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Sharing Experiences:Monitoring the Impact of Community Development
Programs Linked to Extractive Industry
Community Development Monitoring
in the Mining Sector in Guinea
December 5th, Washington DC
Ed O’KeefeSynergy 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