The Mining for Development initiative was launched earlier this week by Raw Materials Group, a mineral consultancy, and Global Challenge, a Swedish developmental NGO. Its goal is to find new ways to enable mineral-rich developing countries to benefit from Sweden’s and other Nordic countries’ long experiences of using minerals and mining to foster social and economic development.
The inspiration for this initiative is Norway’s Oil for Development initiative, a project that aims to harness Norwegian experiences in the oil and gas industries in support of sustainable development in oil rich developing countries.
Mining for Development will supplement other initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the African Union’s mining project and is supported by a wide range of Swedish actors from industry and government.
