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26th May, 2010
NEWMONT Backs Sustainable Livelihood Programmes
NEWMONT Ghana says it is determined to build the capacities of people to enable them to become self- reliant, because making a living for themselves.
Mrs. Adiki Ayitevi, Regional Communications Manager, says “when this is done by continuously providing the people with requisite skills training in various fields in the communities, such as, building, plumbing, and sustainable farming it will open opportunities to the people to win contracts both in the Newmont mining communities and even overseas.”
At a round-table discussion in Accra on the company’s Ahafo Linkages programme, Mrs. Ayitevi said “the integration of local content is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development,” adding that the company was helping to create sustainable livelihood programmes by engaging local businesses and supporting the development of local enterprises to access contracts in other sectors of the economy.
The impact, she said, transcended in the generation of revenues and employment amongst the local entrepreneurs, which could survive beyond the lifespan of the mine.
Giving the background of the Ahafo Linkages, she said, in 2007 the company in cooperation with the International Financial Company, set-up the programme, in order to maximize local content for its operations at Ahafo mine, combining access to business opportunities with training and mentoring for local entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurs, she said, included some of the people whose activities were affected by the mining operations in the area, explaining that the overall goal of the project, was to create income and employment opportunities for local communities around the Ahafo Gold project, particularly, micro, small and medium enterprises and to help them become sustainable businesses.
She said a component of the project was to support the development of local businesses and to develop potential suppliers of goods and services to the mines.
It also sought to improve the competitiveness of local non-mining related businesses to help develop a diversified local economy outside of the mining sector, she added.
“The project, also seeks to develop and improve the capacity of local business associations and institutions that can provide long-term sustainable business support, training and other services to local business community,” she stressed.
Mrs. Ayitevi said the company had built the capacities of the local business communities for which three of the local businesses had even won three awards giving by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, UK.
The awards she said were the best supplier diversity project, best procurement community award and best procurement male professional of the year award.
Mrs. Ayitevi said 341 Ghanaian businesses were also awarded contracts worth over $144.3 million accounting for over 60 percent of the company’s total purchase in 2009.
Mrs. Adiki Ayitevi, Regional Communications Manager, says “when this is done by continuously providing the people with requisite skills training in various fields in the communities, such as, building, plumbing, and sustainable farming it will open opportunities to the people to win contracts both in the Newmont mining communities and even overseas.”
At a round-table discussion in Accra on the company’s Ahafo Linkages programme, Mrs. Ayitevi said “the integration of local content is a prerequisite for achieving sustainable development,” adding that the company was helping to create sustainable livelihood programmes by engaging local businesses and supporting the development of local enterprises to access contracts in other sectors of the economy.
The impact, she said, transcended in the generation of revenues and employment amongst the local entrepreneurs, which could survive beyond the lifespan of the mine.
Giving the background of the Ahafo Linkages, she said, in 2007 the company in cooperation with the International Financial Company, set-up the programme, in order to maximize local content for its operations at Ahafo mine, combining access to business opportunities with training and mentoring for local entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurs, she said, included some of the people whose activities were affected by the mining operations in the area, explaining that the overall goal of the project, was to create income and employment opportunities for local communities around the Ahafo Gold project, particularly, micro, small and medium enterprises and to help them become sustainable businesses.
She said a component of the project was to support the development of local businesses and to develop potential suppliers of goods and services to the mines.
It also sought to improve the competitiveness of local non-mining related businesses to help develop a diversified local economy outside of the mining sector, she added.
“The project, also seeks to develop and improve the capacity of local business associations and institutions that can provide long-term sustainable business support, training and other services to local business community,” she stressed.
Mrs. Ayitevi said the company had built the capacities of the local business communities for which three of the local businesses had even won three awards giving by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, UK.
The awards she said were the best supplier diversity project, best procurement community award and best procurement male professional of the year award.
Mrs. Ayitevi said 341 Ghanaian businesses were also awarded contracts worth over $144.3 million accounting for over 60 percent of the company’s total purchase in 2009.
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