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On now #ResponsibleMining #SDGs via @UDelaware @saleem_ali @PactWorld @RMF_foundation @CCSI_Columbia with +1000 strong community of practice on the webinar 👏🏽👏🏽

.@ECA_OFFICIAL's Antonio Pedro notes that in #COVID context, discussion on #ASM, #SDGs cannot afford to be neglected.

.@J_McQuilken from @PactWorld Mines to Market program speaks to #ASM impact on #SDGs 2,3 & 6. #Nutrition & Healthy Lives.

The analysis so far could offer confirmatory evidence that #Development #Assistance donors need to better evolve support for formalization via multi-sectoral or cluster development approaches. @DFID_UK @giz_gmbh @EPRM_RVO @GAC_Corporate @DoroBauPau @RightsGAC @SustDev @SDGaction

#ResponsibleMining #SDGs

.@ECA_OFFICIAL Antonio Pedro critically engages with concept of formalization, noting it is a complex process. Asks any examples of successful formalization? Mr. Kamara from Min of Env. #SierraLeone notes linking global benchmarks & national #development strategies as helpful.

.@ECA_OFFICIAL Antonio Pedro pointedly asks: are we romanticizing #ASM with regard to actual impacts on poverty alleviation or are we stuck in the same paradigm? @PactWorld Jordan de Haan respond #livlihoods improvement is a challenge, but anecdotal evidence suggests + impacts.

.@J_McQuilken @PactWorld adds that #formalization that #SDGs provides a framework for ratcheting up the #ASM sector on the domestic policy agenda and to raise $ resources needed to successfully formalize.

Participant questions raise pithy questions on #securitization of supply chain, incentives for formalization #ResponsibleMining #SDGs via @CCSI_Columbia @PactWorld @UDelaware @RMF_foundation @UNSDSN.

#ASM #SDGs report co-author
#KirstenDales notes avoiding #formalization benefits mainly nefarious actors & facilitates elite capture. Do #politicaleconomy scholars concur? Are #criminal elements of #ASM chains the elite? @LRoySachs @saleem_ali @BlavatnikSchool

.@RMF_foundation's Helene de Villiers-Piaget changes gears to tackle #SDGs from a large-scale lens, and need to protect trust by averting #SDGwashing.

#Mining Firms in @RMF_foundation sample re. #health practices miss looking at wellbeing for all at all ages, esp in terms of impacts on #communityhealth, despite glossy #CSR claims.

.@RMF_foundation analysis shows very little action at community impact level on #SDG5 across sample of 38 #Mining firms. This report suggests @theminingstory @ICMM_com @the_PDAC and other industry associations will need to meaningfully respond to this critique. #ResponsibleMining

Among @RMF_foundation recommendations is better alignment of #SDGs and #ESG reporting. How are investor standards platforms tackling this task? Watch out for some thoughts on this from @RajThamotheram & me via @IPEnews.

Panelist BrianChicksen responds to q from @ECA_OFFICIAL Antonio Pedro that unless firms re-imagine themselves as part of society, the transition from shareholder capitalism/short-termism to genuine stakeholder capitalism will remain a myth. #SDGs

.@J_McQuilken from @PactWorld speaks to the need for #juniors to improve level of trust , this role may be better placed with the state, when reflecting on linkages between #ASM & #LSM

.@RMF_foundation's Helene de Villiers-Piaget notes very few miners engage in identifying "neighbourliness" when #ASM miners are in their purview and virtually none see this as falling in their sphere of responsibility.

Brian Chicksen optimistic about working & living in harmony between #ASM and #LSM, opportunities go beyond use of existing capability within the mine. For example, land not planned for exploration within tenement can be allocated to #ASM miners & skills transfer to reduce impact.

Great job to panelists for succinct but incisive commentary @CCSI_Columbia @PactWorld @UNSDSN @RMF_foundation @UDelaware and excellent moderation by @ECA_OFFICIAL's Antonio Pedro. #ResponsibleMining #SDGs

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