New Directions in Mining Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

New Thinking on SDGs and International Law Policy Brief No. 9

Sara Ghebremusse
Series: New Thinking on SDGs and International Law
May 14, 2020

Despite Africa's wealth of natural resources, millions of its people live in extreme poverty. Effective mining governance can help Africa address this imbalance by achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 (to end poverty) and SDG 8 (to create sustainable economic growth and decent work for all). Reforms aimed at generating more revenue for national governments to address poverty and building new partnerships between public and private sectors to promote economic growth and boost employment can help achieve these goals.

Part of Series

New Thinking on SDGs and International Law

In this series by emerging scholars, policy briefs address opportunities for international and domestic law, economics and policy to contribute toward achieving sustainable development across sectors. The policy briefs are therefore tailored to global economies and policy-oriented solutions in one or more of the ILRP’s core research areas of international intellectual property law, international environmental law, international economic law and international Indigenous law. The idea is to address aspects of CIGI’s research areas through the lens of international law, economics and policy, governance and sustainable development in a public policy format.

About the Author

Sara Ghebremusse

Sara Ghebremusse is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s Peter A. Allard School of Law. 

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