AMV and Economic Corridors initiative push for continental growth and development

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 20 June 2016 (ECA) – An annual workshop in Tanzania begins on 20 June 2016 as a next step in the Integrated Resources Corridor Initiative (IRCI). The initiative hopes to improve the prospects for economic corridors to catalyse and deliver economic growth and development as well as to ensure that no harm is done to the environment and people’s livelihoods.

 

The IRCI Partnership aims to promote the need for multi-stakeholder, multi-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration on resource corridor planning and development. It also aims to help decision makers who are considering, planning and implementing economic corridors with the aim to achieve durable development outcomes. The initiative, initially centered on Africa, is structured into three phases – scoping, development of a programme, and lastly, a roll-out phase. This will include capacity development for decision makers faced with the difficult challenge of ensuring development corridors are sustainable economically, socially and environmentally.

 

The IRCI Partnership workshop will gather over 50 leaders from different disciplines and sectors working in the field of extractives and development to discuss the experiences gained in corridors across the continent, including in Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Cameroon, Namibia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, etc.

 

Equally, the role of corridor planning and development will be explored through the Africa Mining Vision (AMV), as a key tenet of this event. Presentations will be made by representatives of the African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC), the agency responsible for the roll-out of the AMV, including Dr. Paul Jourdan, an independent mineral policy analyst who contributed to drafting the AMV policy document.