Abstract
Exploration activities of Oil companies in most communities in Nigeria have negatively impacted on the environment where they are performing their business activities without adequate compensation to the community people. Such negative impacts include; gas flaring, oil spillages, noise and air pollution and so on and these affect the flora and fauna. Even whem compensations are paid, they are not commensurate to the damage and this result in communal conflicts, overheated and prolonged agitations, frustrations, loss of lives and properties and consequently unhealthy relationship between the oil companies and their host communities. This is basically as a result of community people possessing little or no awareness of the terms of the corporate social responsibility to be performed by all participating stakeholders especially the oil companies. This paper therefore examines how capacity building programmes can be employed as a means to equipping and increasing the awareness of community people with necessary information on corporate social responsibility of oil companies for sustainable community development in Nigeria. Some of such programmes include adult literacy education, extension education, conferences, seminars, talk shows, education consultancy just to mention a few. The paper therefore suggests that community members should be adequately informed on existing aspects of the corporate social responsibilities of oil companies operating in their locality and that these oil companies perform their corporate social responsibility to their host communities effectively in order to foster sustainable community development.
Highlights
Every oil company, whether private or publicly owned, is domiciled within a community be it rural or urban and this is the case all over the world including Nigeria
For community members to be adequately aware of the corporate social responsibilities of oil companies within their communities for better co-existence and improved service delivery, there is the need for effective engagement of community members in capacity building programmes so as to enlighten them
Evaluations are based on changes in performance based around the four main issues: institutional arrangements, leadership, knowledge, and accountability. It focuses on building capacity at the institutional level because it believes that "institutions are at the heart of human development, and that when they are able to perform better, sustain that performance over time, and manage 'shocks' to the system, they can contribute more meaningfully to the achievement of national human development goals."
Summary
Whether private or publicly owned, is domiciled within a community be it rural or urban and this is the case all over the world including Nigeria. Some of the corporate social responsibility of the oil companies are; construction of health care centres, schools, provision of electricity, pipe borne water, bus stops, markets stalls/shops, construction and maintenance of roads, awards of scholarships to deserving students, donations to orphanages and home for the elderly, organise skill acquisition programmes and provision of employment opportunities to qualified community members, just to mention a few, while community people should ensure that the community is very conducive for the oil companies to perform their business without hiccups This process of giving back to host communities by oil companies and other business ventures is what is referred to as corporate social responsibility. It becomes imperative to employ capacity building programmes in order to increase awareness and enlighten community members on the corporate social responsibility of oil companies in order to foster sustainable community development
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
