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Baseline Issues in Mine Reform: Example from the Africa Region. Sarah Keener, World Bank, Dec. 6, 2006. DRC Mine Reform. Reform: Retrenchment and revision of the role of the mining company vis-à -vis communities Reality – Constraints:
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Baseline Issues in Mine Reform: Example from the Africa Region Sarah Keener, World Bank, Dec. 6, 2006
DRC Mine Reform • Reform: Retrenchment and revision of the role of the mining company vis-à-vis communities • Reality – Constraints: • Post conflict environment, no census since 1980 (no sample frame, population data), weak institutions • Time: month in which invited, retrenchees to leave company • Capacity & Distance: Mining region remote from capital, University statisticians with no statistical program • Sustainability: Project office set up only for duration of assistance
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [baseline] • University survey on baseline indicators that could be compared with existing national level surveys • Meals per day • Assets • Access to services • Sample included control groups within region • Mine workers who were staying • Mine workers who would be retrenched • Non-mine control group in neighboring areas** • Exit survey of all retrenched workers and issuance of i.d. so that people could be tracked later on • assets, social capital, human capital, reinsertion plans, dependents etc. • Identification critical link missing from similar programs in Zambia
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [baseline] • Analysis of “transmission” channels for specific impact retrenchment • Baseline of all of the ways in which the Government mine affected communities directly and indirectly, and how this might change • Production, consumption, wages, employment, access to goods and services, assets, transfers/taxes • Dependence on services (health, education) • Services with positive externalities such as malaria spraying
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [Process] • Capacity building in impact analysis for University • Multi-stakeholder consultative group formed, trained in logical framework analysis • Information centers set up in each town • Consultations/focus groups in each town with wide variety of stakeholders (retrenchees,remaining employees,widows, wives, children of retrenchees, retirees, parent-teacher committees, utilities,NGOs, provincial sectoral authorities, police, mayors, private sector, unions etc.)
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [Process] • Feedback of results to: (a) each town (b) regional group (c) national level with sectoral working groups • Links with the PRSP • Links to budget processes for health, education services • Local ownership and presentation of analysis (took time)
Situation at Start of Voluntary Departure Program (late 2003)
Simple Indicators Source: Enquête Université de Lubumbashi , 8/2003.