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This document outlines the complexities and challenges of mine reform in the DRC, focusing on the roles of mining companies and their interactions with local communities. Key issues include the lack of census data, weak institutions, and the remote nature of mining regions, which complicate efficient reform. The report presents findings from a university survey on baseline indicators, exit surveys for retrenched workers, and the establishment of consultative groups to facilitate stakeholder engagement. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of capacity building and local ownership in the reform process.
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Baseline Issues in Mine Reform: Example from the Africa Region Sarah Keener, World Bank, Dec. 6, 2006
DRC Mine Reform • Reform: Retrenchment and revision of the role of the mining company vis-à-vis communities • Reality – Constraints: • Post conflict environment, no census since 1980 (no sample frame, population data), weak institutions • Time: month in which invited, retrenchees to leave company • Capacity & Distance: Mining region remote from capital, University statisticians with no statistical program • Sustainability: Project office set up only for duration of assistance
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [baseline] • University survey on baseline indicators that could be compared with existing national level surveys • Meals per day • Assets • Access to services • Sample included control groups within region • Mine workers who were staying • Mine workers who would be retrenched • Non-mine control group in neighboring areas** • Exit survey of all retrenched workers and issuance of i.d. so that people could be tracked later on • assets, social capital, human capital, reinsertion plans, dependents etc. • Identification critical link missing from similar programs in Zambia
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [baseline] • Analysis of “transmission” channels for specific impact retrenchment • Baseline of all of the ways in which the Government mine affected communities directly and indirectly, and how this might change • Production, consumption, wages, employment, access to goods and services, assets, transfers/taxes • Dependence on services (health, education) • Services with positive externalities such as malaria spraying
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [Process] • Capacity building in impact analysis for University • Multi-stakeholder consultative group formed, trained in logical framework analysis • Information centers set up in each town • Consultations/focus groups in each town with wide variety of stakeholders (retrenchees,remaining employees,widows, wives, children of retrenchees, retirees, parent-teacher committees, utilities,NGOs, provincial sectoral authorities, police, mayors, private sector, unions etc.)
DRC Mine Reform • What was done [Process] • Feedback of results to: (a) each town (b) regional group (c) national level with sectoral working groups • Links with the PRSP • Links to budget processes for health, education services • Local ownership and presentation of analysis (took time)
Situation at Start of Voluntary Departure Program (late 2003)
Simple Indicators Source: Enquête Université de Lubumbashi , 8/2003.
