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What is IFC CommDev?

• $12 million fund • Focus on sustainable benefits

to communities from Extractive Industry

• Offers capacity building, technical assistance, tool development and information sharing

• Global, but emphasizes Africa (60%)

Results of IFC CommDev

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Increased the impact of extractive industry revenues

on poverty reduction in Peru and Colombia

Increased women in the workforce

at Lonmin

Built capacity in Ghana for

multistakeholder planning

Raised standard of participatory

processes inEI community development

Delivered capacity building directly to companies to

implement strategic, sustainableapproaches

Delivered public goods on risk

mitigation, indicators, and participatory

planning

Built CommDev.orgfor practitioners tolearn and engage

Developed nationalframework

for communitydevelopment

in Guinea

Improved M&E frameworks for

IFC clients

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Spotlight: Lonmin

• Increased number of local suppliers and the value of Lonmin’s local procurement contracts - 30 local suppliers received 165 contracts worth US$43.3m.

• Generated a 42% jump in Lonmin’s female workforce through the Women in Mining program.

• Developed project planning process for Lonmin’s key stakeholders, resulting in +20 projects worth over US$12.1m addressing issues such as education, potable water, and agriculture.

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Information Clearinghouse

www.CommDev.org