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A book released in May 2009, Getting it Right: Making Corporate–Community Relations Work (Greenleaf Publishing) by Mary Anderson and Luc Zandvliet of CDA Collaborative Learning Project (CDA), is intended as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) guide for corporate managers of multinational companies operating in poor, unstable countries. It is based on CDAs experience working primarily for extractive companies operating in the developing world, including working with the French oil giant Total on the notorious Yadana gas project in Burma. EarthRights International (ERI) is concerned this publication, along with the numerous reports CDA has published on the Yadana pipeline in Burma, have mislead investors, corporations, policymakers, and other interested parties on the actual conditions in the pipeline region. A 2009 forthcoming report by ERI, based on over 15 years of ERI’s work in the Yadana pipeline area, will expose CDA’s flawed methodology, inaccurate reporting, and the misuse of their findings by the Yadana companies in an effort to justify their continued presence in Burma.