Results achieved by the World Bank with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors from 2009 to 2015 include: (1) supported 29 countries on issues ranging from contract negotiations to legal and regulatory regimes for extractives. Nine global/regional knowledge products were produced. All projects included elements of capacity building and provided assessments on institutional needs and training; (2) provided technical advice on eight specific mining and petroleum transactions: liquefied natural gas negotiations in Mozambique, mining projects in Sierra Leone, several iron ore projects in Liberia, a major iron ore project in Guinea, a gold project in Kyrgyzstan, a copper project in Pakistan, tendering of strategic mining areas in Columbia, gas-to-power in Mauritania. While not all of those projects moved into financial close (commodity downturn of the past four years seriously impacted all green field projects), relevant officials’ capacity was improved, standard documents were developed, and negotiations methodologies were designed and tested; (3) advice on the upgrade of legal and regulatory regimes for extractive industries was provided to 19 countries, and four countries received specific advice on updating their cadaster systems. The majority of the clients proceeded to adopting new and improved laws and regulations. Some good practice laws were noted in Côte d’Ivoire, Mongolia’s model agreements, Mozambique’s mining cadaster system, Seychelles’ new petroleum law, and Kenya’s petroleum policy and law; (4) due to regional specificities, new innovative approaches were designed focusing on environmental and social issues for Latin America and Caribbean in particular—where environmental legacy is usually the most challenging part of doing business in extractive industries. Countries benefitting from this approach included: Peru, Honduras and Mexico. Specific advice on environmental issues was also provided to Armenia; (5) two major regional initiatives regarding knowledge management were supported under EI-TAF—Africa Mining Vision Transformation and Africa Mining Legislation Atlas (AMLA); (6) four global initiatives were supported: Extractive Industries Source Book was put online and continues to be in use; a new product—Mining Investment Governance Review (MInGov)—was launched in part supported by EI-TAF; two major courses were rolled out—Contract Negotiations Training and the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on extractives; (7) AMLA published 53 mining codes in machine readable and searchable format and trained more than 50 legal professionals; (8) seven country-level MInGov assessments piloting new methodology were carried out with co-financing from others (Zambia, Mozambique, DRC, Peru, Kenya, Botswana, Ghana), and a Latin American MInGov pilot was completed, with co-financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB); (9) about 90 professionals were trained on mining contract negotiations; and (10) 5,600 people were enrolled in the MOOC.
