The Zambia Mining Investment andGovernance Review (MInGov) collects and shares information onmining sector governance, its attractiveness to investorsand how its activities affect national development. Itreviews sector performance from the perspective of threemain stakeholder groups– government, investors in the miningvalue chain and civil society – and identifies gapsbetween declared and actual government policy and practice.The review's key findings are:Performance across thevalue chain is strongest in topics most closely associatedwith mining and which are related to the content of laws andregulations, though implementation of these is wanting insome instances; Sector development is constrained by a numberof bottlenecks; According to investors, a number of areasare constraining mining investment and returns; The threekey stakeholder groups agree on a number of topics theybelieve are particularly important to strengthen sectorgovernance, investment and development impact; Civil societybelieves there is a number of weaknesses sector governance,including the poor handling of environment and socialimpacts of mining; problems with human rights associatedwith the sector; ineffective development planning as itrelates to mining; issues concerning land access,compensation and resettlement; and the absence of revenuesharing between national and local government.MInGov’smethodology focuses on the status of governance andinvestment conditions in the mining sector from theperspective of stakeholders, and as reported in primary andsecondary sources. However, less-well covered areas includethe quality of its infrastructure services, the security ofproperty from theft, the underlying strength ofinstitutions, and ways to enhance mining’s contribution tolocal and national development.This report presents data onmining investment and governance indicators for Zambia thatare current as of October 2015.
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