MINING SECTOR REFORM PROJECT

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The Mining Sector Reform Project will (a) complete sector reforms aimed at establishing an enabling environment to both promote foreign direct investment in mining and integrate small-scale and artisinal activities into the formal economy, which would ensure a real and sustainable contribution to economic growth; (b) build institutional capacity to effectively enforce laws and regulations, administer mining titles, monitor sector developments, and make geological information available to potential investors; (c) establish capacity in the country, by means of pilot projects, to identify and address environmental as well as social impacts from mining; and (d) identify and adopt appropriate mechanisms to facilitate the development of small-scale mines and to improve the social, welfare, health, and environmental conditions of artisinal miners. The project components include: (a) normalization of small-scale mining; (b) the development and maintenance of an environmental information system/sector environmental control and assessment; (c) institutional reform and capacity building; and (d) project coordination.