Mining Shared Value in media, reports, and blogposts

2024

• 9 December - “Canada pushes mining reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples” - Giulia Bottaro, Kallanish Power Materials (MSV quoted) [Paywalled]

• 15 July - “Engineers Without Borders releases human rights guidance for mining procurement” - Canadian Mining Journal

• 15 May - “Mas que vecinos, socios estratégicos: El impacto local de las compras sostenibles en la mineria peruana” - Rumbo MInero

• 4 March - “Estudio piloto revela que falta de estandarización en compras es una de las principales brechas del sector minero en Perú” - Portal Minero

• 4 March - “Estudio revela obstáculos en adquisiciones mineras en Perú” - Mundo Minero

• 4 March - “Revelan desafíos entre empresas proveedoras locales y las compañías mineras” - Minero Digital (Linkedin Media)

• 3 March - “Estudio identifica falta de estandarización de reportes de compras locales en minería como brecha de acceso a la información en Perú” - Nostalgica.cl

• 3 March - “Brecha de acceso a la información en el sector minero peruano: Un estudio revela importantes hallazgos” - Revista Digital Minera Chile

• 3 March - “INFORME | Estudio identifica falta de estandarización de reportes de compras locales en minería como brecha de acceso a la información” - Revista Minergia

• 1 March - “Estudio identifica falta de estandarización de reportes de compras locales en minería como brecha de acceso a la información en Perú” - Reporte Minero & Energético

• 29 February - “Descubre la Revelación Explosiva: Análisis Profundo del Acceso a la Información sobre Adquisiciones en el Sector Minero del Sur del Perú.” - Latam Mining

• 28 February - “Conoce los detalles del “Diagnóstico del acceso a información de adquisiciones del sector minero en el sur del Perú” - Rumbo Minero Internacional

• 27 February - “Estudio revela escaso acceso público a las políticas de proveedores locales de las empresas mineras” - Diario Gestión

• 18 January - “Mundo Minero y Tatiana Alarcón conversarán sobre Mining Shared Value y la transparencia en el sector minero” - MSV Programme Coordinator Tatiana Alarcón intervewed by Mundo Minero TV (Interview in Spanish)

2023

• September - Conclusion chapter in the book “Extractive Bargains - Natural Resources and the State-Society Nexus” - Contribution from MSV Managering Director Jeff Geipel

• 5 July - “Estudio piloto de acceso a la información de adquisiciones del sector minero en el sur del Perú” - Presentation of the study funded by Minsus, GIZ project

• 24 May - “The just transition to a low carbon economy and its impact on Indigenous rights and local suppliers” - Reconciliation and Responsible Investment Initiative (RRII) website

• 7 February - “Unearthing the truth about mining impacts” - Global Reporting Initiative

2022

• 7 December - “Local Content Strategies – Not As Far Away As You Think” - Opinion piece for NetbenefitSoftware.com

• 6 December - “Top miners adopt ESG and transparency reporting framework” - Mining.com

• 5 December - “Use of Mining LPRM grows, 12 companies now onboard” - Canadian Mining Journal

• 2 December - “Miners adopt MSV's procurement mechanism” - Mining Magazine

• 13 October - “Engineers Without Borders still finds information gaps for procurement” - Canadian Mining Journal

• 6 July - “Onyen ESG solution tracks mine purchasing” - Shane Lasley, Metal Tech News

• 30 June - “Onyen adds local procurement to ESG software” - Mining Magazine

• 29 June - “Onyen adds local procurement reporting to ESG software” - Canadian Mining Journal

• 10 May - “Integrating just transition principles into sustainable supply chains” - Interview with Mining Journal's

  Digging for Climate Change

• 20 April - “Bridging the “E” and “S” in ESG” - Mining Journal's Digging for Climate Change

• 17 March - “The potential role of the state in developing mining sector local content - reflections on Future Minerals Forum in Saudi Arabia” - Resource Global Network

• 19 January - “GRI announces team to develop mining standards” - Jax Jacobsen, Mining Magazine

2021

• 2 December - “La prochaine frontière de la transparence – Pourquoi la société civile doit-elle se concentrer sur l’approvisionnement de l’industrie extractive ?” - November 30th Publish What You Pay blogpost shared by AFRICA PETROMINE.

• 30 November - “Transparency’s next frontier – Why extractive industry procurement should be a focus of civil society” - Blogpost for Publish What You Pay; également en français.

• 29 October - “News link 2021-10-29 Second Edition” - West Africa Democracy Radio interview (Interview at 17:28)

• October - “Care in the Community” - Alexander Bruce Lister Matheson, Materials World

• 14 September - “Interview with Jeff Geipel of Mining Shared Value” - Bedrock Service Blog

• 11 July - “What’s at stake: How supplier transparency can benefit the extractive sector” - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Blog

• 7 May - “Partnerships are key to building local enterprises” - Engineering News & Mining Weekly, article co-written with SRK Consulting’s Lisl Pullinger and Andrew Van Zyl

• 15 April - “Compras locales: una forma eficaz para que las empresas mineras contribuyan al desarrollo económico y social” - Blogpost for Energía, Minería y Medio Ambiente (Spanish)

• 2 April - “Opening the door for local service providers” - Engineering News & Mining Weekly, article co-written with SRK Consulting’s Lisl Pullinger and Andrew Van Zyl

• 15 March - “Solaris y Lundin Gold han adoptado el Mecanismo de Información para la Adquisición Local en el Sector Minero (LPRM) - Energía, Minería y Medio Ambiente

• 10 March - “Why mines need to shop more locally” - Interview with Carly Leonida for The Intelligent Miner

• 10 March - “Power of inclusive procurement” - Mehanaz Yakub, CIM Magazine

• 5 March - “Corruption-free supply chains vital for shared value” - Engineering News & Mining Weekly, article co-written with SRK Consulting’s Lisl Pullinger and Andrew Van Zyl

• 5 March - “Automatisation des mines en Afrique : opportunités et menaces” - Mines et minerais du Sénégal

• 8 March - “Solaris Resources signs a service agreement with Mining Shared Value to advise on strengthening its local procurement policies” - Press Release from Solaris Resources

• 5 February - “Value of supplier portals in boosting local procurement” - Engineering News & Mining Weekly, article co-written with SRK Consulting’s Lisl Pullinger and Andrew Van Zyl

• 28 January - “Four miners adopt mining shared value’s local procurement reporting mechanism” - Resource Global Network

• 27 January - “Four mining companies adopt Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism” - Donna Slater, Mining Weekly

• 27 January - “Miners think local with adoption of new procurement standard” - Canadian Mining Journal

• 27 January - “African miners adopt local procurement transparency framework” - Mining Review Africa

• 26 January - “Miners using new ESG and transparency framework” - Mining.com

• 15 January - “Broadening mines' supply chain for local impact” - Engineering News & Mining Weekly, article co-written with SRK Consulting’s Lisl Pullinger and Andrew Van Zyl

• 15 January - “4 Mining Companies Adopt Mining LPRM” - Engineering and Mining Journal

• 18 January - “Mining Shared Value: Can mining companies use procurement as a tool for development?” - Making Mining Better video interview with Rahul Joglekar

2020

• 25 December - “New mining technologies offering opportunities to advance sustainable development” - T. Baljmaa, Mongol Messenger

• 27 November - “Les chaînes d’approvisionnement local, une priorité croissante pour les sociétés minières” - Matthew Parizot, CIM Magazine

• 5 November - “Reflexiones desde la Cámara 161” - MSV Programme Coordinator Tatiana Alarcon interviewed as part of the Council of Chambers and Production Associations of Ecuador webinar series, on Ecuador en Vivo (interview in Spanish)

• 12 October - “Local Content Responses to COVID-19 and Automation? The Answer is Data” - Jeff Geipel, Managing Director, Mining Shared Value, Engineers Without Borders Canada

• 15 October - “Minería del valor compartido” - Dr. Elisa Moran´s article about sustainable mining in Ecuador, mentions the LPRM as a good practice to disclose local procurement information (article in Spanish)

• October - “Local supply chain a growing priority for miners” - Matthew Parizot, CIM Magazine

• 10 September - “Good practice partnership for local procurement” - Mining Weekly

• 14 August - “Transparency in purchases and promotion of local contracting of the Mining Industry” - CAEM

• 1 August - “Good practice partnership for local procurement” - Megan van Wyngaardt, Mining Global

• August - “Common ground: Partnership to boost local procurement” - Mining Review Africa

• 23 July - “Good practice partnership for local procurement” - Engineering News

• 22 July - “SRK collaborates with Mining Shared Value to foster local procurement” - Paul Moore, International Mining

• 22 July - “Good practice partnership for local procurement” - First Mining Magazine DRC-Zambia

• 21 April - “Workshop Report - New Frontiers in Local Content: Environment and Transparency” - Event report by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung for February’s event during Mining Indaba 2020 where MSV’s Jeff Geipel and Kyela de Weerdt presented

• 28 February - “Services and subcontracting: Unexplored ground for transparency” - Blogpost by Inês Schjølberg Marques and Joanne Jones featuring the Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism

• 13 February - “Extractive Industries, Transparency and Procurement – Increasing Alignment” - Blogpost for the Open Government Partnership

2019

• 18 December - “What a Mali mine teaches us about the future of work” - Oliver Balch, Raconteur and the Times

• 22 October - “A New Normal for Due Diligence in Global Supply Chains” - Blogpost for Assent Compliance co-written with Josh Scheinert of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

• October - “The EITI's Role in Addressing Corruption” - Discussion paper for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative by Alexandra Gilles mentioning our work as a potential option to support incorporation of the procurement of services into the EITI (p. 15). Version française

• August - “Guidance note 30 - Towards gender-responsive EITI implementation” - Brief from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative International Secretariat featuring the Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism

• 22 July - “Going Beyond Revenues in Extractive Sector Governance: But How?” - Blogpost for the Natural Resource Governance Institute along with Nicola Woodroffe and Perrine Toledano

• 1 July - “Why procurement should be the "next frontier" in transparency for mining” - Blogpost for the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

• 17 June - “Accroitre la production de l’information dans le cadre de l’approvisionnement dans le secteur minier a travers le mechnisme de reporting l’appprovisionnement local (MRAL)“ [Pushing for increased information on mining local procurement in West Africa with the LPRM] - blogpost by Ahamadou Mohamed Maiga on the Publish What You Pay, OSIWA and Mining Shared Value project in West Africa

• 25 January - “Coalition malienne «Publiez ce que vous payez» : FORMATION SUR LE MÉCANISME DE REPORTING SUR L’APPROVISIONNEMENT LOCAL” - L’Essor, French language media coverage of Publish What You Pay and OSIWA workshop on the Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism

• 18 January - “ROTAB: formation sur l’approvisionnement local des compagnies extractives” - Niamey Soir, French language media coverage of ROTAB’s Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism workshop

2018

• 7 December - “Boost local procurement in mining – Tjivikua” - Nampa, The Namibian

• 6 December - “N$32 billion invested in Namibian mines in four years” - Edgar Brandt, New Era

• 30 November - “Local procurement forum slated for next week” - Maihapa Ndjavera, New Era 

• 12 November, - “How to facilitate the disclosure of local procurement payments in mining” - Blogpost for the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

• November, “Systems Change Ideas to “Do Good” as a Mine” - Opinion Piece for Resource Global Network (pp. 50-59)

• 25 October - “We need to talk about automation” - Nia Kajastie, Mining Magazine

• 4 September - "For African governments to intervene is reasonable" - Letter in the Financial Times in response to Peter Leon's August 29th editorial "African nations must resist siren song of resource nationalism"

• 23 August - "Will mine automation erode benefits for locals?" - Opinion piece for Mining Magazine

• June - “PEPZ hosts high level roundtable meeting to increase mining sector local content” - Private Enterprise Programme - Zambia

• 26 April - "How a little local knowledge can go a long way for mining companies" - Mike Scott, Ethical Corporation Magazine

• 25 April, “Leveraging extractive industries to benefit local communities” - World Bank website feature on the ELLED Community of Practice which Mining Shared Value manages in partnership with the Bank’s Energy and Extractives Practice 

• March - "EITI and opportunities for increasing local content transparency" - The Mining LPRM included in brief from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) as a tool for company reporting on local content (p. 5); brief also available in French.

• March - "A Tool for Mine-Site Level Local Procurement Reporting" - Profile of the Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism in the Compendium of Practices for the OECD Policy Dialogue on Natural Resource-based Development

• 31 January - "What gets measured gets managed: Tapping into local procurement in the mining industry to advance development" - Blogpost by the ICMM's Luke Balleny on local procurement and the Mining LPRM for OECD Development Matters. Reposted on ICMM's website.

2017

• 21 November - "Welcome to Lusaka" (Summary of Peer Learning Event for EITI Implementing Anglophone / Lusophone Countries in Africa with our Mining Local Procurement Reporting Mechanism presentation) - Pablo Valverde, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative blog

• 3 August - "New reporting mechanism adds local procurement to the global transparency agenda" - Publish What You Pay

• 20 July - "From theory to practice: promoting more inclusive benefits from mining through better measurement and transparency of local procurement" - The London School of Economics and Political Science

• 10 July - "CSR: Engineers Without Borders Canada launches local procurement reporting mechanism" - Canadian Mining Journal

• July - "Local procurement in mining: A central component of tackling the resource curse" - The Extractive Industries and Society (Academic Journal)

• 13 June - "Accountability boosted by first-time publication of payments to govts by Canadian miners" - Henry Lazenby, Mining Weekly

• 29 March - "Coal Mining Jobs Trump Would Bring Back No Longer Exist" - Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times (featuring the Mining a Mirage study)

• 24 February - "Mining Local Procurement Trends Report Launched" - Namibia University of Science and Technology

• 16 February - "Procurement of local goods must be driven by industrialisation" - Edgar Brandt, New Era (Namibia)

• 1 February - "Ground-breaking report on engaging with aboriginal business for local procurement released" - Michael Torrence, Canadian Mining Journal

• 1 February - "Partnerships in procurement – aboriginal businesses operating in Canada’s mining sector" - Opinion piece in the Canadian Mining Journal with CCAB's Max Skudra

• February - "Increase in procurement from indigenous suppliers in Canadian mining sector: report" - Kylie Williams, CIM Magazine

• 20 January - "Automated mining will cost jobs and tax income: it's time for governments to act" - Oliver Balch, Guardian Sustainable Business

• 13 January - "Partnerships in Procurement Report: A Must Read from Mining Shared Value" - Blog by Meaghan Langille from Shared Value Solutions

2016

• 30 November - "Mining companies want more Aboriginal goods and services, says report" - Northern Ontario Business

• 26 October - "A lot more automation, a lot less humans to hit the mining industry" - Story featuring MSV's work posted on Mining.com

• 20 September - "Study shows Duty to Consult needs a national strategy " - Opinion piece in the Eagle Feather News. Adapted and reposted on GOXI

• August - "Local Procurement in Mongolia: All the Pieces are in Place" - Interview in the Mongolian Mining Journal (Mongolian version)

• 27 July - “If working with mining, Canadian aid needs to get more sophisticated" - Opinion piece in The Hill Times. Adapted and reposted on GOXI

• 6 July - "Aligning CSR and its reporting with Sustainable Development Goals" - Opinion piece for Corporate Citizenship Briefing

• May - "Mining and community-based agribusiness for development: Multi-stakeholder partnerships in the gold sector in Ghana" - Discussion paper by the European Centre for Development Policy Management featuring Mining Shared Value's work (pp. 11-12)

• 1 May - "Measurement Matters" - Column in CIM Magazine

• 5 April - "How to create a successful Local Content Strategy" - Blogpost by Steve Wade for Ethical Corporation summarizing February webinar. Reposted on GOXI

• 12 February - "To harness the private sector to achieve the SDGs, we need real measurement of impact" - Opinion Piece for Devex

• 10 February - "Engineers Without Borders working towards establishing local procurement reporting standard" - Mining Weekly

• 8 February - "Mining Local Procurement by Cameco in Northern Saskatchewan: Good for the Region and Good for Business" - Blogpost for Business Fights Poverty

• 25 January - "Creating a System to Standardize Reporting on Local Procurement" - Blogpost for GOXI

2015

• 2 December - "Sharing Mining's Value" - By Juliet Langton, a cover story featuring Mining Shared Value - Resource Global Network

• 2 November - "The need to balance global trade with local content pushes in the extractive sector" - Blogpost for the E15 Initiative, reposted on GOXI

• 5 October - "Shared value should be a strategy for specific situations, not dogma" - Blogpost for the Shared Value Initiative

• 23 July - "Social Outcomes Report: Shared Value in Australia" - Extractive companies mine for shared value section features quotation from Venture Leader Jeff Geipel

• 6 July - "Canadian initiative pushes for greater levels of local procurement for mining projects" - SNL Metals & Mining interview with Venture Leader Jeff Geipel

• 17 June - "The Chance to Get It Right: Africa's Opportunity to Truly Benefit From Mining Investment" - Blogpost for Mining On Top: Africa - London Summit, reposted on the LSE International Development Blog

• 25 May - "New Canadian Edition of EWB Report Shows Attention to Local Procurement Rising Across Canadian Mining Industry Reporting" - Blogpost for GOXI

• 6 May - "Local Procurement, a Key to Sharing Mining Benefits" - By Andrew Thompson, featuring Venture Leader Jeff Geipel - Information Centre for the Extractives Sector (ICES), Kenya

• 11 March - "Major miners embrace local procurement strategy reporting initiative" - Mining Weekly

• 11 March - "Report Shows Global Mining Industry Reporting more on Local Procurement as CSR Issue" - Blogpost for GOXI

• 12 January - “The Upside of Local Mining Initiatives over Traditional Community Investment” - Blogpost for the Shared Value Initiative. Reposted on GOXI

2014

• 3 December - “Kudos for including local procurement in extractives CSR policy” - Opinion piece in Embassy. Adapted and reposted on GOXI and Business Fights Poverty

• 21 November - “Canadá presentó nueva estrategia de RSE para extractivas que operan en el extranjero” - Communica RSE, Spanish language piece featuring Jeff Geipel’s comments on Canada’s new CSR Strategy’s inclusion of local procurement

• 20 November - Business News Network interview with Samantha Burton - Interview with the Director of Policy and Advocacy for Engineers Without Borders Canada on Canada's new CSR Strategy for the extractive industries overseas, and the inclusion of local procurement

• 18 November - “Canada’s mining CSR changes” - BE Mining

• 17 November - “Engineers Without Borders Canada welcomes improvements to transparency Act, but highlights need to align standards with US, EU” - Mining Weekly

• 14 November - “Harper Government Announces Enhanced Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy to Strengthen Canada’s Extractive Sector Abroad” - Press Release from Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, featuring quotation from Venture Leader Jeff Geipel

• 17 March - “Local Procurement: An effective way for mining companies to contribute to economic and social development” - Blogpost on Building Markets Blog, reposted on Next Billion, Peace and Collaborative Development Network (PCDN), Local First and GOXI

• 5 March - “PDAC 2014: Miners keen to buy local in bid to dampen hostility to new projects” - Financial Post

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