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Table 13.2 Community development approach – Antioquia
Mining company community
development approach
(features)
Stakeholder attitudes (reactions)
Data analysis
(inferences)
“This is a mining town.
Mining is the only livelihood
for 80% of community
members. We have
experiencing some difficulties
in engaging with informal
miners as they operate in our
land title. However, we have
been trying to develop better
relationships by providing
them with contracts to operate
on legal basis” (Mining
Company Corporate
Representative)
“I think in the coming years this town
will disappear. Companies promised us
development and better opportunities
for small miners. Where are the
multinationals that promised us
employment? There are a couple of
companies that do provide us with jobs
but what about the other companies?
For example, there are no employment
opportunities for small miners. People
live here out of ‘rebusque’ … If it is 5
or 6 pm and my children are starving
and I have not made any income during
the day. What do you think I should
do? I go and steal something to feed
my children, right? That is ‘rebusque’”
(Community Member).
Mining viewed as a
positive source of
economic wellbeing
by both the mining
companies and this
community
stakeholder.
However, only some
seem to be reached in
terms of benefits.
Unfulfilled economic
wellbeing a trigger for
crime
“The idea is that locals put
their skills at the company’s
disposal so that later on, they
can get gainful employment
opportunities … At the end of
the day we want communities
to operate the mine”
(corporate representative)
“Some mining towns in Antioquia have
a strong dependence on mining. This
situation has diminished the
possibilities of sustaining communities
in the long-term” (Government
representative)
Mining companies
very mining- centric in
terms of community
development.
Awareness though
from the government
representative that this
limits long-term
community viability
“We do not implement HCB
initiatives different from
mining because we do not
have direct relationship with
other sectors … we think that
tourism or agriculture are
sectors in which we do not fit.
For this reason we focus on
education for mining” (Senior
Corporate representative)
“Our organisation was created from the
need to build different livelihood
options. Women in this town did not
have any value … We were labelled
either as witches and/or prostitutes. We
have been provided with some training
by government organisations … A
company donated us three machines …
that was long time ago. There are small
mines we have some contracts with
and we also get some contribution
from the government but nothing else
apart from that” (Women Community
Member focus group)
Mining- centrism of
the mining company
triggers
entrepreneurship for
alternative livelihood
options
Women neglected in
community
development and
employment
(continued)
I. B. Franco and L. Newey
Table 13.2 Community development approach – Antioquia
Mining company community
development approach
(features)
Stakeholder attitudes (reactions)
Data analysis
(inferences)
“This is a mining town.
Mining is the only livelihood
for 80% of community
members. We have
experiencing some difficulties
in engaging with informal
miners as they operate in our
land title. However, we have
been trying to develop better
relationships by providing
them with contracts to operate
on legal basis” (Mining
Company Corporate
Representative)
“I think in the coming years this town
will disappear. Companies promised us
development and better opportunities
for small miners. Where are the
multinationals that promised us
employment? There are a couple of
companies that do provide us with jobs
but what about the other companies?
For example, there are no employment
opportunities for small miners. People
live here out of ‘rebusque’ … If it is 5
or 6 pm and my children are starving
and I have not made any income during
the day. What do you think I should
do? I go and steal something to feed
my children, right? That is ‘rebusque’”
(Community Member).
Mining viewed as a
positive source of
economic wellbeing
by both the mining
companies and this
community
stakeholder.
However, only some
seem to be reached in
terms of benefits.
Unfulfilled economic
wellbeing a trigger for
crime
“The idea is that locals put
their skills at the company’s
disposal so that later on, they
can get gainful employment
opportunities … At the end of
the day we want communities
to operate the mine”
(corporate representative)
“Some mining towns in Antioquia have
a strong dependence on mining. This
situation has diminished the
possibilities of sustaining communities
in the long-term” (Government
representative)
Mining companies
very mining- centric in
terms of community
development.
Awareness though
from the government
representative that this
limits long-term
community viability
“We do not implement HCB
initiatives different from
mining because we do not
have direct relationship with
other sectors … we think that
tourism or agriculture are
sectors in which we do not fit.
For this reason we focus on
education for mining” (Senior
Corporate representative)
“Our organisation was created from the
need to build different livelihood
options. Women in this town did not
have any value … We were labelled
either as witches and/or prostitutes. We
have been provided with some training
by government organisations … A
company donated us three machines …
that was long time ago. There are small
mines we have some contracts with
and we also get some contribution
from the government but nothing else
apart from that” (Women Community
Member focus group)
Mining- centrism of
the mining company
triggers
entrepreneurship for
alternative livelihood
options
Women neglected in
community
development and
employment
(continued)
I. B. Franco and L. Newey