ResourceContracts.org is a repository of publicly available oil, gas, and mining contracts in machine-readable, searchable, open data format. ResourceContracts.org promotes greater transparency of investments in the extractive industries, and facilitates a better understanding of the contracts that govern them. This site provides summaries of contracts and their terms to facilitate understanding of important provisions in the documents.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsJanuary, 2012Global
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsJanuary, 2018Global
OpenCommunityContracts.org is a repository of publicly available community-investor or community-government contracts and agreements relating to agriculture, forestry, mining, oil and gas extraction and other natural resource projects. It features plain language summaries of key provisions and provides links to learn more about how each agreement was negotiated and implemented in practice.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsMarch, 2019Global
This set of Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPs) have been developed to help any company looking to ensure their operations are undertaken in a manner that safeguards respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. The tools, accompanied by easy-to-use, step-by-step guides help companies:
• Reduce production delays
• Maintain “Social License to Operate”
• Gain access to financing • Lessen litigation risk
• Maintain/enhance company reputation
• Operate successfully in complex business environments
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsMarch, 2014Global
This guide is an aid for companies to achieve positive and resilient rapports with their host communities. It provides accessible information to understand factors that have an influence on community support and how this can be measured.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsMarch, 2014China
March 2014 – The authors conducted extensive interviews of farmers in twelve villages in southern China, where Stora Enso, a large multinational pulp and paper producer, had acquired large areas of farmers’ forestland rights for its eucalyptus plantations.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsFebruary, 2008Afghanistan, Southern Asia
This report is about how to progressively reduce over time Afghanistan's dependence on opium - currently the country's leading economic activity - by development initiatives and shifting economic incentives toward sustainable legal livelihoods. Specifically, the report identifies additional investments and policy and institutional measures to support development responses that can counterbalance the economic advantages of opium.
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Mining Sector
Reports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsDecember, 2011This report is intended to provide guidance on best practices in mining licensing, based on examples from low, middle and high income countries in Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. It is not a 'how-to guide' or a licensing implementation toolkit, but rather identifies certain common features of successful mining licensing regimes worldwide that other national or sub-national jurisdictions might usefully incorporate in new mining laws and regulations or revisions or existing ones.
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Strategic Mineral Sector Sustainability Assessment
Reports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsApril, 2016Armenia, Europe, Central AsiaThis report provides a review of the Armenian mining sector, and assesses its potential to contribute to sustainable economic growth and development. Based on the findings, it provides recommendations for initiatives and actions for the future development of the sector. The report was produced in the period October 2015 to April 2016.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsJanuary, 2012Global
This Gender Evaluation Criteria (GEC) matrix has been extracted from the GLTN publication entitled Designing and Evaluating Land Tools with a Gender Perspective: A Training Package for Land Professionals
Language: English, Spanish, French, Arabic
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Stories from the ground gathered from Ekta Parishad activists
Training Resources & ToolsJanuary, 2012Asia
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