Report on All People's Conference on Mining in Uganda

Report on All People's Conference on Mining in Uganda

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,##"1 ," !-,!#0,1 +-,% ������ ��� ��������� ������� !"#$#%&'( )'*+,-&./'/-- &' %0/ 1#./"'2'*/ #3 4(2'526- 7&'/"2+ 8/2+%0 25th - 26th September, 2018 9:%0 Щ 9<%0 =/>%/$?/"@ 9ABC In Partnership with: 8&%With0 -, Support>>#"% 3From:"#$ All People’s Conference on Mining in Uganda 2018 1 Contents List of Acronyms 2 Executive Summary 3 1.0 Introduction 4 1.1 Background 4 1.2 Relevance of the conference 4 2.0 Opening session 6 2.1 Welcome Remarks 6 2.2 Keynote Address 7 2.3 Official Opening Remarks by Peter Lokeris Minister of State for Energy and Mineral Development (Minerals). 8 3.0 Session I: Multiple Land Tenure Systems, Overlapping Rights and their Implication on Mining Development in Uganda 9 3.1 Plenary Session 10 4.0 Session II: Financing National Development through Mining Revenue Collections 11 4.1 Plenary Session 12 5.0 Session III: Gender Inequality in Mining 12 6.0 Session IV: Licensing, Legal and Regulatory Framework 13 6.1 Plenary Session 15 6.2 Session V: The Role of the Police Minerals Protection Unit 15 7.0 RECOMMENDATIONS: All People’s Vision for Uganda’s Mining Sector 16 8.0 Closing Remarks 17 All People’s Conference on Mining in Uganda 2018 1 List of Acronyms ASM Artisanal and Small Scale Miners GRA Global Rights Alert AAU Action Aid Uganda EITI Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative PWYP Publish What You Pay MUMA Mubende United Miners Assembly (MUMA) DGSM Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines NDP National Development Plan FDI Foreign Direct Investment UCMP Uganda Chamber of Mining and Petroleum MWC Mineral Wealth Conference MEMD Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development NRGI Natural Resource Governance Institute MSDTA Mineral Sector Development Technical Assistance Project MLHUD Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development CLA Communal Land Associations CCO Certificates of Customary Ownership MUWOGOMA Mubende Women Gold Miners Association NRMU Natural Resources Management Unit at Uganda Revenue Authority CSCO Civil Society Coalition on Oil BWGMA Buhweju Women Gold Miners Association MoGLSD Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development MCM Minamata Convention on Mercury MDAs Ministries Departments and Agencies LSM Large Scale Miners 2 All People’s Conference on Mining in Uganda 2018 Executive Summary This report presents proceedings from the The conference provided an avenue for 2nd All People’s Conference on Mining in participants to discuss issues affecting Uganda held on 25th & 26th, September, mining sector with focus on ASMs, and identify 2018 in Kampala under the theme: entry points for strategic engagement with “Promoting inclusiveness in governance of the government and large-scale investors. Uganda’s mineral wealth,”. The conference Engaging discussions over the course of was organised by Global Rights Alert (GRA) two days focused on; land tenure systems in partnership with Action Aid Uganda (AAU), and resource rights, gender inequalities in Publish What You Pay (PWYP – Uganda) and the sector, environmental management, Mubende United Miners Assembly (MUMA). mineral licencing and the role of the minerals A total of 125 participants attended the protection unit of the Uganda Police force conference. Of these, 41 were females and among others. 84 males. The conference recommendations included; Participants included; Artisanal and Small fast tracking the amendment of the Mining Scale Miners (ASMs) from the districts of; Act (2003) and the attendant Regulations Kaabong, Nakapiripiriti, Amudat, To r o r o , to provide for rights of Artisanal and Small Moroto, Busia, Ntungamo, Mubende, Scale Miners (ASMs), establishment of an Kabale, and Buhweju where the bulk of ASM unit in the Directorate of Geological mining activities currently exist. Members Survey and Mines (DGSM) to oversee the of Parliament, representatives from local management of ASM affairs. This will improve governments, Ministries, Departments and coordination, monitoring and inclusiveness Agencies (MDAs), civil society organisations, in decision making. Lastly, the conference police mineral’s Protection unit, cultural recommended that government doubles institutions, religious leaders, development efforts to make mining in Uganda safe and partners, the media, and academia were productive forwomen who constitute a big represented. number of workforce and have potential to play an important role in the sector’s transformation. All People’s Conference on Mining in Uganda 2018 3 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background increase in the activities of Artisanal and Small- scale Miners in the country with an estimated The mining sector in Uganda has potential to number of 256,700 directly involved2. For the contribute to social and economic growth and mining sector to grow to its potential, issues of development. Discoveries of large quantities funding, institutional capacity to manage the of copper, nickel, gold, chromite, iron ores, tin, mineral resources; value addition to minerals; tantalite, tungsten, limestone, marble, graphite complex nature of artisanal and small-scale and gemstones have been made over the last mining; conflicts and environmental degradation 10 years. Other resources such as sand, clay and have to be addressed. Efforts to address these rock mining have also become significant

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