The 8th Alternative Mining Indaba Concept Note

The 8th Alternative Mining Indaba Concept Note

8th Alternative Mining Indaba Concept Note 6th to the 8th of February 2017, Double Tree by Hilton, Upper Eastside Hotel, Cape Town

Introduction

The Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) is an international platform that was formed in 2010 by civil society in their efforts to provide an alternative voice emanating from the investing in Africa Mining Indaba that has been hosted for over 20 years. The platform goes beyond profits, mergers and acquisitions with a focus on community development strategies, calling for good governance of revenues and in particular seeks to define and find ways to implement ethical policies in the extractive sector value-chain, thus creating conditions for a positive economic and social outcome, while avoiding any negative environmental and social effects.

Over the years the AMI has grown from being a platform for communities to tell their stories and expose the atrocities being committed by mining companies to an advocacy and lobbying space where by all mining stakeholders meet to strengthen advocacy work and develop strategic tools to address challenges faced by the sector.

Find the entire 8th Alternative Mining Indaba Concept Note here: http://caritaszambia.org/index.php/publications/key-papers/file/101-8th-alternative-mining-indaba-concept-note

About Caritas Zambia

Caritas Zambia is a Catholic Organisation that is an integral structure of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB). The Conference of Bishops is a permanent grouping of Bishops of a given nation or territory that jointly exercises certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of their territory. This is done for the sake of effective evangelisation. To promote the principle of the common good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programmes of the apostolate which are fittingly adapted to the circumstances of the time and place, is the role of Bishops.