Even when stakeholders share a commitment to promote public health, opinions about how to best achieve this goal may differ significantly. This is not surprising since different stakeholders have different mandates, concerns, interests, priorities, and preferences. Consequently, stakeholders may have different positions regarding how public health issues related to resource extraction should be addressed. For a policy to be implementable and effective, it needs to have some minimum acceptance and legitimacy across stakeholders. The Q-methodology study (Q-study) explores perspectives of relevant stakeholders in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania on public health-related policy options in natural resource extraction projects.
KEY GOALS
The Q-study …
FINDINGS FROM Q-METHODOLOGY STUDIES
Stakeholder views on policy options for managing public health impacts in mining areas:
The HIA4SD project is international research project lead by a multinational consortium based in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, Switzerland and Tanzania. The project aims to strengthen the application of health impact assessment as a regulatory mechanism to engage natural resource projects in working towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The project is funded by the r4d programme, which is a joint initiative of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.