Natural Resources
Net Zero Roadmap for Copper and Nickel Value Chains
A net zero transition guide that sets out a science-based decarbonization strategy for copper and nickel mining value chain actors.
Factsheet | Disclosure to Development ‘D2D’ Sierra Leone Project
IFC’s ‘From Disclosure to Development’ (D2D) Project in Sierra Leone strengthens the digital entrepreneurship ecosystem, with a focus on sustainably supporting mining communities.
Brochure | Sustainability-linked Finance
Sustainability-linked finance (SLF) is a powerful tool for mobilizing capital as the world moves towards a greener global future. SLF incentivizes companies to pursue ambitious, long-term environmental and social goals, and its use can help countries achieve the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainability-Linked Finance—Mobilizing Capital for Sustainability in Emerging Markets
This note shares examples of recent sustainability-linked financing, including several involving IFC in various roles, to highlight how investors can utilize these new instruments in emerging markets and mitigate greenwashing risks.
Sustainable Bonds: Bridging the Gap for Gender Equality
This guide provides a framework to the market on how sustainable debt instruments can be used to advance gender equality in both the public and private sectors.
The Business Case for Gender-Responsive Climate-Smart Mining
This document illustrates how gender-responsive climate-smart mining (CSM) strategies are good for business and good for the planet. It outlines entry points for gender considerations within the pillars of the CSM Initiative and enlists recommendations for different stakeholders such as companies, government and civil society to engage.
Gender-Responsive Training Methods: A Guidance Note
This Guidance Note highlights how training initiatives can respond to women and men’s different needs and learning preferences. It is intended to strengthen the skills and practice of training providers who run technical business courses for entrepreneurs—whether face to face, or virtually.
Capturing Hydropower’s Promise: Report Series
The series Capturing Hydropower’s Promise features suggested approaches on implementing local benefit sharing in hydropower projects, along with good practice examples.
10 Insights about Local Benefit Sharing in Hydropower Projects
This brief highlights 10 insights extracted from the publication Capturing Hydropower’s Promise: A Guide to Local Benefit Sharing in Hydropower Projects.
Mining Royalties Data in Colombia: Data at Work for the Voice of the People
In this report, IFC presents a set of recommendations for governments, industry and civil society aimed at improving data disclosure and use practices of mining royalty data to provide citizens with complete, relevant and actionable information. En el informe de D2D Datos de Regalías Mineras en Colombia: Datos en beneficio de los ciudadanos, IFC presenta […]
Guidance for Bolivia’s Municipalities on Investing Natural Resource Royalties
Royalties paid by natural resources companies active in Bolivia are intended to support local community development. But often local communities that are impacted by projects do not receive critical benefits to improve their living conditions, such as access to basic services and infrastructure. This can create a difficult operating environment, with host communities looking to […]
Private Equity and Value Creation: A Fund Manager’s Guide to Gender-Smart Investing
This guide has been developed to address key questions and gaps in information we have experienced and observed through extensive discussions across the gender smart investing field over the past few years. It is a practical “how to” step by step guide for fund managers on how to strengthen gender diversity within their own firms and incorporate a gender focus into investment operations.
The Role of Indigenous People in Major Project Development – Part II Indigenous Ownership of Electricity Infrastructure: A Case Study
This paper aims to help enable the increased adoption of Indigenous equity ownership arrangements by providing a detailed, specific and scalable partnership model, focused on transmission development.
The Role of Indigenous People in Major Project Development: Paths for Indigenous Participation in Electricity Infrastructure
This paper, prepared by the First Nation Major Project Coalition, highlights the growing world examples of Indigenous ownership in major projects including energy infrastructure.
Integrating Gender in Cities Projects
This note highlights how increasing gender inclusivity in urban development projects is a key factor in achieving development and investment outcomes.
Integrating Gender into Water & Sanitation Projects
This brief highlights the benfits of cities involving women in service design, tariff structures, and the water and sanitation workforce
Minerals for Climate Action: The Mineral Intensity of the Clean Energy Transition
A World Bank Group report finds that the production of minerals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, could increase by nearly 500% by 2050, to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies. It estimates that over 3 billion tons of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as […]
Gender and COVID-19: Key Considerations, Resources and Support for Infrastructure and Natural Resource Companies in Emerging Markets
This note is designed as a quick reference guide to help companies understand how smart, gender-inclusive strategies can bolster the effectiveness of their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Integrating Gender in Mining Operations
When companies recognize the opportunity of a more diverse workforce and supply chain, and of engaging more broadly with communities, they can increase productivity, reduce costs, and strengthen social license to operate.
Series: Pursuing Gender Equality Through Infrastructure and Natural Resources
This series of briefs provided tools for infrastructure and natural resources companies to benefit from gender equality.
Integrating Gender in Power Operations
As the sector responds to the challenges of clean, reliable, and affordable energy services—there are emerging pathways to close gender gaps and bolster performance across the energy value chain—by including women as potential employees, owners of SMEs, and as consumers.
Integrating Gender in Transport Operations
By understanding the differentiated ways women and men benefit from, contribute to, and experience modes of transport, IFC clients can leverage these insights to maximize their profits while better sharing risks and benefits across the communities they serve.
Highlights: Unlocking Data Innovation for Social License in Natural Resources
These are key highlights from the knowledge publication “Unlocking Data Innovation for Social License in Natural Resources” which describes how companies can use new data tools, approaches, and techniques to generate and sustain social license in communities.
Highlights: Data in Action
These are key highlights from the publication “Data in Action” which consolidates the findings of the natural resources data assessments conducted in: Colombia, Ghana, Mongolia, and Peru by the From Disclosure to Development (D2D) program.
Highlights: Transparency for Impact
These are key highlights from the publication “Transparency for Impact” which intends to help natural resources companies, government agencies, and development practitioners, design and implement transparency-related interventions.
Data in Action: Natural Resources Disclosure for People and Progress
his discussion paper consolidates the findings of D2D’s natural resources data assessments conducted in: Colombia, Ghana, Mongolia, and Peru. It describes key challenges and makes recommendations to industry, governments, and civil society that help bridge the existing data gaps and unlock data-enabled opportunities in the natural resources sector.
Transparency for Impact: Lessons from IFC Projects in Peru’s Natural Resources Sector
This document is part of a series of knowledge products by IFC’s From Disclosure to Development program. Two other publications in the series are Unlocking Data Innovation for Social License in Natural Resources and Natural Resource Data: Challenges and Opportunities.
Unlocking Data Innovation for Social License in Natural Resources
This report describes how companies can use new data tools, approaches, and techniques to generate and sustain social license in communities.
Setting Site Water Targets Informed By Catchment Context: A Guide For Companies
This guide aims to help companies set effective site water targets that are informed by catchment context, which can create value and lessen risks for the company and support collective action.
Improving the Investment Climate for Renewable Energy: Through Benefit Sharing, Risk Management, and Local Community Engagement
The study provides recommendations on how to improve the investment climate for renewable energy and wind energy, in particular, through benefit sharing, risk management, and local community engagement.
Data for Social License Brochure
Can data help firms increase profits while decreasing social friction? This report shows how firms in the natural resources sector can leverage new sources of data to form and deepen relationships with local communities and stakeholders in ways that are profitable, inclusive, and sustainable for all parties concerned. The report showcases the experience of firms […]
Estimating the Effects of the Development of the Oil and Gas Sector on Growth and Jobs in Ghana (2015-30): A Modelling and Value Chain Analysis
Recent oil and gas discoveries in Ghana present a unique opportunity to boost economic growth and increase the prosperity of its people.
Unlocking Opportunities for Women and Business: A Toolkit of Actions and Strategies for Oil, Gas, and Mining Companies
A growing number of oil, gas, and mining companies have committed to create more diverse, gender-balanced, inclusive industries – recognizing that it is not only the right thing to do, but it also makes business sense.
Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism
The Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism (LRPM) is a set of disclosures that seeks to standardise how the global mining industry and host countries measure and talk about local procurement.
Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the Sustainable Development Goals: An Atlas
Achieving the SDGs by the target of 2030 will require unprecedented cooperation and collaboration among governments, non-governmental organizations, development partners, the private sector and communities.
Political Settlements and the Governance of Extractive Industry: A Comparative Analysis of the longue durée in Africa and Latin America
This paper synthesises findings from research in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru and Zambia to address the following three questions
Shared Water, Shared Responsibility, Shared Approach: Water in the Mining Sector
Water scarcity poses a risk to companies in the mining and metals sector, but it also represents a significant opportunity–to catalyze collective solutions that improve water security and sanitation for all.
[Draft for Public Comment] Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the Sustainable Development Goals: An Atlas
Together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and IPIECA (the global oil and gas industry association for environmental and social issues), IFC has released for public review and commenting a draft report on how the oil and gas industry contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Informing Local Communities, Civil Society and Local Government about Oil & Gas
This guide is specifically designed for facilitators and trainers wanting to raise awareness of local communities in oil and gas producing regions.
Effects of Oil, Gas and Mining Investments on Jobs
It is widely recognized that growth and jobs help lift people out of poverty.
When Oil, Gas or Mining Arrives in Your Area
The overall goal of this guide is to enable local communities affected by oil, gas and mining projects to carry out constructive, peaceful engagement and negotiation with companies and government, with the aim of achieving sustainable development and improved quality of life.
Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals: An Atlas
This Atlas maps the relationship between mining and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by using examples of good practice in the industry and existing knowledge and resources in sustainable development that if replicated or scaled up could make useful contributions to the SDGs.
Supporting Revenue Management Initiatives in Peru and Colombia
IFC’s Revenue Management Programs in Peru and Colombia bring greater accountability in the use of mining and oil & gas royalties through collaborations with companies, municipalities, civil society organizations and local leaders.
Preparing Public Investment Projects – A Guide for Indigenous Communities in Colombia
This guide about preparing public investment projects is addressed to indigenous communities in Colombia, to raise awareness about royalties from Extractive Industries, the rights they have to have access to these resources, as well as explaining the process to create investment proposals to tackle their needs with the support from local governments.
Social Accountability in Pictures
The document shows in a visual manner IFC’s experience promoting social accountability at the local level in Peru’s extractive regions through the implementation of the MIM (Improving Municipal Investment) Peru project.
Voluntary Responsible Mining Initiatives
This paper aims to help stakeholders better assess the voluntary initiatives space for mining and consider options to increase impact.
Why Agreements Matter
A resource guide for integrating agreements into Communities and Social Performance work at Rio Tinto.
Emerging Practices in Community Development Agreements
A Community Development Agreement or CDA can be a vital mechanism for ensuring that local communities benefit from large-scale investment projects, such as mines or forestry concessions.
Mapping Mining to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Preliminary Atlas
The draft report is a collection of maps to help mining companies navigate where their products and activities – from exploration, through mining itself, to end products and eventually mine closure – can help the world achieve the SDGs.
“This is what we die for”: Human Rights Abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Power the Global Trade in Cobalt
This report documents the hazardous conditions in which artisanal miners, including thousands of children, mine cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
USEITI 2015 Executive Summary
As part of fulfilling the international EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) Standard, the Independent Administrator worked with the Multi-Stakeholder Group to develop an Executive Summary of the USEITI 2015 Report.
WBG Extractive Industries – 2015 Annual Review
This report provides a summary of World Bank Group (WBG) activities in the extractive industries (EI) sector in FY15.
Land Acquisition and Resettlement: Lessons Learned
The publication provides recommendations for managing the resettlement of local communities who have been displaced or whose livelihoods have been impacted due to the presence of mining.
Demonstrating Value – A Guide to Responsible Sourcing
Demonstrating value examines the context and drivers for responsible sourcing and provides practical guidance on approaches that companies can take to demonstrate that they are producing materials responsibly.
An Investor’s Perspective: Long-Term Risk Assessment and Value Drivers for Mining Investors with Varying Time Horizons
Environmental sustainability factors related to mining operations can have significant impacts on both short and long term financial performance of mining companies.
Mining and Water: A Perspective on Legal and Regulatory Risks
This brief outlines the importance of taking into account legal and regulatory risks in investment decisions regarding copper and gold mines and briefly discusses the research the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) is conducting to qualify and quantify those risks.
Report of the TSM Tailings Review Task Force
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has received the final report of the independent Task Force it commissioned to review its tailings management requirements and guidance under its Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative.
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries: Towards a Framework for Corporate Peace
This book addresses a significant gap in international research on companies’ political/diplomatic role in peace processes in intrastate conflict—termed Corporate Peacemaking (CPM).
Licence to Legacy: Life Cycle Management and Social Impact in the Extractives Sector
The Anglo American Mine Closure Toolbox was formulated and developed around the concept of achieving sustainable closure through a multi-stakeholder approach based on an early forward-looking closure vision.
Water and Mining in Mongolia’s South Gobi Region
South Gobi Water and Mining Industry Roundtable About the Program Mongolia’s mining sector is a critical source of investment, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of government revenue, and local economic activity – and a key water user. The extraction, processing, and transportation of mineral resources could potentially bring significant changes to pastoral landscapes and […]
Respecting Land and Forest Rights – A Guide for Companies
This document provides guidance, approaches and tools to companies to better manage issues of land rights and responsible governance of tenure.
A Practical Guide to Increasing Mining Local Procurement in West Africa
This document provides information, guidance and tools to support decision-making, planning and implementation of mining local procurement in West Africa, in particular at a country level.
WBG Engagement in Resource-Rich Developing Countries: The Cases of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Zambia
There is strong learning potential in looking across a group of countries that have one common characteristic.
Delivering on the Promise: Leveraging natural resources to accelerate human development in Africa
Most governments have expressed a commitment to turn revenues from new natural resource discoveries into outcomes that matter for their citizens: better health, better education, and access to quality social services.
Agreement-making with Indigenous Groups: Oil & Gas Development in Australia
This resource document was jointly prepared by CSRM and BG Group, to provide source material and an analysis of trends in Australia regarding the challenges of negotiating and implementing agreements with Indigenous groups.
Land Access and Resettlement Planning at la Granja
Gaining secure land tenure is a fundamental business requirement for mine development that can result in displacement and resettlement of families and communities.
Local Procurement and Public Reporting across the Global Mining Industry An analysis of Company Reporting, 2012-2014
This report provides an overview of the global mining industry’s prioritization of local procurement.
Social Impact Assessment: Guidance for Assessing and Managing the Social Impacts of Projects
The purpose of this Guidance Note is to provide advice to various stakeholders about what is expected in good practice social impact assessment (SIA) and social impact management processes, especially in relation to project development.
Research on company – community conflict
In recent years, mining related company-community conflicts have received a great deal of attention by advocacy organizations and traditional and social media.
SUSTAIN: Cutting-edge business solutions magazine in Extractive Industries
SUSTAIN magazine presents cutting-edge business solutions for achieving stronger performance while addressing sustainability challenges.
African Woman in Artisanal and Small Scale Mining
Many studies into the mining sector have described how masculine the industry is.
A practical guide to catchment-based water management for the mining and metals industry
The guide aims to outline a comprehensive and systematic approach for identifying, evaluating and responding to catchment-based water-related risks.
MiningResettlement.org
MiningResettlement.org is an initiative of The University of Queensland’s Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining.
ACET (2015) – Local Content and Value Addition in Ghana’s Mineral, Oil and Gas Sectors – Is Ghana Getting it Right?
Local content and value addition strategy is one of the methods resource-rich countries are adopting to increase the benefits from resource extraction to their economies, beyond securing optimal rents (royalties, taxes, shares, and other revenues).
Land Access and Resettlement: A Guide to Best Practice
This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement, and avoid pitfalls, based on the main lessons that have been learned on-the-ground over the past decade.
How Partnerships between Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and Mining Companies Contribute to Community Development
Mining companies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are increasingly called to collaborate in the community development space.
Human Rights Training Tool
The Human Rights Training Tool (3rd edition) enables oil and gas companies to develop a better understanding of the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and key human rights issues relevant for the industry.
Water Stewardship Framework
ICMM’s Water stewardship framework outlines a common industry approach for what is a complex and locally-defined issue.
Baseline Community Perceptions Survey for International Finance Corporation – Final Report
In 2013, IFC commissioned a community perceptions baseline survey in the South Gobi region of Mongolia to assess the following issues: access to water, use of water and opinions on water management.
Local Procurement by the Canadian Mining Industry
This report measures the extent to which local procurement features in the 2011 and 2012 corporate responsibility reports of the top 50 Canadian mining companies.
Getting to the Table: How a new generation of organisations is improving dialogue and reducing conflict over mining in Latin America
No mining project in Latin America can succeed today without full community consultation.
Water Mining and Communities
Mining companies are increasingly concerned about water risk at all levels: physical, regulatory, reputational and investor.
Resettlement Action Plan (RAP): Ahafo South Expansion Resettlement & Land Access – Projects, Ahafo, Ghana
An example of a resettlement action plan (RAP).
Changing the Game: Communications and Sustainability in the Mining Industry
This report was produced by ICMM, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Brunswick.
Investing in Women’s Employment
Economic growth is more robust and sustainable when women and men alike participate fully in the labor market.
ICMM Position Statement on Indigenous People and Mining
The statement, which came into effect in May 2015 for all ICMM member companies, articulates a progressive set of commitments.
Toolkit and Guidance for Preventing and Managing Land and Natural Resources Conflict
Experience shows that tackling the underlying causes of EI conflict requires a concerted and multifaceted approach that encompasses governance, macro- and micro-economic stability, capacity enhancement, and creative approaches that increase opportunities for dialogue while contributing to the peaceful resolution of conflict.
Anglo American Advanced Social Management Programme: Resource Library
These materials have been compiled for the Anglo American Social Practitioner Capacity Development Initiative.
Community Development Toolkit
This document updates and replaces the original Community Development Toolkit (CDT), which was produced in 2005.
Gender Dimensions of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining A Rapid Assessment Toolkit
This is intended as an easy-to-use toolkit for understanding men’s and women’s differentiated access to the resources and opportunities associated with artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and how they are affected by ASM.
Indigenous Peoples and the oil and gas industry: context, issues and emerging good practice
IPIECA is the global oil and gas industry association for social and environmental issues.
Women Mean Business: Empowerment in Developing Markets
This research report presents a joint analysis by Corporate Citizenship and Nottingham University’s International Centre for Corporate Responsibility of the global business initiatives on women’s empowerment in emerging markets.
Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure
The purpose of these Voluntary Guidelines is to serve as a reference and to provide guidance to improve the governance of tenure (ownership and access) of land, fisheries and forests with the overarching goal of achieving food security for all and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.
Operational level grievance mechanisms
This IPIECA Good Practice Survey on Operational Level Grievance Mechanisms builds on a decade of active engagement by IPIECA on business and human rights.
IFC Guidance Note 2: Labor and Working Conditions
IFC has prepared a set of Guidance Notes, corresponding to the Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability.
IFC Guidance Note 5: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement
IFC has prepared a set of Guidance Notes, corresponding to the Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability.
IFC Guidance Note 7: Indigenous Peoples
IFC has prepared a set of Guidance Notes, corresponding to the Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability.
Local Content Strategy A Guide Document for the Oil and Gas Industry
Many oil and gas producing states are introducing requirements for ‘local content’ into their regulatory frameworks.
Striking Gold: Women in Mining Initiative in Papua New Guinea
The rapid development of the mining sector in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has illuminated the hardships faced by women in society, and in some cases, exacerbated them.
Analysis for stakeholders on formalization in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector based on experiences in Latin America, Africa, and Asia
This document seeks to generate awareness and provide guidelines to policymakers and other interested stakeholders in the formalization of this sub-sector of the mining economy.
Gender-Sensitive Approaches for the Extractive Industry in Peru: Improving the Impact on Women in Poverty and their Families
The negative impacts of extractive industry projects fall predominantly on women rather than men and are much more significant than generally recognized, including the breakdown of family relations and a significant increase in family tensions and domestic violence associated with the arrival of projects in poor communities.
A Guide to Getting Started in Local Procurement: For companies seeking the benefits of linkages with local SMEs
This Local Procurement Guide is designed to provide tools and resources for companies to effectively integrate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as suppliers through capacity building and assessment tools, by creating a policy and strategy for local procurement.
Forests and Gender
The primary objective of IUCN’s publication entitled “Forest and Gender” is to emphasize the importance of integrating gender equality principles in forest conservation and sustainability.
Women in Mining: A Guide to Integrating Women into the Workforce
Women in Mining provides a conceptual framework and a step-by-step approach to integrating women into mining and other extractive and heavy industries.
Local Supplier Development Company Self-Assessment Tool
The Local Supplier Development Company Self-Assessment Tool is designed to help companies or institutions with large procurement needs to create a supporting structure that will effectively allow them to use their procurement dollars to maximize the business value that the procurement function can bring.
Alliance Industry Guide: Extractive Sector
Public-private partnerships done right are a powerful tool for development, providing enduring solutions to some of our greatest challenges. To help familiarize you with the art of alliance building, the Office of Development Partners/ Private Sector Alliances (ODP/PSA) has created a series of practical guides that highlight proven practices in partnerships, demonstrate lessons learned, and […]
International Lessons of Experience and Best Practice in Participatory Monitoring in Extractive Industry Projects: Guidance Note on Designing Participatory Monitoring Programs
This guide highlights good practice in designing participatory monitoring programs as a form of socio-environmental management.
Working together: How large-scale mining can engage with artisanal and small-scale miners
The interaction between large-scale mining companies and artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations has not always been positive, and encounters between the two sectors are increasing.
Strategic Community Investment (SCI): A Good Practice Handbook & Quick Guide for Companies Doing Business in Emerging Markets
The content of the Handbook is organized around seven key areas comprising a comprehensive strategic planning framework for community investment.
Projects and People: A Handbook for Addressing Project-Induced In-Migration
The handbook is divided into five parts
Creating the Foundations for a Linkage Program in a Rural Setting
This Practice Note focuses on the early stages of the Ahafo Linkages Program by capturing important early lessons and providing broad guidance on how to create and run a unit dedicated to local procurement within a company’s supply chain department.
Mining Together: Large-Scale Mining meets Artisanal Mining
This guide, then, represents a step in the right direction to start transforming the relationship between large-scale and artisanal miners through win-win solutions that emerge out of the genuine interaction and dialogue of all stakeholders involved: governments, companies, communities, miners and development organizations.
Human Rights in Business: Guide to Corporate Human Rights Impact Assessment Tools
Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs) are an important strategy for companies to accomplish this due diligence, and for stakeholders to monitor a company’s performance.
Why Gender Matters
This resource guide offers practical methodologies, frameworks and case studies for integrating gender considerations into communities and development work.
The Anglo Zimele Model
The focus of this document is to articulate in detail the process, key components, and success factors associated with the Anglo Zimele model, the enterprise development fund established by Anglo American to empower black entrepreneurs through the creation and transformation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa.
A practical guide to dealing with land disputes
Land conflicts often have extensive negative effects on economic, social, spatial and ecological development.
Developing a Transparent System for Local Contracting: A manual for practitioners based on the eProcurement Experience in Chad
This manual provides a step-by-step guide on how to enable local small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies to get access to procurement opportunities with large companies through a transparent system for local contracting.
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
UNDRIP is the global standard on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. While intended for governments, UNRIP sets forth principles and policies that private sector companies should consider when developing their policies and approaches for Indigenous Peoples.
Business Linkages: Lessons, Opportunities, and Challenges
The new publication, Business Linkages: Lessons, Opportunities, and Challenges, is an example of IFC’s ongoing commitment to sharing knowledge and good practices, and to partnering with key global players to address challenges and identify opportunities for linkages in developing countries.
Women and Sustainable Land Management
Land degradation, which affects more than 900 million people worldwide and as much as two-thirds of the world’s agricultural land, has important gender dimensions.
Community Engagement and Development
The Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry is an Australian Government initiative which has produced a series of internationally recognised handbooks on various topics.
HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector
Southern Africa is particularly affected by HIV/AIDS.
Land & Conflict: A Toolkit for Intervention
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide a practical introduction to the relationship between land and violent conflict.
Artisanal and Small Scale Mining: Challenges and Opportunities
In many developing countries, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is largely a poverty-driven activity which plays an important economic role.
Anglo American Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox
Anglo American plc (Anglo) has made its Socio-Economic Assessment Toolbox (SEAT) freely available as a contribution to managing the socio-economic impacts of extractive, other natural resource and industrial operations.
Small Scale Mining and Development within the SADC Region
A comparative analysis and overview of small scale mining in six countries in the South African Development Community
IFC Handbook for Preparing a Resettlement Action Plan
A project that involves involuntary resettlement—the economic and/or physical displacement of people—represents a significant challenge.
