Optimising Domestic Participation in the Extractives Sector HD

With increasing discoveries on the continent in extractive resources, it becomes pertinent for countries to examine how to best leverage domestic participation from the sector in order to yield benefits for human development. How can we use this opportunity to ‘get things right’ and leverage the positive gains from the industry? In this episode of In Focus, we discuss local content, related policy, and the necessary considerations in balancing the need for outside investments with maximising domestic participation with Dr. Michael Warner, local content expert and Director and Founder of Local Content Solutions, Ltd. Dr. Michael Warner is the former Local Content and Supply Chain Sustainability Manager for BG Group, with extensive experience in the corporate sector dealing with local content. For the last 8 years, Dr. Warner has been training and advising decision makers both in the corporate sector and in the government sector on how to implement and follow up on local content policy, agreements and decisions.