FIVE YEARS OF THE AFRICA MINING VISION (AMV): STRENGTHENING NETWORKING OF CSOS AND
SOCIAL CONSTITUENCIES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE POLICY INFLUENCE
19-20 November 2014, Cairo Road Protea Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia
Day One 19th November 2014
8:30-9:00
Registration
0900h – 1000h Opening Session: Chairperson Peter Sinkamba, CBE
Welcome Remarks
Peter Sinkamba, Citizens for a Better
Environment, Kitwe, Zambia
Opening Remarks
Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, ITUC-Africa
Self-introduction by
participants
Presentation and Adoption of Yao Graham, Third World Network-Africa,
Agenda
Accra Ghana
10:00 – 10:15
Tea/ Coffee Break
Session One
Official perspectives on the record of AMV implementation
1015-1045
1045-1115
Beyond continental resolutions:
constructing the AMDC, reaching out to
constituencies and initiating national level
implementation –progress and challenges
What is happening at the regional levels –
the story of ECOWAS and SADC
1115-1245 Discussions
12:45-13:45
Session Two
1345-1630
Kojo Busia, Acting Coordinator,
African Mineral Development
Centre (AMDC), Addis Ababa
Oliver Maponga, UN Economic
Commission for Africa,
Southern Africa Office, Lusaka
Lunch
CSO/Unions Perspectives on AMV and its Implementation
1. Plenary presentation on AMV
Betchani Tchereni of Mapungubwe
implementation record of sample
Institute
countries (30 mins)
2. Break out into groups to discuss
countries’ implementation record
around elements of AMV Action Plan
(75 mins)
3. Report back to plenary (60 mins)
1630-1645
Tea/ Coffee Break
Session Three - Current Implementation context of the AMV
1645-1705 Trends in the global mineral
Rachid Amui, UNCTAD, Geneva
economy – markets, prices, actors
and their implications for the AMV
agenda
1705-1800 Discussion
09:0009:20
09:2010:15
10:3010:50
10:5011:30
11:3011:50
11:5012:30-
Day Two 20 November 2014
Africa-EU Economic Partnership Agreements
(EPAs), Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs),
Bilateral Investment Treaties ( BITs) and the
Continental Free Trade ( CFTA) – what do they
mean for the AMV agenda?
Discussions
10:15-10:30 Break
Competing mineral governance
frameworks and fragmented African
responses
Discussions
Funding the AMV – lessons from the
funding model of the AMDC?
Discussions
Tetteh Hormeku, Third
World Network-Africa
Yao Graham, Third World
Network-Africa
Claude Kabemba, Southern Africa
Resource Watch, Johannesburg
1230 to 1330 Lunch
Session Four Towards an agenda for citizens’ activism and policy engagement on the AMV
13:30-1530 Group work – Emerging issues and
what is to be done?
1530 Report Back
16:30
Break
17:15 to
Wrap Up and Way Forward
Yao Graham and Claude Kabemba
1800