Relevant links




World Bank Group

The World Bank Group
"Founded in 1944, the World Bank Group consists of five closely associated institutions. Our mission is to fight poverty for lasting results and to help people help themselves and their environment by providing resources, sharing knowledge, building capacity, and forging partnerships in the public and private sectors"

World Bank Group Policies
World Bank Safeguard Policies
Products and Services
Projects and Lending
World Bank Group and the Environment
World Bank Group and Private Sector Development


World Bank Group Departments:

Oil, Gas and Chemical Department - The World Bank Group
"World Bank and Oil & Gas - Oil and gas are significant drivers of economic recovery and growth. As such, their development and efficient management are critical to meeting core objectives of the World Bank Group in the areas of poverty alleviation, health, education and social welfare. In developing countries however, the oil and gas sector is typically performing well below..."

Mining Department - The World Bank Group
"About Us - Countries, communities and companies often face tough questions about opportunities and risks as they develop steps to ensure environmentally and socially responsible approaches toward mineral resource development.  The World Bank Group recognizes the potential embedded in a country's mineral sector to significantly influence regional and ..."

IFC Environment and Social Review
"The Environment and Social Review Unit within IFC's Environment and Social Development Department is the unit tasked with evaluating, appraising and monitoring the environmental and social impacts of proposed and existing IFC projects.  The resources you will find here are primarily designed to provide IFC clients with information on the requirements associated with IFC financing. While compliance with IFC's guidelines and safeguard policies ..."

Evaluation Departments - The World Bank Group
"Welcome to the World Bank Group Evaluation Monitoring and Quality Enhancement Community web site - The purpose of this site is to provide visitors with useful tools, methodologies, practices, lessons, and information, to enhance the quality of World Bank operations through evaluation and monitoring. The World Bank Group has a long history of evaluating its projects..."

ESMAP Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme - The World Bank Group
"The Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) is a global technical assistance program sponsored by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and managed by the World Bank. ESMAP focuses on the role of energy in economic development ..."

Office of the Compliance Advisor / Ombudsman (CAO) for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)


Project information:

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project



Partnerships:

Best Practices in Dealing with the Social Impacts of Hydrocarbon Operations
"This website is the home of a growing partnership and dialogue focused on harnessing knowledge and information on Best Practices in Dealing with the Social Impacts of Hydrocarbon Operations. It has been set up by the World Bank Group working with a group of oil companies and NGOs committed to the protection of the environment and mitigation or elimination of any..."

Business Partners for Development - Natural Resources Cluster
"Welcome - The Natural Resources Cluster seeks to enhance the role of oil, gas and mining corporations in development. Our aim is to produce practical examples, based on 'focus projects' around the world, of how three-way partnerships involving companies, government authorities and civil society organisations can be a more effective means of reducing social risks ..."

Collaborative Group on Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (CASM)
"Welcome to the CASM website. CASM is an umbrella forum, providing a coordinated approach to assessing and addressing some of the problems within this sub-sector and disseminating pertinent information on activities. It is committed to taking an integrated approach and has been formed accordingly. Artisanal and small scale mining typically takes place in remote poorest..."

Energía Ambiente y Población
"Consideraciones ambientales y sociales de las actividades hidrocarburíferas en áreas frágiles de la cuenca subandina – El Programa Energía, Ambiente y Población es una respuesta de gobiernos, organizaciones indígenas e industria petrolera de los países que comparten la cuenca subandina, al reto de desarrollar una industria compatible con los objetivos..."

Cyanide Management Code
"The International Cyanide Management Code is being developed as a voluntary industry code for the gold mining industry at the direction of a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee formed under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME)..."


Civil Society

Ambiente Brasil
"O Brasil, face à suas características territoriais e ambientais, esta cada vez mais exposto ao mundo, quer por suas ações de proteção ambiental como por uma legislação cada vez mais evoluída, em todos os âmbitos, visando à preservação de um patrimônio ambiental tão heterogêneo, como é o caso brasileiro...."

Bank Information Center
"The Bank Information Center (BIC) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides information and strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout the world on the projects, policies and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).  BIC advocates for greater transparency, accountability and citizen participation at the MDBs."
CEE Bankwatch Network
"The CEE Bankwatch Network's mission is to prevent environmentally and socially harmful impacts of international development finance, and to promote alternative solutions and public participation. The CEE Bankwatch Network is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with member organisations currently from 11 countries of CEE and CIS region..."

Conservation International
"Conservation International believes that the Earth's natural heritage must be maintained if future generations are to thrive spiritually, culturally, and economically. Our mission is to conserve the Earth's living natural heritage, our global biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature."

Development Gateway
"What is the Development Gateway portal? The Development Gateway (the Gateway) is a portal website on development issues, from which users can access information, resources, and tools, and into which they can contribute their own knowledge and experience. It creates a common platform..."

Earth Council's Indigenous People's Programme
"As Indigenous Peoples we are moving towards a future full of new challenges that will require us to approach the issues relevant to our lives in a proactive manner. The aim of these electronic pages is to share the views, knowledge and recommendations of Indigenous Peoples on sustainability issues. We invite other Indigenous organizations and experts to contribute to this forum..."

Environmental Defense: Questions concerning the World Bank and Chad/Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project
International development assistance for two of the poorest countries in Africa could soon be used to support a project planned by big oil companies. An international consortium consisting of Exxon, Shell and ELF is planning a multibillion dollar oil exploitation project with serious environmental and social risks that many fear may create another Ogoniland, Nigeria's oil-producing region..."

g/">Friends of the Earth International (FoEI)
"Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is the world's largest federation of environmental groups, uniting close to one million activists worldwide. FoEI's member organizations in 66 countries and 13 affilliate groups campaign on the most urgent environmental and social issues of our world today..."

Fundacion Natura (Ecuador)
"El área de Recursos Naturales se ocupa de los recursos naturales desde la perspectiva de su uso racional por el hombre. El reto fundamental consiste en asegurar que el uso de los recursos naturales sirva para elevar la calidad de vida de las actuales generaciones, sin comprometer la de las futuras. Para lograr este objetivo se utiliza una estrategia que combina los siguientes..."

Global Mining Campaign
"We envision the initiative as a collaborative effort between advocacy organizations, reserach and policy groups, and groups representing affected communites. While Mineral Policy Center will host and organize the meetings, the participating groups will together design a campaign. Once the campaign has been designed, the participating groups will then develop a plan for securing..."

Global Witness
"Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. We work to highlight the links between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where natural resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund conflict".

Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power .."

Indigenous Environmental Network
"The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws..."

Mineral Policy Center
"Mineral Policy Center is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to protecting communities and the environment by preventing the environmental impacts associated with irresponsible mining and mineral development, and by cleaning up pollution caused by past mining".

Mineral Policy Institute (MPI)
"The Mineral Policy Institute (MPI) undertakes research and advocacy for better social and environmental practice in the minerals industry, and for mineral use efficiency and conservation. MPI uniquely specialises in monitoring and campaigning on the extensive environmental and social impacts of the minerals industry in the Asia-Pacific region..."

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD)
"MMSD is an independent two-year project of participatory analysis seeking to understand how the mining and minerals sector can contribute to the global transition to sustainable development. MMSD is a project of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)..."

Oxfam
"Oxfam International (OI) is a growing confederation of autonomous non-governmental organisations, committed to working together to fight poverty and injustice around the world. Maintained by the OI Secretariat and the OI Advocacy Office, each area of this website is dedicated to supplying an introduction to a specific area of our work, and a snap-shot of our activities..."

Pacific Environment and Resources Center
"Our Mission Statement: Pacific Environment and Resources Center protects endangered ecosystems around the Pacific Rim through grassroots advocacy, environmental education, and law and policy analysis. Citizens who are educated about environmental issues, motivated to act, and empowered with training in grassroots activism will shape the protection of the Pacific Rim ..."

Publish What You Pay
"International oil, gas, and mining companies pay billions of dollars a year to the governments of many less developed countries that are rich in natural resources, such as Angola and Nigeria. Few of these countries' citizens benefit from this financial windfall, however, because of government corruption and mismanagement. The "Publish What You Pay" campaign aims to help citizens hold their governments accountable for how these resource-related funds are managed and distributed."

Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)
"The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, DC) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, ..."

Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)
"A dynamic and flexible organization with a global vision and a local focus, TERI was established in 1974. While in the initial period the focus was mainly on documentation and information dissemination activities, research activities in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development were initiated towards the end of 1982. The genesis of these activities lay..."

Transnational Institute - Energy and Development Project "The Energy Project is a network of NGOs from Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America. The project focuses on sustainable development, changing the energy sector policies of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), and on alternatives to fossil fuel based energy projects. The project aims to..."

WWF>
"WWF - Taking Action for a Living Planet - WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption..."



Governments

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) - access also to French site
"Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is a federal government department specializing in the sustainable development and use of natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests and earth sciences. At NRCan, we deal with natural resource issues that are important to Canadians. We look at these issues from both a national and international perspective for shared material..."

Proyecto GAMA
Minería Artesanal en Perú: La Minería Artesanal es una actividad que a nivel mundial toma gran impulso a partir de los años 80. El Perú no ha sido ninguna excepción. Con poca inversión y trabajo intensivo, la minería artesanal explota yacimientos o minas abandonadas de pequeña magnitud y de alto valor intrínseco (oro) donde la minería convencional no es rentable, utiliza tecnologías sencillas, e insumos nacionales..."

The Department for International Development (DFID)
"The Department for International Development (DFID) is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. The government elected in May 1997 increased its commitment to development by strengthening the department (formerly the Overseas Development Administration) and increasing its budget..."

United Nations Environment Programme Production and Consumption Unit - Mining
"While mining underpins the industrial development in many regions, it frequently has had and continues to have serious environmental consequences which include the destruction of natural habitat, changes in river regimes, impact on energy and water demand and chemicals accidents...."

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
"The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), established in 1972, works to encourage sustainable development through sound environmental practices everywhere. Its activities cover a wide range of issues, from atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, the promotion of environmental science and information, to an early warning and emergency response capacity to deal with environmental disasters and emergencies..."

United Nations Industrial Development (UNIDO)
"The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) helps developing countries and countries with economies in transition in their fight against marginalization in today's globalized world. It mobilizes knowledge, skills, information and technology to promote productive employment, a competitive economy and sound environment..."

United Nations Economic and Social Development

International Materials Assessment and Aplication Center
"Promoted by UNIDO as one of its International Technology Centres, IMAAC is in its Pilot Activities Phase, with its headquarters presently located at CETEM facilities.
It is worldwide acknowledged that materials technology is a key enabling technology for a wide range of industrial sectors, leading to significant qualitative changes in the production cycle - from processing of raw materials to the obtaining of finished products - thus having a major influence on the economic and industrial competitiveness...."

CYTED - Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo
"Un programa internacional de cooperacion cientifica y tecnologica, con caracter horizontal y de ambito iberoamericano.
Un instrumento para la cooperacion cientifica y tecnologica multilateral basado en la union de recursos y esfuerzos para el logro de objetivos comunes con impacto en los sistemas productivos y de servicios..."


Academia

Caspian Development & Export
"This website presents information on major projects being undertaken to develop and export energy resources which lie under the Caspian Sea, offshore Azerbaijan. It contains the environmental and social studies carried out and enables the companies investing in these developments to receive comments from the public."


KCM International UNSW Mining Engineering
"UNSW MINING RESEARCH CENTRE - KCMI offers competitive and innovative special training,education and consultancy services in technical, management and policy programs, meeting the continuing education needs of mining industry professionals and organisations world wide and particularly in the Asia-Pacific region..."

UNSW School of Mining Engeneering
"The UNSW School of Mining Engineering is part of the Faculty of Engineering and is located in the Old Main Building. Mining Engineering is one of the three foundation disciplines of the University of New South Wales. The University was incorporated by Act of the Parliament of New South Wales in 1949 as The New South Wales University..."


Industry/Business

Coal India Ltd
"India is the 3rd largest coal producing country, Coal India contributes 88% of coal production in India. is the largest coal producing Company in the World, is the largest corporate employer in India, is one of the largest 5 Companies in India in terms of turnover (Rs.1.86 bn in 1998-99) ..."

Business for Social Responsibility
" With expanded content and new organization, the Business for Social Responsibility website provides a global point of access and insightful point of view on corporate social responsibility. Through the specialized sections of this site, you can tap into and leverage the latest data, tools, thought leadership and collaborative opportunities ..."

The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project
"The Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project (MMSD) is an independent two-year project of research and consultation seeking to understnad how the mining and minearls sector can contribute to the global transition to sustainable development. MMSD is a project of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) commissioned by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)...."

Global Mining Inititative
"The Initiative brings together many of the world's largest mining and minerals companies. This leadership exercise aims to ensure that an industry which is essential to the well-being of a changing world is responsive to global nees and challenges. The Initiative will include a number of activities leading up to a global conference on mining and sustainable development in May 2002.



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