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The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "No more hanky panky"
… (EITI) has been promoting public revenue reporting on oil, gas and mining revenues. It is now facing pressure to go further – to include … trust. The EITI process in Ghana has informed policy reform in the mining sector, including a review of the fiscal regime governing taxes and revenues and a review of the guidance on the use of mining royalties at the sub-national level. However, Publish What You …
Insight, 11 March 2011
The publicity for our Twitter chat on 27 March 2017 (Image: Nick Turner/IIED)
Creating a conversation online
… and resources among the varied and global artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) community. IIED's dialogue programme for artisanal and small-scale mining  centres on enabling a wide range of stakeholders to come … to promote the day more widely, with a news story , postings to a key mining network , and further activity on our other social media …
Insight, 20 April 2017
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
Article, 31 December 2015
Yanacocha Mine, in Cajamarca, Peru. The country's Supreme Court last year ruled in favour of a farmer that a US gold miner claimed was illegally occupying land it wanted to develop (Golda Fuentes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Getting community voices heard in investor-state arbitration
… on it. The case of Bear Creek v Peru Canadian investor, Bear Creek Mining Corporation, initiated an investor-state arbitration against Peru concerning a mining project. Some members of local communities had protested against …
Insight, 05 March 2018
Cover for 17049IIED.pdf
Building public trust: transnationals in the community
… make for an uneasy fit. Transnational corporations in oil, gas and mining, for instance, have come under fire from civil society …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Cover for 17050IIED.pdf
Taking control: how citizens can hold industry to account
… The oil, gas and mining industries look set to remain major players in global …
Publication, 01 January 2009
Cover for G03420.pdf
Barefoot lawyers: Defending community resource rights in the Philippines
… successful outcomes including, amongst others, the withdrawal of a mining company from community lands. …
Publication, 01 August 2012
Surveying residents in the settlement of Tank Mohalla, Bangalore, India (Photo: CSTEPIN, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Local democracy as a substitute for data (and rather a good substitute too)
… Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is also an enthusiasm for mining existing datasets. All this was highlighted by A World That … international agencies to account? There is a lot of excitement about mining data from new sources – for instance mobile phones. But you …
Insight, 16 January 2015
Photo: Farah Sevilla, Alyansa Tigil Mina
How extractive industries can address conflict and build trust with communities
… to help fill gaps left by weak legal systems. "Leading oil and gas, mining and forestry companies are starting to establish their own formal … Far East; by Anglo American across its global operations; by TVIRD in mining projects in the Philippines; and by Kaltim Prima Coal in …
News, 25 April 2013
Cover for G03390.pdf
Table of contents: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… genetic resources and traditional knowledge; confronting threats from mining and protected areas; and improving forestry partnerships. It also …
Publication, 01 June 2012