Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) spent the week in Manicaland holding Alternative Mining Indaba sessions at Ward, District and Provincial levels where communities interfaced with service providers and corporates to promote transparency and accountability in the mining sector. The alternative mining…

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Today we convene as PWYP Zimbabwe discussing on what is happening in our communities on issues of transparency and accountability on our resources and discuss what we need to do as a coalition.Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) ZIMCODD Fight Inequality Alliance-Zimbabwe IM Zimbabwe Publish What You Pay PWYP Zambia PWYP Australia

We are attending a CSOs & CBOs Strategic Planning meeting under Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Coalition Zimbabwe. PWYP Zimbabwe ActionAid Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) ZIMCODD The Citizen Bulletin #LithiumMining

Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development Hon. Matangira Remigious says the amendment of the mines and minerals bill must be informed by communities and pro-people to be successful.

Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Project Officer Fadzai Midzi shares findings and recommendations from #Lithium research carried out by ZELA at various sites in the country.

She says attempts to ensure responsible sourcing, transparency and accountability in the Lithium value chain were commendable…

About this week!

Our Climate Change team is participating in #climate change financing and carbon credits trading meetings at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, #Kenya where the Nairobi Declaration was adopted.
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@fraumueller_swp James Harvie Ranga.🇿🇼 Gil African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Thomas Scurfield Africa Institute for Environmental Law Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Southern Africa Resource Watch Natural Resource Governance Institute Titus Gwemende Publish What You Pay PWYP Australia Rangarirai Chikova VaMberikwazvo IGF Mining Mining Shared Value Prof Kanda “ starting point for Africa to benefit from the critical mineral supply chain is to ensure we revisit the #AMV . We need to decide the standards we need,the 🔋 we need. We need to produce commodities for the market Shamiso Mtisi PWYP Zimbabwe Agathe Demarais Natural Resource Governance Institute

@fraumueller_swp James Harvie Ranga.🇿🇼 Gil African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Thomas Scurfield Africa Institute for Environmental Law Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Southern Africa Resource Watch Natural Resource Governance Institute Titus Gwemende Publish What You Pay PWYP Australia Rangarirai Chikova VaMberikwazvo IGF Mining Mining Shared Value Shamiso Mtisi PWYP Zimbabwe Agathe Demarais Africa need to invest in research and development. We need to research on the nature of #EVs that we need for our market first. More so we need to share that research evidence with other African researchers & policy makers BHP Foundation African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Josephine Chiname @TAInitiative

@fraumueller_swp James Harvie Ranga.🇿🇼 Gil African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Thomas Scurfield Africa Institute for Environmental Law Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Southern Africa Resource Watch Natural Resource Governance Institute Titus Gwemende Publish What You Pay PWYP Australia Rangarirai Chikova VaMberikwazvo IGF Mining Mining Shared Value Shamiso Mtisi PWYP Zimbabwe Agathe Demarais BHP Foundation Josephine Chiname @TAInitiative Prof Kanda “ We need to establish a portfolio of patents of inventions that allows the freedom of production and sale of African electric batteries manufactured on the continent” The China-Global South Project SWP Africa & MidEast SWP Mineral Supply Chains EU Delegation to Zimbabwe 🇪🇺 World Resources Forum Australian Embassy, Zimbabwe

@fraumueller_swp James Harvie Ranga.🇿🇼 Gil African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Thomas Scurfield Africa Institute for Environmental Law Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Southern Africa Resource Watch Natural Resource Governance Institute Titus Gwemende Publish What You Pay PWYP Australia Rangarirai Chikova VaMberikwazvo IGF Mining Mining Shared Value Shamiso Mtisi PWYP Zimbabwe Agathe Demarais BHP Foundation Josephine Chiname @TAInitiative @fraumueller_swp “Africa has a huge bargaining power now to benefit from critical minerals value chain. Africa needs to make us of such frameworks as AMV, create good conditions for investment such as ensure transparency & accountability Tafara Chiremba Prosper Chitambara Darlington Muyambwa

@fraumueller_swp James Harvie Ranga.🇿🇼 Gil African Minerals Development Centre (AMDC) Thomas Scurfield Africa Institute for Environmental Law Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) Southern Africa Resource Watch Natural Resource Governance Institute Titus Gwemende Publish What You Pay PWYP Australia Rangarirai Chikova VaMberikwazvo IGF Mining Mining Shared Value Shamiso Mtisi PWYP Zimbabwe Agathe Demarais BHP Foundation Josephine Chiname @TAInitiative Tafara Chiremba Prosper Chitambara Darlington Muyambwa “If mining is to continue into the future, it should be sustainable. It should ensure that they are benefits going to host communities & source countries of critical minerals. Mining needs the social license to continue to exists”

Collaborations are crucial for African countries as a just transition looms. As producers of the resources with little benefit retained in their locality, collective actions are key for Africa to obtain optimal benefits. We are part of PWYP Africa conference in Dakar, Senegal.

PWYP stands in solidarity with human rights defenders in Niger and calls on the authorities to ensure they are able to work freely, without fear of reprisals.

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