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The PERCAN Project is aimed at enhancing the institutional capacity of the MEM and its regional offices in the area of mining, so that they may fulfill better the tasks that they have been mandated by law, i.e. to promote investment and harmonious relations within the mining industry.
The PERCAN Project will strive to strengthen and improve the capacity of the MEM and its regional offices in their relation with other stakeholders of the mining industry (including Communities, Community Based Organizations, Non-Profit Associations, Local Governments, Universities, NGOs and Firms), developing and offering the use of the best operational and administrative procedures available worldwide.
The PERCAN Project will also be aimed at issues such as Occupational Health and Safety; Communication among stakeholders; Conflict Management; Rehabilitation of mining liabilities and implementation of social and environmental remediation measures; Gender Equality, and other major social issues.
Likewise, the PERCAN Project will strive to work with regional academic institutions in order to make them able to train, in turn, future sector officials and stakeholders so that they can fulfill better the requirements of all the stakeholders involved in the Peruvian mining activity.
The PERCAN Project will materialize through the implementation of activities to efficiently and effectively, strengthen the sector capacity, favoring the implementation of policies and practices that are appropriate for the Peruvian mining industry. The goal is that these activities have a positive impact on the services offered by the mining public sector, thus gaining more confidence in the ministry and in its regional offices and improving thereby their performance.
As for results, the PERCAN Project is aimed at improving the supply of services to the sector stakeholders, thus contributing to an integral performance of the mining industry and, consequently, to improve the life standards of Peruvians in the mining regions.
The PERCAN Project assumes the participation of stakeholders of the industry, especially the staff of the MEM and its regional offices, through a continuous consultative and constructive dialog, so that the stakeholders become a constitutive part of the project development process. The purpose is to turn the project into their project, and to make the experts act not just as consultants but as motivators, coordinators and, above all, as communicators and facilitators.
Although it is not an easy task, it is critical to guarantee the project credibility, acceptance and success. Moreover, this philosophy of participative action is a guarantee for the building of a sustainable institutional capacity.
Therefore, it is considered that the optimum strategy to achieve the fundamental goals of this project, i.e. the institutional strengthening of the Peruvian mining sector, needs above all the establishment of a permanent consultation process with the main stakeholders of the Peruvian mining industry, in order to confirm the working hypotheses and to look for consensus around proposals for the best performance of the MEM and its decentralized offices.
AREAS OF INTEREST
REGIONALIZATION /DECENTRALIZATION
The main task given to this cooperation project has been to collaborate with the decentralization process started by this administration, within the scope of the mining sector public management, including but not limited to the work with the Ministry and the DREMs.
This is a challenging task, since the road to be followed in this regionalization process has not been fully defined and there are big limitations in terms of resources and capacities in the different regions.
Nevertheless, the fact of having a multidisciplinary and "tropicalized" team, based on iterative criteria, will make it possible for us to contribute to this important nationwide process in
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
This is another remarkable area of the project, since, in principle and taking into account that this is an extractive activity, the Canadian Aid is very much concerned with environment protection.
In its first phase, the PERCAN Project contributed to the development of guidelines and to the training of the regulators. In this new phase, the PERCAN Project will be aimed at providing, at a regional level, training on environmental issues for the stakeholders within the mining industry, in order to decentralize the supervision capacity on these issues.
Special emphasis will be given on the issue of environmental liabilities, a critical point of the mining activity, which we believe jeopardizes its future.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
As in the case of Environmental Issues, Occupational Health and Safety is another issue that generates permanent concern in Canadian Aid.
In the first phase of the PERCAN Project, manuals and guidelines were developed and regulators were trained. In the second phase, a greater distribution of these manuals and guidelines will be sought and training will be performed in a decentralized manner, especially the training of the stakeholders of the mining industry involved in these issues, including workers, supervisors, auditors, and regulators. The participation of regional academic organizations in this activity will become an asset of the PERCAN Project.
SOCIAL IMPACTS ON THE MINING ACTIVITY
One of the objectives of this project is to look for a way to appropriately internalize the social factor into the notion of mining activity.
Although the mining industry is inherently an engineering-related productive activity, its extractive condition, its dimensions and its clearly decentralized nature involve effects on its social setting.
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
The social condition of the mining activity leads us to the issue of conflict management. The existence of latent or potential conflicts is inherent to imperfect social relations. Consequently, in order to create a climate favorable to an integral mining development, it is critical to train the multi-stakeholders within the mining industry in the notion of conflict management.
Therefore, the PERCAN Project framework has considered the conflict management area as an issue that will contribute for the institutional strengthening of the industry as a whole.
SMALL-SCALE AND ARTISAN MINING
Mining stratification is a legal and practical arrangement reflecting a very clear and well defined industrial characterization. Small-scale and artisan mining has a number of specific features of their own that make it very peculiar and, in many cases, very much restricted to a given local or regional circumscription.
The PERCAN Project has included the treatment of this mining sector in its proposal due to the specific social and economic impacts of its performance and its functional limitations. The PERCAN Project, in collaboration with other institutions, will strive to create, through the training of regional mining leaders, the conditions needed to make it possible for the small-scale and artisan mining to find an adequate orientation within each specific region.