Status: Closed
Commencement Date: 2000
End Date: 2002

Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) was an independent two-year process of consultation and research with the objective of understanding how to maximise the contribution of the mining and minerals sector to sustainable development at the global, national, regional and local levels. Through this process, MMSD has proposed a clear agenda for global change in the minerals sector, that is based on careful analysis, that is understood and supported by many key stakeholders, and that identifies mechanisms for moving forward.

The Project began in April 2000 and was designed both to produce concrete results – a Final Report and a series of Working Papers – and to create a dialogue process capable of being carried forward into the future.

MMSD was managed by the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, UK, under contract to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The project was initiated by WBCSD and supported by the Global Mining Initiative (GMI).

The "Mining and Minerals of South America in transition towards Sustainable Development" project - regional counterpart of the MMSD Global Project, was co-ordinated in South America by the Environmental Research and Planning Centre (CIPMA, Spanish initials) , from Santiago, Chile, and the Mining Policy Research Initiative (MPRI) of the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Focal countries were: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.

Fundación Ambiente y Sociedad@ Quito (Ecuador)
Ambiente y Sociedad

Centro de Tecnología Mineral@ Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
CETEM

Environmental Research and Planning Center@ Santiago (Chile)
CIPMA

Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano@ (Ecuador)
FFLA

Group for the Analysis of Development@ Lima (Peru)
GRADE

International Institute for Environment and Development@ London (UK)
IIED

Programa Manejo Integrado del Medio Ambiente en la Pequeña Minería - MEDMIN@ La Paz (Bolivia)
MEDMIN

Servicios Ambientales@ La Paz (Bolivia)
SASA

Book(s)

050317-004 / Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development in South America@ MMSD South American Team CIPMA, IDRC/MPRI 2002

Document(s)

050317-004 / Architecture for Change: an Account of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project - History@ Luke Danielson 2007-03-27
The MMSD history project is now out and available!  It talks about the Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project, why it was organized the way it was, the decisions and challenges faced, and how and why they were resolved in the way they were. Open file

050317-004 / Breaking New Ground (CD Rom) MMSD 2002
This CD-Rom contains the reports generated by the project Mining, Mineras and Sustainable Development (MMSD) available in Spanish.

050317-004 / Bulletin N° 1 - MMSD News South America CIPMA - MPRI/IDRC 2001-05-01
This is the first bulletin of the Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project in South America. Open file

050317-004 / Bulletin N° 2 - MMSD News South America CIPMA - MPRI/IDRC 2001-07-01
This is the second bulletin of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project in South America. Open file

050317-004 / Bulletin N° 3 - MMSD News South America CIPMA - MPRI/IDRC 2001-10-01
This is the third and last bulletin of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project in South America. Open file

050317-004 / Executive Summary: Breaking New Ground@ MMSD 2002
This is the executive summary of the final report of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Global Project. Open file

050317-004 / Executive Summary: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development in South America@ CIPMA; MPRI/IDRC 2002
This executive summary presents the methodology of the project, some conceptual precisions, findings and challenges of the research and participatory process and the national reports of the five selected countries. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Open file

050317-004 / Memories of workshops with indigenous peoples@ MMSD-South America Team 2001
This document compiles the full memories of workshops with indigenous peoples held in the five countries within the MMSD-LA participatory framework. Open file

050317-004 / Methodology of the participatory process: diverse techniques towards a common objective@ IIPM / IDRC 2001
Description of the methodology used in the participatory process of the MMSD-LA project. Open file

050317-004 / Mining, minerals and sustainable development in Bolivia: workshops' minutes@ Fundación Medmin; Juan Carlos Enríquez, SASA 2001
This file contains minutes resulting from satakeholders' workshops held in Bolivia within the MMSD-LA participatory process. Open file

050317-004 / Mining, minerals and sustainable development in Brazil: workshops' minutes@ Ma. Laura Barreto, CETEM 2001
This file contains minutes resulting from stakeholder workshops held in Brazil within the MMSD-South American project. Open file

050317-004 / Mining, minerals and sustainable development in Chile: workshops' minutes@ Hernán Blanco et al, CIPMA ; Gustavo Lagos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2001
Minutes resulting from stakeholder workshops held in Chile within the MMSD-South American participatory process. Open file

050317-004 / Mining, minerals and sustainable development in Ecuador: workshops' minutes@ Fabián Sandoval et. al., Ambiente y Sociedad - Fundación Ambiente y Sociedad 2001
Contains minutes of stakeholder workshops held in Ecuador within the MMSD-LA participatory process. Open file

050317-004 / Mining, minerals and sustainable development in Peru: workshops' memories@ Manuel Glave, Juana R. Kuramoto, GRADE 2001
Contains minutes resulting from stakeholders' workshops held in Peru within the MMSD-LA participatory process. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD participatory process - South America: Findings@ Cristina Echavarría, Patricia González, MPRI/IDRC 2001
Shows the main findings of the participatory process carried out in the five selected countries of the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development Project in South America. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: A new social contract for mining@ Hernán Blanco, CIPMA; Cristina Echavarría, MPRI/IDRC 2002
Presentation related to the results of the MMSD Project in South America, showed at the GMI Conference "Resourcing the future", Toronto, May 2002. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: Challenges and opportunities@ Cristina Echavarría, MPRI/IDRC 2002
This presentation focuses on the main challenges and opportunities resulting from the participatory process of the MMSD project in South America. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: Challenges emerging from participatory process@ Cristina Echavarría, MPRI/IDRC 2002
The presentation focuses on the main challenges and opportunities resulting from the participatory process of the MMSD project in South America, for different stakeholders. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: CIPMA Chile and MPRI Regional@ CIPMA, MPRI/IDRC 2001
The document shows the scope, objectives and work plan of the project, as well as the expected outcomes. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: Participation guidelines@ Cristina Echavarría, IIPM/IDRC 2001
This presentation showed at the Pan-American Workshop of CAMMA "Mining and Communities"; March 2001. Open file

050317-004 / MMSD-LA Project: Policy agendas@ CIPMA; Cristina Echavarría, MPRI/IDRC 2001
Presentation related to the policy agendas resulting from the participatory process of MMSD-LA Project in South America, showed at the Annual Conference CAMMA, Santo Domingo, November 2001. Open file

050317-004 / Survey to mining stakeholders@ Equipos MORI , MPRI / IDRC 2001
Results of a survey applied among different stakeholders involved in mining, from 15 countries of LAC to identify the priority issues for the contribution to sustainable development (two files:  report and annex I). Open file