The joint Swedish Environmental Protection Agency – UNDP Environmental Governance Programme (EGP) launched a free online course on mining governance in collaboration with the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). The training course is designed to support government officials and other stakeholders in applying core sustainability concepts, and human-rights based approaches and tools needed to improve the environmental and social governance of the mining sector in various country contexts.

The course is free of charge and will run throughout 2019.

Increasingly government authorities, environmental and human rights defenders, and mining companies require more than technical knowledge of the mining sector to do their job well. They need a broad understanding of the economic, environmental, social and human rights issues at every stage of the mining cycle and tools to manage them.

Responding to this growing demand, the course targets authorities and stakeholders involved in the regulation of the mining industry, including its environmental, social and human rights impacts, such as officials working in social welfare, women, children, indigenous peoples, and minorities. The course also provides guidance to civil society representatives, human rights and environmental defenders, indigenous peoples, and their representatives and other development partners and practitioners.

The training course draws on the EGP flagship publication on Extracting Good Practices: A Guide for Governments and Partners to Integrate Environment and Human Rights into the Governance of the Mining Sector.

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