Sharing Experiences: Monitoring the Impact of Community Development Programs Linked to Extractive Industry

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Sharing ExperiencesMonitoring the Impact of
Community Development Programs Linked to
Extractive Industry

• Community Development Monitoring in the Mining
  Sector in Guinea
• December 5th, Washington DC
• Ed OKeefe
• Synergy Global Consulting
• www.synergy-global.net

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BackgroundGuinea Community Development Framework

• Partners
• Government of Guinea and the IFC World Bank
• Goal
• Develop a national framework for enhancing the
  contribution of mining to community development
• Activities
• Site visits to 9 mine projects
• Government, company, NGO and donor consultation
• Current status
• Central finding is issue of lack of communication
• Drafting framework for stakeholder review in Jan
  07
• Drawing on ICMM Principles, EITI and Guinea PRSP

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Findings

• One of the weakest areas of company management
  systems
• Generally formal monitoring was one-off and ad
  hoc
• Very limited baseline data
• Communities are monitoring companies closely
• Some company staff are informally monitoring
• Diverse interpretations of local and
  community
• Lack of focus on PAPs, Homogenous Blob Syndrome
• Focus on social investment and public relations
• Limited focus on material issues such as local
  employment, infrastructure, HIV/AIDS
• Few processes for disclosing monitoring
  information
• Few processes for using monitoring information
• Not integrated with environmental or HSE
  monitoring
• Few links to business planning

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OpportunitiesWhat?

• Taking an integrated approach to monitoring
• Based on systematic analysis of social impacts
  and the relevant social context
• Directly linked to a formal social strategy
• Integrated in company management systems and
  business planning processes
• Part of the community engagement process
• Clearly linked to
• company plans and commitments (ESIA, RAP, etc)
• community priorities and material issues
• government plans (PRSP, district plans, etc)
• international frameworks (G3, MDGs, ICMM, etc)

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OpportunitiesWhy?

• Ensuring monitoring is adding value
• Helping predict and monitor impacts, risks and
  opportunities, including perceived risks
• Building trust between stakeholders
• Involving stakeholders in the monitoring process
• Disclosing accessible monitoring information
• Responding to issues identified in monitoring
• Demonstrating success
• Contribution to business performance
• Contribution to affected community development