Stakeholders call for Africa’s mining ambition to be implemented.

Stakeholders have urged the government to ensure that the Africa Mining Vision, which was adopted by African heads of state in 2009 as the continent’s action plan for overcoming the paradox of large and diverse mineral endowments and widespread underdevelopment and grinding poverty, is fully implemented.

During the validation of a research paper titled “Building Mineral Based Linkages: A Case of Uganda,” stakeholders insisted that “it is critical to develop and implement mineral based linkages, and that this requires national and regional strategies,” and that “implementation of the 2009 agreement will yield tangible results.”

The fact that the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is adopting an online cadaster system, which is the industry best practice in licensing, was brought to light by David Sebagala, Senior Inspector of Mines.

‘‘If our minerals are to become a key source of growth, we must address infrastructure issues and other obstacles in the mining sub-sector,” says the report. According to Sebagala.

Jane Nalunga, Executive Director of SEATINI Uganda, emphasized the need of properly protecting policy space in order to fulfill the goals outlined in the Africa Mining Vision.

Uganda’s mineral resources, according to Dr. Paul Jourdan, the study’s principal consultant,

Through the realization of mineral connections, it may be used to support resource-based industrialisation.

On the other hand, Paul Bagabo of the Natural Resource Governance Institute emphasized the importance of the government assisting the private sector, developing infrastructure, and negotiating regional policies to help the mining industry.

The preliminary findings of a study that focused on three countries: Uganda, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.

According to Niger, Uganda has made modest progress in mineral-based linkages, owing in part to the relatively small market for mining inputs and mineral products, as well as the absence of licensing requirements for value chain development under the Mining Act of 2003.

The seminar, which was co-organized by SEATINI Uganda and Third World Network (TWN), sought to provide a venue for diverse stakeholders to evaluate research findings and develop strategies for maximizing the mining sector’s effect.

The study will be confirmed in other collaborating nations (Mozambique and Niger) and then distributed to the general public and relevant institutions in the form of a research paper.