ALIGN - Governance Flash - Timing your safeguards in mining

What is the problem? Why is this important to governments? Mineral exploration licences cover huge swathes Insufficient decision-making processes for approving of land to increase the chances of identifying a investments in the mining sector may hinder the resource of sufficient wealth. [...] This can lead to ongoing conflict and costs to the community, company Exploration itself can have environmental and social and government. [...] To avert possible conflict and injustice, governments, civil society and companies need to introduce safeguards in advance of mineral exploration to ALIGN Governance Flash: a series of short guidance notes designed to alert government officials of critical land-based investment governance considerations and possible responses to issues that might be falling through the cracks, leading to conflicts. [...] Get in touch! ●● Authorities should embrace best practice in strategic land Risks associated with land dispossession, use planning in advance of exploration; environmental and environmental degradation, and conflict can social impact assessments when awarding exploration undermine the potentially positive impacts that private investments in low and middle income licences; and meaningful engagement. [...] civil society, local communities, and other actors in a wide range of countries, and our knowledge ●● Government authorities must uphold protections given to generation and sharing on innovative approaches for improving practices among key actors, globally unique and threatened ecosystems and other areas of natural and in specific targeted contexts.