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Project Summary:

Resource Nationalism and African Mining Policy Innovations: Mobilizing New Research and Engaging Key Stakeholders is a program of outreach activities which seeks to mobilize new knowledge, comparative research methodologies and policy interventions related to African mining reforms involving resource nationalism in the 2000s. The project's key materials were co-created by an African-Canadian partnership of scholars and community-based researchers in the mineral-rich countries of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, which I led as Principal Investigator. Distribution will include the presentation and circulation of Policy Briefs on Resource Nationalism in African national and regional networks, the convening of policy workshops for discussion of research findings and recommendations at national level, the holding of an international conference on Comparative Resource Nationalism(s) in the Global South in the 21st Century, and the publication of the conference proceedings in a monograph collection.

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The proposed project now seeks to mobilize this evidence by (1) supporting national debates and inclusive policy-making processes in the three countries and more widely in Africa, and encouraging cross-pollination of ideas across borders in Southern Africa; (2) engaging the Canadian government, donors and NGOs around the PDG's findings and policy implications; and, (3) enriching the wider scholarly literature on resource nationalism and the extractive industries via the foregrounding of recent African experiences. To achieve this, the project will engage diverse mining reform audiences through multiple venues, each of which has been selected to most effectively reach specific stakeholders, including governments, large and small-scale miners, local mine supply businesses, and mining labour and social justice activists.

For more information on the project's materials and activities, please visit: https://resourcenationalism.ca/

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