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Supporting Countries to Integrate Environment and Human Rights into the Governance of the Mining Sector

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EGP Phase 2 - Highlights

The final report for Phase 2 of the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) compiles the work carried out across all ten EGP countries during the five-year period 2020 to 2024. This abbreviated report highlights the main achievements and the key lessons learned from the programme’s implementation and presents how these learnings have informed the next phase of EGP.

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Extracting good practices

This joint Guide by UNDP and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency seeks to support governments and other stakeholders to better manage the environmental and social aspects of mining, in a way that rebalances relations in favour of more just and sustainable outcomes for local communities and vulnerable groups, including women and children, now and in the future. This publication supports government authorities to:

Integrate the substance of environmental and human rights standards into the regulatory fabric of the sector (its policies, laws and regulations) to make these obligations part and parcel of the way the sector is governed, managed and operated.
Actively engage the affected public to participate in rulemaking, licensing and monitoring of the sector, acknowledging the value of communities’ and civil society participation in improving the governance of the mining sector and strengthening enforcement.
Put in place a range of processes and mechanisms for holding government and mining companies accountable to the public, including mechanisms that can help resolve disputes and provide effective remedies.

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Full Guide (2.3 MB)
Executive Summary (1.2 MB)

The Executive Summary is available in four languages:

Extracting Good Practices: A Guide for Governments and Partners to Integrate Environment and Human Rights into the Governance of the Mining Sector

Participatory enviromental monitoring report

This report presents the results of simultaneous investigations about participatory environmental monitoring in mining contexts in Argentina, Bolivia, Panama and Peru.

It identifies the contexts in which Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees have been created, their membership, and the relationships to government systems in order to prevent and mitigate environmental degradation. Likewise, this report shows practical examples of leading practices to overcome the challenges, and also action-based policies that can strengthen monitoring committees as an approach contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The report has been jointly prepared by UNDP, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian International Resources and Development Institute, under the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP). It was launched during the 1st International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.

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English (9.6 MB)
Spanish (9.4 MB)

Participatory Environmental Monitoring Committees in Mining Contexts: Lessons from Nine Case Studies in Four Latin American Countries

Role of Host Governments in Enabling or Preventing Conflict Associated with Mining

This study is the Phase 2 of an ongoing research project to improve understanding about the rise in conflict associated with mining operations around the world, particularly in developing countries.

This publication includes summaries of a literature review, a quantitative analysis of a global database on conflict incidents, a field case study conducted in Ghana and a discussion on policy implications for governments. It also draws upon four field case studies from Phase 1 of this research, conducted by Andrews et al. (2016), which investigate specific conflict incidents at mine sites in Tanzania, Madagascar, Peru, and Bolivia.

The purpose of the Phase 2 research is to better understand the role of host governments in conflict creation or prevention, and on this basis to provide possible actions for governments to consider conflict transformation, mitigation and prevention.

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Full Report (27.8 MB)
Abridged Version (2.2 MB)

users guide on assessing the rule of law

Ensuring the rule of law in the exploitation of natural resources, including metals and minerals, is essential to ensuring inclusive and sustainable economic growth and human development, and to protecting and fulfilling human rights.

This Users Guide on Assessing the Rule of Law in Public Administration: The Mining Sector was designed to help policymakers and civil servants identify specific strengths and challenges in the application of principles of the rule of law in the way the public administration regulates the mining industry. This guide introduces a self-assessment tool to help government officials and civil society stakeholders evaluate the extent to which principles of the rule of law - and, by extension, procedural environmental rights (the right to participate in decision making, access to information, access to justice and redress) are respected in the governance of the mining sector.

This guide has been developed in close cooperation between UNDP, the Folke Bernadotte Academy and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

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Full Report in English (2.9 MB)
Step 1: Inception (127.3 kB)
Step 2: Formal mapping (468.4 kB)
Step 3: Agency staff survey (462.5 kB)
Step 4: Target group (132.3 kB)
Step 5: Data analysis, triangulation and report-writing (210.0 kB)
Step 6: Presentation and dissemination of results (455.5 kB)

EGP Annual Workshop Reports

2021 Annual Global Workshop

EGP Learning Hub Reports

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Publications and Guides

Supporting Countries to Integrate Environment and Human Rights into the Governance of the Mining Sector

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A newsletter about responsible mining from the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)

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October 27^th, 2025

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A newsletter about responsible mining from the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)

February 11th, 2026

February 10th, 2026

A newsletter about responsible mining from the Environmental Governance Programme (EGP)

October 27th, 2025

Learn about all countries that have been a part of EGP

February 11^th, 2026

February 10^th, 2026

October 27^th, 2025