Extractive Inter-Stakeholders Forum (EISF)

The Extractive Inter-Stakeholders Forum (EISF), originally known as the Mining Inter-Stakeholders’ Forum (MISF), is a non-profit company registered in February 2008 under the Companies Act of 2002. The forum was established to open a dialogue between stakeholders in the extractive industry with the view to facilitating the emergence of a win-win situation in the industry.

=Functions= The Forum collaborates with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals to ensure a harmonious relationship among key stakeholders, namely the extractive industry companies, the Tanzanian Government and the local communities. The forum coordinates two main activities in the extractive industry. The first activity is to ensure that the extractive process is done in a proper and sustainable manner by spearheading the Presidential Corporate Social Responsibility and Empowerment Award in Extractive Industries, which was officially launched in 2012. The second focus is the co-ordination of all activities that are expected to transform the lives and livelihoods of local communities through promoting local content participation in the Extractive Industry supply chain.

=Vision and Mission= The Forum’s envisions to “have an Extractive Sector in Tanzania where extractive companies, local communities and the Government of Tanzania work together as partners in order to fuel business success, social and economic development and poverty eliminated altogether” with a mission to “co-ordinate and partner up with the Government, local community and Investors in ensuring Extractive Industry’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Empowerment programs are tailored to the stakeholders’ needs and promote local community and investor participation in the Extractive Industry supply chain.”

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