Chevron Case Study

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Partnership
Our company builds credible and jointly valuable relationships by collaborating with our host communities, governments, customers, suppliers and supplementary business partners. We are most successful when our partners succeed with us (Source: chevron.com). Chevron exhibit their commitment to the host countries by creating jobs opportunities for the locals, help to develop and source from local business suppliers, they also extend their commitments by employing local workforces. This business approach launches Chevron as a reliable partner of choice that helps build local economies and improve livelihoods. The corporation mounts a great deal of significant investments in major projects and tries to use local goods and services which …show more content…

Chevron has high social interests in projects that advance self sufficiency, work development and economic growth. The corporation work intimately with communities and partners to understand community needs that can help better and improve their relationships and elevate hinders to economic development. In 2005, Chevron joined hands with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in spearheading the global memorandum of understanding (GMoU) as another way to approach host community engagement in the Niger Delta region where it operates. The initiative is intended to make participatory development forms that oversee conflict and manages host community needs in the proximity of Chevron's regions of operations, the GMoU has empowered over 500,000 individuals spanning over 400 communities. In a joint effort with NGOs, state governments and local governments, eight Regional Development Committees were established to represent host community’s interests in five states in the Niger delta region where Chevron operates. In 10 years, the NNPC/Chevron joint endeavor has spent more than $100 million on around 600 development tasks and projects in improving health, standard education, steady economic development and local capacity building. These exercises concentrate on …show more content…

The corporation’s history of social and human rights violations extends over a long period of time which includes; human rights violations and abuses, bribery and corruption, water and atmospheric pollution, land degradation. One of the most well-documented human rights violations by Chevron Nigeria limited that made international news was in 1998 when several peaceful protesters were shot dead at a Chevron Oil Platform in the Niger Delta. According to the journalist Amy Goodman who reported that Chevron paid and flew Nigerian security forces with a Chevron marked helicopter to its oil platform where peaceful environmental harm protesters were holding a peaceful demonstration due to oil leaks by Chevron’s oil production in the Niger Delta. The security forces where supervised by Chevron staffers and where asked to shoot these protesters in cold blood. The brutal attack made international news and the case went before a jury in San Francisco in June 2010 in the US

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