MINERAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT

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The Mineral Resources Management Capacity Building Project aims to encourage private investment in mining; increase fiscal revenues; develop environmental and social management for mining; and improve capacity of government institutions. The project consists of five components: 1) The institutional reform and capacity building of public mining institutions component will support modernization of regulatory framework, institutional reform/capacity building, mining cadastre and registry system, investment promotion, and intranet network . 2) The development of the country's geological infrastructure component will support these subcomponents: component supervision and coordination, geophysics airborne survey, geological mapping of Mozambique, geochemical sampling, seismological network, documentation center, Minerals Information System, industrial minerals survey, rehabilitation of the geological museum, and reinforcement of National Directorate of Geology's central laboratory network. 3) The environment management system component will set up preventive environmental protection for mining. 4) The sustainability of small scale and artisanal mining component will improve the general awareness of small-scale and artisanal and the overall impacts on the local communities. 5) The project coordination and management component will finance to set up a Mining Project Coordination Unit to coordinate project implementation.