Conference EU-Africa Partnership
High-Level Conference
EU-Africa Partnership on Raw Materials
Translating Mineral Resource Wealth into Real Development for Africa
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Brussels
"We should work toward a coherent vision on development, mining and raw materials, to support African capacity at the appropriate national, sub-regional or continental level and within the available cooperation instruments". (Joint Africa-EU strategy action plan 2011-13)
An exchange of views on how to implement raw materials aspects of the Joint Africa-EU strategy action plan 2011-13 
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Speakers/participants from Africa & Europe – governments of countries involved in mining, international organisations, industry, civil society organisations, development partners.
Conference themes
Session 1. Good governance
Promoting natural resources governance including increasing revenue transparency; applying appropriate fiscal regimes and involving relevant stakeholders including the civil society; best practices to negotiate mineral contracts; assistance in developing policy scenarios for promoting trade and the sustainable development of the mining sector.
Session 2. Investment and infrastructure
Analytical tools for mapping mining development corridors for investment promotion; opportunities for increasing local content and value-added through local processing of African mineral resources, particularly by SMEs; improving mineral policy and related regulatory frameworks including on land use planning for minerals and authorization process in order to promote the investment climate; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Session 3. Geological knowledge and skills
Facilitation of exploring mineral resources potential in Africa; co-operation between African and European geological surveys; capacity building to help improve material stewardship, meaning the responsibility for environmental quality shared by all those actions which affect the environment, including on rehabilitation of mining sites and management of secondary raw materials (recycling).
All presentations and discussion summaries will be published on this website.
Final program [4 MB]
Location
Hotel Metropole, Place de Brouckère 31, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Milestones
| December 2011 | AU/UNECA Report on Minerals and Africa's Development |
| February 2011 | EU Tackling challenges in commodity markets and on raw materials |
| November 2010 | Joint Africa-EU strategy action plan 2011-13 Cooperation endorsed by heads of state at 3rd Africa-EU summit |
| June 2010 | AU Commission and EU Commission agree to intensify cooperation in raw materials |
| February 2009 | AU Africa Mining Vision |
| November 2008 | EU Raw materials initiative — meeting our critical needs for growth and jobs in Europe                       |
Registration for the conference
The registration is closed.
