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This handbook has been developed to address a gap identified in the availability of information on how to develop and use multistakeholder approaches for socio-economic transitions. It is part of ICMM’s ongoing work around community resilience and mine closure and is relevant to Indigenous Peoples’ participation in mining. Mine closure was one of the first priority areas that ICMM developed guidance on, producing publications on f inancial assurance for mine closure in 2005 and 2006. In 2008, the Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit was launched, which was then updated as the Integrated Mine Closure: Good Practice Guide (2nd edition) in 2019. ICMM has also developed additional resources to support the industry in implementing responsible closure practices, including Financial Concepts For Mine Closure (2019), and the Closure Maturity Framework (2020) which is designed to assess, drive and track assets’ progress toward sustainable closure. The handbook also complements ICMM’s existing portfolio of work in community resilience and various resources on social performance and community engagement. The handbook should also be considered alongside ICMM’s Position Statement on Indigenous Peoples and Mining and Good Practice Guide as well as the various supplementary resources on human rights due diligence. The handbook is therefore intended to: — be used by mining companies and external stakeholders to co-design or contribute to socio economic transition processes that foster community resilience and enable site-to-regional scale planning — lay the groundwork for local economic participation, sustainable land use, and environmental resilience in and around mining communities, such that they will be resilient during the up and down cycles of mining and beyond closure — provide mining companies with a suite of tools and options to support multistakeholder processes for socio-economic transition, which they could choose to apply across the varied contexts within which they operate. While the handbook has been developed primarily with a mining company audience in mind, it also contains suggestions and approaches which may be of interest to governments, NGOs and civil society groups.

Multistakeholder approaches to socio-economic transitions in mining

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Place: London

Institution: International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM)

Date: May 2025

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This handbook has been developed to address a gap identified in the availability of information on how to develop and use multistakeholder approaches for socio-economic transitions. It is part of ICMM’s ongoing work around community resilience and mine closure and is relevant to Indigenous Peoples’ participation in mining. Mine closure was one of the first priority areas that ICMM developed guidance on, producing publications on f inancial assurance for mine closure in 2005 and 2006. In 2008, the Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit was launched, which was then updated as the Integrated Mine Closure: Good Practice Guide (2nd edition) in 2019. ICMM has also developed additional resources to support the industry in implementing responsible closure practices, including Financial Concepts For Mine Closure (2019), and the Closure Maturity Framework (2020) which is designed to assess, drive and track assets’ progress toward sustainable closure. The handbook also complements ICMM’s existing portfolio of work in community resilience and various resources on social performance and community engagement. The handbook should also be considered alongside ICMM’s Position Statement on Indigenous Peoples and Mining and Good Practice Guide as well as the various supplementary resources on human rights due diligence. The handbook is therefore intended to: — be used by mining companies and external stakeholders to co-design or contribute to socio economic transition processes that foster community resilience and enable site-to-regional scale planning — lay the groundwork for local economic participation, sustainable land use, and environmental resilience in and around mining communities, such that they will be resilient during the up and down cycles of mining and beyond closure — provide mining companies with a suite of tools and options to support multistakeholder processes for socio-economic transition, which they could choose to apply across the varied contexts within which they operate. While the handbook has been developed primarily with a mining company audience in mind, it also contains suggestions and approaches which may be of interest to governments, NGOs and civil society groups.

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