Community Development

"Often, the most sustainable beneficial legacies that community development programs around a mining operation may leave are in the skills and capacities that training, employment, and education programs for local people provide. The essential element of a sustainable community development program is that it can survive without input from a mining company, especially after the mining project is finished. Thus, community sustainability can be supported by mining practices that help convert one local asset, nonrenewable natural resource capital, into another local asset, sustainable human and social capital".  -  Source ICMM/WB/ESMAP Community Development Toolkit - Introduction

As a logical continuation of the ICMM Sustainable Development Framework and the work undertaken by the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project was the development and publication of the Community Development Toolkit in November 2005. This toolkit was developed jointly by the World Bank (WB), ICMM and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP).

EDM is committed to using the Community Development Toolkit in the implementation of the various stages of stakeholder consultations, participative planning, the development of appropriate management and implementation plans and strategies and finally the development of monitoring and evaluation systems,with stakeholder participation, to measure progress to achieving the community development goals.

Note - The MMSD was an independent two-year process of consultation and research aimed at understanding how to maximise the contribution of the mining and minerals sector to sustainable development at the global, national, regional and local levels. Through this process, MMSD proposed a clear agenda for global change in the minerals sector - an agenda based on careful analysis, understood and supported by many key stakeholders, and with clear mechanisms for moving forward.