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Capacity Building and Training

The IGF Secretariat provides capacity-building training and workshops to member countries upon request.

We design capacity building and training programs to improve our developing country members’ skills, knowledge, and abilities to implement and maintain good governance in mining that considers the full environmental, social, and economic context.

We work with local and regional experts to ensure programs reflect on-the-ground perspectives and realities.

tax base erosion and profit shifting
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates developing countries’ base erosion profit shifting revenue losses exceed USD 200 billion annually across all sectors. With a long l
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The third training session of this series was held in Mwanza, Tanzania, from April 17 to 27, 2018, with 24 trainees from 10 countries and four trainers. Participants were introduced to
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More than 80 Mongolian participants from national and subnational governments, industry, and civil society sectors attended a four-day seminar in March 2017 devoted to building capacity
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The mining industry plays an important role in the economy of many member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), such as Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines and
Artisanal and small-scale mining
More than 50 government representatives from 17 African countries attended a workshop in Yaoundé, Cameroon from February 26 to March 1 on how to implement the IGF’s guidance on manag