RAID was invited to watch one of many frequent neighborhood engagement conferences between North Mara, the village chairpersons, ward and village govt officers of the 11 host villages in addition to their member of parliament. At this assembly, the village management afforded RAID the chance to boost any human rights points they felt had been of concern. In keeping with Barrick’s findings to this point, the village management didn’t corroborate the allegations raised by RAID and reaffirmed that there had been no earlier engagement with RAID on the issues raised.
RAID additionally had the chance to see neighborhood tasks, together with the agribusiness which supplies livelihoods to over 100 youths, the potable faucet water provide which is able to provide over 30,000 neighborhood members, new faculties and medical services. These tasks had been all funded by the mine by a Neighborhood Growth Committee, which places the neighborhood on the coronary heart of the decision-making course of.
Lastly, Barrick launched RAID to key native authorities and held tripartite conferences which included the Regional Police Commander and the District Commissioner.
Barrick doesn’t tolerate human rights abuses in any of its operations and encourages any particular person or group to share any issues they could have. North Mara Gold Mine will proceed to implement its sustainability technique. This consists of partaking and dealing carefully with over 20 regional and nationwide NGOs that perceive the challenges in its host communities and companion with the mine to implement socio-economic growth tasks.
“We encourage RAID to hitch these NGOs and collaborate with us on upliftment initiatives. I hope that the location go to has been informative for RAID and that they may go away Tanzania with a recent perspective on the quite a few advantages the mine brings to its host communities and its respect for the human rights of these influenced by its operations,” mentioned Barrick’s president and chief govt Mark Bristow.
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