Unit 4 Questions

Please answer each of the following questions.  If you are taking this course in a group you may then meet to discuss your answers.

1. Explain how the local level can be promoted by the extractive industries sector in theory, and why in practice that sometimes turns out to be difficult. How is the local level promoted in your country?
   
   
2. In your country, are there environmental risks of current EI projects?
   
   
3. In your country, is land use documented? How?
   
   
4. What are the rights for indigenous people and local communities that are affected by extractive industries projects in your country? Are local communities involved and consulted from the start of the project, and during the lifetime of the project? Do they support the project? Are they compensated for any negative effects of extractive industries? How?
   
   
5. What do different stakeholders expect from extractive industries in your country? Is that realistic? (See also Box 13)

Relevant Internet Resources

The Natural Resource Charter: http://www.naturalresourcecharter.org/

Parliamentary Strengthening: http://www.parliamentarystrengthening.org/

Global Witness: www.globalwitness.org

Women and the Extractive Industries Fact Sheet: www.worldbank.org/eigender

Equator Principles: http://www.equator-principles.com/

United National Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html

Select Bibliography

National Democratic Institute (2007) “Transparency and accountability in Africa’s Extractive Industries: The role of the legislature” NDI

International Monetary Fund. (2007). “Code of Good Practices on Fiscal Transparency”
S. Costa, M. Scoble. (2005). “An interdisciplinary approach to integrating sustainability into mining engineering education and research”, Elsevier Ltd

N. A. Hackman. (2009). “Creating a framework for Ghanaians to benefit from oil rich Ghana”, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law Policy, University of Dundee, Scotland. www.myjoyonline.com. Accessed July 25, 2009

WWF. (2004). “Gold Mining Threatens Tanzania’s protected forests”. http://www.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/tanzania/news/?13083/Gold-mining-threatens-Tanzanias-protected-forests. Accessed July 15, 2009

S. Lange (2007). “Land Tenure and Mining in Tanzani”. Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

Extractive Industries Value Chain. A comprehensive integrated approach to developing extractive industries. Eleodoro Mayorga Alba. Extractive Industries for Development Series #3, Africa Region Working Paper Series #125. March 2009, The World Bank

Chr. Michelsen Institute (2008) “Land Tenure and Mining in Tanzania”, CMI Report R2008:2 http://www.cmi.no/publications/file/3008-land-tenure-and-mining-in-tanzania.pdf

The International Forum on Globalization and the Tebtebba Foundation. (2009). “Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”

World Bank. (2007). “Poverty and Social Impact Analysis: Lessons and Examples from Implementation”. PREM Poverty Reduction Group, SDN Social Development Department