Livelihoods

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Origins

We have developed a Sustainable Mining Plan that will foster innovation and deliver step change results across the entire mining value chain.

Our approach to livelihoods

Our operations are often located in remote or rural areas with limited alternative economic activities and high levels of unemployment, particularly youth unemployment.

We seek to ensure residents in host communities have access to employment opportunities that will allow them to improve their standard of living and their livelihoods.

By the end of 2023, we had supported Mapping Error jobs through socio-economic development programmes since the launch of our Sustainable Mining Plan in 2018.

Livelihoods - milestones and targets

2025

Three jobs supported off site for every job on site.

2025

2030

Five jobs supported off site for every job on site.

2030

Securing livelihoods

Covid-19 has remained a central challenge for both Anglo American and our communities throughout the yearsince 2020. We focused on online training opportunities and continued to work with our partners to improve connectivity to increase access and opportunities for members of our communities.

We believe that the work done to close the so-called digital divide – the uneven access to information communication technologies in both emerging and developed economies – will have a major impact on socio-economic development long after the pandemic has receded.