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As part of a broader advisory project on integrated community development based at a mine site in Siguiri, Guinea, CCSI produced a report that makes recommendations as to how the government, mining companies, civil society, and communities can work together to maximize the benefits of local development funding in the Guinean context.
Guinea’s 2011 Mining Code introduced a large number of reforms directed to increasing transparency and the contribution of the mining sector to development, including requirements for the establishment of a local development fund and for community development agreements between mining companies and local communities. As part of the legal and fiscal analysis of the gold mining investments in Guinea, CCSI examined how these provisions could be implemented effectively. The report (available en français) analyzes the legal framework that has been in place in Guinea to date, focusing in particular on the experiences of the stakeholders around the Société AngloGold Ashanti de Guinée mine in Siguiri, assesses the improvements and remaining weaknesses in the draft regulations (as compared to the previous legal framework) and provides a comparative analysis of models and good practices of community development agreements and local development funds globally.
The report provides recommendations on:
Mining, Metals and Resource-based Development / Discussion paper
