Promotion of mineral resources investment and trade
Nigeria's mineral wealth mostly leaves the communities it comes from. Promoting responsible investment and formal trade is the other half of tackling illegal extraction: if the licensed route is slower, costlier and less accessible than the unlicensed one, enforcement will keep losing.
Aligned to
SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
What this involves
Three things this area of work actually consists of
Opening the formal minerals sector to responsible investment and legitimate trade, so that value from extraction reaches the communities the resource sits under.
Investment facilitation
Connecting responsible investors with licensed operators and the local authorities who have to live with the result.
Formal trade routes
Supporting the licensing, standards and market access that make the legitimate route the practical one.
Community benefit
Working so that value from extraction reaches the communities the resource sits under, rather than passing over them.
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