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  The
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group recognizes the potential of countries' mineral
sectors to significantly influence regional and national economic
and poverty profiles. Our vision is a mining sector that, by attracting
private investments, creates a foundation for economic and social
well-being and environmental responsibility.
To further this vision, the World Bank Group provides services
to government, the private sector and civil society. Government
is assisted through the design of policy and regulatory frameworks,
as well as the financing of interventions. The private sector is
assisted through support and financing for environmentally and socially
sustainable private sector investment in developing countries’.
Support is provided to civil society through facilitation of dialogue
with mining companies and governments.
To improve the effectiveness and reach of its activities in the
mining sector, the World Bank Group has recently combined the operations
of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / International
Development Association (IBRD/IDA) and International Finance Corporation
(IFC) in the sector into a single global Mining Department. The
new department aims to bring work on public sector policy and the
private sector investment support closer together; to achieve synergies;
and to provide a simpler and more direct contact point for government,
private sector and civil society clients.
Further information is available on the World Bank Group's mining
website:
[http://www.worldbank.org/mining]
The featured documents are organised according to the following
topics:
•Overview of World
Bank Activities
•Guidelines
•Legal and Institutional
•Development
•Social and Community
•Small-Scale Mining
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Treasure
or Trouble?: Mining in Developing Countries (PDF) -
Monika Weber-Fahr. The World Bank and International Finance
Corporation, 2002.
It's
Not Over When It's Over: Mine Closure Around the World
(PDF) - Christopher Sheldon, John Strongman, and Monika
Weber-Fahr. World Bank and International Finance Corporation,
2002.
Money
from Mining: Whence It Came, Where it Went (PDF) - Craig
Andrews, Principal Mining Specialist, World Bank Group.
Mining 2002 Resources Convention, Queensland, Australia,
30th October – 1st November, 2002.
Sustainable
Mining Development From Concept to Action (PDF) - John
Strongman, Mining Advisor, World Bank Group. Presentation
to the Mining and the Community II Conference, Madang, Papua
New Guinea, September 2002.
An
Asset for Competitiveness: Sound Environmental Management
in Mining Countries (PDF) - Monika Weber-Fahr,
Craig Andrews, Leo Maraboli, and John Strongman. World Bank
and International Finance Corporation, 2002.
World
Bank's Mining Activities: Presentation to the Friends of
the Earth - Raw Materials versus Poverty Conference
(PowerPoint) - John Strongman, Mining Department, The World
Bank Group. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2001.
Mining
and the Environment in Indonesia: Long-Term Trends and Repercussions
of the Asian Economic Crisis (PDF) - Gary McMahon,
Elly Rasdiani Subdibjo, Jean Aden, Aziz Bouzaher, Giovanna
Dore, Ramanie Kunanayagam. Discussion Paper. Environment
and Social Development Unit (EASES) / East Asia and Pacific
Region of the World Bank, 2000.
Mine
Closure An Overview of the Issues - A Presentation to the
Government of Indonesia (PDF) - John Strongman,
Mining Adviser, World Bank Group. A Presentation to the
Government of Indonesia, Mine Closure Workshop, Jakarta,
Indonesia, October 2000.
A
Mining Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean
(PDF) - World Bank, January 1997.
Strategy
for African Mining (Executive Summary) - World
Bank Technical Paper Number 181, 1992.
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Large
Mines and Local Communities: Forging Partnerships, Building
Sustainability (PDF) - Felix Remy and Gary MacMahon.
The World Bank and International Finance Corporation, April
2002.
The
Rise of the Community (PDF) - Gary McMahon and
John Strongman, January 1999.
Integrating Social Concerns into Private
Sector Decisionmaking: A Review of Corporate Practices in
the Mining, Oil, and Gas Sectors - Aida Davy and
Kathryn McPhail - World Bank Discussion Paper No. 384, 1998.
- The paper deals with aspects of corporate social responsibility.
First, by exploring the factors supporting the integration
of social concerns into the planning and implementation
of privately financed projects in the mining, oil, and gas
sectors, and second by reviewing corporate social and environmental
assessment practices and the integration between the two.
The document is available for purchase only from the World
Bank website at: [http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/]
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An Environmental
Study of Artisanal, Small and Medium Mining in Bolivia,
Chile, and Peru (PDF) - Alberto Pasco-Font, Gary McMahon,
Jose Luis Evia, and Jose Migue Sanchez, 1999.
Regularizing Informal Mining A Summary
of the Proceedings of the International Roundtable on Artisanal
Mining - Washington, D.C. May 17–19, 1995. Industry
and Energy Department, Occasional Paper No. 6, Mamadou Barry,
editor, April 1996.
Table of Contents
(PDF)
Introduction
(PDF)
Opening Remarks
(PDF)
Keynote Address
(PDF)
First
Session: Environmental, health and Safety Issues (PDF)
Second
Session: Organizational, Social and Women's Participation
Issues (PDF)
Third
Session: Technical and Financial Issues (PDF)
Fourth
Session: Legal and Regulatory Issues (PDF)
Elements
of a Solution (PDF)
Agenda for
Action (PDF)
Conclusions
(PDF)
Annex:
List of Participants (PDF)
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