Mining: Partnerships for Development Toolkit (ICMM, 2006)

Description

This toolkit tries to provide a systematic and objective way to quantify and agree ways to enhance minings economic and social contribution. It consists of eight modules through which the reader can learn on how to understand the social and economic impact mining has on the host country. The eight modules are the following:

1. Mining and the host country;
2. The participating mining operation and its economic and social initiatives and partners;
3. Measuring the mining industrys contribution to the host country;
4. The proximate aspects of governance that help or hinder minings economic and social performance;
5. Measuring the participating mines positive and negative contributions to local communities;
6. Analyzing the life cycle impact of the participating mine on the host countrys macroeconomic aggregates;
7. Impact of mining on governance; and
8. Communicating your findings.

There are a number of worksheet and database templates to help the reader complete each of the modules in the toolkit.