Mining Health Initiative
Understanding how the mining sector can contribute to better health in low income countries
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Since 2011, the Mining Health Initiative has evaluated existing mining health partnerships between the private and public sectors and how they work. The Initiative has looked at how mining health partnerships can go beyond improving the productivity of employees, to strengthening community relations, enhancing corporate reputations and creating new standards of practice.
The Initiative has also convened state and non-state stakeholders in Ghana, Mozambique and Zambia to consider priorities and plans for mining health Public Private Partnerships (PPP). These have included both the specific contracting arrangements understood by the World Bank Groups International Finance Corporation as well as the broader range of contracted cooperative arrangements among state and non-state stakeholders understood more widely.