Continuing with efforts to establish platforms for dialogue to build consensus in Mongolia’s mining sector, the EPRC/USAID project held two more seminars in the series, ‘Conflict to resolution: Costs, risks and avoidance’:
The seminar was particularly useful to companies operating in the fast growing mining sector of South Gobi as they seek regional approaches to issues, including mechanisms to address current and potential grievances. The seminar provided participants with the same common ‘tools’ to handle grievances and a venue to share information on common experiences in the area of grievances and conflicts.
- Civil society stakeholders: On 4-5 May in cooperation with the Open Society Forum, the project facilitated the seminar to eighteen members of the Publish What You Pay (PWYP) coalition; PWYP is a coalition of 26 non-governmental organizations that comprise the civil society arm of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)—a global initiative working to bring greater fiscal transparency to the extractive industries.
- Industry stakeholders: On 11-12 May, the project held a seminar for eighteen industry representatives of seven companies operating in the South Gobi region and the regional office of the Mongolian National Mining Association (MNMA); the training was held in the Dalanzadgad local government building.
The seminar was particularly useful to companies operating in the fast growing mining sector of South Gobi as they seek regional approaches to issues, including mechanisms to address current and potential grievances. The seminar provided participants with the same common ‘tools’ to handle grievances and a venue to share information on common experiences in the area of grievances and conflicts.