The training course aims to increase participants’ understanding of key resettlement, livelihoods and related issues, and increase their capacity to manage and/or engage with resettlement and livelihood projects on-the-ground for the benefit of all stakeholders through interaction between key resettlement players (Government, private sector and civil society) and case examples and studies. A specific module on resettlement related IT, including databases, will highlight the challenges and opportunities with the use of new digital technologies.

The key issues covered during the training course include: What are the Biggest Issues and Challenges for Course Attendees?; Baseline Data Collection, Storage and Analysis, and Impact, Risk and Opportunity Assessment; The Role of IT in Resettlement – Databases and Other IT; Planning Assumptions, Steps and Tools; Engaging with Internal Stakeholders; Engaging with External Shareholders; Resettlement Packages: Land and Livelihoods; Resettlement Packages: Resettlement Sites, Buildings and Infrastructure; Gender, Vulnerable Persons and Human Rights; Cultural Heritage Issues; Construction, Payment and Moves; Post-Move Livelihoods and Other Re-Establishment Measures; Beyond Impact Mitigation: Creating Shared Value/ Benefit Sharing; and Monitoring & Evaluation.

Anticipated learning outcomes include a better understanding and appreciation by participants of each other`s concerns, issues, perspectives and experience. Thereby participants will have an improved understanding of key issues and cutting edge thinking on best practice standards, guidelines and tools. The training course will lead to an improved international capacity to engage on, assess, plan, implement, review, monitor, report on and oversee land access, resettlement and livelihoods for the benefit of all stakeholders. Finally, the training course aims to improve how land access and resettlement are undertaken on-the-ground, by sharing lessons learnt (good and bad) and practical and innovative methodologies and tools from across the world including resettlement databases.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In light of the IAIA conference on Impact Assessment in the Digital Era and the pivotal role technology can play for the successful planning and implementation of Resettlement and Livelihood Projects, Intersocial offers a Training Course on Resettlement Planning, Livelihoods and IT.
Intersocial has partnered with a global IT firm active in the field of governance and compliance software to develop a flexible solution in relation to resettlement databases. This solution is operational on a number of projects. The training course will contain a module on resettlement databases highlighting the challenges and opportunities with the use of new technologies and the use of this database in a case study.
As stated in 2.1, the key issues covered during the training course are: What are the Biggest Issues and Challenges for Course Attendees?; Baseline Data Collection, Storage and Analysis, and Impact, Risk and Opportunity Assessment; The Role of IT in Resettlement – Databases and Other IT; Planning Assumptions, Steps and Tools; Engaging with Internal Stakeholders; Engaging with External Shareholders; Resettlement Packages: Land and Livelihoods; Resettlement Packages: Resettlement Sites, Buildings and Infrastructure; Gender, Vulnerable Persons and Human Rights; Cultural Heritage Issues; Construction, Payment and Moves; Post-Move Livelihoods and Other Re-Establishment Measures; Beyond Impact Mitigation: Creating Shared Value/ Benefit Sharing; and Monitoring & Evaluation.

Methodology and Approach

The methodology and approach for the training course will have the following key features and elements:

• Training sessions will ideally have a mixed group of participants from governments, the private sector and civil society from different countries
• There will be training and facilitation by international experts (people who have successfully implemented resettlement projects on-the-ground) in the form of 2 directors from Intersocial i.e. Mike Steyn and Eddie Smyth
• An interactive approach through opportunities for discussions, questions and sharing of experiences after the presentation of each module (The training course will not just be a set of academic lectures)
• Live demonstration of a resettlement database
• Use of case examples that raise issues important to different groups of participants
• A focus on lessons learned from the experience of the trainers and participants e.g.:
• Common pitfalls
• What has worked and not worked
• Do`s and Don’ts
• Critical principles and things to bear in mind
• Use of role plays and case studies in which groups of participants will have to apply knowledge they have to practical situations in friendly competition with other groups
• Open sharing and discussion of issues, concerns and ideas within a context of realism and mutual respect (with allocation of dedicated time at the end of each session for questions not raised during each training module).

Training Course Agenda

The proposed training course agenda is set out below:

DAY 1 – 18 APRIL 2014

DAY 2 – 19 APRIL 2014

Case Studies

The participants will be divided in groups of 5 to 7 persons and allocated 1 of the 2 fictional case studies of which elements are, however, based on issues encountered on real projects. One case study will focus on oil and gas and the other will outline a fictional case of a mining project.
Each group will need to consider the following elements:

• What are the key issues, risks and challenges?
• What needs to be done to minimize the risks and address impacts?
• What resources are required?
• What are the key tasks?
• What are the key recommendations?

Up to 4 groups will present to a panel chosen from the course participants who will evaluate and provide feedback to the groups on the presentations.

Course Material

At the beginning of the course participants will be given a hardcopy of the course agenda. During the course participants will receive course material consisting of the slides presented and an outline of the case studies. They will be given this on a USB.

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE TRAINER

Training Course Coordinator and Trainer - Mike Steyn

• Mike is a Director of Intersocial, with over 21 years of international experience in all aspects related to land access and resettlement, including:

• scoping, pre-feasibility, feasibility and trade-off studies
• overall project management and on-the-ground implementation
• stakeholder engagement (consultations and negotiations with stakeholders ranging from boards of directors; project general managers; project designers; national, regional and local government; traditional, religious and other community leaders and members; NGOs; and building contractors and other service providers)
• development of Resettlement Action Plans, including baseline data collection and analysis, work plans, schedules, impact, risk and opportunity assessment, mitigation measures, development and benefit sharing packages, budgets and other planning issues and elements like influx and speculation measures, artisanal and small-scale miners, indigenous peoples, vulnerable people,  and cultural heritage issues
• due diligence, monitoring and evaluation, and review
• development of corporate and project standards and guidelines
• training and other forms of capacity building
• benchmarking

• Mike holds degrees in Politics, Law and Business Administration, has managed the planning and implementation of several major land access and resettlement projects in the mining and oil & gas sectors, and has been involved in, reviewed or monitored over thirty land access and resettlement projects internationally in over 20 countries across Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia

• Mike`s training experience includes:
• IAIA Land Access and Resettlement Training Course, Skukuza, South Africa (Course for Private Sector, Government, Civil Society and Consultants) – Role = Training Course Coordinator and Trainer
• International Finance Corporation Land Acquisition and Resettlement Training Course, Bogota, Colombia (Course for Latin American Practitioners and Consultants) – Role = Team Leader, Materials Preparation and Trainer
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Resettlement Capacity Building Training Course, Belgrade, Serbia and Skopje Macedonia, (Course for Government Officials for Infrastructure Projects in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia) – Role = Materials Preparation and Trainer
• AngloGold Ashanti Land Access and Resettlement Management Standard and Procedure Training Workshop, Kumasi, Ghana (Course for AngloGold Worldwide Resettlement Personnel) – Role = Preparation of Corporate Resettlement Standard and Procedure, Preparation of Course Materials, Workshop Trainer and Facilitator
• Rio Tinto Alcan Land Access and Resettlement Planning and Implementation Training Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa (Course for Rio Tinto Worldwide Resettlement Personnel) – Role = Preparation of Materials and Presentation
• Local Resettlement Team Personnel Capacity Building on Multiple Projects e.g. La Granja Project, Peru, Essakane Project, Burkina Faso, Far Southeast Project, Philippines and Çöpler Project, Turkey (Training Courses and Capacity Building Workshops for Client Personnel) – Role = Preparation of Materials, Trainer and Facilitator
• Alacer Gold Education Workshop on Key Social Issues in the Mining Sector (including Resettlement), Denver, USA (Workshop for Board of Directors) – Role = Preparation of Materials and Presentation
• On-the-ground capacity building of client teams during numerous resettlement projects

Trainer – Eddie Smyth

• Eddie is a Director of Intersocial and has over 20 years of experience working with the mining, environment and development sectors in Africa, Europe, South America and Asia-Pacific

• Eddie has extensive worldwide experience in land access and resettlement planning and implementation, livelihoods restoration, community development and stakeholder engagement

• He holds degrees in Rural Development and Conservation and has planned, implemented, managed, monitored and reviewed numerous land access and resettlement projects including projects in Australia, Burkina Faso, Congo Brazzaville, DRC, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, Turkey and Zambia

• Eddie’s training experience includes:

• IAIA Land Access and Resettlement Training Course, Skukuza, South Africa (Course for Private Sector, Government, Civil Society and Consultants) – Role = Training Course Coordinator and Trainer
• AngloGold Ashanti Land Access and Resettlement Management Standard and Procedure Training Workshop, Kumasi, Ghana (Course for AngloGold Worldwide Resettlement Personnel) – Role = Preparation of Corporate Resettlement Standard and Procedure, Preparation of Course Materials, Workshop Trainer and Facilitator
• Local Resettlement Team Personnel Capacity Building on Multiple Projects e.g. July 2012 to date: Resettlement Project Director, Banfora Gold Project, Burkina Faso (Gryphon Minerals/ IFC) Training a multi-disciplinary team to plan the consultations and resettlement of over 500 households in Burkina Faso. 
• December 2007 to date: Resettlement Project Manager/Advisor, Ahafo Projects, Ghana (Newmont Ghana Gold Limited/IFC). Spent 3 years on site training a local team to manage the resettlement process. This local team now implement the resettlement with limited support from Intersocial.
• May 2011 to September 2013: Resettlement Project Director, Tampakan Project, The Philippines           (SMI/Xstrata Copper) Trained a multi-disciplinary team to plan the consultations and resettlement of over 1,000 households in Mindanao. 
• June 2010 to April 2011 & March 2013: Resettlement & Land Access Adviser, Conga Project, Peru (Newmont/ Minera Yanacocha SRL/IFC) Provided training to local consultants on developing a socio-economic baseline and livelihood restoration programs through a series of workshops on site.

Together with the other director of Intersocial, Mike and Eddie are the Co-authors of a book - ‘Land Access and Resettlement – A Guide to Best Practice’ (Publication in January 2015; Available for pre-orders on Amazon).