Mining industry must rethink social licence with youth at the centre – GoldBod CEO

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), Sammy Gyamfi, has called for a fundamental rethink of the social licence for mining, arguing that Ghana’s mining industry must place young people at the centre of resource development and economic participation.

The GoldBod CEO called for the social licence to be re-imagined as a development compact with young people through skills development, sustainable employment, local enterprise development and expanded opportunities around mining production and services.“A social licence cannot survive where the youth believe mining has no place for them except as casual labourers and bystanders, while others see them as troublesome agitators,” Mr Gyamfi stressed.