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Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development Toward a Framework for Resource Extraction Industries

Thursday, March 29, 2012 15:00toFriday, March 30, 2012 17:00
1050 Sherbrooke Street West, 1050 Sherbrooke Street West, Omni Mont-Royal, CA

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The conference is intended to start laying out a framework for a new form of public-private sector partnerships for sustainable development in resource extraction industries. Through the participation of industry experts, policymakers, and local and transnational civil society actors, the conference will bring together a myriad of experiences intended to generate a rich but critical discussion of more effective strategies for using for-profit economic activity to generate sustainable economic development. More specifically, the conference and workshop will focus on 3 questions:

1) What are the challenges faced in trying to establish effective medium and long-term collaborations for promoting sustainable development between extractive industries and the communities they work in;

2) Are there effective practices or models that can be identified for achieving this goal; and

3) how can government policies and the activities of relevant non-governmental organizations facilitate such public-private sector partnerships?

Participants have been invited because of their relevant experiences in the public, private and civil society sectors with the expectation that they willÌý address these three questions from the perspective of those experiences.

Reception to follow opening session

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