Social investment
Since the establishment of bp’s presence in Mauritania and Senegal, bp and partners have developed and launched a multi-million-dollar, wide ranging, social investment programme that enhances the quality of life in the communities we operate in and creates long-term opportunities for local development.
Local implementing organisations are partnering with bp to deliver our activities.
All our activities are enabled by bp’s Ethics and Compliance requirements, to guarantee that transparent, inclusive and fair procedures are followed.
bp’s social investment strategy is based on a partnership approach with evolving projects that focus on four themes, which were selected based on extensive community consultation, agreement with our partners and alignment with government plans and priorities:
Following community consultation, four key areas were identified:
Education
Education initiatives focus on increasing the access and quality of primary and secondary education, digital skills development, and health and school infrastructure rehabilitation. This includes distribution of school kits to students and teachers.
Health
Community health initiatives focus on strengthening the access and quality of health services and increase community health awareness. This includes development of local medical facilities and mobile clinics.
Environment
Environmental initiatives focus on increase of environmental awareness, access to water, sustainable use of natural resources, marine biodiversity research and conservation. This includes funding annual student environmental awareness days.
Economic development
Economic development initiatives focus on investing in different areas such as: support to fishing and women cooperatives, support for alternative livelihoods, local SME development, micro-finance in combination with vocational education, business-skills training and wider support for entrepreneurship services for men, youth and for community based-enterprises.
