can help you to think through strategies to successfully incorporate women into the workforce, address cultural and systemic barriers, and reorient your company towards full inclusion for male and female employees. Example
Community Engagment and Development
Communities are all unique, and community development often takes skillful listening and engagement. Alex Burger brings over fifteen years of experience working with communities all over the globe, from rural women in India, to chicken farmers in Chad, to budding entrepreneurs in the Southern United States. We help you develop and implement community engagement and development strategies that build on the strengths of local communities. Example
SERVICES
- STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
- PROGRAM PLANNING & DESIGN
- PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
- MONITORING & EVALUATION
- FACILITATION
Key Projects
Lonmin-IFC Partnership
The goal of the Lonmin-IFC partnership was to sustainably developed Lonmin's workforce and the communities in which it operated in in South Africa. Over the course of the two years that Alex Burger lead a US$6million program, working with over 50 staff and consultants.