PROGRAMME

GOVERNANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL
Integrating
Environment and
Human Rights into
the Governance of
the Mining Sector

Web: egp-undp.org
Email: egp@undp.org

A JOINT SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL

Swedish Environmental UNDP Bureau for Policy and PROTECTION AGENCY - UNITED NATIONS
Protection Agency Programme Support
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME INITIATIVE
Valhallavägen 195 304 East 45th Street
SE-106 48 Stockholm  New York, NY 10017 

WHO WE ARE
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Swedish
EPA) and the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) launched the Environmental Governance
Programme (EGP) for Sustainable Natural Resource
Management, focusing on the mining sector, in 2014.  through:
The programme draws upon the combined governance,
environmental and extractive sector expertise of the two
agencies and their partners.
Using the nexus between the environment and human rights
as a lens, the EGP takes an integrated approach to
sustainable natural resource management, that focuses on
addressing drivers of conflict, environmental degradation,
inequality, exclusion, and poverty simultaneously.
The EGP provides targeted support to four countries:
Colombia, Kenya, Mongolia, and Mozambique. The
programme also works at the global and regional level to
support the exchange of innovative policy approaches
within and across countries and regions.
The EGP is fully funded by the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).  rights, environmental sustainability, and conflict prevention.
EXAMPLES OF OUR WORK
In Mongolia, two landmark studies on the rule-of-law and
legality in the governance of mining were conducted, which have
informed the drafting of stronger mining laws and regulations:
the Law of Offences, the Mineral Law, and the Environmental
Impact Assessment Regulation.
In Colombia, an assessment of the degree to which government
institutions adhere to procedural rights related to the
environment has been conducted. It will be used to inform the
country’s future strategy for the Environmental Management of
the Colombian Mining Energy Sector and an early warning
system.  
In Mozambique, a compendium of Good Practices for Women
and Mining in Mozambique was developed with UN Women. In
collaboration with OXFAM, a training on Free Prior and Informed
Consent was conducted for civil society members from across
four regional provinces.
WHAT WE DO
In Kenya, for the first time, a Strategic Environmental and Social
• Connect countries to the expertise needed to tackle complex
Assessment (SESA) of the mining sector has been conducted. A
challenges and leverage new opportunities in the
cross-sector coordination mechanism with representatives from
environmental governance of the mining sector.
the ministries of mining and environment, civil society
• Facilitate global, regional, and country knowledge exchange
organizations, and the national human rights commission was
created to oversee this work.
- peer-to-peer learning events between the Swedish EPA and
national government partners;
- the GOXI.org on-line Community of Practice platform; and
- webinars and other South-South and triangular learning
opportunities.
• Conduct diagnostics that inform policy reforms and help to
integrate environment, gender, human rights, and rule-of-law
in mining governance.
• Strengthen inter-ministerial and cross-sectoral coordination
mechanisms that recognize the roles of different authorities
involved in governing the mining sector.
• Facilitate and strengthen in-country platforms for multi-
stakeholder dialogue and engagement.
• Synthesize and share country experiences and global
expertise through technical studies and guidance notes on
cutting-edge issues of environmental governance of the
mining sector.
• Advance the global dialogue on the nexus between human