Maps and indices

With over 160+ risk indices and interactive maps, Maplecroft analyses the most pressing issues impacting the agro-commodities sector down to site specific levels. Indices and maps include: climate change vulnerability; natural hazards; water stress; food security; corruption; legal and regulatory risks; political risks; poverty and development; and reputational threats arising from complicity with labour rights and human rights violations in the supply chain.

Maplecroft’s indices and interactive maps are available individually or can be accessed through seven thematic risk atlases, which aggregate key issues.

Atlases

Maplecroft’s Atlases are updated annually and provide maps, indices and scorecards for up to 197 countries, as well as analysis of the key issues, methodologies and data sources.

Reports and analysis

Maplecroft’s briefings and in-depth reports help mining companies to monitor and manage a wide variety of operational and reputational risks. These empower them to understand the full spectrum of extra-financial risks associated with investing in, or sourcing from, a country or sub-national region.

Maplecroft monitoring and reporting system

• Baseline in-depth reports (25+ pages): Produced at the outset of the year or at an agreed alternate annual date to provide substantive background analysis and due diligence review of key issues and risks (the governance framework; political risk and violence; the economy; the regulatory and business environment; human rights and society; and natural hazards, environment and climate change). In addition the reports integrate GIS derived, sub-national maps and provide stakeholder viewpoints on risk and key recent events.
• Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly Monitors (1 page scorecards for key watch countries): Offering quantitative country risk scores and trends of increasing, unchanged or decreasing risk across key risk areas and qualitative analysis of significant recent events and outlooks across the core risk areas. Developed to focus on issues driving changes to risk scores and our forecast for the next quarter including implications for sectors.
• Trigger briefings (2-4 pages): Concise analysis and forecasts that are activated when the risk within a country changes significantly, as shown in the monitor. These focus on the issues driving changes to risk scores and the implications for business.
• In-depth update reports or tailored specific reports (25+ pages): Produced when more in-depth analysis is required on the back of the trigger briefing and pertaining to sectors or business specific

Issue specific reports

• Mining sector country risk reports (30+ pages): Comprehensive analysis of the specific risk issues affecting mining companies in countries worldwide. Analysis covers areas such as licence administration; resource nationalism; labour and safety standards; localised security; environmental concerns; and corruption; as well as more general risks to business such as the governance framework; the regulatory environment; and human rights. In-depth reports also incorporate key trends, forecasting, stakeholder views, recent events and GIS-derived sub-national maps that can include overlays of mineral reserves, assets and indigenous communities.
• Resource nationalism briefings: In-depth analysis of resource nationalism trends within a country or a range of countries. The briefings offer detailed information on the issue; history of resource nationalism within the country; analysis of current political dynamics; forecasting of potential risks to the mining sector and key recent events.
• Labour standards reports: In-depth analysis the major labour risks affecting the operations and supply chains of mining companies at the country and sub-national level. They provide in-depth analysis; country scores; trends; stakeholder viewpoints; recent events and sub-national maps of labour rights and protection.
• Maplecroft's Election Monitor: Delivered in two parts, the pre-election instalment provides background information, analysis and forecasts of results and their potential impacts on the mining sector, while the post-election monitor analyses the results and assesses the implications for business.
• Corruption risk briefings: In-depth assessment of the risks of corruption throughout company supply chains and operations in countries worldwide. The briefings analyse the effectiveness of the domestic legislative framework in tackling corruption and the prevalence of corruption in the public and private sectors.

* Maplecroft’s products are available for all countries and can be tailored to client specifications. For more details visit Maplecroft’s Global Risks Portfolio.

Interactive Tools

Custom country / sovereign risk calculators enable mining companies to select and compare risk indices to create scorecards that quantify risk for all countries. The Interactive Dashboard also allows mining companies to combine their own compliance and country risk data with Maplecroft’s indices and to create bespoke indices, maps and risk scorecards using a proprietary online interface.

Services

Increasingly, mining and engineering companies recognise the impact that political, economic, social and environmental risks have on their profits and corporate reputations and are building assessments and monitoring into their risk review systems. Maplecroft’s professional services help organisations unlock significant financial benefits through successfully sustaining their license to operate in mineral rich emerging economies.

Maplecroft has an award-winning reporting service and is a leader in conducting human rights due diligence, impact assessment and monitoring for mining companies. The company also has longstanding experience in ethical supply chain management, with the capability to custom-build monitoring and reporting tools that map the intrinsic risk exposure and risk management proficiency of all a firms’ suppliers.

Specialised services for mining companies

• Sustainability and social impact assessment, reporting and policy development
• Project risk identification and assessment, mapping and monitoring through all life-cycle phases
• Stakeholder mapping, engagement strategy and consultation support
• Anti-corruption risk analysis and programme development
• Human rights and labour standards analysis and auditing
• Global value chain risk auditing
• Scenario building and horizon scanning
• Custom-built GIS (Geographic Information System) global and project-specific mapping capability
• Assessment and compliance tools: Equator Principles, Voluntary Principles on Human Rights and Security, Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, IFC Performance Standards, etc.