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Explore company-community relations and development outcomes in Eastern DRC through qualitative field research and power mapping. Analyze various factors impacting community development, including forced displacement, CSR interventions, and mining rent redistribution.
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Hybridgovernance in Congo’s large-scale gold miningconcessionsSara GeenenConference TransitionandLocal Development in Eastern DRC, 8-10 December 2016
Theoryand research question: company-community relations andhybridgovernance • Methodology: qualitative field research and power mapping • Analysis: development outcomesforlocalcommunities
Research question Hybridgovernance Community development
Methodology • Case study • Field research September 2015 • Individual interviews • Focus groupinterviews Source: www.banro.com
Analysis • ‘Spaces’ for communitydevelopment • Work • Subcontracting • Socio-environmentalexternalities • Forceddisplacement and compensation • CSR interventions • Redistribution of miningrents School in Luhwindja, picture by Sara Geenen
Analysis • ‘Spaces’ for communitydevelopment • Work Company: recruitment policy Forum Communautaire Sous-comité d’emploi Government: local content Community: who is ‘local’ Hybridgovernance
Analysis • Company-communityencounterscharacterized by conflict or collaboration, depending on • Geology, ecology and economy of miningproject • Intra-communitydiversity • Local and national politics • Individual practices and companypolicies
Geology, ecologyandeconomy of the mining project Source: www.banro.com
Intra-community diversity • Artisanalminers
Intra-community diversity • Artisanalminers ZEA Matetecooperative Continue as illegalminers Othermining sites Otheractivities
Intra-community diversity • Cooperatives “That is when the white people came with their promises: we will come with machines for exploitation , for processing, and we will buy your gold. We accepted. But they left and never came back. When you speak to them, they will say that they gave us a lot. All lies!”
Individualpracticesand company policies Picture www.banro.com
Individualpracticesand company policies • "They are smart. Whenever they have trouble with the population, they identify the main trouble maker and quickly call him in order to buy him off. Try to organize a march against Banro today, tomorrow they will give you a job”. Picture www.banro.com
Thankyou! Sara.geenen@uantwerpen.be Implications for local development Acknowledgement of intra-communitydiversity and individual practices Attention forpoliticalconflictsandmechanisms of exclusion Attention forgeology, ecologyandeconomy of themining project Hybridgovernance: effectiveness and legitimacy?