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Introduction
What are the roles of regional partnerships?
Where
are the Regional Partners and what are they doing?
What
other regional activities are taking place?
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MMSD Around the World
Introduction
Much of the work of MMSD has been undertaken at a regional level in principal
mineral producing and consuming regions. Regional Processes have been
established in Australia, North
America, South America and
Southern Africa, and further regional
activities have taken place in Europe,
the former Soviet Union and Indonesia,
The Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
In these regions, parallel research and engagement activities were undertaken
by partner organisations. These partnerships increased the ability of
MMSD to address regional issues and to include regional stakeholder perspectives.
They also enabled MMSD to tap into the research and analysis which had
already been done in each region.
Moreover, it is intended that after the Project is over in 2002, these
processes will continue to exist and will provide a network of strong,
regionally-based centres, broadly acceptable to stakeholders, capable
of quality research on issues of sustainable development affecting the
minerals industries.
A document outlining
the Guidelines
for Forming Regional Partnerships is available for further information.
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What are the roles of regional partnerships?
The main roles of the Regional Partnerships were to:
- Enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of
the MMSD Project in undertaking research and analysis, engaging
as broad a base of stakeholders as possible, planning for implementation
of Project outcomes, and communicating with the many interested people
and institutions worldwide.
- Ensure that the Project makes maximum benefit
of important work carried out by researchers and institutions
worldwide.
- Create
a network of institutions, which will survive after MMSD
ends, to continue the initiatives MMSD developed.
- Meet
the needs of the regions to build and develop institutions or centres
- independent of the control of any single set of stakeholders -
to do research, promote open dialogue, disseminate information and develop
other initiatives related to mining, minerals and sustainable development.
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Where were the Regional Partners and what did they do?
Australia
North
America
South
America
Southern
Africa
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What other regional activities took place?
MMSD also developed research workshops and individual research projects
in a number of other parts of the world. Principally, these activities
took place in the following areas:
Europe
Former Soviet Union
Indonesia, The Philippines &
Papua New Guinea
Research on small-scale
mining was also undertaken in a number of other countries, including
Burkina Faso, China, Ghana, India and Mali.
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