International Development Grant
Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility
Project Number: CA-3-M013709001
Status: Terminating
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Maximum Contribution: $10,000,000.00
Start Date: March 15, 2012
End Date: March 31, 2017
Duration: 5.0 years
Project Description
CIDA’s grant to the Extractive Industries Technical Advisory Facility (EI-TAF) builds the capacity of developing country governments to formulate extractive industry agreements and related policies prior to agreeing to new mining projects or licensing new firms. This will in turn reduce the risk of costly remediation at a later stage of projects and increase transparency and certainty for companies seeking to undertake mining operations. In addition to providing rapid-response advisory and capacity building services EI-TAF also supports the production and dissemination of global knowledge products on extractive industry sector issues to help address the lack of information that exists on sound extractive industry sector governance and management. The EI-TAF is a multi-donor trust fund managed by the World Bank.
Expected Results
Expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: improved capacity of local governments in resource-rich developing countries to structure extractive industry agreements and related industry sector policies prior to agreeing to new mining projects or licensing new firms; improved global knowledge management in extractive industries sector governance.
Progress & Results Achieved
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 region
Key Information
Executing Agency:
IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP