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Community Development Toolkit
2005
World Bank, Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)
A key objective of the World Bank Group's Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division is to determine how extractive industry investments can better contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development at both the community and country levels. The division is currently carrying out a sustainability work program intended to create and add value for all stakeholders: governments, affected communities, and private companies.
The program includes the implementation of a variety of new initiatives to maximize the contribution of extractive activities to more sustainable national and local development in those countries and communities where nonrenewable resource extraction is or has the potential to become a significant economic activity.
Such initiatives include the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and the Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM) knowledge-sharing initiative, as well as this Community Development Toolkit. The approach underlying the initiatives is based on strengthening the capacity of all stakeholders to:
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Articulate and represent their interests and needs in an informed way.
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Manage their interactions with other stakeholders in constructive ways that ultimately translate into equitable sharing of the various potential benefits – social and economic, short and long term – that can be derived from large-scale oil, gas, and mining development.
This project has focused on developing a methodological approach supported by relevant tools that can be used by the various stakeholders to identify opportunities, build durable relationships,
and promote community development and create the basis for long-term community sustainability beyond the life of the extractive activity.
The project concept was originally conceived at a joint workshop held in November 2000 in Johannesburg for members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The convenors
included the World Bank and the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME)i, among others.
The objective of the workshop was to advance the understanding of the major issues and challenges standing in the way of sustainable mining sector development within countries of southern Africa.
A consensus emerged around the need to have practical toolkits to facilitate implementation of the key elements of a generative process for fostering constructive working relationships between
communities, companies, and government while securing the sustainability of communities. It was argued that the toolkits should themselves be developed through a participatory process involving
all stakeholders.
The World Bank and ICME followed up by drafting a proposal (2001–02) for a joint project to elaborate such tools. The World Bank’s Oil, Gas, and Mining Policy Division turned to the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) trust fund for financial support. The proposal addressed a number of ESMAP’s core objectives, and the knowledge product was to be grounded in the
southern African experience, also a priority region for ESMAP support. The ICME pledged additional financial support from its own resources, even as it was undergoing its own transition to the
International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM). The new ICMM affirmed its commitment to work collaboratively with other stakeholders in its inaugural Toronto Declaration of May 2002.
The ICMM Sustainable Development Frameworkii followed shortly thereafter (2003). From ICMM’s perspective, the project provided an opportunity to develop tools to assist members, and others, implement ICMM’s 10 sustainable development principles (see box 1.1), against which corporate members have committed to measure and report their performance. In particular, the project was relevant to the ninth principle where members have committed to “contribute to the social, economic and institutional development of the communities in which they operate.”
Footnotes:
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On May 21, 2001, the Board of Directors of the International Council on Metals and Environment (ICME) agreed to broaden the groups’ mandate and transform itself into the International Council on
Mining and Metals (ICMM), and to move its headquarters from Ottawa, Canada, to London.
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See www.icmm.com/sd_framework.php.
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