Resources

This Toolkit has been developed as a globally applicable resource designed to help financial institutions support the management of forest resources through sustainable and legal timber production and processing, and markets for carbon and other ecosystem services.

This Practice Note, jointly developed by IFC and Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL), focuses on the early stages of the Ahafo Linkages Program (ALP) and aims to capture important early lessons that might otherwise have been lost.

 

Given that mining is historically a male-dominated sector, companies and their systems, staff and workers are often not ready to seamlessly absorb women into the workplace. Significant cultural and systems changes are being made by the Lonmin-IFC program in the Preparation, Recruitment, Development and Retention of women.

This manual provides a conceptual framework and a step-by-step guide to integrating women into the mining sector, as well as into other extractive and heavy industries. Successful integration of women ensures greater benefits for local communities and creates a more just and equitable society. The integration of women into these historically male-dominated industries is not easy, but when it is done well, it can have a transformative effect.

This Quick Guide is intended as a summary document, providing some of the key highlights and messages from IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Strategic Community Investment.

 

The focus of the work is on the impact of China’s oil and mining companies’ recent overseas expansion on the governance of resource wealth.

As part of its work to increase financial inclusion in developing countries, FDC recently assessed various business models for the provision of financial services in Papua New Guinea (PNG).

The Human Rights and Business Country Risk Portal presents business relevant human rights information on developing countries around the world, and enables companies, governments and rights advocates to better understand and address the human rights and development impacts of private-sector investment.