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Innovative initiatives to help develop SMEs are not at all unusual; but learning about a joint effort between indigenous communities and a private extractive firm that has resulted in community based enterprises, offers an interesting “twist”. In the Bolivian region of El Chaco, where most of the communities are Guaraní – the third indigenous group in the country - we find four innovative initiatives with a different approach to develop MSMEs and implement corporate social responsible practices.

A two-page document on complementary information on the Transierra's Indigenous Development Plan project.

For centuries, communities have been founded or shaped based upon their access to natural resources and today, in our globalizing world, major natural resource developments are spreading to more remote areas. Mining operations are a good example: they have a profound impact on local communities and are often the first industry in a remote region. However, whereas an enormous amount has been written about the macroeconomic effects of the mining industry, there has been practically no in-depth analysis of the comprehensive effects of large mines on their host communities, especially in developing countries.

The main objective of this second phase is to propose minimum baseline requirements in terms of economic analysis of Social Investment Fund (SIF) subprojects that should be followed by SIFs financed by the Bank.

The joint UNDP/World Bank ESMAP program designed a pilot training program to instruct indigenous peoples on the impact of hydrocarbon activities.

This case-study was prepared for the Latin America & Caribbean "Regional Workshop on Accountability, Participation and Poverty Reduction", held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, June 2003.

Decentralization initiatives have been launched in the majority of developing countries, but these rarely lay the foundations necessary to reach decentralization’s purported efficiency and equity benefits. This paper uses a comparative empirical approach to show how central governments in six countries—Senegal, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—use a variety of strategies to obstruct the democratic decentralization of resource management and, hence, retain central control. Effective decentralization requires the construction of accountable institutions at all levels of government and a secure domain of autonomous decision making at the local level.

This document reviews the present situation in LAC countries with regard to mining sector reform. It then reviews the characteristics of LAC mining legal frameworks and ultimately presents the characteristics of successful mining legal and investment regimes. Finally there is a section on the reform process.

This paper seeks to clarify capacity building through an exploration of experiences with mining communities. By clarifying the term and its application, this paper aims to improve the distinction between capacity building, consultation, public relations by a corporation, and other forms of community development. It provides answers for the following questions; Who is it for? Who initiates it? Who Directs it and controls the funds? What is the goal? Which levels of the community are included? How are new skills integrated? What are the pitfallsto watch out for and it provides recommendations.