National minerals policies and stakeholder participation for broad-based development in the southern African development community (SADC) |
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Authors: | HD Mtegha FT Cawood RCA Minnitt |
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Institution: | aSchool of Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS 2050, South Africa |
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Abstract: | This paper explains how the well-accepted concept of improved stakeholder participation during mineral policy development leads to a national mineral policy that accommodates the diverging views and interests that allows wide acceptance of decisions, enhancing the success of implementation and, ultimately, national benefits. This process is based on lessons learnt during the South African experience and has been successfully applied in the development of the Namibian and Malawian national minerals policies. An effective policy in the SADC will engineer the delicate balance between poverty reduction and an internationally competitive minerals sector. This balance enhances the possibility of long-term economic growth and development in the SADC region. The overriding advantage of this strategy is that it generates ‘home-grown’ policy instruments and implementation of mineral law with which stakeholders can identify. This process presents a new challenge to traditional policy formulation strategies in emerging economies and the bottom-up approach, linked to wide political support, allows the potential realisation of national objectives. |
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Keywords: | Community Economy Empowerment Environment Government Investment Malawi Mineral development Minerals policy Namibia NGO Participation Policy implementation Policy harmonisation Policy-making process Policy workshops Poverty R& D Regional integration SADC Small-scale mining Social South Africa Stakeholder Sustainable development Training Value-addition |
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