A workshop held on 01 August 2023 validated the user’s guide, with the aim of establishing a common reference for the use of the resources of the Local Development Mining Fund (LDMF). The workshop was chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines, Jean-Baptiste Kaboré.
According to Djibril Zoungrana, Permanent Secretary of the National Mining Commission/ Local Development Mining Fund (SP/CNM-FMDL), the guide has made 04 major areas eligible. These are the development of basic infrastructure, the development of basic social services and the improvement of the living environment, the development of the local economy and the development of human capital. All the areas selected are broken down into many sub-sectors. The information was made public by the Ministry of Mines’ communications department.
This validation session will be followed by the distribution of the guide to the beneficiaries, in the words of the SP/CNM-FMDL: “The beneficiaries will be informed. As for the stakeholders, they will be made aware of the issue and their capacity to manage resources will be strengthened”.
As a reminder, the LDMF was created in the Mining Code of 2025 to finance local authority projects. Operationalised in 2017, more than 169 billion FCFA had been mobilised under the LDMF by 31 December 2022. However, one of the major constraints on the use of transferred resources is the discrepancy in the assessment of projects eligible for LDMF funding.
It is a user’s guide that will enable the players involved in the process to find out how the Local Development Mining Fund (LDMF) is used, and to have a basic understanding of the regulatory provisions governing this fund. This validation workshop was a springboard for the National Committee for Monitoring the Collection, Allocation and Use of the LMDF to review and amend the documents submitted for its consideration. On the role of the committee, Jean-Baptiste Kaboré, Secretary General of the Ministry in charge of mines, recalled its importance in the decisions contained in the new guide. “The committee has a very important role to play in decisions concerning this user guide. Thanks to everyone’s input, we now have a high-quality document,” he says.
Jean-Baptiste Kaboré was clear about the need to apply the contents of the user guide for the benefit of local authorities and other beneficiaries. “The decisions we have to take must be rapidly reflected on the ground”, he said.
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