The Natural Resources Information Exchange – NRIE

The Natural Resources The Natural Resources Information Exchange – NRIEInformation Exchange – NRIE

Claudine SigamProject Coordinator

Special Unit on CommoditiesUnited Nations Conference Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Development of Mineral Resources

Technical Meeting

First Meeting of ACP Ministers in charge of the

Development of Mining Resources

13 – 15 December 2010

ContentContent Context

What is NRIE & Expected results

The Stakeholders

Implementation & Way forward

Recommendation

NRIE - Natural Resources Information Exchange

PEIRN - Plateforme d'Échange d'Information sur les Ressources Naturelles







Situation Situation in most of the African countriesin most of the African countriescompared to the rest of the world, a chaotic situation…compared to the rest of the world, a chaotic situation…









Request by African countries during the 11th and 12th UNCTAD’s

Annual Oil, Gas and Mines Conference

UNCTAD survey responded to by 82% of African Union member

States

Call for an innovative approach to natural resources management

CONTEXTCONTEXT

The majority of population in most of the mineral resource rich African countries remain poor despite numerours development initiatives

A chaotic situation despite the existence of numerous database

An urgent need to step up innovative actions to trigger an endogenous development process

The NRIE is designed to respond to the needs expressed by some African countries and formalized in a resolution adopted during the Ministerial Roundtable of UNCTAD’s13th Conference in Mali in 2009









What is NRIE ?What is NRIE ?(Art 8) « Call on UNCTAD to …….ensure that the platform is gradually

extended…. to include infrastructures (physical and financial), and related operating, processing , storage techniques and transportation means »

African decision makers believe that progress in geographical information could provide tools for more efficiency to all the stakeholders and promote major synergies

The NRIE to become a tool for governance

Provide all the stakeholders (operators, policy makers, community, Academia, media, civil society, etc), with reliable and updated information on existing potential (online metadata, etc)

Render more transparent modalities for capturing value from the natural resource exploitation

Articulate alternatives and underlying political stakes imbedded in organizational, regulatory and technical choices









What is NRIE ?What is NRIE ?









UNCTADOverall Coordination

Consensus & Capacity Building

Promotion & SynergiesFollow up, Monitoring &

Evaluation

PLATFORM FOR VIRTUAL INFORMATION EXCHANGEQuality control and virtual data flow

End Users

HOST COUNTRYData & Metadata

Archiving; Digitalizing; Cataloguing; System

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strategies & Capacity Building for the

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UNCTADOverall Coordination

Consensus & Capacity Building

Promotion & SynergiesFollow up, Monitoring &

Evaluation

PLATFORM FOR VIRTUAL INFORMATION EXCHANGEQuality control and virtual data flow

End Users

HOST COUNTRYData & Metadata

Archiving; Digitalizing; Cataloguing; System

Maintenance

Capa

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1: Data query

2: Metadata Flow

3: D

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ITUTechnologies,

strategies & Capacity Building for the

technical infrastructure

Expected ResultsExpected Results Knowledge-driven African mining sector as recommended by the

Africa Mining Vision

Highlight social, economical and environmental impacts of natural resources exploitation, including geo localization and visualization of the evolution (Follow up, evaluation, video)

Boost regional integration without lost of sovereignity (A common area & private national spaces)

Costs and Risks reduction for potential investors

Driving force in reducing the numerical divide

Preservation of scientific heritage









NRIE – STAKEHOLDER ROLENRIE – STAKEHOLDER ROLE

UNCTAD

Overall Coordination Consensus building Capacity Building Promotion of NRIE &

Synergies with existing related Programs

Follow up, Monitoring & Evaluation









•Partnerships and Cooperation agreements

•Linkages between the academia, the industry and host country

•Governance

•Seminars & Training workshops

•Dissemination of information to relevant States and operators

•Identification of spin off projects that generate relevant data

•Host metadata backup


ITU

Strategic Partner

Coordination for technology identification & strategy formulation

Coordination among technology developers, and other stakeholders such as universities










HOST COUNTRY

Commitment to set up a National Data Repository (Data & Metadata)

Commitment to agree

on technical standards applicable at regional level









• Data retrieval

• Facilitation of data digitalization

• Elaboration of regional securitization systems of archived data

• Committee for Selective diffusion of information

• Hosting of metadata backup (regional)

• Mobilization of national stakeholders

• Stimulate ICT oriented jobs


SERVICE PROVIDERS

Training and capacity building of locals in collaboration with UNCTAD and relevant partners

Quality control









• Setting up Web interface for virtual exchange

• Architecture specifications

• Standards and format specifications for data and Meta data

• Digitalization of Data

• Cataloguing of Metadata

• Validation of data quality

• Maintenance of Data Bank









STAKEHOLDERS

OUTCOMES

BENEFICIARIES

Facilitators (UNCTAD & ITU)

Data providers (Host governments, Industries

Service Providers (Academia, locals, etc)

Beneficiaries

• Information asymmetries

• Transparency & Governance• Jobs creation /digital dividend• Investments• Regional integration• Knowledge driven mining sector

• Host governments

• Local communities / civil society• Industries• Universities

IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION

Two experts meeting held (Cotonou, Geneva)

Six pilot countries selected and national focal points appointed (Benin, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nigeria)

MOU and Letters of Agreement signed between UNCTAD, ITU and the six pilot countries









THE WAY FORWARDTHE WAY FORWARD

A prototype under construction to be presented in Nigeria in the first quarter of 2011 during the workshop on the NRIE organizational framework and a special event for resource mobilization

A workshop on NRIE capacity building programme to be held in Mozambique the second quarter of 2011

NRIE Coordinating body underway

Evaluation of NRIE implementation during UNCTAD 15th Oil, Gas and Mines, Trade and Finance Conference to be held in November 2011 in Conakry, Guinea

















RECOMMENDATIONS

Promote the NRIE model among ACP member States to highlight the impact of resource exploitation on wealth creation for the State and the population, as well as preservation of the environment

Involve host countries’ Academia in the project ownership

Partnership with UNCTAD on the NRIE initiative: The ACP Secretariat to support the production of metadata and host the metadata backup for ACP member States

Donor support for NRIE project (bilateral, multilateral, private sector, PPP, foundation etc.)

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The Natural Resources Information Exchange – NRIE