MINERAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT

The overall objective of the proposed Mineral Resources Management Capacity Building Project (MRMP) is to provide technical assistance to the Government of Mozambique (GOM) for : (i) institutional development and regulatory reform designed to encourage the expansi on of private investment in mining in a socially and environmentally sound way; and (ii) targeted interventio ns to alleviate poverty in areas of strong incidence of small-scale and artisanal mining. Specific project ob jectives include: (a) improving the legal and regulatory reform to help establish an enabling environment to promote private investment into mining, while ensuring real and sustainable contribution to economic growth; (b) institutional capacity building to develop capabilities to effectively enforce laws and regulations, admi nister mining titles, and monitor the sustainable development of small-scale mining; (c) development of a dat a bank and geological maps to strengthen the Government's capacity to make essential geoscientific and natura l resources information available to potential investors; (d) institutional strengthening to establish capaci ty in the country for environmental management, and to develop the understanding of and the capacity to addre ss social impacts from mining; and (e) identify and adopt appropriate mechanisms to increase revenues and imp rove the quality of life in selected areas of strong concentration of artisanal miners, through the establish ment of legal rights for their activity and the provision of extension services to improve the social, welfar e, health and environmental conditions of artisanal miners.