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Our Vision: We will partner to improve health and education outcomes and increase livelihood opportunities to support community resilience and economic diversification in our host countries across southern Africa and Canada. 

Through this pillar we seek ways in which we can partner to generate real and lasting benefits for the communities around our diamond operations. Through our leading Social Way management system1, we work to understand local context, engage all stakeholders, mitigate any potential negative impact, and identify long-term development opportunities. Many of the communities – and even countries – with which we partner rely on diamond revenues as their primary source of income and economic development. We therefore focus on working in close collaboration with these communities to ensure we succeed together while creating economic opportunities beyond mining. To support communities to thrive, our focus is on health, education and livelihoods.

Our 2030 Goals for our Partnering for Thriving Communities pillar focus on three key areas  – health & wellbeing, skills and education and livelihoods. 

 

Health & Wellbeing

By 2030, we will achieve priority UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) health targets in all our partner communities.

- Through 2030 and beyond we will continue to enable access to world-class healthcare for community members through the hospitals around our mining operations in Botswana and Namibia.

- In our host communities in southern Africa, we will partner to reduce HIV and TB infection rates, child and maternal mortality, the incidence of gender-based violence and road accidents.

- In Canada, we will focus on specific vulnerable groups within our partner First Nations communities – this includes implementing programmes to address youth life skills, mental health and substance abuse, teenage pregnancy and obesity.

 

Skills and education

By 2030, we will establish skills partnerships in all our partner communities.

- By 2025 all schools in our southern African host communities will be in the top 30% of state schools nationally, and by 2030 they will be in the top 20%.

- By 2030 we will partner with governments, schools, technical colleges and other employers to support youth to develop the skills required to access opportunities in the future of work.

 

Livelihoods

By 2030, we will have supported four jobs across our partner countries for every one job at our operations2.

- By 2025, for every job at our operations, we will have supported two jobs offsite through a range of activities, including our enterprise, supplier and skills development programmes, increased local procurement and other economic development initiatives in our local communities.

- By 2030, we will have implemented our Collaborative Regional Development (CRD) model for bringing long-term sustainable development opportunities to the regions around our operations.

 

Footnotes: 

1 Anglo American’s Social Way management system: https://socialway.angloamerican.com/

2 Includes our operating mines, near-shore recovery and midstream businesses.