Improving The Welfare Of Sierra Leone Women Miners

This link is to a video report by GISTNIGERIA from the BBC and Channels Television about a law to regulate mining in Sierra Leone that we at National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives, NACE, can relate to.

It could be recalled that NACE recently issued a Press Release welcoming the new Mines and Minerals Development Law and also appealing to the government to speedily introduce policies and regulations that will help domesticate and give true meaning to the law.

“For instance, we believe that the 10% from surface rent for MPs and Chiefs is not a positive step or decision because money paid as surface rent is not a development fund. Rather, it is the entitlement of landowners, for the annual use of their property by mining companies, who also wish to see the money improve the lives of their landlords and hosts,” said National Coordinator of NACE, Cecilia Mattia.

NACE first emerged from the Diamond Area Community Development Fund in 2003 and later broadened its mandate and scope to become a coalition of National and International Organisations working on the extractives sector in Sierra Leone.