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CASM Workshop Mongolia, September 2007

Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development Fund Veronica Nyhan Jones, IFC/World Bank vnyhan@worldbank.org. CASM Workshop Mongolia, September 2007. What is CommDev?.

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CASM Workshop Mongolia, September 2007

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  1. Oil, Gas and Mining Sustainable Community Development FundVeronica Nyhan Jones, IFC/World Bank vnyhan@worldbank.org CASM Workshop Mongolia, September 2007

  2. What is CommDev? • $12 million fund focused onhelping communities receive sustainable benefits from extractive industry (EI) projects. • Provides funding, knowledge, exchange. • Global with emphasis on Africa (60 – 70%) • Tri-partite approach with community, EI investors and local/regional governments in order to ensure sustainability. • Borne out of EI Review, linked to World Bank Group operations. • Support for companies who want to collaborate to go above and beyond social and environmental safeguards. • Support capacity building, technical assistance, tool development and information sharing through clearinghouse. • Draws on breadth of experience across the Bank Group plus external partners to demonstrate and codify good practice.

  3. What is CommunityDevelopment? • The process of increasing the strength and effectiveness of communities, improving peoples’ quality of life, and enabling people to participate in decision making to achieve greater long-term control over their lives. Community development empowers and helps communities to • improve their social, physical environments • increase equity and social justice • overcome social exclusion • build social capital and capacities • engage in the strategic assessments and decision-making processes that influence their local conditions Source: ICMM Community Development Toolkit

  4. Features of EffectiveCommunity Development • Community consultation • Clear understanding of local context and impact of EI on the community (early baseline data) • Trust, shared ownership – processes are key • Expectations contained by clearly defined roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders • Capacity building – build social capital • Participatory Community Development Strategies • Resources allocated to deliver outputs • M&E integral part of programs (measurable goals; monitor and report on progress) • Strategic partnerships • Sustainability

  5. Characteristics of Mongolian History Useful for Community Development • Clear and consistent rules of the game/rule of law; • Provision of quality services; • Development of human capital; • Bringing new information and technology from other parts of the world; • Encouraging religious and cultural freedom and identify; • Empowering local people to create their own new designs, tools and business models; • Loyalty and cooperation as a result. This is what we hope governments and companies will provide for their local populations in order to enable sustainable community development.

  6. Key Themes for CommDev • Stakeholder Engagement • Participatory Planning • Local Conflict Management • Local Revenue Management • Capacity Building for Govt, Companies, Comms • Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation • Communication & Information Sharing • Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (w CASM) • Gender

  7. CommDev-funded Project: Identifying Alternatives for Artisanal & Small-Scale Miners in DRC (w PACT) Objective: to develop an integrated approach to ASM that provides a strategic roadmap with practical recommendations for safe, legal mining practices, livelihood alternatives and conflict management for implementation in Kolwezi, Katanga Province. (Karen Hayes)

  8. Six Areas to Assist Artisanal Miners in Kolwezi • Mine employment(basic training programs in anticipation of employment in modern mining operations); • Local supply chaindevelopmenttargeting artisanal miners, women, access to finance; • Livelihood alternatives, agriculture, micro-enterprise emphasis on women; • Co-habitationof safe, fair, responsible artisanal mining (e.g. establishment of artisanal mining zones and processing/trade channels; expert support to government bodies); • Environmental standards programsin legal artisanal and small-scale mining activities; • Appropriate vocational and alternative educationopportunities for children.

  9. Other CommDev Projects • Establishing a Regional Development Foundation in Anosy, Madagascar (Gotthard Walser) • Developing Municipal Capacity to Manage Oil Royalties in Colombia • Participatory Environmental Monitoring around Marlin Mine in Guatemala • Building a Framework for Sustainable Development re Mining in Guinea (Synergy, Ed O’Keefe) • Strengthening Capacities of Traditional Authorities and Local Govt for Community Dev. in South Africa • Strengthening Social Accountability to Improve the Impact of the Mining Canon in Peru • 15 more projects under development in Russia, India, Pakistan, Tanzania, Ghana…

  10. CommDev Learning Products coming soon • ASM & LSM Good Practice Guide w/ CASM • Local Conflict Management Toolkit • Participatory Planning & Monitoring for Companies and Communities • Indicators for Monitoring Corporate Community Development Investments • Foundations for Community Development

  11. 1. ASM-LSM Good Practice GuideCASM, CommDev, Kevin d’Souza, ICMM, ASM Associations… • Summarise the existing global examples of LSM-ASM relationships, highlight both negative and positive outcomes. • Discuss common challenges and means to institutionalise community development within mine site management. • Discuss the process of developing mutually beneficial co-existence strategies and the various partnering options, company exit strategies and the avoidance of creating community dependency. • Compare existing national policies and governance. • Highlight roles and responsibilities of the multi-stakeholder process of building durable relationships (appropriate conflict resolution, managing expectations and long term M&E) between divergent ASM stakeholders. • Provide generic ‘good practice’ template for development and maintenance of ASM assistance schemes.

  12. 2. Local Conflict Management Toolkit • Conflict Analysis Tools to diagnose and understand existing/potential conflict(awareness, stakeholder & conflict mapping, conflict sensitive business practices…) • Community Development Implementation Tools that take conflict into account (Do No Harm, Participatory Needs & Opportunities Assessment, Comm. Environmental Monitoring…) • Dispute Resolution Tools to mediate and resolve conflict as it arises(Grievance Mechanisms, Alternative Dispute Resolution) Guidance offered per EI Project Cycle Stage

  13. Tracking outputs & outcomes: Community Scorecards Citizens Report Cards Participatory Budgeting Companies publish what they pay to authorities Community Development Strategies M&E Approach EI Companies Civil Society Communities Local/Regional Government 3. Tools for Participatory Planning and Monitoring Who measures matters!

  14. Monitoring & Evaluation • M&E as much about building relationships, trust and mutual learning as it is about collecting and reporting data. • Participatory forms of M&E include viewpoints of all stakeholders - integrate diverse priorities and concerns • M&E offers the opportunity to demonstrate a company's value in the community • Participation and engagement of communities are key to designing and measuring projects adequately • Good M&E Upfront = Good Project Design

  15. EX: Participatory Environmental Monitoring in Guatemala • CommDev is funding a community-based monitoring committee to conduct water testing. • Brings together a broad array of stakeholders • Build capacity within community, and trust. • Company, community results were the same!!! • Program was awarded a prize by the Latin American Mining Organization as the region’s most innovative effort to integrate a mining operation with its local communities.

  16. 4. Indicators of Community Development • Six Common Dimensions-- Education, Health, Infrastructure, Livelihoods, Stakeholder Engagement, Capacity Building • Going beyond Inputs and Outputs— indentifying indicators and methods to track outcomes and impacts. • Local participation is essential in designing community investment programs and setting criteria for success.

  17. EX: Quantitative & Qualitative Indicators of Investment • Inputs • Outputs • Outcomes • Development Impacts • Company’s Return on Investment

  18. Indicators for Community Investment cont.

  19. Most Important Questions… WHO DECIDES? WHO BENEFITS? WHO MEASURES?

  20. Online CommDev Resource Center: One-stop shop for community development in EI info Connecting resources from many partners across sectors and topics. ASM Resources (w CASM members) ie: • Artisanal & Small-scale Mining: Challenges & Opportunities (IIED, WBCSD) • Compendium On Best Practices In Small-scale Mining In Africa (UNECA) • Global Report On Artisanal & Small-scale Mining (IIED, WBCSD) • Poverty Eradication & Sustainable Livelihoods: Focusing On Artisanal Mining Communities (UNESA) • Program For Improvements To The Profiling Of Artisanal & Small-scale Mining Activities In Africa & The Implementation Of Baseline Surveys: Final Report (CASM) www.commdev.org Launching October 2007 Thank you!

  21. Evolution of Corporate Approaches to Community Development

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