Monitoring and Evaluation

This study explores how communities and companies can engage in co-planning and monitoring to ensure sustainable local development benefits from the extraction of resources. Within the context of a spectrum of participation a variety of tools and mechanisms are presented in the paper. Some of these tools have been used primarily in the public sector, however companies stand to benefit from the tools in forms that are adapted to context, as they are potential vehicles to increase transparency, and thus accountability of companies, communities and governments.

This guide highlight good practice in designing participatory monitoring programs as a form of socio-environmental management. The concepts and examples presented here are drawn from the many experiences and cases of the extractive industries. Best international practice has served as a guiding principle to organize the information and to incorporate the lessons learned from these experiences.

The term “resource curse” was coined to reflect the paradox in which some resource-rich nations have achieved less economic growth than other countries with poor mineral potential. As part of a broad effort to better understand the factors that either inhibit or promote social and economic development linked to largescale mining projects, the ICMM launched an action-research project known as the Resource Endowment Initiative with the World Bank Group, the United Nations, and various stakeholders. One of its key goals is to find ways to ensure better social and development outcomes from large-scale mining investments.